Dr. Suzanne Triggs

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

"Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.”

– Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

Jennifer Lawrence spoke up for Palestine at the San Sebastian film festival press conference today-

“what’s happening is no less than a genocide.”

America, 2025

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

Been a while since I had this much fun in the studio. Apart from during Mystery Hour, of course. Not sure they made this cut but there at least two occasions when I nearly lost it completely.

Nicolas Witchell eat your heart out! James please get your name down to be the next BBC royal correspondent. You absolutely nailed the gilded banalness of it all. When you said ‘the full Cinderella’ and ‘now a horse has arrived’ I spat my tea out😂

YouTube video by LBC Putin puts Trump to the test in Alaska | Simon Marks' American Week

And a reminder that if you want to watch "American Week", you can now find it every weekend on YouTube:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIfA...

Today was the culmination of three years of organising (with 2 other fabulous women!) Actually the Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever - for the first time in the Haworth landscape which inspired Emily Brontë’s novel! Massive thanks to everyone who supported us & the event! #KateBush #Bradford2025 ❤️

I’ve been a few times but haven’t been able to get a ticket since 2022, so now have the agony of hearing about it from friends who are there who DID. I watch bands at #Glasto on telly to find out what’s contemporary. My absolute highlight was Doechii - empowerment manifest

An overhead photo showing 100s of people corralled by fencing and barbed wire into a tiny area. Three security people in high vis on the other side of the gates.

NEW: After an 86-day blockade of food into Gaza, starving residents are pictured being herded like livestock & surrounded by fencing and barbed wire as they await food parcels.

This photo was posted in the last hour by Gaza-based journalist Motasem A Dalloul.

BREAKING: Scott Pelley just risked everything to make one thing clear:
The attack on free speech isn’t coming—it’s already here.

Journalists are being silenced, critics are being punished, and most of the media’s playing dead.

This is state-sponsored suppression. This is dictatorship in real time.

Trump family's net worth has increased by $2.9 billion thanks to crypto investments, new report says As the Trump family's crypto ventures increase their wealth, the president's administration pauses a dozen federal crypto probes.

Since Trump took office, his family has made $2.9 billion in crypto.

Again, this is a level of corruption so cartoonish, so obvious & on the surface, that it seems to have stunned everyone to silence.

TANK vs TESLA

"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"

- ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

Trump marks 100-days in office with fresh blizzard of false claims and disinformation. My chat earlier today with @mrjamesob.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk

🎧: audioboom.com/posts/871347...

Brexit led to 1,500 deaths a year as EU nurses left UK, study finds Quality of care dropped as staff were replaced with less experienced nurses, researchers at the University of Surrey say

Oh.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

YouTube video by LBC Reporting on the US is like a ‘tsunami every day’ | Simon Marks on LBC

youtu.be/nM1dQNev7Ak?...

This weeks American events expertly summarised here by @mrjamesob.bsky.social and @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social

March 26, 2025 - Signal chat crisis grows as Hegseth denies war plans were war plans Simon's live update for Steve Holden's evening sequence on the UK's rolling news station LBC News.

It looks like a war plan, it reads like a war plan, but Hegseth insists he did not text...a war plan. My live update for the UK's rolling news station LBC News, with Steve Holden presenting.

🎧: audioboom.com/posts/869521...

Here's Marjorie Taylor Greene literally telling a British reporter to "go back to your country" and berating her for trying to ask a question.

"We don't give a CRAP about your opinion."

“Make them squirm! Get chucked out of the Oval Office.”

“Take the lie, smash him round the head with it.”

@mrjamesob.bsky.social doesn’t think the journalist who attempted to question Donald Trump on the leaked texts scandal went far enough.

'What a liar. What an almighty, irredeemable, hideous liar.'

@mrjamesob.bsky.social reacts as Donald Trump claims ignorance over the White House leaking war plans.

March 25, 2025 - Leak of Houthi war plans via Signal upends Washington and raises questions for allies Simon's live chat on the burgeoning Signal scandal, with James O'Brien on the UK's LBC.

Mine on the great Signal scandal that is upending the White House, with @mrjamesob.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk earlier today. Please feel free to share with anyone (even over Signal, if you fancy it).

🎧: audioboom.com/posts/869434...

The view from across the pond… 😕

‘Little agency that could’ cheered for act of resistance against Trump and Musk Workers at US African Development Foundation refused to let Doge operatives enter, though they later gained access

‘Little agency that could’ cheered for act of resistance against Trump and Musk

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

ATTENTION! I’m offering free 90 min personal/professional development coaching sessions to any women today to celebrate #InternationalWomensDay. Or you can pay me and I’ll donate it to Women’s Aid or pay it forward to another woman ☺️ Please share @mrjamesob.bsky.social @marina-purkiss.bsky.social

Cartoon by Zez Vaz depicting Ukranian war time President Zelenskyy in the Oval Office surrounded by Trump, JD Vance, Marc Rubio and other goons all wearing a clown nose (except Zelenskyy). One journalist challanges Zelenskyy saying "Why aren't you wearing a clown nose?"

Dress Code Drama at the Oval Office
zezvaz.com/cartoons

Absolutely nothing is sacred as the coup continues.

Protestors skiing with signs to humiliate JD Vance is fantastic

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org