@jayeflynn.bsky.social
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When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.
March 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.
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Wait. What??
BREAKING: Trump's billionaire Commerce Secretary says that seniors won't care if they don't get their Social Security checks — and that anyone who does complain is a fraudster.
March 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Wait. What??
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Good time to follow Erica Chenoweth
Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:
March 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Good time to follow Erica Chenoweth
This is bonkers and incredibly reckless if he’s given this level of access www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/u...
Treasury Official Quits After Resisting Musk’s Requests on Payments
Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team sought access to the government’s vast payment system, part of its bid to choke off federal funding.
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 1:03 AM
This is bonkers and incredibly reckless if he’s given this level of access www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/u...
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Well said, Pete Buttigieg
January 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Well said, Pete Buttigieg
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Nazis: "that's a nazi salute"
Historians: "that's a nazi salute"
Average person: "that's a nazi salute"
The Media: "Elon Musk makes odd gesture throwing his heart to the crowd."
Historians: "that's a nazi salute"
Average person: "that's a nazi salute"
The Media: "Elon Musk makes odd gesture throwing his heart to the crowd."
January 21, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Nazis: "that's a nazi salute"
Historians: "that's a nazi salute"
Average person: "that's a nazi salute"
The Media: "Elon Musk makes odd gesture throwing his heart to the crowd."
Historians: "that's a nazi salute"
Average person: "that's a nazi salute"
The Media: "Elon Musk makes odd gesture throwing his heart to the crowd."
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This action, unlike many of the empty and legally toothless EOs is terrifying — it makes these violent militias directly beholden to Trump in an ironclad way www.cnn.com/2025/01/20/p...
Trump commutes sentences of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders as he pardons over 1,000 January 6 US Capitol rioters | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned more than 1,000 people charged in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, and commuted the sentences of leaders of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.
www.cnn.com
January 21, 2025 at 5:45 AM
This action, unlike many of the empty and legally toothless EOs is terrifying — it makes these violent militias directly beholden to Trump in an ironclad way www.cnn.com/2025/01/20/p...
Justice delayed was justice denied. Who knew Merrick Garland would turn out to be such a disaster for democracy. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/u...
Jack Smith Moves to Dismiss Trump’s Jan. 6 and Documents Cases
The special counsel effectively brought to a close the Justice Department efforts to hold Donald J. Trump accountable in the election and classified documents cases.
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2024 at 7:33 AM
Justice delayed was justice denied. Who knew Merrick Garland would turn out to be such a disaster for democracy. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/u...
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1/ Yes!
Plus the telegraph enabled people north & south to see what the other part of the Union thought of them.
Which helped fracture the nation.
Democracy is a conversation between power holders & the people who give them power.
Any technology that changes that conversation changes democracy.
Plus the telegraph enabled people north & south to see what the other part of the Union thought of them.
Which helped fracture the nation.
Democracy is a conversation between power holders & the people who give them power.
Any technology that changes that conversation changes democracy.
I’ve been thinking about this lately in connection with @jbf1755.bsky.social Field of Blood. The telegraph and newspapers highlighted belligerent rhetoric in the lead up to civil war. The interactions between politicians and constituents became easier, which both facilitated and destroyed democracy.
It strikes me that the rise of digital and social media over the past two decades has brought us close to the end of that 200 year or so history of print and nationalism. Digital media eats away at imagined communities from two opposite poles...
November 23, 2024 at 12:35 PM
1/ Yes!
Plus the telegraph enabled people north & south to see what the other part of the Union thought of them.
Which helped fracture the nation.
Democracy is a conversation between power holders & the people who give them power.
Any technology that changes that conversation changes democracy.
Plus the telegraph enabled people north & south to see what the other part of the Union thought of them.
Which helped fracture the nation.
Democracy is a conversation between power holders & the people who give them power.
Any technology that changes that conversation changes democracy.
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REP. MCBRIDE: “I’d like my grace to contrast with the grandstanding… I never intended to use women’s multi-stall restrooms at the Capitol, all they had to do was ask… everything was fine until Republicans decided to manufacture a crisis for headlines…” www.cbsnews.com/news/sarah-m...
November 23, 2024 at 2:10 AM
REP. MCBRIDE: “I’d like my grace to contrast with the grandstanding… I never intended to use women’s multi-stall restrooms at the Capitol, all they had to do was ask… everything was fine until Republicans decided to manufacture a crisis for headlines…” www.cbsnews.com/news/sarah-m...
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Reuters: Trump poised to dramatically expand ‘school choice’ programs next year, making it easier for hundreds of thousands of parents to send kids to private school.
The plan is to approve tax credits for those who donate to private-school scholarship funds
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
The plan is to approve tax credits for those who donate to private-school scholarship funds
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Trump likely to expand 'school choice,' a longstanding conservative goal
President-elect Donald Trump is poised to enact a dramatic expansion of "school choice" programs next year that would make it easier for hundreds of thousands of parents to send their children to private school.
www.reuters.com
November 21, 2024 at 12:13 PM
Reuters: Trump poised to dramatically expand ‘school choice’ programs next year, making it easier for hundreds of thousands of parents to send kids to private school.
The plan is to approve tax credits for those who donate to private-school scholarship funds
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
The plan is to approve tax credits for those who donate to private-school scholarship funds
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...