It's New Year's Eve and honestly, we have a lot of mixed emotions about tonight. On the one hand, we're happy to leave 2024 in the past. On the other hand, we know there are tough fights waiting for us in the new year.

Despite it all, we're also hopeful. And it's because of the way we've seen this movement step up in the past month.

Here are five resolutions for keeping democracy alive in 2025. 🧵

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Been reading endless pieces about how journalism fared in 2024 from all of the major sources --- major news outlets plus think tanks such as American Press Institute, Nieman, Reuters Institute, et al.

None of them came close to acknowledging the basic reality:

Journalism failed, abjectly, to do its job. A few honorable exceptions do not begin to make up for that.

And as our media orgs have made clear, they intend to carry that failure forward into 2025.

There ya go....Scottie the fascist. I always knew he was.

#Morriscum

Griffin:

The hospitality workers' union UNITE HERE just endorsed Vice President #Harris.

As Biden does what he was elected to do by the citizens of the United States, more so-called journalists are looking to push him out. Fixed it for you, NYT.

I Have Faith in Joe Biden https://shero.substack.com/p/i-have-faith-in-joe-biden?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Republicans have the best record on lying

@GottaLaff
As long as Donald Trump still walks...stomps...the Earth, things can, and will, always get worse.

@GottaLaff I'm neither sad nor disappointed. Biden may be old, he may stumble given his stutter, but everything he said was the truth. Everything he said was the truth, everything. Each bragadocious statement from Trump was a glorified lie.
The reason we have VPs is in the event of a death or failure in the Oval Office, and Kamala Harris is perfect capable of carrying us forward. If he felt he was completely incapable, he would step aside. That's the man he is.

2/ … Written by Roberts

Supreme Court delivers blow to power of federal agencies, overturning 40-year-old precedent

The important 1984 precedent gave federal bureaucrats flexibility to interpret the law when the language is unclear.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-delivers-blow-power-federal-agencies-rcna145344

Thanks to Joe Biden, gone are the days when families need to choose between affording their kid’s inhaler and groceries.

We need a leader, not a loser.

Just so we're clear: Trump refused to say he'd accept the results of the election.

This wasn't mentioned, but it's something voters should probably know about...

@lovelylovely

Buncha ppl are addicted to drama.

Quiet Competency doesn't get the respect it deserves.

Went from Here mstdn.party to There mastodon.cloud .... But it looks like mastodon.cloud is having server (authentication? 500?) errors.

Setting up a private server for myself.

Over the next couple of days, I'll be moving the accounts I follow over there, or it'll be a big, fun, manual move. Yay!

Dear @CNN
They're called LIES.
The person that verbalises them is a LIAR.
They aren't a FALSEHOODER, now are they?
#BidenTrumpDebate

I don't choose who I vote for, by how much it titillates me on TV. I prefer competence.

I didn't watch the TV debate. I didn't need to.

Leave the superficial cult of personality to "reality" tv.

If you're using this as an excuse to bleat and moan, you're ignoring all the advances over the last four years. And you were looking for an excuse.

#politics #debate #TrumpIsALoser

Via #Biden-Harris HQ:

Partner of #Trump’s Project 2025 calls for abolishing the 22nd Amendment, allowing Trump to be in office forever

The American Conservative headline: "Trump 2028" with the byline: "The Twenty-second Amendment is an arbitrary restraint on presidents who serve nonconsecutive terms-and on democracy itself."