Rita Moore
@ritamoore.bsky.social
PhD Political Science (Comparative). Aunt Tifa. Because I've seen authoritarianism. And polio. Covid serious😷 Fmr Portland (OR) School Board. Lifelong Red Sox fan looking forward to next season. Again.
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I’ve found that reminding Americans that their own ancestors were once in the crosshairs of anti-immigration hate makes them see the current situation in a more sympathetic light.
December 4, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I’ve found that reminding Americans that their own ancestors were once in the crosshairs of anti-immigration hate makes them see the current situation in a more sympathetic light.
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Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.
December 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.
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We spent the past month (months?) talking w/ protesters detained at Portland's ICE bldg about their experiences. We heard everything from being questioned about antifa, to not being read Miranda rights, to photos w/ arresting officers.
Their stories point to a slapdash, chaotic federal operation:
Their stories point to a slapdash, chaotic federal operation:
Those arrested at Portland ICE protests recount disparate, confusing treatment by federal officers
OPB interviewed more than a dozen people who were arrested at the ICE protests between June and October. What they described was an apparent lack of standard operating procedures as various federal la...
www.opb.org
December 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
We spent the past month (months?) talking w/ protesters detained at Portland's ICE bldg about their experiences. We heard everything from being questioned about antifa, to not being read Miranda rights, to photos w/ arresting officers.
Their stories point to a slapdash, chaotic federal operation:
Their stories point to a slapdash, chaotic federal operation:
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I'm sympathetic to the idea that progressives need to rethink procedural barriers to getting things done, and that this a crucial moment for American government. But we are witnessing a shift to authoritarianism right now. American needs not just a theory of power but also theory of accountability.
December 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I'm sympathetic to the idea that progressives need to rethink procedural barriers to getting things done, and that this a crucial moment for American government. But we are witnessing a shift to authoritarianism right now. American needs not just a theory of power but also theory of accountability.
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It's no mistake or wonder that the same pundits championing Abundance have a habit of spending lots of time in rooms with authoritarians (bsky.app/profile/mcop...). As @donmoyn.bsky.social makes clear in this 🧵, focusing on removing red tape w/o a theory of accountability/democracy leads you there.
I'm sympathetic to the idea that progressives need to rethink procedural barriers to getting things done, and that this a crucial moment for American government. But we are witnessing a shift to authoritarianism right now. American needs not just a theory of power but also theory of accountability.
December 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
It's no mistake or wonder that the same pundits championing Abundance have a habit of spending lots of time in rooms with authoritarians (bsky.app/profile/mcop...). As @donmoyn.bsky.social makes clear in this 🧵, focusing on removing red tape w/o a theory of accountability/democracy leads you there.
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Mark you calendar
December 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Mark you calendar
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Now is when you should be looking in your school district to find out if there is an election this year. If so, ask around--is there a pro-public education candidate running? If so, that person needs your help and support. If not, find someone to run--maybe it's yourself!
democracy-education.org
democracy-education.org
December 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Now is when you should be looking in your school district to find out if there is an election this year. If so, ask around--is there a pro-public education candidate running? If so, that person needs your help and support. If not, find someone to run--maybe it's yourself!
democracy-education.org
democracy-education.org
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This is especially true for Right Wing Authoritarian personalities. They prioritize "normal" and feel safest when their choices are simple (or made for them) and conform to the group. That level of comfort is easily threatened. Liberals tend to like novelty and choice and difference. Good video.
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This is especially true for Right Wing Authoritarian personalities. They prioritize "normal" and feel safest when their choices are simple (or made for them) and conform to the group. That level of comfort is easily threatened. Liberals tend to like novelty and choice and difference. Good video.
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I tried to do the latter here, with an assist from @cingraham.bsky.social.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/18/t...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/18/t...
The United States Can't Afford the Opportunity Cost of Stephen Miller's Bigotry - emptywheel
Americans can't have nice things -- the nice things they used to have -- because Republicans in Congress gave much of money spent on government employees who give you nice things and instead gave it t...
www.emptywheel.net
December 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I tried to do the latter here, with an assist from @cingraham.bsky.social.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/18/t...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/18/t...
