Sara Velez

How to Save a Democracy Americans can learn from opponents of authoritarianism elsewhere.

“If American democracy is to prevail, pro-democracy forces must follow the handbook that has enabled oppositions to stop would-be autocrats in other countries,” writes @lgamboa.bsky.social. “The alternative may be to find that democracy has slipped away while they wait.”

Quando uma "firma" que nem marca tem faz cair um governo cuja primeira medida foi fazer cair uma marca.

Design karma's a bitch.

No Watson, this was not an accident, this was done by design.

Rosemary Hill · No More Corsets: Dressing the Revolution Joséphine Bonaparte and Térézia Tallien developed a new way of dressing that freed the body and redrew the female...

‘When Marie-Antoinette went to the guillotine, it was part of her degradation to be dressed only in a chemise. She had kept a clean one for the occasion.’

Rosemary Hill on fashion in the French Revolution: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

LAND OF THE BULLY - after the appalling way in which Volodymyr Zelensky was treated today at the White House by Trump and Vance, we can safely say that the USA is no longer the land of the free.

Directed and animated by André Carrilho; sound by Philippe Lenzini; produced by JP Cotrim for RTP

Indeed. @sabrinaprovenzani.bsky.social

The Eternal Mysteries of Red It’s often deemed the first color, the strongest color, the color that stands for color itself. So why does it keep slipping out of our grasp?

Red is often deemed the first color, the strongest color, the color that stands for color itself. So why does it keep slipping out of our grasp?

IT IS A COUP This is what should be on every front page in 150 point banner headlines. All I have is this Substack but I lay it beneath your feet and pray to a higher power that I'm wrong.

This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP.

It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next.
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Manual de instruções.

Ainda estamos aqui? Já não sei onde li isto: a velocidade a que Donald Trump despachou dezenas de “ordem executivas” (OE) que põem em causa valores básicos da democracia americana

“Pois - mas, estamos a descobrir de novo, como se fosse realmente novo, os autocratas podem ser populares. E por mais que devêssemos sabê-lo, e saber como se lida com isso, não sabemos. Vamos de ter de aprender, e depressa.”

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pessoas que morrem de pé

Maria Teresa Horta 🖤