Happy RCV Day (1/23)!

Ranked choice voting is a simple upgrade to the way we vote that gives voters more choices and more power at the ballot box. By allowing voters to rank their candidates in order of preference, RCV mitigates the so-called "spoiler effect" and allows voters to vote for their true preferences without fear of "wasting" their vote.

Learn more and join the movement to bring RCV to Illinois at https://www.fairvoteillinois.org !

#RCV #Democracy #Illinois #IllinoisPolitics #Politics

Daily steps to building our #resistance into a #GeneralStrike

In the face of extreme daily brutality the folks of Minnesota have been giving the rest of the US a demonstration of how we resist rising #fascism in the US. Anyone can begin taking action to build their personal and community capacity for resistance today. Depending on your location and context, only some of these will apply. Do what you can, do what makes sense in your current context...

#Democracy #ICE
https://beardystarstuff.net/posts/2026-01-23.html

This text on resistance in Minneapolis reminds me so much of @pluralistic 's book "Little Brother". It shows that groups need not be powerless victims, even when facing evil.

https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:y6vljnnpkl2lsteuzovhd67c/post/3mcyca2l2wk2j

#Minneapolis #democracy #FuckICE #nokings

Happy RCV Day (1/23)!

Ranked choice voting is a simple upgrade to the way we vote that gives voters more choices and more power at the ballot box. By allowing voters to rank their candidates in order of preference, RCV mitigates the so-called "spoiler effect" and allows voters to vote for their true preferences without fear of "wasting" their vote.

Learn more and join the movement to bring RCV to Illinois at https://www.fairvoteillinois.org !

#RCV #Democracy #Illinois #IllinoisPolitics #Politics

Daily steps to building our #resistance into a #GeneralStrike

In the face of extreme daily brutality the folks of Minnesota have been giving the rest of the US a demonstration of how we resist rising #fascism in the US. Anyone can begin taking action to build their personal and community capacity for resistance today. Depending on your location and context, only some of these will apply. Do what you can, do what makes sense in your current context...

#Democracy #ICE
https://beardystarstuff.net/posts/2026-01-23.html

It is immensely disappointing that the European Parliament manages to defend and support former Commissioner #ThierryBreton, a wealthy, privileged old man who's addressbook is full of powerful friends.

While it not even mentions in passing (let alone defends) the cash-strapped #CivilSociety organisations @hateaid and #CCDH who have been attacked by #Trump in exactly the same way but with zero government support.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20260122IPR32567/ep-leaders-reject-the-visa-ban-imposed-on-former-commissioner-breton

#DSA #democracy #freespeech

Politicians surrender to the super rich.
#Democracy
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/16/super-rich-inequality-politicians-extreme-wealth

@randahl
(Raúl Latorre, president of the lower house of Congress)
"In January, Latorre attended a Brussels meeting of Patriots for Europe, an extreme right grouping of European Parliament members. The following month, he spoke at a CPAC in Washington attended by Trump. And at a CPAC in Budapest several months later, Latorre and Leite condemned the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the EU and “globalists” such as Bill Gates and George Soros."
#EU #Democracy
https://theconversation.com/how-paraguay-became-a-bastion-of-conservatism-in-latin-america-266027

This text on resistance in Minneapolis reminds me so much of @pluralistic 's book "Little Brother". It shows that groups need not be powerless victims, even when facing evil.

https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:y6vljnnpkl2lsteuzovhd67c/post/3mcyca2l2wk2j

#Minneapolis #democracy #FuckICE #nokings

It is immensely disappointing that the European Parliament manages to defend and support former Commissioner #ThierryBreton, a wealthy, privileged old man who's addressbook is full of powerful friends.

While it not even mentions in passing (let alone defends) the cash-strapped #CivilSociety organisations @hateaid and #CCDH who have been attacked by #Trump in exactly the same way but with zero government support.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20260122IPR32567/ep-leaders-reject-the-visa-ban-imposed-on-former-commissioner-breton

#DSA #democracy #freespeech

Three books for The Leave X Peer Persuasion Award arrived!

https://leavex.eu/posts/leave-x-peer-persuasion-award/

Tomorrow is time to directly inform the MEPs.

#LeaveX #EU #Democracy #Tiranny #SurveillanceCapitalism

WP:
The abhorrent power of the photograph of a 5-year-old held by ICE

...the use of a boy too young to understand the political game in which he became a pawn... perverse and deeply disturbing...

This is an image of universal moral urgency, akin to a small number of photographs that once upon a time had the power to change our behavior, away from cruelty or indifference and in the direction of basic decency.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/01/22/photo-minnesota-ice/

#News #Politics #Democracy #Democrats #Trump

WP:
The abhorrent power of the photograph of a 5-year-old held by ICE

...the use of a boy too young to understand the political game in which he became a pawn... perverse and deeply disturbing...

This is an image of universal moral urgency, akin to a small number of photographs that once upon a time had the power to change our behavior, away from cruelty or indifference and in the direction of basic decency.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/01/22/photo-minnesota-ice/

#News #Politics #Democracy #Democrats #Trump

Want to know how much the Trump family is grifting? Oversight Dems have you covered.

https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/trump-family-corruption-tracker

#politics #uspol #democracy

RE: https://mastodon.social/@WarnerCrocker/115940829672022950

YES. Read Warner's post. This is something I've also been writing about for a very long time. Until we fully reckon with the historical foundations of the United States we will not be free. Our nation is still bound to #genocide, land theft, #settlercolonialism, slavery and violent international interventions. We cannot pretend otherwise. We cannot ignore the fundamental truths of this nation.

If we want #freedom and #justice, we must start with the #truth.
#democracy #classwar #capitalism

#TedLieu continued: “I demand this committee, this chairman & #Republicans, call an immediate hearing asking why the Department of Justice is refusing to release 99% of the #EpsteinFiles & why the #DOJ is violating the #law right now.”

DOJ said earlier this month that it has released <1% of its Epstein-related files, with >2 million documents still being reviewed.

#law #JackSmith #House #Judiciary #SeditiousConspiracy #Jan6 #insurrection #PoliticalViolence #coup #democracy #Constitution