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No Kings Day next weekend!
Two events in Palo Alto -- We the People Parade at 2, Democracy Fair at 3.
indivisiblepaloaltoplus.org/no-kings-day
& https://bsky.app/profile/indivisiblepaplus.bsky.social

Here's a great short article on the unexpected relationship between #CincodeMayo and democracy in the US:
https://www.the74million.org/article/teach

Two Parasites and a Corpse: #Trump, #Musk, and the Maggot Feud Inside America's Rotting Democracy
#Resist

UNDERNEWS: Why Cultural Decline in the U.S. Is a Threat to Democracy
https://prorevnews.blogspot.com/2025/06/why-cultural-decline-in-us-is-threat-to.html

We lost.
We lost because this is what our elected Representatives & Senators voted for.
We lost because we voted for this #Congress.
We said forget morality & democracy. We like dictatorship & Authoritarianism.
This is who we are now. This is our failure.
We'll see who we vote for 2026.

Two Parasites and a Corpse: Trump, Musk, and the Maggot Feud Inside America's Rotting Democracy: https://blog.rmendes.net/2025/06/06/two-parasites-and-a-corpse.html

Today is #WorldPressFreedomDay
Listen to Nobel Peace Laureate Maria Ressa on how important community support was for the survival of Rappler under attack from a dictator.
Lessons we should take to heart.
#FreePress #Journalism

Trump is a fascist scumbag whose regime, backed by a complicit Roberts Court, is dismantling democracy, enforcing ethnic cleansing, and crowning himself dictator while trampling the Constitution and human rights.
https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/07/01

The best proof of how the modern #democracy works is how often people support initiatives going against their own interest. In particular, whenever they vote for politicians that openly claim that these people should not have the right to vote.
#politics

Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other
forms that have been tried from time to time.
-- Winston Churchill

Top GOP Map-Drawer and Right-Wing Law Firm Team Up to Target Texas Minority Voters - Democracy Docket
https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/top-gop-map-drawer-and-right-wing-law-firm-team-up-to-target-minority-voters-in-texas/

https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/06/03/china-address-tiananmen-massacre-36-years

China: Address Tiananmen Massacre 36 Years On
36 years after the killing of countless peaceful pro-democracy protesters in Beijing, the Chinese government still seeks to erase the memory of the June 1989 Tiananmen Massacre.

Die Welt kehrt zu den Gesetzen des Dschungels zurück. Essay von Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer.
https://europa.blog/de/die-welt-kehrt-zu-den-gesetzen-des-dschungels-zurueck/

Die Welt kehrt zu den Gesetzen des Dschungels zurück - Europa Blog
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"The immigration detention system has become a testing ground for authoritarianism." - @silkys13.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/democracynow.org/post/3lqpltpcg522i

A democracy is – how Pratchett puts it in Small Gods – a system where everyone distrusts the government, so everyone is somehow (un-)happy about it. And this is how it is meant to be and where checks and balances comes in.
And now there is a Trump administration where a alarming number of people just trust everything done by them regardless of what it is.¹ If we needed another sign² of Trumpism being far from being democratic: here it is.
I really hope people in Germany continue …

"They misguidedly thought disabled people would again be an easy target, but this time they totally miscalculated the deep-seated adherence of Labour members to the principle and tradition of standing up for the poorest in our society."
Poorly led, strategically inept and shorn of democracy. Now I truly fear for this Labour government | John McDonnell | The Guardian

Great article from NYT about sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan from the UAE. For me it illustrates the bigger problem of the middle-east/gulfstates, the absence of any meaningful democracy, too rich oligarchs with too much power. Politically the people are living in medieval times there.

Conquering Soccer and Arming Warlords
The Emirati vice president is best known as the owner of Manchester City, a top English soccer team. Behind the scenes, he has been described as the “handler” guiding his country’s secret foreign wars.

Die Welt kehrt zu den Gesetzen des Dschungels zurück. Essay von Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer.
https://europa.blog/de/die-welt-kehrt-zu-den-gesetzen-des-dschungels-zurueck/

Kagan warnt: Trumps Iran-Politik bedroht nicht nur Teheran, sondern auch die US-Demokratie – Illiberale profitieren, Demokratie bleibt außen vor
American Democracy Might Not Survive a War With Iran - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/international/

American Democracy Might Not Survive a War With Iran
The United States is well down the road to dictatorship. Imagine what Trump would do with a state of war.

Two of my partner’s favorite signs from yesterday…
#noKings #protest #fascism

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei saying the quiet part out loud in a CNN interview about impending job losses due to AI:
"There's an inherent social contract in democracy where ultimately the ordinary person has a certain amount of leverage because they're contributing to the economy.
"If that leverage goes away, then it's harder to make democracies work, and it's harder to prevent concentration of power."

