Martín Schapiro
@martinschapiro.bsky.social
Escribo en Cenital. Hablo en Futurock. Veremos días hermosos.
May the hunger games begin....
Kristi Noem has been working with the producer of “Duck Dynasty” to pitch a reality TV show—titled “The American”—where immigrants will compete in a string of challenges across the country “for the honor of fast-tracking their way to U.S. citizenship,” according to a new report.
Noem Plots Reality Show Where Migrants Fight for Citizenship
A Homeland Security official told the Daily Beast that the show is in the early stages of vetting, though approval has not been given—or denied.
www.thedailybeast.com
May 16, 2025 at 12:11 AM
May the hunger games begin....
Escribí sobre la elección canadiense. La remontada liberal, a caballo de la polarización con Trump, y una derecha que goza de muy buena salud. cenital.com/canada-el-pr...
Canadá: el precario triunfo del establishment | Cenital
El conservadurismo trumpista en Canadá evidenció que, en las democracias occidentales, las derechas radicalizadas son una fuerza persistente.
cenital.com
May 6, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Escribí sobre la elección canadiense. La remontada liberal, a caballo de la polarización con Trump, y una derecha que goza de muy buena salud. cenital.com/canada-el-pr...
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Trump amagó y frenó de nuevo con los aranceles, pero el daño al mundo ya está hecho. La primacía estadounidense venía venciendo y pero no lograba convencer. Los aranceles intermitentes la llevan más allá: ahora puede no vencer, pero ni siquiera trata de convencer www.tiempoar.com.ar/ta_article/e...
El mundo no volverá a bañarse en las mismas aguas
No hace falta ser Heráclito para saber que ni EE UU ni el mundo van a volver a bañarse en las mismas aguas en las que se bañaban antes del Liberation Day
www.tiempoar.com.ar
April 14, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Trump amagó y frenó de nuevo con los aranceles, pero el daño al mundo ya está hecho. La primacía estadounidense venía venciendo y pero no lograba convencer. Los aranceles intermitentes la llevan más allá: ahora puede no vencer, pero ni siquiera trata de convencer www.tiempoar.com.ar/ta_article/e...
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A message for anyone from or studying the MENA region who is struggling to get work done amidst everything. I run an online space for productivity and solidarity.
We offer 8-12 two-hour writing sessions per week across time zones.
Open to all students/scholars- contact me to join!
We offer 8-12 two-hour writing sessions per week across time zones.
Open to all students/scholars- contact me to join!
April 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
A message for anyone from or studying the MENA region who is struggling to get work done amidst everything. I run an online space for productivity and solidarity.
We offer 8-12 two-hour writing sessions per week across time zones.
Open to all students/scholars- contact me to join!
We offer 8-12 two-hour writing sessions per week across time zones.
Open to all students/scholars- contact me to join!
Aplica a la hermosa República Argentina.
It would be bad enough to see your country destroyed by an evil genius. But an evil moron, that's just embarrassing.
March 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Aplica a la hermosa República Argentina.
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Authoritarians and would-be autocrats face a problem: the greater their crimes, the greater their fear of retribution if they lose power. So they have a huge incentive to rig the system to stay in office no matter how badly they screw up. See under: Hungary, Turkey, Israel, and now, the US.
March 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Authoritarians and would-be autocrats face a problem: the greater their crimes, the greater their fear of retribution if they lose power. So they have a huge incentive to rig the system to stay in office no matter how badly they screw up. See under: Hungary, Turkey, Israel, and now, the US.
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The world's oldest democracy reduced to a drugged out oligarch handing out million dollar checks to voters every time there's an election. Absolutely pathetic and humiliating
If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford
March 27, 2025 at 9:59 AM
The world's oldest democracy reduced to a drugged out oligarch handing out million dollar checks to voters every time there's an election. Absolutely pathetic and humiliating
Bastante interesante lo que está pasando en Turquía.
March 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Bastante interesante lo que está pasando en Turquía.
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As of last night, the question is whether the opposition acts in unity&set precise demands/priorities to incentivise people to continue going onto the streets despite the increased cost of protesting. Ankara likely works with the assumption that it (opp.) is not.
March 24, 2025 at 6:55 AM
As of last night, the question is whether the opposition acts in unity&set precise demands/priorities to incentivise people to continue going onto the streets despite the increased cost of protesting. Ankara likely works with the assumption that it (opp.) is not.
