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jvl.bsky.social
Basically: I don’t think people understand that 36 hours from now it’s possible that America will have a formalized system for abducting enemies of the regime and stashing them in foreign gulags, indefinitely.

www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...
Bukele, Abrego Garcia, and Red Lines
Emergency Triad: Are we now a country of political prisoners and gulags?
www.thebulwark.com
April 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it.
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The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
snyder.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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adamparkhomenko.bsky.social
America is under attack by the President of the United States
January 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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shengwuli.bsky.social
I did a NYT video interview—along with voices from Hungary, Nicaragua, and Russia— about how repression works in authoritarian states.

www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
Video: Opinion | How Tyranny Begins
Tyranny doesn’t happen overnight. Take it from the people who missed the first signs.
www.nytimes.com
January 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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molly.wiki
any billionaire buying Wikipedia would be a tragedy, "on the good side" or not. we need to stop divvying up all the important institutions along billionaires and then relying on their good graces — look how it's gone so far.
goldenstatecats.bsky.social goldenstatecats.bsky.social @goldenstatecats.bsky.social · Jan 8
Isn’t there a democratic billionaire who can buy Wikipedia and keep it free of Rich White MAGA Separatists??

Please we need a wealthy benefactor who’s on the good side, the sane side, the kind side, the normal American side
molly.wiki Molly White @molly.wiki · Jan 8
As I wrote last week: "As other information sources fall, Wikipedia’s stubborn independence becomes more vital than ever. The attacks from [the right] aren't just about an online encyclopedia — they're part of a broader assault on any information source that refuses to be controlled."
January 8, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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rachelgilmore.bsky.social
Something stinks on Canada’s largest Reddit forum.

It just banned journalist @lukelebrun.ca.

His crime? Asking why his scoop on an anti-LGBTQ activist ambushing Trudeau in B.C. was removed.

He’s not the first to notice something seriously fishy over there.

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Something Stinks on Canada's Reddit Forums
YouTube video by Rachel Gilmore
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January 3, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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edzitron.com
Here's a little bit about Joel Kaplan, Meta's new Global Affairs Officer! He sucks!
www.wheresyoured.at/killingfaceb...
Yet Zuckerberg could not perpetuate these disgusting acts without the help of people like Chief Marketing Officer Alex Schultz, who saw to it that Meta shut down CrowdTangle, a public insights tool from Meta that allowed researchers to easily analyze what was happening on Facebook. Horwitz reports in Broken Code that Facebook — led by Alex Schultz — killed CrowdTangle because reporter Kevin Roose kept posting a list of Facebook’s most-engaged-with content, and that Facebook was dominated with right wing lunacy and misinformation like “Plandemic,” a COVID conspiracy film that Joel Kaplan, head of Meta’s public policy team, initially blocked the health team from removing until Roose reported that it was Facebook’s number one post. Just to be abundantly clear, the Head of Public Policy at Facebook deliberately allowed the spread of COVID conspiracies, and would have continued to do so if a reporter hadn’t used a Facebook tool to show how popular they were, which resulted in Facebook choosing to kill the tool that allowed the reporter to find out.
January 3, 2025 at 12:48 AM