One Million passports leak online.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/one-million-passports-leaked-online.html
If a PAC with a "progressive" or "left" sounding name you've never heard of before is spending big for a fringe Democratic candidate, odds are it's another GOP front group trying to f*ck with the Democratic primary.
Please spread the word.
UPDATE: The money behind a network of sham “progressive” super PACs - Judd Legum
https://popular.info/p/update-the-money-behind-a-network
Or (shocking I know...), Elon Musk is full of 💩 !
Exclusive-SpaceX says unproven AI space data centers may not be commercially viable, filing shows
https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/exclusive-spacex-says-unproven-ai-212136477.html
"Democratic poll-chasing, combined with Trumpian radicalism, has not resulted in GOP defeats. Instead, elections have remained close while Trump pushes public opinion and discourse rightward on many issues.
Democratic politicians urgently need to adopt the GOP view of public opinion—that it’s movable, and it’s their job to move it."
Instead of Pandering, Democrats Should Try Changing Voters’ Minds
https://newrepublic.com/article/205884/democrats-pandering-change-voters-minds
Important piece. Please take the time to read & share it.
This is what every police chief in America should be saying and enforcing.
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
https://www.ms.now/news/minneapolis-police-chief-unlawful-force-ice-jobs
Or, you can check out the self-study curriculum of sorts with most if not all of the above resources and more at https://docs.google.com/document/d/16wE1lysyAkK-17wiMuMXR5O40iOAPV6469x3WHVmpoE/edit?usp=sharing
It's the precarity stupid!
As we focus on "affordability", we need to be really clear who has made the lives of the vast majority of Americans financially precarious, and to be sure it isn't anyone the reactionary-right has scapegoated for so many decades.
It's the regime of the billionaires for the bullies.
Democrats’ New Slogan Is a Donor-Class Disaster
https://www.theframelab.org/democrats-new-slogan-is-a-donor-class-disaster/?ref=lakoff-and-duran-framelab-newsletter
"[S]omething like 92% of countries in the world have 10x the renewable potential of their current demand. There are not a lot of limitations here.
You can imagine a world where all or most countries are energy self-sufficient. That is a fundamentally new state for humanity to be in. We’ve never experienced anything like that. The energy flows and energy dependencies have shaped human history and society and ...
Clean electrification is inevitable
https://www.volts.wtf/p/clean-electrification-is-inevitable
I guess executives didn't exactly shovel those enormous tax cuts into investing in their employees and the growth of their companies...
Last month marked worst October for layoffs in more than 20 years
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/last-month-marked-worst-october-for-layoffs-in-more-than-20-years-challenger-132320043.html
Shenker-Osorio ripped Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries for the incoherence of their shutdown strategy. “When you say ‘fire fire fire! There’s a fascist threat!’ and then don’t run into the building to fight it, people say ‘wait a minute.’” Shenker-Osorio argued. “Say: No funding for fascism. No payouts for pedophiles. Say: I cannot fund your war against Americans.”
“Either you’re fighting fascism or you’re negotiating with a standard right-wing administration. It’s cannot be both.”
"Both Katz and Slezak separately emphasized the importance of candidates and campaigns using marketing techniques like polling, focus groups, and message testing only after deciding what you stand for. That’s what requires political leadership; the pollsters and consultants can help you hone that message and help it reach people, but that should come at the end of the decision-making process, not the start."
This ought not to be so damn hard
Democracy's Big Tent Revival
https://hillheat.news/p/democracy-s-big-tent-revival
"MAGA’s stories are potent and memorable, not about the issues people register as most important but rather those that MAGA wants brought to the fore. This is Magnetism 101: make sure you’re fighting on the terrain that benefits you most. This means setting the terms of debate by every possible means by engaging in activities that bring your preferred conversation into people’s ears."
If it doesn't grab the attention we want, ...
Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight
https://www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a-survey-to-a-gun-fight
Hey,
Did you see this from Cory Doctorow (he's got the same content up as a lengthy 🧵)?
https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/15/dogs-breakfast/#by-clicking-this-you-agree-on-behalf-of-your-employer-to-release-me-from-all-obligations-and-waivers-arising-from-any-and-all-NON-NEGOTIATED-agreements
"We are protesting out of love"
May Day 2025 For the Workers Not the Billionaires protest rally, Philadelphia PA from news helicopter.
Here are a few recent must listen to/read items to add to the RCGN material above:
The Missing 19 Million Biden Voters - https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/charting-the-way/the-missing-19-million-biden-tP3J2mRkzvf/
How Trump “Won”;
The Anesthetized Anti-MAGA Majority - https://www.weekendreading.net/p/how-trump-won
Zero Sum Politics ⚠️ And the Future Of The Dem Coalition - https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/charting-the-way/zero-sum-politics-and-the-8uZUAzkcW3x/
Absurd! Not True! Feat. Anat Shenker-Osorio - https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/charting-the-way/absurd-not-true-feat-anat-0okCR6nyZQb/
Speaking of Anat, please follow her at @anatosaurus.bsky.social you'll be glad you did.
So their antisemitism plan was written without participation of even one mainstream Jewish organization.
Appropriation anyone?
And this document purporting to be about fighting antisemitism doesn’t mention people chanting "Jews will not replace us".
Maybe, just maybe they're lying.
It was _always_ a terrible idea for conservative Jews to collaborate with regressive-right white evangelical Christians.
The group behind Project 2025 has a new plan to fight antisemitism
https://forward.com/forward-newsletters/antisemitism-notebook/664258/the-group-behind-project-2025-has-a-new-plan-to-fight-antisemitism/
Merien ten Houten: "If you are at an event where someone on stage gives a Hitler salute and that person is not dragged off by security and kicked out, you are at a Nazi rally."
Today's "conservative" movement and much of the Republican Party.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xkiwv73frxqquzdnyjresjr3/post/3lioppwqwxc2m
"Make public opposition to Trump so commonplace that nobody can claim it's a minority opinion. Turn your GOP elected officials into nervous wrecks, as they frantically ponder what the lines are before their constituents turn their rage on them. Make sure everyone knows that Trump and Musk are trying to rob them blind, because "powerful people are trying to rob us blind" is the staple of populist power."
No, the answer to a coup is still not 'do well in the next election'
https://www.unchartedblue.com/no-the-answer-to-a-coup-is-still-not-do-well-in-the-next-election/