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How can everyday citizens help in the fight for democracy? @marcelias.bsky.social suggests ten things everyone can do.
Ten Things We Can All Do to Protect Democracy
From Marc | The most common question I receive is how everyday citizens can help in the fight for democracy.
www.democracydocket.com
February 14, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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While we’re banning books…

Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.

Be. Like. Finland.
January 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Given the events of the weekend, I am re-posting this video about the importance of building a new opposition movement.

Please watch, act and share.
youtu.be/3bChDPqBbbs
Marc Elias: How To Oppose The Second Trump Presidency
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
youtu.be
December 16, 2024 at 12:48 AM
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I'm once again asking for a show where a librarian, a bookseller, and a carpenter travel around helping people manage their out-of-control book collections. Discuss their sentimental value, their rarity, their histories, then build amazing book nooks and shelves and little libraries to organize them
December 8, 2024 at 2:18 PM
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According to The Lancet, America’s for profit exploitative healthcare system causes 68,000 preventable deaths annually.

That means since an assailant killed the @UHC CEO, America’s health insurance corps have killed ~400 Americans who should be alive today.

1 person every 7.5 minutes—perpetually.
December 6, 2024 at 3:05 PM
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UPDATE: “The disconnect between the reporting on the study and its actual findings is problematic and adds significant confusion to the current debate between Mayor Mike Johnston and some Denver City Council members about whether to continue funding.”
www.westword.com/news/opinion...
Learning the Right Lessons From the Denver Basic Income Project
"At the ten-month follow-up, there were no statistically significant differences between the three groups in their housing status."
www.westword.com
November 26, 2024 at 1:19 PM
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Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing.

They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays.

The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k.
www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...
Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants said they had housing.
Participants in Denver's basic-income program reported having more-secure housing, though results were similar in the trial and control groups.
www.businessinsider.com
November 26, 2024 at 12:47 AM
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Gisele Pelicot, drugged by her ex-husband so she could be raped and sexually abused by him and over 50 strangers, said in her trial's closing statement that "It's time that the macho, patriarchal society that trivializes rape changes". #Opdeatheaters #France
France: Gisele Pelicot calls for change in 'macho' society – DW – 11/19/2024
Gisele Pelicot has slammed a society that "trivializes" rape at the trial of 51 men accused of sexually abusing her. The accused include her ex-husband, who is charged with rape and drugging her to en...
www.dw.com
November 22, 2024 at 12:54 AM
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Hit the ‘Like’ button and repost this if you opposed Donald Trump since he came down that golden escalator in Trump Tower, on June 16, 2015.

Never Trump!
November 11, 2024 at 10:20 PM