Activist, legal scholar, philosopher, progressive. I use social media to think out loud and to build community and coalitions. Also at heidilifeldman@mastodon.social. #NMlovesDemocracy #LandofAction #FreeFairElectionsNM26. LandOfAction.org
Among the things I LOVE about living in #NewMexico (always and forever NEW MEXICO) is how truly bilingual the state is. The #FreeFairElections team is rolling out materials en Español!
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For no particular reason, sharing my 2015 single page comic Upwards from the Boston Globe, which reworks elements of Unflattening and a look at moving from a solitary perspective aided by the astronomical calculations of Al-Tusi to shift our viewpoint…
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The thing about RFK Jr is that he’s not just a eugenicist who peddles extreme and dangerous anti-science, anti-vaccine conspiracy theories that cause suffering, pain, and death, but he’s also a vile racist piece of s**t
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
Alaska authorities strongly oppose the Trump DOJ’s attempted “interference” in the election.
This is significant because there were concerns the state—which sought to DQ the second Sullivan—would take the same side.
But it didn’t. Quite the contrary. buff.ly/EJHtDpX
Democratic Party institutions and officials, represented by Marc Elias, tonight filed a really interesting lawsuit in D.C. District Court, before Judge Boasberg, seeking immediate injunction against Trump regime’s efforts to interfere with current U.S. election […]
I can totally see Ms Thayer making such a sign if any of us did her teaching dirty. THANK YOU FOR THE SOCIAL STUDIES & A People's History of the U.S. MS. THAYER!!
A serial rapist was elected twice as President, a fact we don't reckon with nearly enough. Now one of two major political parties has been molded in his image, run for and by violent sexual abusers who hate women.
A federal judge on Monday night indefinitely blocked the Trump administration from removing even a single tree from a public golf course in D.C. that President Donald Trump intends to immediately transform into a championship-style course.
READ MORE: www.ms.now/news/judge-b...
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan.
He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
Hey, neighbors in #NM02! It's time to re-elect Gabe Vasquez. He's working to crack down on predatory pricing, lower housing costs and utility bills, cut taxes on working families and reverse the extreme MAGA cuts to Medicaid.
Re-Elect Gabe Vasquez
New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District
What is true is that this was a conflict—and make no mistake, this was a conflict; this was a protracted battle in a hybrid war, more than anything—that was largely fought by large numbers of people laboriously working to unfuck the nation's informational environment.
Genuinely I don't know that it comes across to people who haven't been here to watch how almost unbelievable this was, just people taking something that looked impossible and dragging it kicking and screaming all the way to inevitability.
In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.
The achievement of Serbian students overthrowing Aleksandar Vučić can't be overstated.
In 2024, they began protesting. In 2025, they transformed a protest movement into civil dissidence. In 2026, they became a political party — and two months later, crushed a corrupt state-entrenched authoritarian.
The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.
“Several conservative organizations …— including the Heritage Foundation and American Moment — have pressed White House counsel to either prepare pardons or put in place funding for the legal fees necessary to defend junior staffers from criminal and congressional probes or potential lawsuits.”
Out on the trail with @jocelynbenson.bsky.social and Winnie Brinks today for their Driving Down Costs bus tour in West Bloomfield and Belleville!
Early voting starts today. Let’s make these last 10 days count for Democrats up and down the ballot.
🚨BREAKING: On behalf of Mary Peltola’s campaign and the DSCC, Elias Law Group is fighting the Department of Justice’s sham lawsuit to preemptively block certification of Alaska’s U.S. Senate race if anyone other than the Republican incumbent wins. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump: "I didn't go to Congress. Remember Sleepy Joe? 'Oh, if they would give me approval in Congress!' You're not gonna get approval. You just do it. You're the president."
This is literally the end of the rule of law.
If a President can pardon people committing crimes on his behalf - and the Supreme Court says he himself can't be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his job - then the government becomes a lawless entity able to violate our rights without limit.
New: White House attorneys are evaluating whether to issue mass pardons to junior staffers.
https://www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/white-house-weighing-mass-pardons-for-junior-staff
Replying to @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
After Election Day, every American must be ready to demand that election results be respected and implemented. We are going to have to be in the streets and to participate in strikes and boycotts. I strongly recommend signing up with Mayday Strong, a coalition of groups preparing […]
The BBC is doing something important, refusing to be intimidated by a powerful person trying to use the legal system to punish criticism and discourage scrutiny. They’re schooling the American press on what the 1st Amendment means. Read about it here: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-bbc-st...
The Trump administration has signed an oil deal with a Venezuelan energy baron who has faced money-laundering investigations in three countries.
ProPublica reviewed a copy of the 18-page agreement.
Back in the field harvesting olives this morning at the invitation of Palestinian families (near Beit Jala today) with @rabbijilljacobs.bsky.social@truahrabbis.bsky.social and many other new released-from-detention friends.
Our harvest today was peaceful & successful.
The time to determine whether Dan J. Sullivan Jr. could appear on the Alaska ballot for U.S. Senate was months ago, and Alaska courts did so.
What's additionally batshit about this is that the candidates' names are printed on the ballot in a way which makes abundantly clear who's who.
Breaking news: The Justice Department has moved to preemptively block certification of the results of Alaska’s Senate race if Republican incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan loses his tight race against Democrat Mary Peltola next month.
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WOMAN REPORTER: Do sexual abuse allegations mean nothing to you, sir?
TRUMP: Wait. Wait! Wait wait wait. Slow down. Who are you with?
REPORTER: NBC, sir. But they are very serious sex abuse allegations
TRUMP: Quiet! Isn't she a fresh person? You're a horrible little reporter, aren't you?