Anyone else planning for some Helldivers related fursuit upgrades for #eurofurence ?
Let's make some Felldivers photoshoots. For Democracy

"Nice fireworks"
#resist #tyranny #fireworks #July4th

Q&A with Pavel Durov on his arrest in France, Macron, Russia, the FBI, the fight for Telegram, leaving his wealth to the 100 children he fathered, and more (Guillaume Grallet/Le Point)
https://www.

EXCLUSIVE. Pavel Durov on his arrest in France, Macron, Russia, the FBI — and the fight for Telegram
INTERVIEW. "Le Point" met with the co-founder and CEO of the secure messaging app Telegram, who was charged in August 2024. A sweeping discussion on politics, power and democracy.

1/ I know very little about the Balkans, and I discovered this excellent book, Modern Albania by Fred Abrahams, in an unusual way. I was at the Albania exhibit at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, and this happened to be placed with the exhibit. ↵
#BookReview

Senator Ron Wyden: "Paramount just paid Trump a bribe for merger approval. When Democrats retake power, I’ll be first in line calling for federal charges. In the meantime, state prosecutors should make the corporate execs who sold out our democracy answer in court, today." — Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/wyden.senate.gov/post/3lsyea6d6hc2t

American Democracy Might Not Survive a War With Iran
The United States is well down the road to dictatorship. Imagine what Trump would do with a state of war.
#GiftArticle #USPolitics
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/06/democracy-iran-israel-war-trump/683269/?gift=E9o0y7Rlfcfv2OQ1sSVCEglNGkNaOm3ulZvY2L-kUho&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

https://www.impeachtrumpagain.org/ reminder to please sign this if you haven’t already

IMPEACH TRUMP. AGAIN.
Impeach Trump. Sign the petition NOW to defend democracy and demand accountability! He is disqualified from office, and has violated the U.S. Constitution.

"Israel and America’s war with Iran is not just a strategic throw of the dice. It is a fundamental shift in how power operates in a multipolar world. Though a transition toward new models of collective security remains theoretically possible, as the foundations of US global hegemony wither under Donald Trump the current trajectory favours entropy over order. The danger is not merely in acts of war, it is also in the chaos they leave behind."

Chaos engulfs Iran. What can Britain and Europe do?
Whether it is a democracy or a dictatorship, a state that loses a long war usually faces a dangerous reckoning. For four decades the ideological foundations of the Islamic Republic of Iran were anchor

"Comment le boom des milliardaires alimente les inégalités et menace la démocratie."
"Avec une richesse qui se concentre au sommet, l'Europe doit agir maintenant pour défendre la démocratie et la stabilité économique pour tous."
#TaxTheRich #démocratie

Hoarding syndrome is considered a psychiatric condition, not a crisis for democracy itself
-- with one giant exception:
When people with hoarding syndrome are born with or come into massive wealth
-- suddenly what was once a personal, psychiatric issue can become a crisis for all of society.
It happens every few generations.
It’s what drove the fascist oligarchs of the Confederacy to reach out and try to conquer the entire United States in the 1860s.
It …

The Billionaire Hoarders: How the Wealthy Became Our Biggest Threat
How a sick obsession is killing workers, democracy, and our planet.

At the moment I often have to think of Eley's book, that it was not the bourgeoisie that realized what is currently held up as abstract principles, but a left that had to organize itself against the impositions of capitalist society.
https://archive.org/details/forgingdem…

The protestors chanting 'this is what democracy looks like' really missed a chance to drop a classic banger instead

Making a Gil Scott-Heron mix tape for some friends. "Winter in America" really hits hard.
The Constitution, a noble piece of paper
Would free society. It struggled but then died in vain
And now Democracy is ragtime on the corner
Hoping for some rain
It's winter in America
And all of the healers have been killed or betrayed
It's winter in America
Ain't nobody fighting
‘Cause nobody knows what to save
Save your soul

Take back our economy from the oligarchs by democratizing it
Privatization of public services has proven to be a massive failure for housing, healthcare, transportation, energy, etc.
Publicly funded and operated services are how we will save our democracy!
https://youtu.be/sWHxKD27XKk

I’ll be at 3 No Kings events tomorrow — they’re all in Mointain View & Palo Alto, CA. The last one is a democracy fair. Joan Baez will be there & there will be songs. And cake.
https://bsky.app/profile/indivisiblepaplus.bsky.social/post/3lrjvqzruyc23

Indivisible Palo Alto Plus (@indivisiblepaplus.bsky.social)
REMINDER: Our TWO No Kings "We The People" events kick off tomorrow 2pm, with the Democracy Parade at the corner of Embarcadero and El Camino in Palo Alto. At the end of the parade, the "We the People" Democracy Fair begins in Rinconada Park. Register: indivisiblepaloaltoplus.org/no-kings-day

Sometimes democracy just works.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/nyregion/cuomo-mamdani-mayor-primary-nyc.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Rk8._dtb.J00ws4qd9RB2&smid=url-share

Mamdani Stuns Cuomo in New York Mayoral Primary
Zohran Mamdani appears poised to be the Democratic nominee for mayor, where he could face a contested race that will include Eric Adams and perhaps Andrew Cuomo.

