This is being driven by 35% of the electorate. Most people don't want masked thugs rounding people up or SNAP benefits being held back or tax cuts for billionaires. Republicans always talk about the silent majority. That's where we are.

I agree. A national strike is the only path forward. But trying to push against an American tradition seems ill advised.

The week of Thanksgiving is terrible timing. You are asking people to not see family and instead have an economic shutdown.

Sunday after the protest I got my haircut. The person who cut my hair was in her early 30s, tats everywhere. She did the Black Lives Matter protest but had to work on a Saturday. We have to find ways to build bridges outside our white, middle class bubble. Mass general strike is the only way forward

The scale of Russian and Chinese bot farms is unimaginable. They have 1,000s of cell phones in warehouses generating AI content to sow chaos.

The federalists didn't have section 230. It's created some of the most powerful media companies in the world and the tech oligarch ruling class.

Only the most extreme voices are rewarded right now. It's all about attention.

Agreed. The show me your papers ruling goes against everything America and the 4th amendment stand for.

Gen X here. I was in college when Bill came to campus twice during the 92 election. It was my rude awakening to politics. Cigar, stained dress. Ugh. I could give two shits about Clinton.

I loved Erik Larson's book Isaac's Storm about the hurricane.