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Senator Chris Murphy: “This Is How Democracy Dies—Everybody Just Gets Scared” The Trump Administration is moving to prevent fair elections in 2026, the Connecticut Democrat says. “It won’t matter if we’re more popular than them.”

The Trump Administration is moving to prevent fair elections in 2026, Senator Chris Murphy says. “It won’t matter if we’re more popular than them.” David Remnick interviews the Connecticut Democrat on a new episode of The New Yorker Radio Hour. Listen here.

This is something we can do.

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

Scenes from an evening kitchen. It’s so stressful out there IRL, I need my surroundings to be like a hug to survive it. It’s hard for the heart to withstand such a constant wave of bad news.

The Dangers of R.F.K., Jr.,’s Measles Response The H.H.S. Secretary has touted over-the-counter remedies and stressed that the decision to vaccinate is “personal.”

When R.F.K., Jr., says that Americans are “the sickest people on earth,” he does not acknowledge that the nations at the top of the health-care rankings all have two things he doesn’t like: universal health care and comprehensive vaccine programs.

American Masters | Roberta Flack | Season 37 Discover music icon Roberta Flack’s rise to stardom and triumphs over racism and sexism.

What a great show on public TV. www.pbs.org/video/robert...

Ok folks, time to study previous movements. Tree sitting started in New Zealand in 1978. Pick one or two issues and figure out what you can do to fight back.

"Working the inside strategy, depending on the courts and Congress, without challenging the administration’s narrative in the public sphere, is a fatal mistake.... If there’s no response to Trump’s propaganda, Americans won’t understand why any of this stuff should matter to them."

I care about trees. I care about the national parks. I care about public health. I care about science. I care about the widening wealth gap, the collapse of democracy, and the cementing of a pro-Russia US oligarchy. This doesn’t feel histrionic. It feels like a never-ending multi-front emergency.

Analysis | The White House’s wildly inaccurate claims about USAID spending Eleven out of 12 claims about the agency’s work are misleading, wrong or lack context.

We are up against Brandolini’s Law: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.

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Flow (2024 film) - Wikipedia

I loved this.

"Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.' -J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit, pub. 1937

'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook In 2022, one of Peter Thiel's favorite thinkers envisioned a second Trump Administration in which the federal government would be run by a “CEO”

If you are wondering what's the plan behind Musk and his DOGE lunatics and their smash-it-all rampage: here's the answer. www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-...

Are You Overreacting? How to survive when provocations are a natural—and inescapable—part of life.

In an increasingly provocative world, many of us seek to manage our emotions. But instead of asking whether you’re overreacting, you might ask, Am I reacting as usefully as I can?

Photo of Jennifer with quote that says "This isn't about politics. It's about peace at the end of life."

Jennifer spent her last two years of life advocating for medical aid in dying, but she passed away without access to the peaceful option she championed. Terminally-ill New Yorkers don't have time for politics. Tell your lawmaker why they should pass NY's Medical Aid-In-Dying Act. buff.ly/3CJnPbT

The Pain Creating a New Coalition for Trump Despair permeates white, Black, and Latino working-class life. Democrats will have to find a new way to speak to it.

Those who attribute the Democrats’ losses to poor messaging—or on the public just not getting it—underestimate the financial uncertainty engulfing the lives of ordinary Americans and their anger about it, @keeanga.bsky.social writes.

Jimmy O Yang and Taika WaititI talk Hulu series ‘Interior Chinatown’ YouTube video by Good Morning America

I’m so into this show.

I don’t yet know how to use / tag people hashtagorwhatnot on Bluesky, but I am so freaking impressed and excited to dig into the Lineages of Change Tarot cultivated by adrienne maree brown. I thought it would be a good first Bluesky post. Is that what you call them here? Posts?