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The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
by Walter Isaacson
Isaacson explores the origins of the second sentence of the Declaration of Independence:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”
• He breaks down the historical context, showing how Jefferson drafted it and Franklin and Adams edited it.
• The book highlights how those words shaped the American Dream and remain relevant in today’s polarized times.
Ali Velshi interviews Walter Isaacson
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
George Lakoff’s Frame Lab Messaging Guide
“Trump is a loser, a fraud, and a liar.”
Frame Lab advises calling Trump a loser, a fraud, or a betrayer of trust. A dictator creates an image of power, whereas a loser is a label no strict father/wannabe dictator will admit.
- Trump is a serially bankrupt businessman.
- Trump lost the popular vote for president twice.
- Trump lost 61 different court challenges in 2020.
- Trump lost his absolute immunity claim.
- Trump lost in court to E. Jean Carroll – twice!
- Trump lost his civil NY fraud case, fined $450M
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How to find things on this site
Table of Contents
There are many ways to find information on this site.
Chatbot
The chatbot might be the fastest way to find the information you are interested in.
The chatbot icon is in the bottom-right corner.
Click on it to open a chat window. Then type your question or describe what you are looking for.
Menus
The menu is in the left column, or if the window is narrow (on a mobile), look for the menu icon in the upper right.
The menus will take you to special pages or select important posts.
Events – selects the active “event” posts. Most events will expire a few days after the event’s date. (event tag)
Featured Posts – selects important featured posts. (feature tag)
Current News – this will select current event news posts. News posts could have an expiration date set. The date will likely depend on the relevant interest period: weeks, months, or the end of an election period. (news tag)
Category or Tag
Clicking on a category or tag name will list all the posts with that category or tag name.
The “active” categories and tags are in the left column. Or, if the window is narrow or on a mobile device, the categories and tags will appear after the menu items.
The post’s categories and tags are listed at the bottom of the post, and they can be clicked on to list related posts..
Search menu
Searches can include keywords, categories, tags, and date ranges.
Archive
If you know the year and month of a post, you can filter to show only that month.
This is in the left column, after the list of categories and tags.
Latest Posts
This is in the left column.
The last 100 post titles will be listed. It could be quicker to scroll this list than scrolling through all the posts.
Site Organization
Most of the items on this site are organized as posts rather than pages. The advantages of this style over only pages:
- Events, books, videos, etc., are single posts so that they can be found in multiple ways.
- Categories and tags can be used to quickly bring up related posts.
- Categories and tags also help with training the AI Chat Bot
- Standard keyword searching can also be used.
- Custom RSS feeds can be created with the tags.
The posts are in date order. The dates are the date of an article, book, or video that they reference. Articles that are unique to this site will be the “post’s date.”
IndyBay.org
This is a good independent source for news around the SF Bay area. It lists some upcoming events. Mostly, it has current news and past events.
Scroll to the bottom of any page to see the selections for defining the different interest areas: Regions, Topics, International, and More.
For example, the “Peninsula” region will show you events and articles for the Peninsula area. https://www.indybay.org/peninsula/
From “What is Indybay?”
Indybay is an open-publishing website for social justice news. That means you can directly Publish your own stories in your own words, unfiltered by the corporate media. You are encouraged to include your own photographs, video, audio, and/or PDFs in your posts. We do not require that you have any formal writing, multimedia, or reporting experience, only that you have a story to tell.
Indybay maintains a popular Calendar, too, so if you are organizing an upcoming event, feel free to Add Your Event to Indybay’s calendar.
Indybay news stories primarily focus on issues facing Northern California, specifically the San Francisco Bay and Monterey Bay areas, however we accept stories published from across the U.S. and all over the world.
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Mobilize.org
Where are some current political events near you? Mobilize is a good place to start. https://www.mobilize.us/
You can “filter” for events near you. You can also filter for the “type” of events or meetings.
From Mobilize’s About page:
Power to the People
Mobilize is your go-to destination for people-powered movements. We provide nonprofits, labor unions, political campaigns, and grassroots organizers the tech needed to create a more just, inclusive, and democratic world.
Stop ICE Raids Alert Network
Nation-Wide Mobile Alert System
by Sherman Austin
The Stop ICE Raids Alert Network lets you send and receive mobile alerts about nearby ICE activity whenever and wherever it occurs.
No downloadable app required. StopICE works with technology already built into your phone. Send and receive mobile alerts via text message, or at stopice.net, from any mobile device with a tap of a button.
Continue reading Stop ICE Raids Alert NetworkInternational Center on Nonviolent Conflict
Publisher: ICNC
The website of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, has many links to resources, etc., including a comprehensive “resource library” of advice for activists and organizers, as well as material from scholars, the policy community, etc.
