Mark1d ago

Tell your #MP to protect #VPNs

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp-protect-vpn-use-uk

#UK #security #privacy #authoritarian #ToxicLabour #ToxicStarmer #ToxicReform #ToxicTories #Internet #freedom #DemocracyNOW

Tell your MP: Protect VPN use in the UK

Protect VPN use in the UK VPNs help people to stay private and safe online. Young people use them to avoid harassment, or protect location data. Companies use them to make sure remote log-in to their networks are secure. Journalists, campaigners and whistle blowers use them to protect their work and themselves. But the Government wants to give ministers powers to restrict access to any Internet services. These could be used to force people to verify their age when they buy a VPN.

Open Rights Group
Richard Michael Blaber1d ago
https://theconversation.com/what-viktor-orbans-election-loss-means-for-putin-trump-and-the-rise-of-right-wing-populism-280447. "In a contest characterised as a #referendum on whether #Hungary should pivot west or continue its #authoritarian drift, Magyar’s #victory is a stern rebuke to the dark, transnational forces of nativism, division & the #politics of #resentment that have become part of #mainstream #political #discourse... the #turnout [was] (more than 74%) [&] the #result [was] (a two-thirds supermajority for Magyar’s #Tisza party, winning at least 138 of 199 parliamentary seats)."
What Viktor Orbán’s election loss means for Putin, Trump and the rise of right-wing populism

The White House and Kremlin tried unsuccessfully to influence Hungary’s election. But this doesn’t mean illiberalism is going away.

The Conversation
Verdant Square Radio2d ago

NOW PLAYING == Al Jazeera's Step Vaessen reports from Budapest: PM #ViktorOrban concedes defeat in historic landslide loss to opposition leader #PeterMagyar in #Hungary election, ending 16 years of #authoritarian rule

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5YpylT5iYU

#news #geopolitics #analysis #vsn #radio #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #Resist

Hungary election: PM Viktor Orban concedes defeat to opposition, ending 16 years in power

YouTube
Ashe Dryden 🙆🏼‍♀️🐈🐈‍⬛2d ago

Well, when you lay it all out like that.

(From Coyne & Yatsyshina 2021 https://www.jstor.org/stable/48647349) #police #authoritarian #authoritarianism

Mark2d ago

No 2nd Scottish #referendum says #Streeting

#ToxicLabour

Streeting said UK Govt will not “give” people of #Scotland referendum on #independence

He refuses to give the people of Scotland the #democratic choice to decide country’s future

#SNP leader and First Minister John #Swinney warned that the UK Government “can’t stand in the face” of Scottish independence if the SNP are voted back into power in the Holyrood elections in May

https://www.thenational.scot/news/26014245.no-second-referendum-scotland-even-snp-majority-wes-streeting/

#authoritarian #freedom #DemocracyNOW

No second referendum for Scotland even with SNP majority, says Wes Streeting

WES Streeting has said it does not matter if the SNP win a majority in the Holyrood elections, the UK Government is not going to “give” the…

The National
Trevor McLeod3d ago

If this isn't #authoritarian what is?

#uspoli #uspolitics #trump

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/us/politics/immigration-judges-deportations-students.html?unlocked_article_code=1.aFA.bvRw.anhup87m3zS-&smid=url-share

Judges Fired After Blocking Deportations of Pro-Palestinian Students

The immigration judges’ abrupt dismissals marked the latest efforts by the Trump administration to reshape the country’s immigration courts.

The New York Times
Mark3d ago

Leaders engineer their downfall

Horrors perpetrated by 3 #megalomaniacs – #Trump, #Netanyahu, #Putin – unfold daily. Wonder if we are seeing is the weakness identified by ancient Greek tragedians of having within their character seeds of their own downfall ...

https://www.thenational.scot/news/26012462.leaders-engineer-downfall-trump-netanyahu-putin/

#dictators #tyrants #sociopaths #authoritarian

Whasdah 4d ago

I wonder who of the fascistoide MAGA guys is busy organizing these sudden protests in Ireland ? Thiel ? Bannon ? Musk ? Vance ?

Image from Limerick by Adrian Butler

#resistance #usmaffia #paypalmaffia #europe #gaslighting #betrayal #krasnov #geopolitics #democracy #authoritarian #trumpregime #tariffs #tacopresident #narcicist #nokings #fascism #zelensky #ukraine #ukrainerussiawar #vance #orban #putin #ireland #farmersprotest

GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ 🇺🇦4d ago

just finished reading STRONGMEN by RUTH BEN-GHIAT, published by Profile Books. deeply researched, well-written, more terrifying than a stephen king novel. gripping analysis of the last 100 years of #authoritarian rulers

#books #amreading #NonFiction #politics https://profilebooks.com/work/strongmen/

Show threadBrian Gordon5d ago

@jmcrookston

It is of interest, thanks. Basically, #MAGA and many modern conservatives have an authoritarian personality…but it’s not a partisan thing:

“It’s a mistake to think of authoritarianism as a right-wing concept, as some researchers have in the past,” he says. “We found that ideology becomes secondary. Psychologically speaking, you’re an authoritarian first, and an ideologue only as it serves the power structure that you support.”

#fascism #authoritarian