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The billionaires who own much of the the infrastructure of our 21st century lives have progressively enshittified that infrastructure while expanding their wealth, and then they scold us for being small-souled peasants who don’t believe in progress anymore.
it is amazing how so much tech gets unremittingly worse year on year at whatever you once used it for and less pleasant to use and more bound up with creepy politics as well as personal and environmental harms and yet also still less productive of actual goods and these are somehow great visionaries
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The billionaires who own much of the the infrastructure of our 21st century lives have progressively enshittified that infrastructure while expanding their wealth, and then they scold us for being small-souled peasants who don’t believe in progress anymore.
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And this is so obnoxious because actual-politics is kind of a fucking layup right now.
Your opponents are running a historically corrupt government.
Be anti-corruption. Run on fixing the shit they broke, holding assholes accountable, and improving people’s lives.
Duh.
Your opponents are running a historically corrupt government.
Be anti-corruption. Run on fixing the shit they broke, holding assholes accountable, and improving people’s lives.
Duh.
November 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
And this is so obnoxious because actual-politics is kind of a fucking layup right now.
Your opponents are running a historically corrupt government.
Be anti-corruption. Run on fixing the shit they broke, holding assholes accountable, and improving people’s lives.
Duh.
Your opponents are running a historically corrupt government.
Be anti-corruption. Run on fixing the shit they broke, holding assholes accountable, and improving people’s lives.
Duh.
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To make common cause with this Administration is to support an affirmatively white supremacist vision of this country. Period.
Every corporation.
Every Republican.
Every influencer.
Every Governor.
Every evangelical leader.
Every voter. Yes. Every voter.
Every corporation.
Every Republican.
Every influencer.
Every Governor.
Every evangelical leader.
Every voter. Yes. Every voter.
Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
To make common cause with this Administration is to support an affirmatively white supremacist vision of this country. Period.
Every corporation.
Every Republican.
Every influencer.
Every Governor.
Every evangelical leader.
Every voter. Yes. Every voter.
Every corporation.
Every Republican.
Every influencer.
Every Governor.
Every evangelical leader.
Every voter. Yes. Every voter.
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The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.
Run on *that*
Run on *that*
November 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.
Run on *that*
Run on *that*
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Not great that we’ve created a system where the best job opportunities for working class men involve either overseeing other working class people in prison, or working as masked secret police violently hunting down working class immigrants targeted for deportation despite having committed no crimes.
“We’re broken and we’re being poached by ICE,” one official with the prison workers union told ProPublica. “It’s unbelievable. People are leaving in droves.”
By @keribla.bsky.social
By @keribla.bsky.social
As Federal Prisons Run Low on Food and Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Leave in Droves for ICE
Many of the problems the agency is facing now are not new, but staff and prisoners fear an exodus of officers could make life behind bars even worse.
www.propublica.org
November 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Not great that we’ve created a system where the best job opportunities for working class men involve either overseeing other working class people in prison, or working as masked secret police violently hunting down working class immigrants targeted for deportation despite having committed no crimes.
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Destroying Newport's fishing and tourism to house Stephen Miller's sadistic fantasies.
Where the Waters Are Rough, a Fishing Town Confronts Trump’s Priorities
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Destroying Newport's fishing and tourism to house Stephen Miller's sadistic fantasies.
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Competitive depravity--transgression without accountability, pursued by elites as a means of personal satisfaction and status competition with each other--is the red thread linking use of the offshore system with the rampant sexual exploitation of women observed among many wealthy, powerful men.
November 27, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Competitive depravity--transgression without accountability, pursued by elites as a means of personal satisfaction and status competition with each other--is the red thread linking use of the offshore system with the rampant sexual exploitation of women observed among many wealthy, powerful men.
This. All of this.
(1/X) Quick thing on the shutdown....yes Dems shouldn't have caved when they did but they won the shutdown politically: they killed in the elections and are soaring in the generic ballot.
There's a lesson.The ABC's of dealing with narcissists.
Always
Be
Confronting
Do I have your attention now?
There's a lesson.The ABC's of dealing with narcissists.
Always
Be
Confronting
Do I have your attention now?
November 26, 2025 at 11:31 PM
This. All of this.
