BREAKING:

4,000 workers are now casting union ballots at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee.

This wouldn’t have been possible without the massive surge of energy in the labor movement over the last year!

Let’s show our solidarity and amplify their efforts! #UnionsForAll

As a scholar of #Strongmen , I agree with Mary L. Trump's assessment of the psychological costs of the trial for Trump. Such individuals cannot bear the feeling of being constrained by others. The usual forms of asserting dominance are not available to him in the courtroom.…

Marcello Dell'Utri was Berlusconi's liaison to both the Mafia and Opus Dei. So of course Berlusconi tried to have him pardoned.
Does any of this sound familiar?

😎 For those new to this, Berlusconi (over a dozen major corruption trials while PM, many indictments, and a major Putin partner) is a protagonist of my book #Strongmen .

This is what authoritarians do: incite violence against anyone seen as having the power to harm Cult Leader. This is also designed to make it very difficult to find jurors and thus proceed with the trial. It is form of sabotage of our democratic justice system.

Today, I met with the members of the foreign press in Istanbul to answer their questions about the new political landscape shaped by the outcome of the recent election results.

These elections should serve as an inspiration to all democratic movements on how to roll back the

NEW:

Jan. 6 footage reviewed by NBC News appears to show the man the FBI identified as a Real Housewives star's stepson inside Nancy Pelosi's suite, and even entering the room where her laptop was stolen.

FBI appears to have missed it on first pass. #SeditionHunters didn't.

'This is a plan to transform America into an autocracy.'

Donald Trump's allies have already put out their playbook for what he could do with a second term. Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Ahmed Baba join Stephanie Ruhle to pull back the curtain on Project 2025.

My new Lucid essay on the challenges this trial poses to Trump's authoritarian personality. Note in this court sketch how he is surrounded by the armed officers and the judge. This is not a situation that an authoritarian can tolerate for long. With the insights of Mary L. Trump…

I’ll be on MSNBC’s 11th Hour tonight for a conversation with Stephanie Ruhle and Ruth Ben-Ghiat about Project 2025 and its authoritarian agenda. The more we inform Americans about this threat to democracy, the better. Tune in at 11:40 pm ET 🙌🏾

And I will be speaking with Stephanie Ruhle around 11:40pm about Project 2025, a plan to make American government serve autocracy. 11th Hour MSNBC

INBOX: “Thousands of Tennesseans Oppose Arming Teachers… 4300 signatures, including from Ryan Williams’s district…”

Covenant Mom Sarah Shoop Neumann gathers support for a letter to Williams & TNGOP leadership opposing his arming teachers bill. Add yours: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Sadistic cheapskate just like Trump no wonder he gave over $800k

Oh a corrupt harasser no wonder he supports Trump

All the best people

Russia’s Foreign Ministry has been drawing up plans to try to weaken its Western adversaries, including the United States, and leverage the Ukraine war to forge a global order free from what it sees as American dominance, according to a secret Foreign Ministry document.
In a

Thank you Astead. Trump showing contempt and scorn for democratic justice is part of a larger attempt to delegitimize democracy: lucid.substack.com/p/how-to-destr…

Who knew that specializing in Fascism would be so useful in 2024 🤔

Don't let this fly under the radar:

The same “great replacement” rhetoric that led to white nationalist violence at a synagogue in Pittsburgh & a grocery store in a Black neighborhood in Buffalo is being used by Republicans to try and impeach DHS Secretary Mayorkas.

Great piece about Trump's entitlement by Shanlon Wu