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One Million Rising
by Indivisible
Publisher: No Kings
Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and full-scale attacks on our democracy. We don’t have to wait until it’s too late. We can stop this. But it’ll take all of us—not just single days of mass action, but sustained organizing in our communities.
That’s why this summer, we’re launching One Million Rising—a national effort to train one million people in the strategic logic and practice of non-cooperation, as well as the basics of community organizing and campaign design. This is how we build people power that can’t be ignored. You’re invited to join us—and lead.
You can visit the site to see the recorded videos and access the training materials.
https://www.nokings.org/rise
Starts With Us
Based on decades of research from Columbia University Professor and Starts With Us Expert-in-Residence Peter T. Coleman, Ph.D., the Finding The Way Out Challenge is designed to help shape new habits and norms for political tolerance and courageous compassion. Think of it as a personalized boot camp for building a healthier national culture and repairing broken relationships across differences.
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- These days, opening a social media app feels less like joining a conversation and more like stepping into a room full of masked figures. Some masks hide real humans. Others hide much worse. A 2025 large-scale study by social-cybersecurity researchers estimated that roughly 20% of social media chatter during major global events came from bots,… The post You’re Being Influenced by Bots More Than You Think appeared first on Builders.
- Texas is living through a mental health emergency—one that touches families, teachers, veterans, caregivers, and young people in every corner of the state. One in 5 adults in Texas experiences a mental health condition each year. And in 2023, 18.3% of Texas high school students said they made a plan about how they would attempt… The post Inside Texas’ Hidden Mental Health Crisis—Told by the People Living It appeared first on Builders.
- Whether we love it or hate it, artificial intelligence is here to stay. Concerns about AI’s environmental footprint, ethical risks, and impact on human creativity are valid. At the current pace of AI growth, data centers could, by 2030, consume as much water annually as ten million Americans and generate as much carbon pollution as… The post Will AI Divide Us or Bring Us Together? appeared first on Builders.
- Every morning at 8 a.m., I look out the window and see the same woman walking her dog with nothing in her ears. No podcast. No audiobook. No noise-cancelling armor against existence. Just her, the leash, and her Maltese Poodle. Everyone else on the sidewalk is marching through their 10,000-step quotas, AirPods securely planted in… The post How ‘Hustle Culture’ is Dividing Us—and How We Can Stop It appeared first on Builders.
- It’s the debate going nowhere fast. When we discuss healthcare policies, the conversation often boils down to one question: Is healthcare a right or a privilege? Those who see healthcare as a right argue that a basic level of protection is essential for a society. They argue that care protects both individuals and the broader… The post Is Healthcare a Right or a Privilege? How the Healthcare Debate Misses the Point appeared first on Builders.
Crossing Party Lines
Our story begins in 2016 with two groups starting independently of one another — on opposite coasts of the United States. Coincidentally, both founders chose the same name, “Crossing Party Lines.” Their shared vision led them to create a volunteer platform to unite Americans through warm and engaging conversations. Prompted by a time of unprecedented political polarization, these two visionaries, their energetic team of volunteers, and over 3,000 CPL members are uniting America one conversation at a time. Donations to Crossing Party Lines, Inc. are 501(c)3) tax-deductible.
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No Kings
For the latest information about No Kings events, go to this website: https://www.nokings.org
About No Kings
In June, we did what many claimed was impossible: peacefully mobilized millions of people to take to the streets and declare with one voice — America has No Kings. And it mattered. The world saw the power of the people. President Trump’s birthday parade was drowned out by protests in every state and across the globe. His attempt to turn June 14 into a coronation collapsed, and the story became the strength of a movement rising against his authoritarian power grabs.
Four months later, that movement roared back even stronger. On October 18, over seven million Americans joined 2,700+ events in all 50 states — a nationwide uprising 14 times larger than both of Trump’s inaugurations combined. What began in June as a single day of defiance has become a sustained national resistance to tyranny, spreading from small towns to city centers and across every community determined to defend democracy.
Now, President Trump has doubled down. His administration is sending masked agents into our streets, terrorizing our communities. They are targeting immigrant families, profiling, arresting, and detaining people without warrants. Threatening to overtake elections. Gutting healthcare, environmental protections, and education when families need them most. Rigging maps to silence voters. Ignoring mass shootings at our schools and in our communities. Driving up the cost of living while handing out massive giveaways to billionaire allies, as families struggle.
The president thinks his rule is absolute. But in America, we don’t have kings — and we won’t back down against chaos, corruption, and cruelty.
Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger. “No Kings” is more than just a slogan; it is the foundation our nation was built upon. Born in the streets, shouted by millions, carried on posters and chants, it echoes from city blocks to rural town squares, uniting people across this country to fight dictatorship together.
Because this country does not belong to kings, dictators, or tyrants. It belongs to We the People — the people who care, who show up, and who fight for dignity, a life we can afford, and real opportunity. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.
Lincoln Square
Newsletter
Publisher: Lincoln Square
When you join Lincoln Square, you are more than a passive consumer of content – You are a critical member of the Ferocious Opposition. We’ll provide you with the truth that you need and the tools to help spread the antidote to Trump, MAGA, Musk, and what once was a legitimate major political party in our country, the Republicans.
Lincoln Square founders introduce LSM here.
About
Lincoln Square is a collaborative effort with The Lincoln Project, America’s leading pro-democracy organization. It’s an ambitious effort to rethink how the media fights against autocracy, disinformation, and the flood of attacks on truth and our democracy. We don’t pull punches. We don’t cower in fear and hope Trump, Musk, and their minions don’t notice us and be spared their wrath.
We aren’t legacy media. We don’t have billionaire backers or corporate overlords directing what we can and cannot say.
Our mission is to expose, inspire, inform, lead, and connect — and give you the tools not just to fight back, but fight forward for the America we all deserve – not just the broligarchs and kleptocrats. We fight for the rights of all of us because it takes all of us for America to achieve her extraordinary potential. And we’re getting louder than ever with podcasts, live streaming, digital and social media, commentary, articles, town halls, public and virtual community gatherings, and strategy calls with people like Rick Wilson, Stuart Stevens, and Joe Trippi, who have led the biggest campaigns — and won.
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Words that Win – The 3V Messaging Framework
VALUES, VILLAINS, and VISION
Communications consultant Anat Shenker-Osorio developed the 3V messaging framework. Effective 3V messages:
- lead with shared values,
- name the villains and their motives for opposing those values,
- present your vision for a better future.
As linguist George Lakoff says, “People vote based on values, connection, authenticity, trust and identity” – not lists of policies and facts.
BAC’s 3V Messaging Library
The Bay Area Coalition offers 3V statements on the critical issues of our time.
How to Citizen with Baratunde
By Baratunde Thurston
Recommended by: Bob
Here are some sources of ideas from a podcast by Baratunde Thurston, which began in 2020 and has four seasons of episodes. The overall theme is encouraging thinking about “citizen” as a verb. The four
pillars for doing this are:
- To participate, not just vote, but to show up for each other and publicly participate by discussing concerns, debating policy choices, advocating, etc.
- To invest in relationships, by deepening our interconnections with our community, family, neighbors, etc..
- To understand power, by learning about the fluidity of power and the various ways we the people can use it for our collective benefit.
- To value the collective, by working towards outcomes that benefit the many, not just the few.
The four seasons of episodes (ranging from 11 to 16 episodes each season) consist of interviews with folks who are thinking about and demonstrating democracy-building activities. It’s a wonderful resource for ideas. They include international, national, statewide, and local leaders.
Indivisible.org
In America, we don’t do kings.
by Indivisible
We’re a grassroots movement of thousands of local Indivisible groups with a mission to elect progressive leaders, rebuild our democracy, and defeat the Trump agenda.
How we win
Defeating a multi-decade right-wing takeover of American government ain’t easy. But we’re here to win, and we have a plan. Here’s how we’re doing it:
We Are Indivisible. Our opponents depend on a divide and conquer strategy, so we treat an attack on one like an attack on all. We show up for each other, and particularly for those facing the brunt of rightwing ideologues’ attacks – often immigrants, people of color, and low-income people. We share a vision: a real democracy, of, by, and for everyone.
Strong Leaders, Strong Groups, Strong Movement. We build and sustain our movement’s power by helping individuals take leadership. They grow and lead local Indivisible groups, take independent action, and coordinate with their fellow local leaders. As a movement, our power comes from coordinated national campaigns where we act together, indivisible.
Inside/Outside Strategy. We understand systems of power – like how Congress operates – and we work inside them to get results. That complements our outside strategy of locally-based constituent pressure to demand elected leaders, regardless of political party, work for our democracy.
A Virtuous Cycle of Advocacy and Elections. We show up to advocate for policy wins in off-years and get out the vote in election years. These efforts reinforce each other to ensure our democracy works for all of us and that the people in power do too – or we will replace them with electeds who will.
Website
Indivisible’s YouTube Channel
See the latest recordings of: “What’s the Plan? A Weekly Discussion with Leah and Ezra”