NIcholas A. R. Fraser

@bluejaysbot.bsky.social
#GoJays!

Trump's Dictatorship Is Failing. Prove me wrong. An essay full of realistic optimism.

Strongmen can't control large amounts of people. They only condition them to believe they have fewer options.

Condition them against their own freedom.

Propaganda makes you complicit in your own imprisonment.

A participant in your own oppression.

resistrebelrevolt.substack.com/p/trumps-dic...

When you can’t afford a car

Here’s the study 📖 showing Sinclair’s impact on local news outlets by Martin and McCrain (2019). [first-view online in 2018]

www.cambridge.org/core/service...

Trump’s war on independent journalism

youtu.be/J3ItkKJxbl8

#Resist
#ProtectDemocracy

Disney's cancellation page crashes!!
Cancel or boycott anything Sinclair as well as anyone that advertises on the programs!

Trump II was already, even before this, the biggest systematic assault by an administration on First Amendment rights since at least World War I, easily surpassing the 50s Red Scare, and the only plausible rival for going after mainstream political opposition would be the Alien & Sedition Acts.

Armed troops in US streets? For many, Trump makes that seem normal. Armed troops patrol streets in the nation’s capital, and many residents shrug their shoulders. President Trump’s ability to normalize such dramatic actions is at play – but isn’t the end of the story.

“We have a very muscular civil society in the United States. We have come this far toward authoritarianism primarily because civil society has not pushed back. Stephen Miller and Trump are much bolder now because we let them do it. Power is being surrendered.”

www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics...

U.S. Suspends Visas for Palestinian Passport Holders, Officials Say

After banning visas for Palestinian children seeking medical care, the Trump administration is now banning any Palestinian passport holders from entering the United States.

Extraordinary bigotry being converted into US policy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...

At Trump's urging, Missouri jumps into redistricting race to help Republicans Gov. Mike Kehoe called a special session starting Wednesday to help the GOP hold onto Congress. It's part of the battle to reshape the voting map and help Trump keep a majority for his agenda.

JUST IN: Gov. Mike Kehoe called a special session starting Wednesday to help the GOP hold onto Congress. It's part of the battle to reshape the voting map and help Trump keep a majority for his agenda.

In my first for Foreign Affairs, I write about how both left and right can win on immigration.

The gist: stop shouting and start governing. Make policy demonstrably beneficial, tie it to national needs, and make the gains visible in people's daily lives.

www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

ChatGPT shows signs of the same biases that arise in audit studies of human beings.

When you give ChatGPT resumes, it's biased in how it evaluates minorities.

When you ask ChatGPT to generate resumes for women & minorities, it generates systematically different types of resumes

✨Very happy to see my paper "Attitudinal ambivalence toward multiculturalism" out on @jeppjournal.bsky.social !

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Exclusive: The Churches Fighting Back Against ICE A network of 5,000 churches is launching a rapid-response action plan to protect worshipers during ICE raids.

NEW: The Bulwark has learned exclusively that a network of five thousand faith communities is now disseminating a blueprint for clergy and lay leaders who want to push back against Trump's immigration regime.

The latest Huddled Masses from @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social:

Raging Moderates: How Obamaworld is Elevating Zohran Mamdani (ft. David Axelrod) The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway · Episode

Today’s Raging Moderates… Jess is joined by David Axelrod, CNN chief political analyst and former senior advisor to President Obama.

@davidaxellrod.bsky.social
@jessicatarlov.bsky.social
@ragingmoderates.bsky.social

open.spotify.com/episode/0kVa...

Lisa Cook, Federal Reserve Governor, is a Black woman with exemplary credentials, education and history of accomplishments. Trump has baselessly accused her of mortgage fraud.

Unions protect workers.

Wait--DEI FTW?!?!?

Did you know that your siblings can influence whether you vote?

Well, because of our new working paper you do!

@mike-bloem.bsky.social, @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social, sam imlay

I get the impression that the interest in the role of the far right in U.S. politics is back to pre-Trump levels among U.S. (elite) media, think tanks and universities.

Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel's war in Gaza.

“A whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years,” UNICEF’s executive director said.

Here are some of their stories: wapo.st/3UCiAjn

God, guns and sedition: far-right terrorism in America Published in Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism (Ahead of Print, 2025)

🔊 We have a new review available! @ibburckhardt.bsky.social looks at Hoffman and Ware, "Guns, God and Sedition: Far Right Terrorism In America", finding it "makes significant and timely contributions to theory and strategy in terrorism studies." Link here ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Tulsi Gabbard and Trump's scheme to gut the intel agencies It's hard to envision a less suited intelligence chief. That’s a feature, not a bug.

I was, sadly, correct last November that Tulsi Gabbard, and her lower key, but no less paranoid, conspiratorial sidekick CIA Director John Ratcliffe, would rapidly transform the nation's intelligence agencies into disinformation services on Trump's behalf.

Cartoon-2 men representing Congress and the Supreme Court trying to push a boot “authoritarianism” over Trump’s cankles.

Japan’s Upper House Election: Prolonged Instability On July 20, Japanese voters cast their ballots in a pivotal upper house election. In this analysis, the CSIS Japan Chair unpacks key outcomes, the issues that shaped voter decisions, and the broader i...

New publication: Nick Szechenyi, Yuko Nakano, and I have a new explainer out on Japan's Upper House election. We unpack key outcomes, the issues that shaped voter decisions, and the implications for Japan’s domestic agenda and foreign policy trajectory: www.csis.org/analysis/jap...

This was the deal! Ethnonationalism is super expensive. www.abebooks.com/978087154636...

“The evidence is piling up ..”

- @barrons.com
@wsj.com @nytimes.com
www.barrons.com/articles/tru...

Election Officials Have Been Under Attack For Years. Now The DOJ Wants to Criminally Charge Them Read more here.

The DOJ has escalated its campaign targeting state voter roll practices and is now considering criminal charges against election officials. Experts say the move risks further undermining voter confidence heading into the 2026 election.

www.democracydocket.com/analysis/ele...

🚨 Today, after giving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) 24 hours’ notice, more than is required by law, I was turned away from the ICE facility on Montana Ave. where I planned to conduct my constitutionally authorized oversight duties.

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