SamiD
@samidg.bsky.social
Langston Hughes poem is my anthem https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147907/let-america-be-america-again
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SamiD
@samidg.bsky.social
· Feb 12
If you haven't read this yet, go take 9 min and read it now. @chenoweth.bsky.social
The Nature of Our Power: A Conversation with Political Scientist Erica Chenoweth
"The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democr...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
Code Orange Trump regime is ignoring orders from a Federal Judge This article speaks of a blueprint on how to proceed when institutions check & balances fail
Dr. Erica Chenoweth is the originator of “3.5% Rule” the % critical mass of populace protest turn out needed for successful resistance
Dr. Erica Chenoweth is the originator of “3.5% Rule” the % critical mass of populace protest turn out needed for successful resistance
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My political hot take is that US voters should be able to recall elected representatives via petition - at any time.
No more hiding behind election terms.
No more hiding behind election terms.
November 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
My political hot take is that US voters should be able to recall elected representatives via petition - at any time.
No more hiding behind election terms.
No more hiding behind election terms.
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So much for a clean CR... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:17 PM
So much for a clean CR... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
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Taking stock of the Roberts court at 20—and the shadowy forces that built it.
"This is now a MAGA court, and Roberts is at the helm."
"This is now a MAGA court, and Roberts is at the helm."
Taking stock of the Roberts court at 20—and the shadowy forces that built it
"Roberts will go down in history as the most destructive chief justice."
www.motherjones.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Taking stock of the Roberts court at 20—and the shadowy forces that built it.
"This is now a MAGA court, and Roberts is at the helm."
"This is now a MAGA court, and Roberts is at the helm."
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Newsom: The New Testament and Old Testament have one dominant thing in common—Matthew, Isaiah, Luke, Proverbs, go down the list—it’s about food, about serving those who are hungry. It’s not a suggestion; it’s core and essential to what it means to align with God’s will.
October 28, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Newsom: The New Testament and Old Testament have one dominant thing in common—Matthew, Isaiah, Luke, Proverbs, go down the list—it’s about food, about serving those who are hungry. It’s not a suggestion; it’s core and essential to what it means to align with God’s will.
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Crockett: You have a president who consistently is obsessing over two women of color that are members of the house, I don't know what black woman hurt him in his past, honey, but it is really taking him through it.
October 28, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Crockett: You have a president who consistently is obsessing over two women of color that are members of the house, I don't know what black woman hurt him in his past, honey, but it is really taking him through it.
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Our new health insurance premium feels more like a shakedown‼️
Thank you, @politicsgirl.bsky.social , for sharing your story. You’re right—there are millions like you.
Our new premium is over $3K/month for a family of three. Could we scrape it together? Maybe. Should we have to? No.
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Thank you, @politicsgirl.bsky.social , for sharing your story. You’re right—there are millions like you.
Our new premium is over $3K/month for a family of three. Could we scrape it together? Maybe. Should we have to? No.
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October 28, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Our new health insurance premium feels more like a shakedown‼️
Thank you, @politicsgirl.bsky.social , for sharing your story. You’re right—there are millions like you.
Our new premium is over $3K/month for a family of three. Could we scrape it together? Maybe. Should we have to? No.
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Thank you, @politicsgirl.bsky.social , for sharing your story. You’re right—there are millions like you.
Our new premium is over $3K/month for a family of three. Could we scrape it together? Maybe. Should we have to? No.
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🚨 Shout out to these 2 women from McKees Rocks, PA (outside of Pittsburgh). They dragged these ICE people and the police who stood idly by as a man was disappeared.
✊🏼No Fear✊🏼 1/2
✊🏼No Fear✊🏼 1/2
October 29, 2025 at 12:23 AM
🚨 Shout out to these 2 women from McKees Rocks, PA (outside of Pittsburgh). They dragged these ICE people and the police who stood idly by as a man was disappeared.
✊🏼No Fear✊🏼 1/2
✊🏼No Fear✊🏼 1/2
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The Epstein files stay hidden, but the Epstein Ballroom will be a prominent display.
October 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The Epstein files stay hidden, but the Epstein Ballroom will be a prominent display.
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Nice to see the fraudster has really humbled himself and evolved🤔🙃
October 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Nice to see the fraudster has really humbled himself and evolved🤔🙃
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MASS BLACKOUT😳
October 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
MASS BLACKOUT😳
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Jeffries: I had very positive conversations with the legislative leaders in the Illinois General Assembly yesterday—both the Speaker and the Illinois Senate President. They both acknowledged this is an existential moment. We cannot unilaterally disarm, and all options have to be on the table.
October 28, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Jeffries: I had very positive conversations with the legislative leaders in the Illinois General Assembly yesterday—both the Speaker and the Illinois Senate President. They both acknowledged this is an existential moment. We cannot unilaterally disarm, and all options have to be on the table.
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Eric is a Missouri congressman.
He is quite literally dependent on the federal government for his paycheck, his housing, and his free healthcare. He’s a tax recipient.
He is quite literally dependent on the federal government for his paycheck, his housing, and his free healthcare. He’s a tax recipient.
October 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Eric is a Missouri congressman.
He is quite literally dependent on the federal government for his paycheck, his housing, and his free healthcare. He’s a tax recipient.
He is quite literally dependent on the federal government for his paycheck, his housing, and his free healthcare. He’s a tax recipient.
