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Brazil offers America a lesson in democratic maturity It is a test case for how countries recover from a populist fever

Imagine a country where a polarising president refused to accept an election defeat and inspired a failed insurrection. The trial of Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s former president, offers a lesson for America

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Not necessarily new news, but nice and necessary research
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20.05.2025 13:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Looks like more vice than versa

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Littleproud may have ended things, but this break-up was a decade in the making The split between the Nationals and the Liberal Party isn’t some temporary break. And it all but guarantees Sussan Ley will never be PM.

The glass cliff, everyone—🫤

“[Nats’ demands] sound reasonable. Except [Libs’s] Ley has been leader of the Liberals for just 1 week, her mother has just died, her party room did not have the chance to come together and debate the Nats demands (…) So (…) a colossal vote of no confidence in (…) Ley”

20.05.2025 07:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🚨New Bright Line Watch report on the state of US democracy

-Democracy ratings ↓ w/experts & public, including Rs
-Performance ↓ in numerous areas such as free speech/press, abuse of government powers
-Faculty report academic freedom decline & self-censorship

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05.05.2025 13:16 — 👍 238    🔁 111    💬 7    📌 5

Opinion | We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S. The decision by these three Yale professors to move to Canada is both a warning and a call to action.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”

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“(…) we are returning to the pre-American world of the 19th century (…) a return to the great power geopolitics of the 1900s (…) a multipolar system shaped primarily by a triumvirate of American, Russian and Chinese presidents (…) the start of the anti-Americanisation century (…)”

06.04.2025 00:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“(…) The rules-based system is giving way to a new era of power based transactional negotiations, more like an arm wrestle among 'strongmen' leaders (…) This is not a temporary blip. A rules-based order relies on credible long-term commitment (…) There is no return to normal”

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16.03.2025 07:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This

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In the absence of a save feature in Bluesky, reposting this here for read later

03.02.2025 11:11 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Mearsheimer's theory of Offensive Realism is based on US 19th century territorial expansion.

Back to the Future indeed!

12.01.2025 15:21 — 👍 26    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Never really used IG; hoped Threads would grow less toxic than Twitter—now the former joins the latter in a fast-growing account graveyard.

12.01.2025 15:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Four years—

Irreversible damage to liberal democracy as the new baseline. Free/fair elections, peaceful transfer of power no longer can be assumed.

Expectations this will be contained geographically and within the next four years ignores what events from four ago today show about the path ahead.

06.01.2025 15:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Primeiro momento de comoção nacional do pós-emigração em massa do X. Mais semelhanças que diferenças nas narrativas presentes no Threads e Bluesky até aqui—

07.09.2024 11:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🇧🇷🌊🌊🌊

06.09.2024 18:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So it begins, again—

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