James Russell Lowell understood that history eventually forces a clear choice:

“Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide” (The Present Crisis).

For Republicans, that moment is now.

The question is simple and unavoidable: democracy or authoritarianism?

Economic anxiety
changes how our brains process political information & reshapes metaphorical thinking.

When the world feels unstable, people become more receptive to metaphors of strength, protection, and control.

This is why authoritarian messaging gains power during periods of social stress.

Ice out for Good

Undermining the Fed’s independence, combined with the following factors, could severely damage the economy:

1. A shortage of electricity to power the surge of AI data centers

2. Deportations gutting essential sectors such as agriculture, meatpacking, etc.

3. Tariffs driving up costs

Undermining the Fed’s independence, combined with the following factors, could severely damage the economy:

1. Not enough electrical power to meet the surge in AI data center demand

2. Deportations gutting essential sectors like agriculture, meatpacking, etc.

3. Tariffs driving up costs

Four factors that can wreak havoc on the economy:

1. Political interference undermining the Fed’s independence

2. Deportations gutting essential sectors like agriculture, meatpacking, etc.

3. Tariffs driving up costs

4. Not enough electrical power to meet the surge in AI data center demand

From @cidrap.bsky.social www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-va...

Workers are profit creators!

People vote their values and identity, even when it’s not necessarily in their financial or self-interest to do so.

Workers are profit creators. They need strong, enforced protections and the freedom to organize and bargain collectively.

Workers are the profit creators.

Stronger protections for consumers, workers (the profit creators), and the public are needed and must be rigorously enforced. The same goes for antitrust laws.

Workers, the profit creators, must be free to organize and bargain collectively.

Workers are profit creators; therefore, profit sharing and a living wage are matters of fairness and justice.

The radical conservative justices are building an imperial presidency, one that serves their moral agenda, not the Constitution.

They apply originalist arguments selectively, impose rulings in secret, and offer no explanations.

It's autocracy in robes.