Excellent interview with Jason Stanley who explains why we are already no longer a democracy, and why we have to get to work to win the midterms.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social offers three steps for Americans to take heading into an election season in which Donald Trump seems likely to interfere.
Julia Roberts-1st Amendment concert. Amanda Gorman's poetry honoring Renee Nicole Good & refused to let her become a symbol. She named her: an American woman, a queer woman, a poet & mother who died protecting her neighbors from ICE. "The life she gave is our responsibility to carry." Say her name.
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Frustrated by Courts, Trump Weighed Suspending a Constitutional Right ⚖️☠️
By Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
Gift 🎁 article 🔗
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If you have to pay a country THREE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS just to end the war YOU started with them, then congrats, YOU LOST!!!
I'm thrilled to share my New York Times op-ed today drawing on my forthcoming book, THIS IS THE PLAN: HOW TO END AMERICA'S MELTDOWN AND SAVE DEMOCRACY—and to pull back the curtain on my book tour! Links below: 🧵
Gov. Newsom: "I'd like to say something to my wife: These times are not normal. They are not ordinary. I love you. I am sorry he is doing this. You have not earned a single one of the indignities that he is trying to inflict on you and our children."
You can live without Amazon. Truly.
Chicago, it’s good to be home!
Michelle and I built the Obama Presidential Center to be a place where people of all ages can learn, play, and work – and we can't wait to welcome you all later this week!