Ariel Kalishman Walsh

The Authoritarian Stack How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

If you do one thing today, read and share this link. It is the tech oligarchs’ plan to take over the government and build a post-democratic America, proven to be well underway.

To understand the tech bros, we must think like them—they view our democracy as an outdated system that must be replaced:

Inshallah

Thanks for reminding me how deeply I disagree with y'all. I needed this. even though we all need to fight against authoritarianism we just cannot completely ignore the fundamental disagreements. That guy was responsible for millions of deaths.

Wow your kid is talented and sweet! I love it!

❤️sometimes the algorithm is benevolent

Tell me how you find out about this kind of thing. Sounds kinda amazing

Wait what how do you find out about an amazing event like that but also is it seized from actual criminals or is it that fucked up civil asset forfeiture

Omg this x100000

will kim is still in ICE detention

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

Lolol same

Bookmarking and will put a calendar reminder in. 🤗

Sister carmen in Lafayette, CO - $25 monthly - you're a mensch!

it's important to call things what they are

"mass deportations of legal residents for cultural homogeneity" is an ethnic cleansing policy

Here's something that's not talked about enough

The air pollution from burning fossil fuels kills an estimated 10 million people a year

1 in 6 deaths is caused by fossil fuels

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I both love this and also find it so gutting and melancholy.

I never knew that in the United States literally the president can do anything as long as everybody agrees not to stop them. Very weird, realizing the entire thing was made of cotton candy

America, 2025.

is this a metaphor for something, idk, maybe too subtle

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

White words on a black background read: 50+ Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino. ~130 Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. ~20 Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

Wheezing laughing

Wish I was there!

every day is vacillating between everything matters too much and lol nothing matters

Dale Gribble in a courtroom holding a cigarette. To judge: I'm not questioning your authority. I'm completely denying its existence.

tonight is the night I became Dale Gribble and blocked the feds

Really informative data driven piece on declining enrollments in Boulder valley school district, why and the implications for what will come.

America saved him from the Taliban. Trump wants to send him back. He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S. Then ICE arrested him. If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S. Then ICE arrested him. If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Good luck out there!

The cruelty knows no bounds, the insatiable thirst for inflicting pain can never be quenched. ICE, DHS and this admin are horrible and loathsome and should be given no benefit of any doubt, no quarter, no negotiation.

Need a laptop? This retiree refurbishes laptops, gives them away to those in need Craig Clark, 79, calls himself the "Tech Fairy." Clark spends his time refurbishing old laptops and giving them away for free to people who need them.

Craig Clark, 79, calls himself the "Tech Fairy." Clark spends his time refurbishing old laptops and giving them away for free to people who need them.