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I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.
March 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.
Es un desquicio criminal que todavía te puedan matar con granadas lacrimógenas después de Fuentealba.
March 13, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Es un desquicio criminal que todavía te puedan matar con granadas lacrimógenas después de Fuentealba.
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It is remarkable (compared to other backsliding regimes) how brazen and transparent Trump is in targeting his "enemies." In Turkey, it would take months and an enterprising journalist to uncover that a university had its funds cut off, a firm blacklisted, contracts rescinded, or thousands fired.
March 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
It is remarkable (compared to other backsliding regimes) how brazen and transparent Trump is in targeting his "enemies." In Turkey, it would take months and an enterprising journalist to uncover that a university had its funds cut off, a firm blacklisted, contracts rescinded, or thousands fired.
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This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote.
There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP
Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.
There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP
Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.
@aoc.bsky.social
Please explain what just happened. Is there no way to stop this w the reconciliation to be used by GOP to get around the filibuster? Are we sunk?
Please explain what just happened. Is there no way to stop this w the reconciliation to be used by GOP to get around the filibuster? Are we sunk?
February 26, 2025 at 3:09 AM
This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote.
There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP
Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.
There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP
Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.
Escribí sobre las elecciones alemanas, los problemas económicos, los políticos, las razones del auge de la ultraderecha y la obligación de cambiar que enfrenta una Alemania conservadora.
cenital.com/alemania-cla...
cenital.com/alemania-cla...
Alemania: claves para el ascenso de la ultraderecha
Con una socialdemocracia debilitada y un electorado volátil, la CDU vuelve al poder con la difícil tarea de frenar el avance de la derecha radical.
cenital.com
February 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Escribí sobre las elecciones alemanas, los problemas económicos, los políticos, las razones del auge de la ultraderecha y la obligación de cambiar que enfrenta una Alemania conservadora.
cenital.com/alemania-cla...
cenital.com/alemania-cla...
Anne Applebaum ofrece la mejor cobertura de este segundo trumpismo mediado por Elon Musk. ¿Por qué? Porque es rusóloga, se dedicó a estudiar el proceso putinista y la conformación de un estado autoritario. Eso que está viviendo EEUU.
"The DOGE campaign has generated chaos on a near-hourly basis across the nation’s capital. But it appears carefully choreographed in service of a broader agenda"
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
In chaotic Washington blitz, Elon Musk’s ultimate goal becomes clear
Shrink government, control data and — according to one official closely watching the billionaire’s DOGE — replace “the human workforce with machines.”
www.washingtonpost.com
February 9, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Anne Applebaum ofrece la mejor cobertura de este segundo trumpismo mediado por Elon Musk. ¿Por qué? Porque es rusóloga, se dedicó a estudiar el proceso putinista y la conformación de un estado autoritario. Eso que está viviendo EEUU.
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👉 Buen recordatorio de @martinschapiro.bsky.social
February 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM
👉 Buen recordatorio de @martinschapiro.bsky.social
Este hilo es exagerado pero direccionalmente correcto.
Listen, Broligarchy is not some cute synonym for oligarchy. It's genuinely different & WAY more dangerous.
I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them.
🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:
I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them.
🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:
There’s a sort of Trump apologist, a relatively small but loud subset, who probably don’t realize or intend to be, but are so attached to a previous hyperbolic claim that they deny anything important changed.
-US was already an oligarchy
-US was already fascist
-Biden gave Israel a blank check
-Etc
-US was already an oligarchy
-US was already fascist
-Biden gave Israel a blank check
-Etc
February 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Este hilo es exagerado pero direccionalmente correcto.
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Opposition from civil society is no doubt important, but it's effective, organized, *unified* political opposition that is needed to reverse the authoritarian slide. That at least is the lesson I draw from (the failures of the opposition parties in) Erdogan's Turkey. Looking at you, Democrats!
February 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Opposition from civil society is no doubt important, but it's effective, organized, *unified* political opposition that is needed to reverse the authoritarian slide. That at least is the lesson I draw from (the failures of the opposition parties in) Erdogan's Turkey. Looking at you, Democrats!
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Hace 36 años Stroessner, el dictador paraguayo que llevaba más de 35 años en el poder, era finalmente derrocado.
Incluso los tiranos más impunes un día se van.
