Raul

Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum: 9780385549936 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer-prize winning author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat...

I wrote much of what I think about this election before it happened, so I am going to put it all together here. My book, Autocracy Inc, described the network of autocrats who seek to undermine democracy, inside their countries and ours
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The Supreme court sent it back to the lower courts.

President Zelenskyy and a clown.

Slava Ukraini!

There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing How regime change happens in America

"Suddenly, and not accidentally, people who work for the American federal government are having the same experience as people who find themselves living under foreign occupation"
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Never mind l, mine is back on.

Not for me, but I'm not getting that message anymore when I pull it up.

It definitely sucks being on Twitter. The information on there is some of the worst, but we can't combat misinformation if you leave these platforms.

Trump Triggers a Crisis in Denmark—And Europe "Trump might forget about Greenland. But also, he might not. Nobody knows. He operates on whims," @anneapplebaum writes.

For no reason that he can articulate, Trump has triggered a crisis in Denmark
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We can not get off every platform because it becomes right-wing. We need to be on them all. The fight needs to be brought to them, not to us. Sign up again to twitter, don't get off Facebook or instagram. We need to be everywhere. That's how we will win. It's gonna be hard but we need to do it!

Not good.

Fascists create fake problems to fix!

Yasss!

People in the United States need to stop thinking their vote doesn’t matter

They need to stop [watching] their news or searching the internet to [validate/regurgitating] what they heard some guy at work say

• Be informed
• Vote for people who aren’t governed by dumb people
• Know the difference

Looks like tiktok has gone dark!

Spreading misinformation before asking questions to get facts is extremely dangerous. Elon and so many others do this because they aren't affected by it, it's become a game to them but this is real fucking life, people are dying, people have lost everything!

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If you would like to join me on my journey of learning photography, you can follow me here. I do no politics on this. This and djing is my way to disconnect from the world and be in the moment!

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A real photo and perfect metaphor heading into 2025.

Tracking Putin’s Most Feared Secret Agency—From Inside a Russian Prison and Beyond The spy unit that arrested a Wall Street Journal reporter is leading the biggest campaign of internal repression since the Stalin era.

Also this, by Evan Gershkovich, on the secretive agency that tracks and arrests foreigners in Russia

www.wsj.com/world/russia...

The Global Hunt for Putin’s ‘Sleeper Agents’ A quiet suburban mom, a hard-drinking war correspondent and an Arctic researcher were hiding in plain sight, championed by the Kremlin’s No. 1 fan of spy fiction.

If you missed it - start your new year with this excellent @wsj.com description of the Russian sleeper agents unmasked last year www.wsj.com/world/europe...

Books you will want to read.

When the military is used for mass deportations, it reflects many of the tactics and principles associated with fascist regimes—authoritarian control, militarization, exclusionary nationalism, and violence against targeted populations.

‘Each of them individually is historically bad’: An Authoritarianism expert confirms the truth about Trump’s cabinet (The Mary Sue) Authoritarianism expert Timothy Snyder isn’t sugar coating the horrifying picks Donald Trump is making for his cabinet. Each new nomination should terrify yo...

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