#Authoritarian

Raffi Khatchadourian

raffiwriter

UCLA's Sebouh Aslanian has posted a plea for Armenian democracy on Facebook. It is being shared there. I am bringing it here, in this thread. /1https://history.ucla.edu/faculty/sebouh-aslanian Aslanian (Part 1): "If

Nowhere Girl

Gwynnion

The first step toward an honest appraisal of American politics is acknowledging a large percentage of white people will never forgive Democrats for the Civil Rights Act but also Roe,

Teri Kanefield

Teri_Kanefield

(Thread) How the GOP evolved from the Party of Lincoln to the Party of the KKK.This is the final part: How the GOP went from a Conservative Party to an

en Autonom Små-sten Björn

aPebbleInTheSky

Heterarchy is a concept from pioneer in cybernetics. It is a type of organisational management that is about nonhierarchy. Often authority is distributed across the various interdependent units that make

Jay Rosen

jayrosen_nyu

After the siege these would be my newsroom priorities:* What's going on behind the scenes to get him out.* More sieges at state capitals and in DC before Jan. 20*

Gady Epstein

gadyepstein

[THREAD] This is a fascinating read from Jessica Batke and Marieke Ohlberg on the biz of public opinion monitoring in China. I wrote about this industry and CCP's internet strategy

Garry Kasparov

Kasparov63

It's not over. The election, the inauguration, even impeachment, will not end the battle to save democracy from extremism. Never sacrifice justice for the false promise of unity. My new

Kelsey D. Atherton

AthertonKD

It's hardly the most egregious thing in writing, but reporters using "we" to describe the actions of the US government is always weird. anyway I've just read the worst essay

Brian Tyler Cohen

briantylercohen

The thing about the sabotaging of the USPS is that we EXPECT this authoritarian bullshit from Trump, but we also haven’t heard a single fucking word of pushback from the

HawaiiDelilah™

HawaiiDelilah

So Trump wants to prevent us from voting by mail and he wants to prevent us from voting in person. Voter suppression measures by state legislatures is so 2016 when

Julia Ioffe

juliaioffe

There’s a reason this resonates for us former foreign correspondents. When I was reporting out of Moscow, we wrestled with the question of objectivity. In the end, we knew: Putin

Can Okar

canokar

I think we need to have a serious conversation about the importance of humour in opposition to authoritarian power.Many are angry at Turkey’s opposition leaders for making jokes about the

Glenn Greenwald

ggreenwald

How come Democratic politicians demanded Parler be removed from the internet but didn’t demand that of Facebook, given that all evidence now demonstrates (as was clear from the start) that

Bombacci 🏴‍☠️

TheStateDemands

Before we start this is showing the contradictions of anarchism.Anarchists are inner city liberals and do not get what life is outside of these cities. anarchism will always remain a

Hunter Walker

hunterw

I've been awake for an hour, reading the news, and trying to think what to say, and I am not even sure. I just have no time for posturing like

Bikrum Gill

realDrcabbie

Need to oppose both Hindutva chauvinism and obfuscating virtue signalling by Western liberal celebrities.It is disingenuous to fight to take away labor rights via prop 22, on the one hand,

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