democracy

#Trump #Biden #Politics #democracy #USA

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More than fifty of us took our protest of the Trump regime to the streets today in Galloway, New Jersey, USA. So glad to see many young people, even children, participating.

#USPol #Resist #Protest #Indivisible #Mobilize #Solidarity #Demonstration #Democracy #Peace #Pax #AntiFascism #IndivisibleNJ #NoKings

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🇨🇦 Our Shared Future 🇨🇦
Upholding Canadian Values in the 2025 Federal Election

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bmrrFxNnX6YhDsgo_44Roq-Qgdjd3UxueaGTqIAYcVw/edit?usp=sharing

CAVE: collaborate, advocate, vote, educate

#CalPol #CanadaVotes #2025CdnElection #democracy #CanadianValues #diversity #multiculturalism
#ElbowsUp #never51
#populism #conservatism #housing #FoodSecurity #inflation #unions #solidarity

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Speaking of weak Democrats, you have no idea how much trouble I've had getting Democrats in #Maine to introduce or otherwise advocate for gun reform legislation. I've written multiple times to the chair of the Democratic Senate Committee, the Executive Director of the Maine Democratic Party, Senate President Mattie Daughtry (my state senator), the Maine Gun Safety Coalition, and more. All of them refuse to answer me. What cowardice. #Politics #Democrats #Guns #GunReform #Democracy #US #USpol

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Urge your Congressmember to stand firm against the assaults on our #democracy, the #judiciary & the rule of #law by rejecting the #JUDGES Act, the #PEPPER Act, the #NORRA Act & The #NIAP Act today.
https://resist.bot/petitions/PDVYDP

#ResistBot #resist #coup #Trump #Musk #StephenMiller #Vought #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #POTUS #TeslaTakedown #FAFO #NAFO #Putin #MBS #Xi #Modi #SaudiArabia #GCC #UAE #Dubai #Oman #Qatar #Bahrain #Kuwait #PetroState #climate #ClimateChange @resistbot @jesscraven101@bsky.social

"What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, it energizes us to act, and raises at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."

— Howard Zinn

https://www.howardzinn.org/collection/a-marvelous-victory/

#HowardZinn #Resist #Protest #USPol #Democracy #Trump #Musk #DOGE #GOP #ICE

After 13 yrs on Twitter, @bikemonterey stopped posting on that platform in Nov 2022.
We are also no longer posting on Meta platforms; we do have a @bikemonterey Instagram account, but it refers people to this Mastodon account.
Although we set up a @bikemonterey BlueSky acct, it likewise refers to this Mastodon acct.

When we did some updates today to Summer Bike Buzz https://bikemonterey.org/bike-buzz-summer-2025-news-from-bicycling-monterey.html, we pointed out what a chief information officer of a Monterey County transportation agency posted on Mastodon on July 6, 2025:
“Change isn’t easy. And transformational change requires perseverance and dedication. It doesn’t have to be fanatical. Honestly medium-level relentless will do.” https://mastodon.world/@NoRomBasic/114808599939418491

#SystemsChange #SocialMedia #Mastodon #democracy #PowerToThePeople

New #blog post: Libraries are awesome

https://rldane.space/libraries-are-awesome.html

285 words

Getting back in the swing of things!

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @twizzay @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @solusspider @clayton

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

#100DaysToOffload #16

#rlDaneWriting #Library #Libraries #PublicSpaces #Democracy

Prompted by ProPublica’s reporting on efforts by right-wing activists to disallow ballots in a key judicial election, North Carolina Democrats have introduced a bill designed to prevent votes from being tossed out based on postelection rule changes.

https://www.propublica.org/article/north-carolina-supreme-court-election-discarded-votes-legislation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #NorthCarolina #Election #Voting #Law #SupremeCourt #Democracy

Dozens of towns in Massachusetts, we're coming up to an important election. It can be argued that local government is just as important - and possibly more important - than who sits in the Oval Office. So please make sure you are registered!

https://www.sec.state.ma.us/VoterRegistrationSearch/MyVoterRegStatus.aspx

I hope for everyone's sake that you check NOW, because the deadline is upon us ⬆️

