Daryl Adair

@daryladair.bsky.social

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Associate Professor of Management at University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Interested in politics, policy, and human decency.

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Daryl Adair @daryladair.bsky.social · Feb 3

This is exactly the problem with a majoritarian democracy split along two party lines. Multi-party coalitions are more democratic. The US is no longer a LIBERAL democracy. It is an AUTHORITARIAN democracy. Trump is playing havoc with a norms-based political system. Not enough checks to power.

Daryl Adair @daryladair.bsky.social · 1d

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Daryl Adair @daryladair.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed. But without guardrails any future leader could do the same. It’s like the pardon system is a metaphor for the checks and balances weaknesses of the American system of federal government.

Daryl Adair @daryladair.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. And honour doesn’t cut it when the leader is the antithesis of presidential.

Daryl Adair @daryladair.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not American, so excuse my indignation.

The pardon system is a joke. It allows authoritarians to reward criminals. It’s a Mafia mob boss leader’s wet dream.

#Trump #Pardons

Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani, others involved in efforts to overturn 2020 election, pardon attorney says | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump has pardoned a long list of his political allies for their support or involvement in alleged plans to overturn the 2020 presidential election, according to the Department of Jus...

www.cnn.com

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Julia Dilliard💙🐴🇺🇦#Resist. DM's are blocked. @juliadilliard.bsky.social · 1d

Big talk by a very small man.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/b...

Border Patrol Boss Tells Agents In LA 'It's Our F--king City' In Newly Released Video

The video, taken June 7, was made public this week in a Chicago court case. In it, the Border Patrol boss also says "arrest as many people that touch you as you want to" — and later confirmed the stat...

blockclubchicago.org

Reposted by Mark A. Lemley, Juan Cole, Rosanna E. Guadagno , and 4 more Mark A. Lemley, Juan Cole, Rosanna E. Guadagno, Gerald Friedman, Daryl Adair, Colin Woodard, David Darmofal

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 2d

$40B of your money to this guy, so he can dance at CPAC at Mar-a-Lago while Americans wait for their paychecks, hoping the money actually comes.

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 2d

All 31 far-right Moms for Liberty terrorists lost their 2025 election bids.

Great news for what remains of our democracy.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2d

PAY ATTENTION: In this video I expose the next phase of Trump and the Republicans' voter suppression playbook — and what we must do now to defend democracy and feee and fair elections in 2026. youtu.be/7rSwJPz2MRo?...

8 Ways Republicans Will Subvert The 2026 Election

YouTube video by Democracy Docket

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Tallgirl6234 @tallgirl6234.bsky.social · 3d

Yes!!!!! This is such a wonderful moment in history.

Hit for six: why India’s Women’s Cricket World Cup win is victory for equality

Sacrifices made to reach final – defying social stigma, lack of resources and juggling jobs between training – makes victory still more extraordinary

www.theguardian.com

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Carl Rhodes @profcarlrhodes.bsky.social · 4d

Elon Musk’s trillion dollar paycheck tells the story of the vast and expanding wealth and unaccountable power of global billionaires

My article plus visuals and animations from @theconversation.com

stories.theconversation.com/visualising-...

Visualising Elon Musk's record-breaking pay deal

Elon Musk's latest pay package has just been approved, which will make him the world's first trillionaire in the next 10 years. How can one person wield such tremendous wealth?

stories.theconversation.com

Reposted by Steve Peers, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Federico Ortino , and 2 more Steve Peers, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Federico Ortino, Daryl Adair, Stuart Shapiro

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 4d

Remember the time Obama personally caught a fainting woman during his speech — rather than just blankly staring like a sociopath?

Character isn't something you tell people about.

It's something you live.

Reposted by Patrick Dunleavy, John Foot, Daryl Adair , and 1 more Patrick Dunleavy, John Foot, Daryl Adair, Charles T. Mathewes

Blue Wave @votebiue.bsky.social · 4d

I always find it interesting how the story changes when a lawyer gets to court. They can say anything they want outside of court without accountability but the rules are vastly different in court where you can get seriously penalized for lying.

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Humor For Resistance @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 4d

Trump's reaction to a man having a health emergency in his office. Too bad the photo doesn't show RFK Jr fleeing as soon as it happened.

trump at his desk staring ahead uncomfortably as everyone else attends to man who fainted

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 5d

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity

Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.

electrek.co

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 5d

This is what a New Era looks like.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 6d

Ghazala Hashmi (D) has been elected Lt. Governor of Virginia, the first Muslim American to be elected to any statewide office at lieutenant governor and above.

Daryl Adair @daryladair.bsky.social · 6d

Exactly. CBS is basically now a Trump platform. If they don’t play ball he litigates. And they cowardly pay out. It’s sickening. And to go even further, allowing Trump to edit their broadcast is akin to Putin editing an interview with Pravda.

Daryl Adair @daryladair.bsky.social · 6d

He probably threatened to sue if they didn’t play ball. Not that he had grounds to sue, it’s more that he’s like a mafia boss that makes others cower. The secret to dealing with Trump is to STAND UP TO HIM. Bullies get their way when those who could choose to stand up bend the knee.

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Joseph Schafer, John Foot , and 5 more Anna O. Law, Joseph Schafer, John Foot, Daniel W. Drezner, James Goodwin, Anne Norton, Daryl Adair, Manisha Sinha

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7d

CNN Speaker Johnson I don’t know montage

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7d

Proving yet again how closely he studied Goebbels.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 7d

"exododus"

The New York Post: Come for the shameless propaganda, stay for the embarrassing illiteracy.

Reposted by Nandita Sharma, W. Andy Knight, Daryl Adair , and 1 more Nandita Sharma, W. Andy Knight, Daryl Adair, Henry Jones

Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 7d

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.

The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.

They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.

Wanna fix fraud and abuse?

Fix that.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 7d

The White House says it’ll partially fund SNAP, but didn’t say how much or when after two judges ruled. Judges shouldn’t have to remind presidents to follow the law and to feed people.

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🦋 Frankie 🦋 @frankiemillie10.bsky.social · 7d

This guy is brilliant 🤣

Reposted by Silvia Secchi, W. Andy Knight, Daryl Adair , and 3 more Silvia Secchi, W. Andy Knight, Daryl Adair, Mark Rice, Manisha Sinha, Dan Immergluck

Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 7d

In a way, I find the authoritarian takeover of our media system even more disturbing than the authoritarian takeover of our political system.

Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.

Bruce Gorrie @bsrg1.bsky.social · 7d

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

Reposted by Lesley Bartlett, Daryl Adair

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 8d

The most spectacular costume of 2025? That honor belongs to…

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Philip Baldwin @philipcbaldwin.bsky.social · 10d

“The wall comes down in 1989. People think world conflict is over. We’re just going to go shopping and we’ll all be fine. Capitalism has won. But if you destabilise a world order like that, people come in to fill the vacuum.” – Margaret Atwood

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

‘It is the scariest of times’: Margaret Atwood on defying Trump, banned books – and her score-settling memoir

At 86, she’s a literary seer and saint – and queen of the Canadian resistance. So what does the writer make of our dystopian world?

www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Kim L. Scheppele, Steve Peers, Alan Richardson , and 3 more Kim L. Scheppele, Steve Peers, Alan Richardson, David R. Miller, Daryl Adair, Mark Rice

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 10d

F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale

The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 10d

WHAT THE FUCK

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