Interesting article on strategies for resisting autocracy. Note the recommended videos.

"The best study ... suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democracy ..." bit.ly/3EyMws2

Friends, @joycewhitevance.bsky.social and @contrariannews.org are launching The Democracy Index, and this is 1st post inviting you to follow along. I'll be helping behind the scenes, along with our other friends in the democracy saving space. It will be weekly. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

2/ Here's the @bloomberg.com report

Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets

(scoop by @jasonleopold.bsky.social @margimurphy.bsky.social @sooophie.bsky.social Jake Bleiberg @anthonycormier.bsky.social)

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"Elon Musk is not the president, but it appears that he—a foreign-born, unelected billionaire who was not confirmed by Congress—is exercising profound influence over the federal government of the United States...It is nothing short of an administrative coup."

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Here's my quick hot take on all 79 pages of the opinion. Yes, I read it so you don't have to 😎 open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Amnesty is not the only one claiming this, but they have just released a 300 page report documenting their reasons.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

"When the interviewer at the event asked Mr. Yaalon to clarify whether he thought Israel was on the way to carrying out ethnic cleansing, he responded: 'Why on the way? What’s happening there? What’s happening there?'"
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/w...

"It may be that someday in the future a survivor will be able to look back at our times and observe that the greatest tragedy in all of human history is that among current leaders in Russia and the United States, and perhaps other countries, the lesson was forgotten." nyti.ms/4gcZold