Notices by bhahne (bhahne@mastodon.online), page 2

(18/N)

OK, this is what resistance looks like!

"Democratic Senator Says He Will Stall Trump Nominees Until USAID Is Back"

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/brian-schatz-usaid-state-nominations-block-94f8699e

"Sen. Brian Schatz (D., Hawaii) said he would place a “blanket hold” on all of President Trump’s State Department nominees until the administration’s attack on the leading U.S. foreign-assistance agency ends"

#uspol #coup

[20/N] Indivisible announces public rally at the US Treasury building, Tuesday Feb 4, 5 PM eastern. Here's the signup page:

"We Choose to Fight: Nobody Elected Elon!"
https://www.mobilize.us/moveon/event/752712/

#uspol #coup

[21/N]
Two AFL-CIO affiliated unions file suit to block Musk and his toadies from further access to data.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277055/gov.uscourts.dcd.277055.1.0.pdf

"Plaintiffs... file this action... for declaratory and injunctive relief to halt Defendants’ unlawful ongoing, systematic, and continuous disclosure of personal and financial information contained in Defendants’ records to Elon Musk and other members of the so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), or to any other person."

#uspol #coup

Choose Democracy has turned the now-famous Daniel Hunter Essay, "10 ways to be prepared and grounded now that Trump has won", into a series of short videos:

https://www.youtube.com/@choosedemocracy4965

The series is the "shorts" section in the top row of videos. Use the arrow icons to scroll through them and start with Episode 1.

The original Daniel Hunter essay is here:
https://wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/10-things-to-do-if-trump-wins/

#uspol #nonviolence

The coalition group Democracy Forward has announced "Democracy 2025", which is both a project and a web site. From their email announcement:

"Democracy Forward is launching a Legal Response Center that will coordinate real-time legal and policy analysis of early Trump-Vance actions. This analysis will help support legal challenges and create resources for the broad pro-democracy community in the early days and weeks of the Trump-Vance administration."

Site: https://www.democracy2025.org

#uspol

Coalition members are listed at https://www.democracy2025.org/about and include:

Brennan Center for Justice
Lambda Legal
The National Education Association
National Women's Law Center
Public Citizen
AFSCME
Bend the Arc
Equality California
National Center for Lesbian Rights
National Immigration Law Center
PFAW Foundation
Union of Concerned Scientists

and many, many other groups.

So this looks like a good organization to follow for legal analysis of the upcoming exeutive action storm.

@Some_Emo_Chick Context:
https://www.npr.org/2024/12/04/nx-s1-5213914/guardian-strike-observer-sale

"Nearly 500 journalists are on strike at the Guardian and its sister paper, the Sunday-only Observer, to protest the planned sale of the Observer to a small digital startup."

@thomasfuchs I find the claim difficult to believe. Nothing moves voters by 10 points. Typically a 2-point shift from one ad is considered sensational. Are there RCTs that demonstrate such a shift?

@StillIRise1963 Democratic Senator Jon Tester (Montana) is currently the most at risk for losing his seat. If we lose it, we very likely lose the Senate and then you're correct that we'll have continued federal paralysis, plus zero judicial appointments.

Remote phonebanking signup for Montana Dems is here:
https://www.mobilize.us/bigskyvictory/event/703769/

The full set of volunteer opportunities is here:
https://www.mobilize.us/bigskyvictory/

#Montana #election #Voteblue #JonTester

Twitter is a threat to Democrats and democracy: Jason Sattler strongly recommends in today's Framelab that people immediately establish Mastodon and Bluesky accounts and use those preferentially.

https://www.theframelab.org/beware-trumps-secret-weapon-elon-musks-x-twitter/

Extracts:

"There has never been a threat to democracy quite like Elon Musk. Now is a great time to stop helping him."

"... we must functionally view Twitter as a Trump campaign website."

#Twitter #Musk #uspol #democracy
@dangillmor

The Guardian reviews the new documentary Bad Faith, on the rise and power of Christian nationalism in the U.S.

“If Bad Faith has one point, it is to take Christian nationalism as a serious threat to democracy... 'They’re incredibly strategic. They’re extremely good at organization, and they have a very, very long attention span. If they set out an objective, they will give it 40 years to play out...'”

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/apr/27/bad-faith-documentary-christian-nationalism

#uspol #ChristianNationalism

@HamonWry No. If you provide the weapons to a nation-state that's committing genocide, you're complicit in that genocide. Israel wouldn't be able to kill nearly as many people if the U.S. would stop selling them weapons. Biden has significant agency to save lives here and he has refused to use it.

https://www.axios.com/2023/11/29/us-weapons-provided-israel-aircraft-missiles-bombs

"Trump [won't] cancel elections, but [will] co-opt the machinery of state power in the way that Viktor Orban has done in Hungary. "

Georgetown professor @donmoyn has written a good article describing the mechanics of how the GOP will institute an autocracy, ending Democracy in the US, if we see a second term of the previous president. Moynihan includes his full NYT piece plus some additional commentary.

https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-i-wrote-in-the-new-york-times

#autocracy #democracy #authoritarianism

@jensorensen Related: Murc's Law, “the widespread assumption that only Democrats have any agency or causal influence over American politics.”

https://themoderatevoice.com/murcs-law-describes-news-framing-that-makes-democrats-responsible-for-republican-antics-chaos-and-dysfunction/