"Trump has to rig everything, from his birthday to political speeches at military bases. He’s a loser who has to fake support.
Go to a #NoKings protest. Show this Administration what democracy looks like and why we refuse to honor a king.
...Demand accountability."
⁠Original post from Katie Phang:

Yes, well, your son and Trump at Deutsche Bank. And that sudden retirement that ushered in Kavanaugh.
'Democracy Is At Risk': Retired SCOTUS Justice Anthony Kennedy Expresses Grave Concerns Over 'Tone Of Our Political Discourse' - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/06/democracy-is-at-risk-retired-scotus-justice-anthony-kennedy-expresses-grave-concerns-over-tone-of-our-political-discourse/

"Comment le boom des milliardaires alimente les inégalités et menace la démocratie."
"Avec une richesse qui se concentre au sommet, l'Europe doit agir maintenant pour défendre la démocratie et la stabilité économique pour tous."
#TaxTheRich #démocratie

https://www.aclu.org/save

Project 2025 isn’t a blueprint, it’s already 40% enacted or completed.
Surviving Trump: With Democracy On Life Support: EPISODE 29: Project 2025 Overview — Dismantling Democracy and Women’s Rights
Episode webpage: https://survivingtrump.buzzsprout.com
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Surviving Trump: With Democracy On Life Support
Surviving Trump is your indispensable guide to navigating the challenges and contradictions of life under the second Trump administration. In the first 20–25 segments we’ll uncover what’s truly at stake: our democracy. You'll deep dive into the ke...

Everywhere EXCEPT Washington DC
#protest

What to know about counterprotests to Trump's June 14 parade
Dozens of pro-democracy advocacy groups are partnering to organize the No Kings events.

The Precarious Republic: Understanding the Fascist Threat to Modern Democracies
What if it doesn’t take years, or even months, for a democracy to collapse—but only a few short weeks? The idea that a stable republic could fall in ninety days may seem exaggerated, until you look at the historical record. Then it becomes a haunting possibility. Fascism doesn’t always arrive with fanfare or fire. Sometimes, it walks in through the front door…

This is a great summary of the Democracy Parade and Fair in Palo Alto this past weekend.
https://youtu.be/sZ5s1b7NYsw?si=kmTu_GCG_NAWhdji

What is the most important WWII memorial?
Americans: Normandy
The rest of the world: Auschwitz-Birkenau
This, likely, also explains the election of Donald Trump and the general shrug to his demolition of US democracy...
#wwii #ww2

We are a country of immigrants of course we fly flags from all around the world here!
Multicultural democracy is fucking rad ✊

de Tocqueville’s forgotten solution to America’s democratic crisis
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5360902-civic-infrastructure-democracy/

Stop Looking for Red Lines. You no Longer Live in a Full Democracy (Ryan Enos/Social Notes)
https://ryandenos.substack.com/p/stop-looking-for-red-lines-you-no
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p136#a250613p136

"The #Fascists, #Autocrats, and #Dictators Looking to #Ruin Our

GOV GAVIN NEWSOM: Our democracy is threatened by Donald Trump | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/gov-gavin-newsom-trump-trying-destroy-democracy-him

Did New York City just.... break something?
#DemocraticSocialism #StatusQuo #Democracy #USA #USPoli https://sfba.social/@vij/114741930283949412

'[D]efending free and ethical journalism is ... a duty of all those who yearn for a solid and participatory democracy. Wherever a journalist is silenced, the democratic soul of a country is weakened. Freedom of the press is an inalienable common good. Those who conscientiously exercise this vocation cannot see their voices silenced by petty interests or fear of the truth.'
Pope Leo made a 'pointed remark' apparently aimed at Trump's big grudge: reports - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/pope-leo-shot-trump-journalist/

I don't know if you've had this feeling lately that something is genuinely flawed in the United States and how Trump is running it?
Turns out the US is a flawed democracy and the power of the president is likely one reason.
#usa #trump

#GiftLink
Newsom Says Trump Is Destroying U.S. Democracy in Speech on L.A. Protests - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/us/newsom-speech-trump-la-protests.html?unlocked_article_code=1.OE8.NjQu.DDVE62i_gRXe&smid=url-share

I don't know if you've had this feeling lately that something is genuinely flawed in the United States and how Trump is running it?
Turns out the US is a flawed democracy and the power of the president is likely one reason.
#usa #trump

DHS Said to Brief Cleta Mitchell's Group on Citizenship Checks for Voting - Democracy Docket
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/dhs-said-to-brief-cleta-mitchells-anti-voting-group-on-checking-citizenship-for-voters/

Judge Denies California’s Request for Immediate Block on Trump’s Use of Military in Los Angeles - Democracy Docket
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/newsom-emergency-block-court-trump-military-los-angeles/

Trump’s Stunning Streak of Losses in Lower Courts - Democracy Docket
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-lower-court-streak-legal-losses/