Brooke Harvey
@barooka.bsky.social
On April 5, we’re uniting to say Hands Off! Join me to fight back against Trump’s unprecedented power grab. app.sosha.ai/s/tcJjrTeZ
Join me on April 5th
app.sosha.ai
March 15, 2025 at 12:13 PM
On April 5, we’re uniting to say Hands Off! Join me to fight back against Trump’s unprecedented power grab. app.sosha.ai/s/tcJjrTeZ
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The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
March 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
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in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.
Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story.
Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver.
This is what "merit" means to them.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver.
This is what "merit" means to them.
apnews.com/article/trum...
February 22, 2025 at 4:55 AM
in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.
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This. Especially Senate Republicans.
The greatest political scandal today is not what Trump is doing. It is the fact that congressional Republicans have given up their role in the constitutional system as a check on the executive branch. If we are in a constitutional crisis, it is as much on Mike Johnson and John Thune as anyone else.
February 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
This. Especially Senate Republicans.
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Vance visiting Dachau and then meeting w the AfD and urging German politicians to welcome them into government is a "gotta hear both sides" for the ages.
meanwhile, in the foreign affairs department (www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...)
February 15, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Vance visiting Dachau and then meeting w the AfD and urging German politicians to welcome them into government is a "gotta hear both sides" for the ages.
Needed to read this today. Danielle Sassoon’s unwillingness to capitulate to political pressure should be a feature not a bug for a US Attorney, but simple integrity is extraordinary in these times. More of this please.
February 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Needed to read this today. Danielle Sassoon’s unwillingness to capitulate to political pressure should be a feature not a bug for a US Attorney, but simple integrity is extraordinary in these times. More of this please.
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BREAKING: France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain & UK sign a joint statement vowing to protect Ukraine’s sovereignty & demanding a role in the peace talks.
This is leadership.
It’s also unprecedented.
A western alliance is having to form against a new, twin & united threat: Trump & Putin.
This is leadership.
It’s also unprecedented.
A western alliance is having to form against a new, twin & united threat: Trump & Putin.
February 12, 2025 at 10:29 PM
BREAKING: France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain & UK sign a joint statement vowing to protect Ukraine’s sovereignty & demanding a role in the peace talks.
This is leadership.
It’s also unprecedented.
A western alliance is having to form against a new, twin & united threat: Trump & Putin.
This is leadership.
It’s also unprecedented.
A western alliance is having to form against a new, twin & united threat: Trump & Putin.
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This moment is not the same as the first months of 1933 when Hitler and the Nazi Party took control of Germany's government. But stakes are the same. Hear that? The same: merely the survival of the US as a liberal democracy. We will likely need far more than resistance that follows rules.
February 8, 2025 at 3:07 AM
This moment is not the same as the first months of 1933 when Hitler and the Nazi Party took control of Germany's government. But stakes are the same. Hear that? The same: merely the survival of the US as a liberal democracy. We will likely need far more than resistance that follows rules.
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Bernie Sanders: "They will use the enormous media operations they own to deflect attention away from the impact of their policies while they entertain us to death."
February 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Bernie Sanders: "They will use the enormous media operations they own to deflect attention away from the impact of their policies while they entertain us to death."
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“It maps almost too neatly to his acquisition of Twitter in 2022: Get rid of most of the workforce. Install loyalists. Rip up safeguards. Remake in your own image… This is the way of the startup.” @wired.com
The US Government Is Not a Startup
Elon Musk is moving fast and breaking things that can’t afford to be broken.
www.wired.com
February 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
“It maps almost too neatly to his acquisition of Twitter in 2022: Get rid of most of the workforce. Install loyalists. Rip up safeguards. Remake in your own image… This is the way of the startup.” @wired.com
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With @dahlialithwick.bsky.social on Judge Coughenour showing how every court should respond to the Trump administration’s sadistic and lawless rampage (including full audio of his extraordinary statement from the bench): slate.com/news-and-pol...
A Reagan Appointee Just Showed How All Judges Should Respond to Trump’s Lawless Rampage
"In this courtroom, and under my watch, the rule of law is a bright beacon which I intend to follow," the judge declared.
slate.com
February 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
With @dahlialithwick.bsky.social on Judge Coughenour showing how every court should respond to the Trump administration’s sadistic and lawless rampage (including full audio of his extraordinary statement from the bench): slate.com/news-and-pol...
A peek into the authoritarian playbook (we’ve seen these moves before, people) and a few countermoves to remind us that organizing and resistance can work.
meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/the-nature-o...
meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/the-nature-o...
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...
meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io
February 8, 2025 at 11:37 PM
A peek into the authoritarian playbook (we’ve seen these moves before, people) and a few countermoves to remind us that organizing and resistance can work.
meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/the-nature-o...
meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/the-nature-o...
These Dolores Umbridge decrees are hard to keep up with! Taken together it’s easy to see the throughline: Trump’s Great America is a Jim-Crow renaissance.
February 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
These Dolores Umbridge decrees are hard to keep up with! Taken together it’s easy to see the throughline: Trump’s Great America is a Jim-Crow renaissance.
Love this from the News Literacy Project, adults need this as much as students.
👀 Today's news literacy standard: Expressing & exercising civic responsibility by seeking, sharing & producing credible info as effective participants in a democracy.
🔗 Resources & tips: newsliteracyweek.org
Download the poster: bit.ly/SpeakUpNLP
#NewsLiteracyWeek
🔗 Resources & tips: newsliteracyweek.org
Download the poster: bit.ly/SpeakUpNLP
#NewsLiteracyWeek
February 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Love this from the News Literacy Project, adults need this as much as students.
Genuinely wondering how the non-voters are absorbing the news of the past 3 weeks. If you are not morally offended or materially impacted in any way maybe it’s really just no biggie? What about the folks who just couldn’t “stomach” either candidate, is this outcome worth it?
February 7, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Genuinely wondering how the non-voters are absorbing the news of the past 3 weeks. If you are not morally offended or materially impacted in any way maybe it’s really just no biggie? What about the folks who just couldn’t “stomach” either candidate, is this outcome worth it?
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The 53-47 vote to confirm Vought came after Democrats held the Senate floor in an overnight marathon to protest the nomination. One after another, they excoriated Trump’s pick to be head of OMB, perhaps more than any other controversial appointee.
Trump's "puppet master," Russ Vought, confirmed to lead OMB
"He will be the quarterback of White House policy."
www.motherjones.com
February 7, 2025 at 12:41 AM
The 53-47 vote to confirm Vought came after Democrats held the Senate floor in an overnight marathon to protest the nomination. One after another, they excoriated Trump’s pick to be head of OMB, perhaps more than any other controversial appointee.
I applaud Schatz for taking the podium at the treasury and calling out the hostile takeover but here is confirmation that democrats never had a plan or a resonant platform and still don’t. Time to find a coherent voice and leadership or we are truly doomed.
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
Do Democrats Have a Plan?
Senator Brian Schatz on how the Party should be responding to Donald Trump’s breakneck assault on the government.
www.newyorker.com
February 6, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I applaud Schatz for taking the podium at the treasury and calling out the hostile takeover but here is confirmation that democrats never had a plan or a resonant platform and still don’t. Time to find a coherent voice and leadership or we are truly doomed.
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...