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Bill Motz
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Co-Creator and Executive Producer of Disney’s The Ghost and Molly McGee and LEGO Star Wars: the Freemaker Adventures
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Authoritarianism 101:
Punish enemies
October 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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If you or someone you know could be targeted by ICE, delete or take private all of your social media accounts.

And their family and friends should make no mention of their undocumented status
October 5, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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The Emperor has no clothes
September 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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☢️ demands Loyalty above Law
September 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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More punishing of President ☢️’s “enemies.” This is authoritarianism!
September 27, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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The federal safety net that’s long kept farming communities afloat during bad harvest years has deteriorated, and fresh threats to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, Medicaid and US Department of Agriculture programs risk making it worse.
September 19, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Found this perfect metaphor for how people are getting medical advice
Dumpster that says “Don’t get DNA-altering COVID vaccine”
September 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Fed independence is essential to our economy.
This is what Autocracy looks like.
August 26, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Another expert fired.
Welcome to AUTOCRACY
August 22, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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August 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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August 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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July 28, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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No kings. No clowns.
June 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. Thomas Jefferson #TheResistance 20 Be as courageous as you can. -Timothy Snyder
May 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best. A patriot, by contrast, wants the nation to live up to its ideals, which means asking us to be our best selves. A patriot has universal values, standards by which he judges his nation, always wishing it well and wishing that it would do better. -Timothy Snyder
May 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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19 Be a patriot. Set a good example of what America means for the generations to come. They will need it. -Timothy Snyder
May 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Our natural fear and grief must not enable the destruction of our institutions. Courage does not mean not fearing, or not grieving. It does mean recognizing and resisting terror management right away, from the moment of the attack, precisely when it seems most difficult to do so. James Madison nicely made the point that tyranny arises "on some favorable emergency." -Timothy Snyder
May 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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On February 27, 1933, at about nine p.m., the building housing the German parliament, the Reichstag, began to burn. 853F118 Whether or not the Nazis set the fire, Hitler saw the political opportunity: "There will be no mercy now. Anyone standing in our way will be cut down." The next day a decree suspended the basic rights of all German citizens, allowing them to be "preventively detained"by the police. On the strength of Hitler's claim that the fire was the work of Germany's enemies, the Nazi Party won a decisive victory in parliamentary elections on March 5 (Cont!), The police and the Nazi paramilitaries began to round up members of left-wing political parties and place them in improvised concentration camps. On March 23 the new parliament passed an "enabling act," which allowed Hitler to rule by decree. Germany then remained in a state of emergency for the next twelve years, until the end of the Second World War. -Timothy Snyder
May 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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18 Be calm when the unthinkable arrives. Modern tyranny is terror management. When the terrorist attack comes, remember that authoritarians exploit such events in order to consolidate power. The sudden disaster that requires the end of checks and balances, the dissolution of opposition parties, the suspension of freedom of expression, the right to a fair trial, and so on, is the oldest trick in the Hitlerian book. Do not fall for it. -Timothy Snyder
May 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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17 Listen for dangerous words. Be alert to the use of the words extremism and terrorism. Be alive to the fatal notions of emergency and exception. Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary. -Timothy Snyder
May 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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The fact that most Americans do not have passports has become a problem for American democracy. Having a passport is liberating, since it creates the possibility of new experiences. It allows us to us to see how other people, sometimes wiser than we,. react to similar problems. Since so much of what is happening now is familiar to the rest of the world or from recent history, We must observe and listen. -Timothy Snyder
May 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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The present difficultiesoin the United States are an element of a larger trend. And no country is going to find a solution by itself. Make sure you and your family have passports. -Timothy Snyder
May 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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It is gratifying to know that, whatever the course of events, you are helping others to do good. Many of us can afford to support some part of the vast network of charities that one of our former presidents called "a thousand points of light." Those points of light are best seen, like stars at dusk, against a darkening sky. -Timothy Snyder
May 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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15 Contribute to good causes. Be active in organizations, political or not, that express your own view of life. Pick a charity or two and set up autopay. Then you will have made a free choice that supports civil society and helps others to do good. -Timothy Snyder
May 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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What the great political thinker Hannah Arendt meant by totalitarianism was not an all-powerful state, but the erasure of the difference between private and public life. We are free only insofar as we exercise control over what people know about us, and in what circumstances they come to know it. -Timothy Snyder
May 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM