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Interests: democracy—is it crumbling beyond repair at home🇺🇸& where I live🇩🇪,history, ethics, science, foreign policy, education, communication, art, leadership, food…
Big fan of 13th, 14th, & 15th Amendments
My dog’s name is Ginsburg
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I enjoyed Ken Burns’ new documentary so much that I have started watching the one he did in 2014 on the Roosevelts. So good. Let me encourage you to get PBS Passport which has all of Burns’ documentaries and other PBS shows. It’s a way to support public broadcasting and get quality content.
November 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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BREAKING: European Parliament calls for EU-wide minimum age of 16 to access social media, video sharing platforms and AI companions, and proposes bans on the most harmful addictive practices.

#DefendDemocracy #PeopleVsBigTech

www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
Children should be at least 16 to access social media, say MEPs | News | European Parliament
MEPs are calling for ambitious EU action to protect minors online, including an EU-wide minimum age of 16 and bans on the most harmful addictive practices.
www.europarl.europa.eu
November 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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In we are fortunate enough that the Democrats return to power in 2028, they must commit to removing the Robert’s Six by any means necessary in order to restore the Supreme Court to legitimacy as a fair arbiter of the Constitution and its laws. They are beyond tainted.
"The Roberts Six have propped up its keystone declaration that Trump has immunity with a series of other rulings that are creating a gateway for authoritarianism to barrel into the United States," writes @thelisagraves.bsky.social for Grave Injustice.
Chief Justice John Roberts Walks Into Nuremberg, the Film…
The Chief Justice gets a message from beyond the grave
www.graveinjustice.news
November 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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New: Professor Detained En Route To Middle East Studies Conference

Vahid Abedini was on his way to a Middle East Studies Association meeting when he was detained. He’s now in ICE custody.

www.huffpost.com/entry/vahid-...
Iranian Studies Professor Taken In ICE Custody While Traveling To Academic Conference
Vahid Abedini was on his way to a Middle Eastern Studies Association meeting when he was detained. He’s now in ICE custody, one law enforcement official said.
www.huffpost.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Biden commuted their death sentences, so Trump retaliated by making their lives living hell, putting them in the country's most brutal prison, where they "spend 22 to 24 hours a day locked alone inside concrete cells that are smaller than a standard parking space."

Pure, pointless cruelty.
Death Row Prisoners Granted Clemency by Biden Brace for "Living Hell" Under Trump - Bolts
Trump officials are retaliating by imposing the harshest conditions in the entire federal prison system, including near total isolation.
boltsmag.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Another bad indicator for local media (and, frankly, local party communication channels): I live less than two miles from the Florida district referenced here and had no idea there was an election happening.
More elections are already around the corner, mere days.

And Democrats have opportunities to build on their November gains by flipping more offices: in Tennessee, in Georgia, in Florida.

And that's just the tip of a busy election month.

My new guide, just out:
The 25 Elections to Watch This December - Bolts
On the heels of their sweeping wins in November, Democrats have opportunities to gain further ground in December runoffs and special elections. They’re hoping for upsets in conservative territory, fro...
boltsmag.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Emerson's new poll of Tennessee's special election next week is way closer than even Dem internal polls found it: 48/46 for the Republican: emersoncollegepolling.com/tennessee-7t...

(This is a Trump +22 district.)

It's also one of the 25 elections to watch in December: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
November 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Wow great guide! I only knew about TN 07 and the FL house races.

For those that want to help the dem candidates - postcardstovoters.org has many campaigns going on! Write a few postcards, it makes a difference!
Postcards To Voters
Join People Across The United States Writing Postcards To Voters
postcardstovoters.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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More elections are already around the corner, mere days.

And Democrats have opportunities to build on their November gains by flipping more offices: in Tennessee, in Georgia, in Florida.

And that's just the tip of a busy election month.

My new guide, just out:
The 25 Elections to Watch This December - Bolts
On the heels of their sweeping wins in November, Democrats have opportunities to gain further ground in December runoffs and special elections. They’re hoping for upsets in conservative territory, fro...
boltsmag.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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📣Who knew TN was so cool? Aftyn Behn is ready to flip TN-07 Blue!

We can flip this seat!

👉 Return your ballot by MAIL or COURIER.

👉 It must be received in TN by Dec 2

👉 Need help? Go to votefromabroad.org

#TN #Tennessee #Vote #uspolitics #votebluefromabroad #tndems
November 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Must read this Thanksgiving
Thank you Deb & @jfallows.bsky.social
Deb Fallows, on some of the reasons to be thankful for one another these days — and some more examples of people standing up, standing together, standing strong.

(On my substack, no paywall.)

fallows.substack.com/p/thankful-f...
Thankful for One Another.
Keeping sight of the encouraging examples, in discouraging times. (Including a guest post.)
fallows.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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What the New York Times is hinting at but is afraid to say directly is that Trump and his reckless oligarch pals are steering us toward a worldwide economic depression.
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
“To her credit, Greene is a survivor. She took a hard look at her political fortunes & appears to be betting on herself... she may end up being prescient. Or she may have mistimed the market on Trump’s political fortunes. Either way, she took the only choice she really had available to her”
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Brilliant @tressiemcphd.bsky.social analysis:
Boebert, Mace, Stefanik, Noem & MTG brought chutzpah to Trump’s brand, “adding their feminine touch to his masculine politics of disruption, grift & sexism so that it looked less like scamminess & more like populism”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/o...
Opinion | Has Marjorie Taylor Greene Really Seen the Light?
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Brilliant @tressiemcphd.bsky.social analysis:
Boebert, Mace, Stefanik, Noem & MTG brought chutzpah to Trump’s brand, “adding their feminine touch to his masculine politics of disruption, grift & sexism so that it looked less like scamminess & more like populism”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/o...
Opinion | Has Marjorie Taylor Greene Really Seen the Light?
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Aspirational goal: have a US SCOTUS equal in standing, reputation, morality and law to that in Brazil 🇧🇷
Well done Brazil
PS There are also more than a few things Chancellor #Merz could also learn from Brazilian friends
"A Brazilian judge has ordered ex-president Jair Bolsonaro to begin a 27-year jail sentence for plotting a coup d’état after his 2022 election loss."

THAT's how it's done. US et al: take note.
Jair Bolsonaro to start 27-year sentence for Brazil coup plot
Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes finds all of former president’s legal appeals had been exhausted
www.ft.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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I now live in a country where reaching a Latin American level of legal integrity has become aspirational.
November 26, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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Interesting exchange between @sulliview.bsky.social and James Risen over the NYT’s inexplicable and indefensible opacity regarding their (now former) reporter who was soliciting $ from Jeffrey Epstein.

margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/three-ugly...
November 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Every Democrat needs to make the same video the original six did. Here is the script. Don't leave them hanging.
November 25, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Trump has no right to pose any demands on Ukraine:
1. He instantly stopped ALL financial and arms aid to Ukraine. US republicans continue to lie that the US is financing Ukraine & giving it arms. Stop lying!
2. Trump has repeatedly lied that the US has given $350 bn to Ukraine.
November 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Here’s a link to the syllabus and the lectures/podcast that David Blight, Beverly Gage, and I are teaching this semester: America at 250: A History.

president.yale.edu/committees-p...
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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And Hunter Biden had gotten help getting to crypto from that same dude? B/c that’s what this is
November 25, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Can you imagine if Biden had pardoned a crypto dude for illegal acts who then, in multiple court cases, was alleged to be facilitating Hamas’ financing?
Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao accused of facilitating payments to Hamas
Crypto tycoon pardoned by Donald Trump faces US court complaint from families of victims of October 7 attack
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:22 AM