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‘No more children are going to die like you’: how Sheffield mother kept her promise to boys killed by father 11 years ago
‘No more children are going to die like you’: how Sheffield mother kept her promise to boys killed by father 11 years ago
Claire Throssell has been central to the campaign to repeal parental contact laws following the deaths of her two sons at the hands of their father in 2014
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:55 AM
‘No more children are going to die like you’: how Sheffield mother kept her promise to boys killed by father 11 years ago
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Jeffries: They got out of town in September and have refused to come back. So Mike Johnson has resorted to holding these daily press conferences, which are like a Republican family reunion—featuring crazy aunts and uncles talking gibberish to the American people.
It’s an embarrassment.
It’s an embarrassment.
October 28, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Jeffries: They got out of town in September and have refused to come back. So Mike Johnson has resorted to holding these daily press conferences, which are like a Republican family reunion—featuring crazy aunts and uncles talking gibberish to the American people.
It’s an embarrassment.
It’s an embarrassment.
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Lights are on but nobody is home.
We have a broken Roomba for President.
We have a broken Roomba for President.
October 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Lights are on but nobody is home.
We have a broken Roomba for President.
We have a broken Roomba for President.
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Wouldn’t it be great if we had a functioning Republican Party that had a few people in it who were willing to occasionally stand up and call out the worst abuses of power and corruption of their leader?
Instead, the Republican Party operates like an organized crime family.
Instead, the Republican Party operates like an organized crime family.
October 28, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Wouldn’t it be great if we had a functioning Republican Party that had a few people in it who were willing to occasionally stand up and call out the worst abuses of power and corruption of their leader?
Instead, the Republican Party operates like an organized crime family.
Instead, the Republican Party operates like an organized crime family.
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Jeffries: "Do what leaders do as opposed to being missing in actio for 28 days while finding $40b to bail out a right-wing wannabe dictator in Argentina & destroying the historic parts of the WH so he can construct a ballroom where he'll be celebrated like a wannabe king. It's all outrageous stuff."
October 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Jeffries: "Do what leaders do as opposed to being missing in actio for 28 days while finding $40b to bail out a right-wing wannabe dictator in Argentina & destroying the historic parts of the WH so he can construct a ballroom where he'll be celebrated like a wannabe king. It's all outrageous stuff."
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FYI if you have a Spotify membership, Indivisible is asking people to cancel until they stop running ICE recruitment ads. Instructions on how to do it here: www.youtube.com/shorts/TKp7c...
Tutorial: How to cancel your Spotify subscription
YouTube video by Indivisible
www.youtube.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:48 PM
FYI if you have a Spotify membership, Indivisible is asking people to cancel until they stop running ICE recruitment ads. Instructions on how to do it here: www.youtube.com/shorts/TKp7c...
A people reaching a point of willing to starve their own children is simply a natural progression of indifferently enabling the death of thousands of another nation’s children from a deliberate manufactured famine.
The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
October 29, 2025 at 5:05 AM
A people reaching a point of willing to starve their own children is simply a natural progression of indifferently enabling the death of thousands of another nation’s children from a deliberate manufactured famine.
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Louisiana’s worst whooping cough outbreak in decades: 387 cases, 2 infant deaths.
After Surgeon General Ralph Abraham paused vaccine promotion, cases surged and the public was left in the dark.
Antivaxx politics cost lives.
Nice article from @rosemarywestwood.bsky.social
Louisiana’s worst whooping cough outbreak in decades: 387 cases, 2 infant deaths.
After Surgeon General Ralph Abraham paused vaccine promotion, cases surged and the public was left in the dark.
Antivaxx politics cost lives.
Nice article from @rosemarywestwood.bsky.social
Louisiana officials waited months to warn public of whooping cough outbreak
After a whooping cough outbreak killed two infants, Louisiana health officials waited months to officially alert physicians or do public outreach. That's not the typical public health response.
www.npr.org
October 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Louisiana’s worst whooping cough outbreak in decades: 387 cases, 2 infant deaths.
After Surgeon General Ralph Abraham paused vaccine promotion, cases surged and the public was left in the dark.
Antivaxx politics cost lives.
Nice article from @rosemarywestwood.bsky.social
Louisiana’s worst whooping cough outbreak in decades: 387 cases, 2 infant deaths.
After Surgeon General Ralph Abraham paused vaccine promotion, cases surged and the public was left in the dark.
Antivaxx politics cost lives.
Nice article from @rosemarywestwood.bsky.social
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I rode the 1 train with Linsey Davis on the way to our ABC News interview yesterday, and talked about how in the wealthiest city in the world we can't simply accept that people have to sleep on the streets or the subways.
It's not a question of resources. It's a question of political will.
It's not a question of resources. It's a question of political will.
October 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I rode the 1 train with Linsey Davis on the way to our ABC News interview yesterday, and talked about how in the wealthiest city in the world we can't simply accept that people have to sleep on the streets or the subways.
It's not a question of resources. It's a question of political will.
It's not a question of resources. It's a question of political will.
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Trump: "In July, I proudly sounded law. It was very important. I went into the Archives. We looked at every possible thing you could look at and I signed into law the largest tax cuts in American history."
October 29, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Trump: "In July, I proudly sounded law. It was very important. I went into the Archives. We looked at every possible thing you could look at and I signed into law the largest tax cuts in American history."