50 years ago, the most powerful media & corporate execs created a task force to implement the Powell Memo that urged corporations to buy elections & skew news to make it more pro-business. In our new book MASTER PLAN, we publish this document showing some of the participants.

You mean to tell me that the FBI had time to spend the last 9-11 months investigating #Comey seashells, but didn’t have time to investigate the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti?

all jokes aside, graham platners success in maine is an amazing data point for left populist bernie-crats being electable in purple states. from m4a to stopping israel- centering the working class in your politics clearly works. total defeat of third way neoliberal thought.

Suspending a primary election days before early voting starts just so you can redraw the maps to disenfranchise Black and brown voters is a perfect example of the lengths Republican politicians will go to rig our democracy in their favor.

The Israeli military has attacked and kidnapped 211 brave humanitarians trying to bring aid to Gaza. This is an outrageous act of piracy committed over 600 miles into international waters. They are still blockading and starving Gaza. Free them all now, and end the genocide.

Look at NYT’s original framing. It makes it sound like the flotilla is doing something wrong. In reality, Gaza is Palestinian territory, Israel’s blockade is illegal, as is its abduction of civilians in international waters. This is how they normalize Israeli crimes.

Israel controls every aspect of people’s lives—what we eat, how much we eat, the quality of the water we drink, and the environmental conditions we live in. It decides who receives medical treatment and who dies from lack of it, who can travel and who is besieged, whose home is a

Cuba's infant mortality has soared by 148% from the tightening of U.S. sanctions. This is every parent's nightmare. I can't fathom the heartbreak of the thousands of Cubans who have lost their babies because of a cruel and broken U.S. policy. It's time to end sanctions on Cuba.

“Despite ceasefire” Israel killing people is NOT a ceasefire.

🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration is already moving to use the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act to dismantle protections for Black and Latino voters ahead of the 2026 midterms. democracydocket.com/news-alerts/we…

What is happening in Louisiana right now is both a redistricting power grab and a dry run for authoritarian election subversion this Fall. The governor has declared a state of emergency to suspend the congressional elections because he doesn't like the current map.

Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.

If 41 Jews were killed in 24hrs, it would be called the nth worst antisemitic massacre since the holocaust. When 41 Lebanese are killed by Israel in 24hrs, it’s called a ceasefire.

Is this a joke? Israel is ethnically cleansing southern Lebanon and Reuters calls it “evacuation.”

On World Press Freedom Day, remember Shireen Abu Akleh, targeted and killed by Israel in the occupied West Bank on May 11, 2022. Remember the world leaders who did nothing then and nothing since, as Israel continues its unprecedented slaughter of journalists.

Yesterday I had the pleasure of addressing the graduates University of Michigan commencement. I spoke about the long history of student activism, which has moved the University toward justice. Here is a video. It has caused a furore on social media & in UM admin. youtube.com/watch?v=iu0xsQ…

Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud said 14 of his cousins were killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon last month: freep.com/story/news/loc…

whoever installed this outside the met gala is ICONIC.