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[Interview] Can democracy survive without America?
Staffan I. Lindberg, the director of the V-Dem Institute, talks to the Hankyoreh about widespread autocratization and what must be done to protect democracy around the world
english.hani.co.kr
I hadn't seen that the head of V-Dem announced the US was officially downgraded from a democracy to an autocracy - congrats my fellow Americans, you squandered your inheritance.
english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...
“The United States...is no longer a democracy...the US is an “electoral autocracy.”
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“The United States...is no longer a democracy...the US is an “electoral autocracy.”
This is big, especially that righthand panel. It looks like about a 4 point increase in Dem ID and about a 6-point drop in Repub ID for a net 10 point swing against the disloyal Republican Party since the election.
New Gallup figures in these charts. Well, so much for that emerging Republican majority people were writing about in November 2024. Was evidently a mass overreaction to Trump's win and failure to acknowledge softness of support, and thermostatic politics www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...
January 12, 2026 at 6:35 PM
This is big, especially that righthand panel. It looks like about a 4 point increase in Dem ID and about a 6-point drop in Repub ID for a net 10 point swing against the disloyal Republican Party since the election.
You know what? Everybody's just people. Gay, straight, black, white, yellow, brown, red, native, immigrant, whatever. Everybody's just people.
Where did all this racism come from? Hey racists: Just chill out dudes. You're gonna be alright. Everybody's just people.
Where did all this racism come from? Hey racists: Just chill out dudes. You're gonna be alright. Everybody's just people.
January 12, 2026 at 6:28 PM
You know what? Everybody's just people. Gay, straight, black, white, yellow, brown, red, native, immigrant, whatever. Everybody's just people.
Where did all this racism come from? Hey racists: Just chill out dudes. You're gonna be alright. Everybody's just people.
Where did all this racism come from? Hey racists: Just chill out dudes. You're gonna be alright. Everybody's just people.
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Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating https://theonion.com/archaeologists-d-c-capitol-may-have-once-been-used-for-legislating/
January 12, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating https://theonion.com/archaeologists-d-c-capitol-may-have-once-been-used-for-legislating/
Sad that all of this is simple common sense to non-media whores but unfortunately Jacob judges correctly that it needs to be said
My Stop the Presses newsletter calls for more aggressive action by the media to be "radically truthful" and defeat the liars:
/ Correct *every* lie uttered on your platform.
/ Put Trump's remarks on tape delay for proper fact checks.
/ Cut off liars in mid-interview and ban them from your airwaves.
/ Correct *every* lie uttered on your platform.
/ Put Trump's remarks on tape delay for proper fact checks.
/ Cut off liars in mid-interview and ban them from your airwaves.
How to build a radically truthful news outlet
The old ways don’t work. Time to declare war on the liars.
www.stopthepresses.news
January 12, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Sad that all of this is simple common sense to non-media whores but unfortunately Jacob judges correctly that it needs to be said
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Without saying it outloud, tell us you're an insecure wreck of a human being bent on imperialism and global domination because your parents didn't give you enough hugs. 👇
January 12, 2026 at 11:27 AM
Without saying it outloud, tell us you're an insecure wreck of a human being bent on imperialism and global domination because your parents didn't give you enough hugs. 👇
Seriously. I gotta wonder if these scum really grew up in the USA. Haven't you losers ever seen a WWII movie?
January 12, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Seriously. I gotta wonder if these scum really grew up in the USA. Haven't you losers ever seen a WWII movie?
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If Congress waits, Trump will simply seize it before Congress can take a vote. Congress needed to vote on this LITERALLY yesterday.
Every hour that passes there is a MAJOR risk that Greenland is stolen from its people AND the NATO alliance immediately collapses.
How can they not see this? Act NOW.
Every hour that passes there is a MAJOR risk that Greenland is stolen from its people AND the NATO alliance immediately collapses.
How can they not see this? Act NOW.
“If we need to”…. You fucking need to.
Kaine: "I can tell you this -- we will force a vote in the Senate about no US military action in Greenland or Denmark if we need to. We will get overwhelmingly bipartisan support that this president is foolish to even suggest this."
January 12, 2026 at 4:05 AM
If Congress waits, Trump will simply seize it before Congress can take a vote. Congress needed to vote on this LITERALLY yesterday.
Every hour that passes there is a MAJOR risk that Greenland is stolen from its people AND the NATO alliance immediately collapses.
How can they not see this? Act NOW.
Every hour that passes there is a MAJOR risk that Greenland is stolen from its people AND the NATO alliance immediately collapses.
How can they not see this? Act NOW.
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depressing but this increasingly just the lesson for every single servant and every aspect of american life
January 12, 2026 at 4:49 PM
depressing but this increasingly just the lesson for every single servant and every aspect of american life
This is how a stand up Democrat talks. Schumer and Jeffries watch and learn how to lead.
JB Pritzker: “I have encouraged the public to have your phones at the ready, video everything, bring us your documentation, tell us your stories, make sure that we have witness testimony — so that when we are able to hold them accountable, we will be able to do it because we have the evidence”
January 12, 2026 at 5:32 PM
This is how a stand up Democrat talks. Schumer and Jeffries watch and learn how to lead.
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once again shoutout to every dipshit who insisted it was hysterical to talk about trump and white supremacy in the same breath www.rawstory.com/trump-267487...
Trump appalls with attack on Civil Rights Act: 'White people very badly treated'
Critics pounced on President Donald Trump Monday after he complained to the New York Times that the Civil Rights Act – the landmark 1964 legislation that outlawed racial discrimination – was “unfair i...
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January 12, 2026 at 2:51 PM
once again shoutout to every dipshit who insisted it was hysterical to talk about trump and white supremacy in the same breath www.rawstory.com/trump-267487...
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The Nobel Committee has rejected Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado's idiotic attempt to share the Nobel Peace Prize with the orange felon.
Good, they need to strip it away from her now she disgracefully tried to trade it to a tyrant for political power.
Good, they need to strip it away from her now she disgracefully tried to trade it to a tyrant for political power.
January 12, 2026 at 3:48 AM
The Nobel Committee has rejected Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado's idiotic attempt to share the Nobel Peace Prize with the orange felon.
Good, they need to strip it away from her now she disgracefully tried to trade it to a tyrant for political power.
Good, they need to strip it away from her now she disgracefully tried to trade it to a tyrant for political power.
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Let's be clear. Donald Trump will indict the Fed Chair, kidnap foreign leaders and kill American citizens in MN if it distracts you from asking WTF is in the Epstein files because HIS BASE doesn't like pedophiles. None of this is normal. But everything he does is from weakness right now.
January 12, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Let's be clear. Donald Trump will indict the Fed Chair, kidnap foreign leaders and kill American citizens in MN if it distracts you from asking WTF is in the Epstein files because HIS BASE doesn't like pedophiles. None of this is normal. But everything he does is from weakness right now.
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“Trump Regrets Not Seizing Voting Machines After 2020 Election” electionlawblog.org?p=153787
"Trump Regrets Not Seizing Voting Machines After 2020 Election" #ELB
NYT: President Trump said during an interview with The New York Times that he regretted not ordering the National Guard to seize voting machines in swing states after his loss in the 2020 election, ev...
electionlawblog.org
January 12, 2026 at 4:20 PM
“Trump Regrets Not Seizing Voting Machines After 2020 Election” electionlawblog.org?p=153787
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Port Townsend Washington at the ICE/Gestapo protest yesterday.
This one shattered me.
Photographer - Anna Maria Wolf
This one shattered me.
Photographer - Anna Maria Wolf
January 12, 2026 at 2:04 AM
Port Townsend Washington at the ICE/Gestapo protest yesterday.
This one shattered me.
Photographer - Anna Maria Wolf
This one shattered me.
Photographer - Anna Maria Wolf
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America is now at the heavily armed secret police doing warrantless door-to-door house raids in search of undesirable ethnicities and/or political dissenters stage. The difference from well known historical cases is down to scale.
A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis
The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway
They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway
They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming
January 12, 2026 at 3:00 PM
America is now at the heavily armed secret police doing warrantless door-to-door house raids in search of undesirable ethnicities and/or political dissenters stage. The difference from well known historical cases is down to scale.
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What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?
January 12, 2026 at 1:44 AM
What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?
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hi, political philosopher here! this is not funny, central banks only do this when they're in extreme distress
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
www.youtube.com
January 12, 2026 at 1:04 AM
hi, political philosopher here! this is not funny, central banks only do this when they're in extreme distress
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Trump actually posts describing himself as the "acting president of Venezuela." Dangerously delusional.
January 12, 2026 at 1:32 AM
Trump actually posts describing himself as the "acting president of Venezuela." Dangerously delusional.
Hey America! You better wake the fuck up quickly. These are real live signifyin' fascists
Kristi Noem speaks from a podium with a curious legend, familiar to every Neo Nazi and fascist. The founder of the Spanish Falange, the right-hand of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, José Antonio Primo de Rivera used it as a rallying cry in 1935 ("Uno de los nuestros ha caído. ¡Todo por España!")
January 12, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Hey America! You better wake the fuck up quickly. These are real live signifyin' fascists
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A Tale of Failure in Four Parts
January 10, 2026 at 4:36 PM
A Tale of Failure in Four Parts
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The struggle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right.
The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship.
Everyone must choose which side they’re on.
The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship.
Everyone must choose which side they’re on.
January 11, 2026 at 11:01 PM
The struggle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right.
The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship.
Everyone must choose which side they’re on.
The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship.
Everyone must choose which side they’re on.
Excellent short summary of Trump's crimes against humanity and the United States.
January 11, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Excellent short summary of Trump's crimes against humanity and the United States.