Va el #NotiParaguay del Golpe de 2 y 3 de febrero, o de "La Noche de la Candelaria" como se conoció este proceso
Incluso los tiranos más impunes un día se van.
Va el #NotiParaguay del Golpe de 2 y 3 de febrero, o de "La Noche de la Candelaria" como se conoció este proceso
February 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Hace 36 años Stroessner, el dictador paraguayo que llevaba más de 35 años en el poder, era finalmente derrocado.
Incluso los tiranos más impunes un día se van.
Va el #NotiParaguay del Golpe de 2 y 3 de febrero, o de "La Noche de la Candelaria" como se conoció este proceso
Incluso los tiranos más impunes un día se van.
Va el #NotiParaguay del Golpe de 2 y 3 de febrero, o de "La Noche de la Candelaria" como se conoció este proceso
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Complacency about the Musk/Trump administration has been a self-defeating prophecy open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Trump Is Doing Exactly What He Said He Would. Who Could Have Predicted That?
Maybe the oligarchs deserve what’s coming. But the rest of us don’t.
open.substack.com
February 3, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Complacency about the Musk/Trump administration has been a self-defeating prophecy open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Eso de no tomarse en serio lo que dicen los gobernantes es, bueno, a tu propio riesgo.
Leopard: I will eat your face
Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating
Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp
Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating
Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp
J.P. Morgan econs on Trump’s latest are “increasingly concerned that the policy mix may tilt into an unintentionally far less business-friendly stance. The sustained 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico set to start this weekend is materially different than the tariff increases built into our baseline.”
February 3, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Eso de no tomarse en serio lo que dicen los gobernantes es, bueno, a tu propio riesgo.
Recomiendo esta nota de Anne Applebaum sobre las empresas que ponen la democracia en riesgo y las posibilidades europeas de poner límites.
American social media companies write the algorithms that determine what voters read; moderation systems are opaque; political advertising cannot always be tracked. Do European democracies, or any democracies, really have sovereign elections anymore?
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Can Europe Stop Elon Musk?
He and other tech oligarchs are making it impossible to conduct free and fair elections anywhere.
www.theatlantic.com
January 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Recomiendo esta nota de Anne Applebaum sobre las empresas que ponen la democracia en riesgo y las posibilidades europeas de poner límites.
Elon tiene el mismo discurso sobre la relación entre Alemania y el nazismo que tienen los nazis. Debe ser casualidad.
"It's good to be proud of German culture, German values, and not to lose that in some sort of multiculturalism that dilutes everything... Children should not be guilty of the sins of their parents, let alone their great grandparents." - Elon Musk to German AfD rally www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Elon Musk appears on video at German far right campaign event
Elon Musk made a surprise appearance during Germany's AfD (Alternative fuer Deutschland) election campaign event in Halle in eastern Germany on Saturday, speaking publicly in support of the far right party for the second time in as many weeks.
www.reuters.com
January 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Elon tiene el mismo discurso sobre la relación entre Alemania y el nazismo que tienen los nazis. Debe ser casualidad.
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Curiosamente, un joven que no se deja manipular por nadie defiende las mismas ideas que los tres hombres más ricos del mundo.
Curiosamente, un joven que no se deja manipular por nadie defiende las mismas ideas que los tres hombres más ricos del mundo
Curiosamente, un joven que no se deja manipular por nadie ha empezado a defender las mismas ideas que los tres hombres más ricos del mundo. El joven, llamado Serapio Domínguez y natural de Zaragoza, l...
www.elmundotoday.com
January 24, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Curiosamente, un joven que no se deja manipular por nadie defiende las mismas ideas que los tres hombres más ricos del mundo.
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Exactly why @bsky.app is so important. Engaging on this platform is important. As is growing this platform.
Which one of these men joins Tom Anderson and MySoace in the annals of history first ?
Their greed is our opportunity.
Which one of these men joins Tom Anderson and MySoace in the annals of history first ?
Their greed is our opportunity.
It is not free speech when Trump aligned oligarchs have their thumbs on the algorithms of all the social media apps.
January 21, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Exactly why @bsky.app is so important. Engaging on this platform is important. As is growing this platform.
Which one of these men joins Tom Anderson and MySoace in the annals of history first ?
Their greed is our opportunity.
Which one of these men joins Tom Anderson and MySoace in the annals of history first ?
Their greed is our opportunity.