mike fleisch

Don't discount Jeff Bezos's quieter role, weaponizing the @washingtonpost.com editorial page into a right wing propaganda machine

STOP LISTENING TO THE DEMOCRATIC CONSULTANT CLASS

As always, listen to my friend @billmckibben.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/o...

Former U.S. Senate candidate @rikleen.bsky.social was good enough to write for Bad Faith Times about the SCOTUS birthright citizenship ruling. It's good that Trump lost. Everything else about the decision in quite bad. badfaithtimes.com/the-birthrig...

Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis. Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention. So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption. 1/ Here it is - in one🧵

M-m-maarva #andor

Cartoon by Nick Anderson. (Follow him on Substack: https://nickanderson.substack.com/)

The young people in our @obamafoundation.bsky.social Leaders program give me hope. One of those leaders, Luisa Neubauer, is working to fight climate change and recently traveled to Antarctica. This Earth Day, I hope you'll check out her incredible story.

“Ah, they'll never, they'll never ever reach the moon, At least not the one that we're after; It's floating broken on the open sea, look out there, my friends, And it carries no survivors.” Leonard Cohen

Reactionary centrists and republicans spent years smearing, belittling, or dismissing anyone who properly described the Trumpism as a white supremacist project. bsky.app/profile/nbcn...

The birthright citizenship case shows how Trump-era Republicans have embraced the convictions of the proslavery Senator John C Calhoun, who believed America was a “white man’s government” and the integration of nonwhites onto the polity would destroy the country www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

it is really bad how many people across the political spectrum on social media seem to discuss things in terms of discredited genetic pseudoscience when it comes to identity

I have spent the past several months studying the cutting-edge research on modern democracies that have defeated authoritarian leaders. I've learned that the conventional wisdom on the topic is wrong — in ways that have clear implications for the US going forward THREAD www.vox.com/politics/479...

Nurul Amin Shah Alam was a blind refugee, unable to speak English. DHS improperly detained-but finally released him Instead of bringing him home, they dropped him miles away-without regard to his disability or notifying his family Unable to find his way, he died on the streets of Buffalo Alone

I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.

One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

It's time for a truly massive general strike. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-enough

We can actually predict polar vortex events now by monitoring Ted Cruz flight patterns

This man is talking about stealing a country at gunpoint from nations the US is allied with. Of course Europeans hate us. You would feel the same way if you were in their place. American voters put this man in power, he didn’t seize it this time.

The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The entire conservative legal movement and philosophy of “originalism” is premised on the illegitimacy of any SCOTUS decision that doesn’t fit the GOP party platform

Oh look, more of the same from the New York Times playing down renewables/decarbonization and playing up nuclear and natural gas (w/ mythical "capture). This time via David Victor, whom I identified as a problematic actor in the climate space in "The #NewClimateWar" (bookshop.org/p/books/the-...)

Notre Dame fans: channel your rage into fighting for justice and democracy :) #whatwouldyoufightfor #notredame @notredame.bsky.social

When tech types pretend to be Christian, remember: nothing is more Anti-Christ than Silicon Valley. A Lancet-published study estimates USAID cuts will kill over 14 million people by 2030. “Whatever you did for the least of my brothers and sisters...” www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj0P...

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

In the wake of destructive floods, Wisconsin youth sue state utility regulator over failure to consider climate change. The case is part of a growing movement to force climate action through the courts, led in part by Indigenous youth. grist.org/justice/in-t... #Wisconsin #Youth #Climate #Courts

#ResistanceRoots “Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies ... ? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?” ― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, 1962

It's their go-to play: www.cnn.com/2025/07/01/c...

“The good news is that the data proves that the most effective message is love." Last week, public relations expert @dfenton.bsky.social joined us for a conversation about the importance of crafting a compelling narrative to promote social change. Visit thirdact.org/resources to watch more.

Israel’s food points are not just death traps – they’re an alibi for the starvation of Gaza - by @Alex de Waal www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“La CIJ ouvre la voie à des «réparations» climatiques par les États pollueurs (ICJ opens way for climate 'reparations' by polluting states)” | Article by Richard Carter for @ledevoir.com: www.ledevoir.com/environnemen...

I’ve been kind of a broken record on this, but: no, you can’t hand it to them. You can’t work with them to get anything you want to do, done. If you do, they will take what you do and use it to hurt people. I realize that this sucks because you want to do things, but that is the way it has to be.

"Climate Change Is Making Extreme Rain Events Like Texas' More Common — And More Intense" by Li Zhou for @huffpost.com: www.huffpost.com/entry/extrem...

If you’re an elected Democrat (rightly) complaining about the GOP kicking 17 million people off of Medicaid, now is a good and credible time to critique the entire broken work-based non-universal US healthcare system. Now is the time to call for universal healthcare, for Medicare for All.

The greatest tool working people have to win dignity, power and respect is organizing. So proud to stand with labor as your Democratic nominee for Mayor of New York City.

Be human. #ResistTrump

“In Cell 15, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia and 20 other Salvadorans were forced to kneel from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion. During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself…”

I discussed how climate change is increasing the occurrence of persistent summer weather extremes like the "heat domes" currently impacting the U.S. and Europe this morning on #BBCNews: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYe4...

Scientific American warned that Trump’s policies to weaken regulatory oversight of nuclear, “severely increase the risk of expensive, unexpected nuclear accidents.”

We’re speeding towards the moment when one of these ICE kidnappings ends in bloodshed.