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Again, I beg of journalists to stop normalizing Trump's false claims he was wronged by using the word "retribution."
This is a GREAT piece.
Except this is not retribution.
This is a GREAT piece.
Except this is not retribution.
A REUTERS SPECIAL REPORT
Trump’s campaign of retribution:
At least 470 targets and counting
The list illuminates the sweeping effort by the president and his administration to punish dissent and reshape the government.
By PETER EISLER, NED PARKER, LINDA SO and JOSEPH TANFANI
Trump’s campaign of retribution:
At least 470 targets and counting
The list illuminates the sweeping effort by the president and his administration to punish dissent and reshape the government.
By PETER EISLER, NED PARKER, LINDA SO and JOSEPH TANFANI
November 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Again, I beg of journalists to stop normalizing Trump's false claims he was wronged by using the word "retribution."
This is a GREAT piece.
Except this is not retribution.
This is a GREAT piece.
Except this is not retribution.
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Hugely useful
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A year on from Trump’s victory, resistance is everywhere | Rebecca Solnit
Americans have shown a tremendous amount and variety of opposition – more than some may realize
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Hugely useful
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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ABOUT DAMN TIME!!! 👏👏👏
Dems on the Oversight Committee launched a tracking system “to hold the Trump Administration accountable” for ICE/DHS fed abuses and misconduct.
View what’s been documented so far or submit a new report: bit.ly/tellonice
#TellOnICE #StopICE #ICEwatch #ICEraid #50501Movement
Dems on the Oversight Committee launched a tracking system “to hold the Trump Administration accountable” for ICE/DHS fed abuses and misconduct.
View what’s been documented so far or submit a new report: bit.ly/tellonice
#TellOnICE #StopICE #ICEwatch #ICEraid #50501Movement
November 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
ABOUT DAMN TIME!!! 👏👏👏
Dems on the Oversight Committee launched a tracking system “to hold the Trump Administration accountable” for ICE/DHS fed abuses and misconduct.
View what’s been documented so far or submit a new report: bit.ly/tellonice
#TellOnICE #StopICE #ICEwatch #ICEraid #50501Movement
Dems on the Oversight Committee launched a tracking system “to hold the Trump Administration accountable” for ICE/DHS fed abuses and misconduct.
View what’s been documented so far or submit a new report: bit.ly/tellonice
#TellOnICE #StopICE #ICEwatch #ICEraid #50501Movement
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On this Thanksgiving Eve, here's a good reminder of all of the resistance we've seen this year. A time to give thanks to all those who are rising up to defend American democracy and our constitutional values. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A year on from Trump’s victory, resistance is everywhere | Rebecca Solnit
Americans have shown a tremendous amount and variety of opposition – more than some may realize
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
On this Thanksgiving Eve, here's a good reminder of all of the resistance we've seen this year. A time to give thanks to all those who are rising up to defend American democracy and our constitutional values. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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“Just vote blue in 2026” won’t save us from American fascism. Both parties have been drifting to the right for years. Democrats and Republicans have aligned themselves with corporatocracy and oligarchy, respectively.
November 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
“Just vote blue in 2026” won’t save us from American fascism. Both parties have been drifting to the right for years. Democrats and Republicans have aligned themselves with corporatocracy and oligarchy, respectively.
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Okay, now imagine that it's not only a pipeline spill, but it's an earthquake destroying the pipeline, AND the storage facilities, AND the transfer capabilities for 90% of Oregon's transportation fuel. That's the concentrated risk at the CEI hub.
With a pipeline that provides 90% of Oregon's transportation fuel shut down with a leak, Gov. Tina Kotek declared a fuel supply emergency.
Fuel leak in BP pipeline drives Oregon to state of emergency over fuel supply • Oregon Capital Chronicle
Gov. Tina Kotek declared a state of emergency through Dec. 24 in light of potential disruptions and higher-than-expected gas prices.
buff.ly
November 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Okay, now imagine that it's not only a pipeline spill, but it's an earthquake destroying the pipeline, AND the storage facilities, AND the transfer capabilities for 90% of Oregon's transportation fuel. That's the concentrated risk at the CEI hub.