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A 3,000-pound, 17-foot-long "DEMOCRACY" ice sculpture is melting away on the National Mall today, a statement from activists and artists on the weakened state of American democracy under the Trump administration.
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Social solidarity requires fair taxation and shared sacrifice.

My latest column is out today, in which I discuss what is missing from the current national mobilization to resist Trump’s assaults.👇 www.nationalobserver.com/2025/04/24/o...

Trump team accidentally texts Canadian invasion plans to Ian Hanomansing

See? It's not that hard.

Martin Niemoller: first they came for the socialists...

Dem consultants: our polls suggest we should also come for the socialists!!

Whoa! Tracy Chapman just flew past me on the highway doing about 120.

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This election is so painfully mundane in poli sci terms:
-An incumbent party being defeated in the face of public economic discontent
-An authoritarian capitalizing on discontent to return to office, paying less of a price than we might hope at the ballot box because the public has other priorities

We’re going to hear lots of stories about which people, policies and rhetoric are to blame for the Democrats’ defeat.

Some of those stories may even be true!

But an underrated factor is that 2024 was an absolutely horrendous year for incumbents around the world 👇 

There are many layers here. I'll just focus on one for now: maybe the guy who owns a company deeply embedded in government contracts shouldn't also own one of the major companies that's supposed to be holding government accountable.

It won't be just the LA Times and Washington Post. It will be your employer, your university, your school district, and your local elected officials. They will all cave and engage in anticipatory obedience to fascism because of their cowardice and greed.

Your institutions will not save you.

look if one candidate is going to close the campaign with “Hitler had good ideas and we should use the military on domestic enemies” and he still wins the election, I dunno man

I have to believe we’re better than this

Springfield has become a lightning rod in a pitched battle over immigration. Meanwhile, Dayton has welcomed immigrants for more than a decade, to fill vacant jobs and revitalize old neighborhoods.

People confused by Trumpist populism don't seem to grasp that blood and soil nationalism is an extreme form of welfare chauvinism: the state will care for its people but it gets to decide who 'the people' are and violently exclude/persecute others

Every lynching has led to property redistribution

Tim Walz: We can sleep when we’re dead.

NYT Fact check: False: We do not sleep after we die.

“In the words of the great American poet Nelly, it’s getting hot in here,” says Shawn Fain, taking off his jacket to reveal his t-shirt.

“History shows that joy and mockery are key to taking down existing or would-be authoritarian regimes.”

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