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naomiaklein.bsky.social
this is incredibly lucid and valuable research.
gilduran.com Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 8d
Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it.
It's the story of our time.

The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.

www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 7, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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gilduran.com
Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it.
It's the story of our time.

The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.

www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 5, 2025 at 11:36 PM
eightpix.bsky.social
"After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by [PoTUS] how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him. And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power" ~ Zohran Mamdani www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMuL...
Full speech: Zohran Mamdani thanks supporters after projected New York City mayoral win
YouTube video by NBC News
www.youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
“In Israel, Leaking Evidence of Rape Is a Bigger Scandal Than Raping a Palestinian”

According to Israel and its supporters, the scandal is not the vile sexual assault depicted in a leaked video last year – it’s that someone released the tape, writes Minnah Arshad for Zeteo:
In Israel, Leaking Evidence of Rape Is a Bigger Scandal Than Raping a Palestinian
According to Israel and its supporters, the scandal is not the vile assault depicted in a leaked video last year – it’s that someone released the tape.
zeteo.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:35 AM
eightpix.bsky.social
This is the scariest #meme I can show you today. The rest on 16.11.2025.

Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581, by Ilya Repin (1883-1885, oil on canvas). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_th...

This is #Halloween.
This is #allowe'en.
This is #Hallowe'en.

#alloween

#Econ101 #
Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581 by Ilya Repin. Repurposed as a meme. Cropped vertically to center on Ivan the Terrible's elbow. White text, "humans" superimposed onto Ivan the Terrible's shoulder. White text, "the future" superimposed onto Ivan the Son's neck. Text rendered at 150° tilt (where customary left-right text reads at 180°).
October 31, 2025 at 7:28 PM
eightpix.bsky.social
Via Government of Jamaica. Please share and, if you're able, donate to trusted aid organizations.

www.cirt.gov.jm/article/jama...

#Jamaica #HurricaneMelissa #Melissa #Malisa #relief #donate
#cybersecurity #fraud
Jamaica Cyber Incident Response Team Issues Urgent Warning About Fraudulent Hurricane Melissa Donation Websites | Jamaica Cyber Incident Response Team
Jamaica Cyber Incident Response Team Issues Urgent Warning About Fraudulent Hurricane Melissa Donation
www.cirt.gov.jm
October 31, 2025 at 2:49 PM
eightpix.bsky.social
Will you look at this shit? Amazon, a "consumer discretionary" outfit is FIFTH. Above them: 4 of the 13 Big Tech companies in top 25. WalMart is TWELFTH, the highest-ranked "consumer staples" company. The first US energy company, Exxon, is NINETEENTH.

www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-w...
Ranked: The World’s 50 Most Valuable Companies in October 2025
We visualized the world’s most valuable companies in Oct. 2025, led by Nvidia and the booming artificial intelligence industry.
www.visualcapitalist.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:11 AM
eightpix.bsky.social
"an endless stream of apparent military justifications, creating a veneer of legality for a policy of mass murder." ~ Yuval Abraham

www.972mag.com/israelis-log...

Via @972mag.com
The logic that helped Israeli liberals commit genocide
By attaching a military goal to each act of killing, Israelis of all stripes could partake in the slaughter without questioning the morality of their actions.
www.972mag.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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andrewpaul.bsky.social
how many ways do you have to fail as a human being to think this is admirable and good?
A tweet by Mark Kretschmann showing two photos of the xAI office on Grokipedia release day. The office is filled with small camping tents set up between desks and along hallways, suggesting that engineers have been sleeping there while working late. The caption notes it’s early morning and the engineers are still in their tents, joking that a good night’s sleep does wonders.
October 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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astra.bsky.social
so "testing" means violating, got it
October 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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zeteo.com
“I have hope, faith, that America will defeat and overcome this fascist menace, this authoritarian mania, this MAGA cult, & save our freedoms.”

Watch @mehdirhasan.bsky.social's remarks at the ‘No Kings’ rally in DC where he called out Trump for destroying democracy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylbr...
‘We Are The Majority’: Watch Mehdi’s Rousing Speech at the No Kings Protest in DC
YouTube video by Zeteo
www.youtube.com
October 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
eightpix.bsky.social
So, this is how today in #Canada - #USA bilateral relations went.

And, we're done here.
Subscribe ADVOCATE News Donald Trump mocks transgender people in Oval Office meeting with Canadian PM, whose child is nonbinary [Image] Caption: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney meets with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, October 2025 Mark Carney sat silently as the U.S. president went on an anti-trans diatribe. By: Christopher Wiggins October 08 2025 11:20 AM EST
October 9, 2025 at 3:24 AM
eightpix.bsky.social
We all hate this American Presidency. It is not popular. It's exclusive. It is not what we want. Nor the Israeli Presidency. If saying no matters, whose no counts?
#Foucault
#feminist
Do the people retain America's authority? Who is "people" under U.S. law. Are elections the SOLE public recourse?
October 5, 2025 at 3:08 AM
eightpix.bsky.social
From @kyledcheney.bsky.social and @joshgerstein.bsky.social & @politico.com

