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Chuck DarwinDemocracy is not a spectator sport.  That truism has been repeated by notables from Gen. Jim Mattis to Barack Obama to George Shultz, Ronald Reagan’s secretary of state. But it’s fitting that the person credited with first saying it was a private citizen whom nobody particularly remembers. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lotte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lotte</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Scharfman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scharfman</a> (1928–1970) was a Jewish refugee from Nazi-occupied Austria who became president of the Massachusetts chapter of the League of Women Voters. Her cause was an obscure one: She wanted to reduce the size of Massachusetts’s bloated House of Representatives from 240 members to 160. The measure failed on its first vote in the House in 1970, for the obvious reason that no representative wanted to risk losing their own seat. But after several House members were voted out later that year for opposing the reform measure, it cleared the state legislature, and in 1974 it won overwhelming approval from Massachusetts voters.Corruption was “a way of life” in the Massachusetts state House of the 1960s and 1970s, a state investigating panel later concluded —it was rife with bribery, extortion, and money laundering. Yet even in that civic sewer, a legislative body was persuaded to do something that most political scientists would tell you is a logical impossibility: put one-third of its own members out on the street. That should clue you in to the power of participatory democracy.“People know deep inside them,” Ralph Nader told me recently, that “if they really blow their top, nothing can stop them.” Is Nader, who at 91 has logged six decades walking the citizen-action beat, feeling optimistic that President Donald Trump’s multifront assault on constitutional government can be stopped? ⭐️“Not optimistic,” Nader replied. “Just realistic…. As some people stand up to power, it becomes contagious.”Granted, this country has never witnessed an abuse of presidential authority so extreme as what Trump is right now wreaking in every conceivable direction. But as I write this, an extraordinary national mobilization is underway. Every conceivable method of lawful opposition is being applied to arrest Trump’s bizarre and frequently illegal sabotage of the very government he was elected to lead. Some acts of resistance will work; others will fail. It will be some time before we have a clear sense of what works bestNo matter who joins this fight, it won’t be won next week, or next month. Barring impeachment and removal, Trump will be president for four long years, and not even his allies expect him to become less authoritarian and kleptocratic. So pace yourself. But the sooner you join in, the more effectively we can limit the damage <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/193193/citizen-guide-trump-resistance-fighting-back" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://newrepublic.com/article/193193/citizen-guide-trump-resistance-fighting-back</a>

BrughiereROMA: PRESIDIO DAVANTI AL CPR DI PONTE GALERIA Diffondiamo:Domenica 3 MARZO ore 16.00 Presidio davanti al CPR DI PONTE GALERIA [fermata Fiera di Roma del treno per Fiumicino]Ad un mese dalla morte di Ousmane Sylla e dalla rivolta delle persone recluse repressa tra pestaggi, lacrimogeni ed arresti, andiamo davanti alle mura del centro di e <a href="https://brughiere.noblogs.org/post/2024/02/17/roma-presidio-davanti-al-cpr-di-ponte-galeria/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://brughiere.noblogs.org/post/2024/02/17/roma-presidio-davanti-al-cpr-di-ponte-galeria/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/Antirazzismo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Antirazzismo</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/Cpr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cpr</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/Iniziative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Iniziative</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/Lotte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lotte</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/Solidariet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Solidariet</a>

Stephen J. 🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪🇺🇸🇬🇧🇪🇺(Addendum) (137/54?)In this one, Micha Stocki performs with his kids, Lotte and Ollie, who provide most of the vocals. Really nicely done.<a href="https://youtu.be/i5haqJlrlcw" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/i5haqJlrlcw</a><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/MichaStocki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MichaStocki</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Lotte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lotte</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Ollie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ollie</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Creep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Creep</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Radiohead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Radiohead</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/cover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cover</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/covers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#covers</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CoverSongs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CoverSongs</a>

BrughierePERQUISIZIONI IN BASILICATA Diffondiamo:Alle 5 di questa mattina la divisione antiterrorismo di potenza ha effettuato approfondite perquisizioni a casa di alcun compagn cercando prove della partecipazione alla campagna di solidarietà ad Alfredo Cospito e contro il 41 bis e tentando di sequestrare qualsiasi dispositivo elettronico- informatico alle persone indagate.<a href="https://brughiere.noblogs.org/post/2023/06/26/perquisizioni-in-basilicata/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://brughiere.noblogs.org/post/2023/06/26/perquisizioni-in-basilicata/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/Lotte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lotte</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/Notizie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Notizie</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/Repressione" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Repressione</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/Solidariet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Solidariet</a>

BrughiereROMA: 2 GIUGNO. NIENTE DA FESTEGGIARE Il 2 giugno tuttx a Roma in corteo contro guerre, miseria, controllo sociale, repressione devastazione ambientale, razzismo, violenza patriarcale. Concentramento alle 10:00 in Piazza dei Consoli [nei pressi del Comando Operativo di Vertice Interforze] <a href="https://brughiere.noblogs.org/post/2023/05/24/roma-2-giugno-corteo/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://brughiere.noblogs.org/post/2023/05/24/roma-2-giugno-corteo/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/Iniziative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Iniziative</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/Lotte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lotte</a>

LaPipenbrinck :antifa:Currently on my needles (besides a sweater and a pair of vanilla socks to go): The <a href="https://norden.social/tags/Lotte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lotte</a> <a href="https://norden.social/tags/socks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#socks</a> from the book <a href="https://norden.social/tags/52WeeksOfSocks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#52WeeksOfSocks</a>. It's a real fun knit, and i love the unusual pattern! Btw, it's not as difficult as it looks. :) <a href="https://norden.social/tags/knittersofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#knittersofmastodon</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/knitting" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@knitting</a> <a href="https://norden.social/tags/Handarbeitsclub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Handarbeitsclub</a> <a href="https://norden.social/tags/sockknitting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sockknitting</a> <a href="https://norden.social/tags/sockers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sockers</a>

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