Quoted in great article by Kevin Lynch & Paul Deegan about Canadian PM Mark Carney's first year. Carney's great speech at Davos was part of successful strategy to Trump-proof Canada's economy, politics, & global role.
Donald Trump is attacking a Pope who can address Americans in American English.
www.ncronline.org/opinion/pope...
The president gutted public diplomacy tools like VOA’s Persian Service, then raced to repair them—kind of like alienating our allies, then begging them to help, @markoskounalakis.com writes.
On the 250th year anniversary of our Declaration of Independence against a king, we have a president who wants his signature on our currency & his name stamped on our institutions. We didn't trade one crown for another.
Join the No Kings marches this weekend.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Who could possibly have foreseen that war on Iran would (a) make Iran retaliate by closing the strait of Hormuz, which (b) could disrupt world oil markets, enriching Russia and penalizing most everyone else?
Who, indeed, except EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER THOUGHT FOR ONE MINUTE about the situation.
Some of America’s biggest companies rely on public benefits to subsidize their employees. Why aren’t they defending their workers against cuts? @anne-s-kim.bsky.social unpacks.
What workers across the country are asking for isn’t complicated. It’s consistent. It’s human. It’s urgent.
I keep hearing the same three things, over and over again:
Money. Power. Respect.
Unions are how we win all three.
aprilverrett.substack.com/p/the-fight-...
Trump's SOTU: Phony economic populism sandwiched between happy-talk, hucksterism & hate-mongering. #SOTU
Canadians should listen to the State of the Union address for President Trump's tendency to treat longstanding friends as treacherous "frenemies." So should people in other countries PM Carney calls "middle powers."
ca.news.yahoo.com/david-kusnet...
Rev. Jackson will lie state at the South Carolina Statehouse in Columbia on Monday, March 2. Minnesota's flags will fly at half-staff. The home states of Hubert Humphrey & Strom Thurmond -- but not the U.S. Capitol -- will honor this champion of civil rights & economic justice.
Could former NYC Mayor and political free agent Eric Adams be the next US Ambassador to Israel? Remembering former Mayors Wagner & O'Dwyer became ambassadors, & Rudy Giuliani wanted to be Secretary of State.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/w...
"Black immigrants, estimated at 4,685,000 people in 2024, are a highly diverse population" now they are divided with "equal shares for those born in Latin America and the Caribbean and those born in Africa." www.migrationpolicy.org/research/bla...
The house plants we buy should never be grown with labor abuse and exploitation. 🌱 Please sign this pledge to show your support for human rights in the houseplant industry: actionnetwork.org/forms/housep...
Even princes are not above the law.
Rep. Thomas Massie & I forced the release of an email showing former prince Andrew allegedly shared state information with Epstein.
On Feb 9th, I called on King Charles to investigate & answer questions.
www.nbcnews.com/world/united...
Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition wasn’t just a campaign—it was a blueprint for beating the authoritarian Right: multiracial, working-class unity, organized locally + nationally, built to outlast one election.
Jackson's 1988 campaign also pointed the way to a multiracial populism that unites working people from every background for economic justice. 38 years ago but still, sadly, ahead of our times.
Continuing MLK's Poor People's Campaign & support for Memphis strike, Jackson built support for organizing low-wage workers, raising the minimum wage nationally & locally, & increasing Earned Income Tax Credit. Part of his great legacy.
At 1988 Democratic National Convention, Jesse Jackson tried to transform how America sees & treats poor people: "Most poor people are not on welfare...They work hard everyday...They catch the early bus. They work every day. They raise other people's children." #JesseJackson
Says enterprise that laid off 1/3 of its staff.
On Presidents' Day: From Lincoln onward, presidents' best speeches have been concise -- one or two-syllable words, short sentences. But there's a difference between being plainspoken (Speaking American) and crude (talking trash). #PresidentsDay
The history of the Garland Fund shows the potential role philanthropy can play in moments of rising authoritarianism—and the tensions inherent in that role.
dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
It's time to curtail the president's pardon power, @davidoatkins.bsky.social argues.
washingtonmonthly.com/2026/02/05/i...
After making history as the first Southern autoworkers outside the Big Three to join the UAW, the 3,200 workers at VW Chattanooga have won a tentative agreement that provides 20 percent across-the-board wage increases, affordable health care, real job security, and more.
🔗 uaw.org/uaw-reaches-...