#democracy #election #USA

"Taiwan’s vibrant and competitive democratic system has allowed for regular peaceful transfers of power since 2000, and protections for civil liberties are generally robust. Ongoing concerns include inadequate safeguards against the exploitation of migrant workers and the Chinese government’s efforts to influence policymaking, media, and the democratic infrastructure."

https://freedomhouse.org/country/taiwan/freedom-world/2025

#Taiwan #HumanRights #Democracy #FreedomHouse #台灣 #Politics

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Just out from @josephinelee and Joelle DiPaolo: After three decades of fighting back against #vouchers, the governor enlisted the help of the president to destroy the last vestiges of Republican resistance this week. https://www.texasobserver.org/abbott-trump-house-vouchers-pass/

#education #schools #Trump #GregAbbott #politics #USpol #news #TXlege #Texas #Republicans #democracy

"The #monopoly #media morons for whom he’s entertained tens of millions of ad-viewing viewers deemed it so, and I’m sure it has nothing to do w Stephen #Colbert using his brilliant timing and razor-sharp wit to disembowel Don-Don on the regular"

CONT-> https://www.blueamp.co/publish/post/168652683 #writing #humor #funny #tv #ai #usa #america #unitedstates #fascism #us #russia #democracy #tech #news #politics #press #entertainment

“This is the most massive secrecy grab in #Texas since the adoption of the Public Information Act.”

New today from Michelle Pitcher: A move to "standardize" #police personnel files could have devastating consequences for #transparency. https://www.texasobserver.org/secrecy-g-file-police-records-texas-legislature/

#news #politics #USpol #fascism #TXlege #journalism #HumanRights #news #democracy

A Tarrant County resident who has worked as an election judge criticized the county’s move to cut more than 100 polling sites.

“You’re not saving money,” she said. “You’re sacrificing democracy to save a buck.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/tarrant-county-texas-polling-sites-early-voting-cuts?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Texas #TarrantCounty #Vote #Elections #Democracy #Voting

The anti-autocracy handbook: how scientists can cope with democratic backsliding. This guide is a call to action, resilience, and collective defence of democracy and academic freedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism.

https://zenodo.org/records/15696097
@EU_Commission

#democracy #acedemicfreedom #authoritarianism

How Dems Come Back: Be Real; FIGHT #Trump & His #MAGA Mobsters - I debated Jonathan Larsen on #Substack!

Check it out!! Then Subscribe!!

https://www.blueamp.co/p/cliff-v-jonathan-fight-ordebate-about #news #politics #donaldtrump #russia #usa #us #america #unitedstates #ukraine #fascism #democracy #sherrodbrown #workers #workingclass #economy

#Judges vexed by #SCOTUS '#ShadowDocket' rulings in #Trump cases

An extraordinary fight is occurring within the #US #judiciary concerning a flurry of #SupremeCourt decisions backing Trump, with judges voicing confusion over the rulings issued on an emergency basis while a Trump-appointed justice accused some of them of defying the nation's top judicial body.

#law #Constitution #democracy #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #FederalistSociety #HeritageFoundation #LeonardLeo
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/judges-vexed-by-supreme-court-shadow-docket-rulings-trump-cases-2025-09-10/

Today, I had the pleasure of meeting @HennaVirkkunen , the #EU Commission Vice President in charge of Tech Sovereignty, #Security & #Democracy, at the invitation of the Austrian Chancellery and Digital State Secretary Alexander Pröll, at their summit on 🇪🇺 #digitalsovereignty

Together with @c3wien, @WikimediaAT, @epicenter_works & @dpgalliance we are calling for open protocols & #interoperability to be strengthened when building public digital infrastructure ✨

#Fedidiplomacy
#Fediforum

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Trump and MAGA intend to starve their rivals and adversaries of federal funding when/wherever possible.

Defenders of democracy will need to push back by starving the federal govt of revenues.

This means, eg, NY and CA withholding $$ they send upstream.

It also means tax resistance from ordinary people. If you owe federal taxes in April, consider filing for an extension or making payments rather than a lump sum.

Power of the “powerless.”

Pls boost.

#uspol #democracy #resistance #RMOL

Are you interested in covering politics in the Lone Star State? The Texas Observer is hiring an intern to help us cover the 2026 elections! Apply here: https://www.texasobserver.org/jobs/

#journalism #jobs #Texas #politics #USpol #elections #democracy