@pellrik.bsky.social
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โWe are the Axis now.โ
01.02.2026 16:44 โ ๐ 1114 ๐ 156 ๐ฌ 60 ๐ 7
I gave a campus talk last night on Trump's first 100 days for the WUD Society & Politics group. A student asked me if I thought that, at some point, we might start to describe the US as a competitive authoritarian regime. I said that we were already there, it's just that most folks haven't noticed:
26.02.2025 03:26 โ ๐ 6537 ๐ 1944 ๐ฌ 83 ๐ 115
graph tracking democratic backsliding is occuring more quickly in the US than elsewhere.
New from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries.
This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. ๐งต
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
Verge headline: I grew up with Alex Pretti by Kristen Radtke Photo: An old picture of a boy and a girl at a birthday party
"I didnโt realize, in the hours before his name was released to the public, that the man millions of people had seen lying facedown on the pavement from multiple angles of eyewitness video was my childhood best friend."
Read more from @kristenradtke.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/86856...
Ukraine gave up all its nuclear weapons in exchange for security assurances from the United States which turned out to be worthless.
Now, Ukraine is supposed to give up its fortifications in Donbas in exchange for a security guarantee given by Putin puppet Trump.
No. Just no.
When grand juries have been impaneled to hear testimony and evidence on the killings of Renee Good & Alex Pretti, then we can begin to talk about the Trump admin doing something tangible. Until that, all this is just PR damage control that only the extremely naive will fall for.
26.01.2026 23:17 โ ๐ 2228 ๐ 539 ๐ฌ 79 ๐ 17The country which chose to have more guns than people, elected a convicted felon & rapist as their president, who then paid thugs to murder citizens with guns.
I still canโt work out how people didnโt see this coming.
Hopefully, once the regime is gone, ๐บ๐ธ will make sure this never happens again.
This sums it up.
26.01.2026 12:37 โ ๐ 17474 ๐ 5975 ๐ฌ 528 ๐ 256
Heโs like Americaโs Prigozhin.
27.01.2026 01:15 โ ๐ 1064 ๐ 183 ๐ฌ 215 ๐ 18Needless to say that Renee Good and Alex Pretti will go down as heroes here in Minnesota and nationally, their names synonymous with sacrifice and caring for vulnerable neighbors even at the risk of your own life. And hopefully no more innocent lives are lost.
26.01.2026 19:10 โ ๐ 28987 ๐ 5574 ๐ฌ 696 ๐ 176No, it doesnโt.
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Fascists have historically used this strategy to confuse and mislead people - among Nazis, Russian propaganda efforts, the white power movement / MAGA.
25.01.2026 20:44 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Stephen Miller called the victim, an ICU nurse at the VA filming ICE, a โdomestic terrorist who tried to assassinate federal law enforcement.โ Greg Bovino said he โwanted to massacre law enforcement.โ You saw the videos. How can any Republican not call for their resignations?
24.01.2026 20:20 โ ๐ 8656 ๐ 2728 ๐ฌ 616 ๐ 149They think they can provoke us into abandoning our values. They are wrong. We will keep the peace. We will secure justice for our neighbors. And we will see this occupation end.
25.01.2026 01:17 โ ๐ 15701 ๐ 3139 ๐ฌ 951 ๐ 111
One thing that is clear is that the Trump administration wants outrage and a violent response to this.
Donโt give them what they want
โHeartbroken but also very angryโฆ sickening lies by the administrationโฆ reprehensible and disgustingโฆ Alex is clearly not holding a gunโฆ please get the truth out about our son, he was a good manโฆโ
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