“The President’s palpable misunderstanding that the government simply cannot seek retribution for speech he disdains poses a great threat to Americans’ freedom of speech.” Judge Wm. Young

www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
Full text from the screencap of an article in Politico by Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein: The ruling is the long-awaited result of a lawsuit brought by university professors who say the Trump administration is illegally chilling free speech by targeting prominent pro-Palestinian campus activists — like Mahmoud Khalil — and others who have expressed pro-Palestinian views. It followed a two week trial that featured testimony from top Trump administration officials, who described orchestrating the arrests of these activists and taking cues from an anonymously run website. Perhaps more remarkable than the blistering ruling is Young’s assessment of President Donald Trump himself, condemning him as a bully who “ignores everything,” engages in “hollow bragging” and uses his power and gifts of communication to strip away constitutional rights. “The President’s palpable misunderstanding that the government simply cannot seek retribution for speech he disdains poses a great threat to Americans’ freedom of speech,” Young wrote, describing the courts as the most crucial bulwark to this threat. “I fear President Trump believes the American people are so divided that today they will not stand up, fight for, and defend our most precious constitutional values so long as they are lulled into thinking their own personal interests are not affected,” Young added. “Is he correct?”
October 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
eightpix.bsky.social
This is the first time I've #read this quote. It won't be the last.

#Reading Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis

#resisttyrrany
#NoKings
#FreePalestine
#peoplenotprofits
#EndFascism
#EndWar

#BookSky
"Regimes of racial segregation were not disestablished because of the work of leaders and presidents and legislators, but rather because of the fact that ordinary people adopted a critical stance in the way in which they perceived their relationship to reality. Social realities that may have appeared inalterable, impenetrable, came to be viewed as malleable and transformable; and people learned how to imagine what it might mean to live in a world that was not so exclusively governed by the principle of white supremacy. This collective consciousness emerged within the context of social struggles." ~ Angela Y. Davis, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement as posted to Goodreads
September 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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democracynow.org
ICC Charges Former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte with 3 Counts of Crimes Against Humanity
ICC Charges Former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte with 3 Counts of Crimes Against Humanity
The International Criminal Court has charged former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte with three counts of crimes against humanity.
www.democracynow.org
September 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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anntelnaes.bsky.social
And don't forget editorial cartooning is satire, @rollingstone.com and @alfranken.bsky.social

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Political Satire Keeps the Powerful in Check. Trump Is Trying to Silence It
Former senator and comedian Al Franken says the removal of Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert from TV are attacks on satire that keeps power in check.
www.rollingstone.com
September 22, 2025 at 1:13 AM
eightpix.bsky.social
I knew this shooting would be wild. Not THIS wild, tho.

#Kimmel #Colbert #authoritarianism

Table of contents:

2/ America in retrograde
3/ What price victory?
4/ FDR's 4 freedoms
5/ By what authority?
6/ Smokescreen
7/ Cruelty goes global
September 19, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
“what of the writers, the thinkers, and the pundits who cannot separate the great crime of Kirk’s death from the malignancy of his public life? Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize?”
- Ta-Nehisi Coates

archive.ph/2025.09.16-2...
archive.ph
September 17, 2025 at 12:15 AM
eightpix.bsky.social
So, #Nepal today is a test case for ACTUALLY pissing off #GenZ? Cool. CoolCoolCool.

Note to self: if ever in public leadership role, do not blackout #SocialMedia.

Also: help build possible futures. This dependency on old, corrupt, monied roads fails all children. #Nofuture #economy #sustainability
September 10, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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barackobama.bsky.social
This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.
Opinion | Trump Is Building His Own Paramilitary Force
www.nytimes.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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naomiaklein.bsky.social
Dr. Tarek Loubani, who is in Gaza right now, was invited to give a talk to emergency workers about the attacks on health care facilities in Gaza.

But he was instructed - get this - not to say who was doing the attacking. Take a look at how this hero of a human responded: vimeo.com/1112115018/c...
Stethoscope Story #8
This is "Stethoscope Story #8" by Albino Squirrel Channel on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
vimeo.com
August 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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naomiaklein.bsky.social
Pls stop what you are doing and read this entire report on Israel's murder of journalist Anas al-Sharif and five colleagues in Gaza City.

"He characterized Israel’s threats as 'Silence or Death,' and he vowed not to be silent."

It ends with his final message. www.dropsitenews.com/p/anas-al-sh...
The Israeli Assassination of Journalist Anas al-Sharif and Five Colleagues in Gaza City
“We understand these are our last days.”
www.dropsitenews.com
August 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
eightpix.bsky.social
How the IOF is still accepting orders is a testament to its history. They are descending into the abyss — chasing the fantasy that a militarized Zionism is the infallible defense against all #antisemitism. They're willing to destroy all Palestinians to do so.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Israel’s plan to occupy Gaza deepens rift between government and IDF | Lorenzo Tondo
Israelis are united behind the army, and a clash with the military could have irreparable consequences for the administration
www.theguardian.com
August 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
eightpix.bsky.social
Villainy. This is where #Texas is at with their #gerrymandering. I suppose that Frank Underwood and his machinations are suitable stand-in for the current frame, made one step more complex b/c the federal gov't is sock-puppeting state assemblies.

TW: Kevin Spacey

youtu.be/s5Ewq-2hWVk?...
House of Cards: S02E03 — It Feels Good To Be Back In Congress
YouTube video by M.C.
youtu.be
August 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM