This is the first short video in a series by historian and author, @timothysnyder.bsky.social. The series is based on his book, On Tyranny. It's only a few minutes long and well worth the time.

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@gilduran.com "writes about the so-called cognitive élite, the right-wing Silicon Valley technologists who want to use A.I. and cryptocurrency to unmake the federal government, on his newsletter The Nerd Reich."

From The New Yorker's
The Political Scene

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31 years after Jamaica Kincaid gave me a signed copy of the @newyorker.com and told me to never stop writing, I finally made the grade.

I discussed tech’s hostile takeover of the USA with @janemayer.bsky.social , @sbg1.bsky.social on the Political Scene pod.

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"They say they want peace. What neither they nor Trump says is that their peace is capitulation, the peace of defeat..."

– Claude Malhuret

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Bernie Sanders' @sanders.senate.gov response is worth listening to and deserves greater attention and recognition.

www.youtube.com/live/QlrQKv1...

Today was a grim, terrible day for the United States and the cause of democracy. Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us.

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Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

One wonders how the Cold War would’ve turned out if Eisenhower, Reagan, and Bush were more concerned about people kissing their ring than our strategic position.

My full statement on President Trump’s meeting with President Zelensky⬇️

I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath.

I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

"The increase to Musk's wealth since Trump was elected president three months ago is greater than all of the American aid given to Ukraine over the last three years."-- @timothysnyder.bsky.social

Americans proposed that Ukraine concede half of the profits from its mineral rights in perpetuity... in exchange for essentially nothing. This is not a monetary proposition, let alone a "deal," but rather the demand that Ukraine become a permanent American colony.
snyder.substack.com/p/recoup-the...

Presidents' Day in the U.S.