This is why public infrastructure really should be built on with #FOSS philosophy, globally.
Each would be afraid the other was exploiting a vulnerability, on them already, so would patch.
#Democracy has proven vulnerable to #authoritarian takeover, so we can't trust any government not to use illegally.
https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-security-cameras-surveillance-5f9a1fe5845d94894f3edd50af560d3a

#PeanutsManifesto

What the hell is this nonsense?

The #Kremlin is preparing #Russia for life without #Internet: shutdowns and restrictions

This is #propaganda on a kid's TV show trying to sell it as a good thing

It's about control of course

Those of us terminally online can appreciate being away from the Internet as beneficial... as a personal choice

But as an imposed #authoritarian prelude to your country becoming #NorthKorea?

Not so much

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/russia/russia-moscow-internet-outages-putin-ukraine-drones-crackdown-fears-rcna263634

Let's save this honest reaction for the passing of another almost 80-year old that will also leave us sooner or later.

#resistance #usmaffia #europe #gaslighting #betrayal #krasnov #geopolitics #democracy #authoritarian #trumpregime #tariffs #tacopresident #narcicist #nokings #fascism #zelensky #ukraine #ukrainerussiawar #warondrugs #drugsmaffia #iran #middleeast #war #mueller

Satellite Images Reveal #MegaLeaks of Potent Greenhouse Gas

UCLA's #StopMethaneProject ranked the 25 oil and gas sites with the largest methane emissions rates worldwide.

By Ellyn Lapointe
Published March 18, 2026

"Researchers with the Stop Methane Project at the University of California, Los Angeles, used data from #CarbonMapper—a non-profit that uses remote sensing technology to pinpoint and quantify methane emissions—to rank these mega-leaks. They’re spread across a small handful of countries, including the #US, with the majority in #Turkmenistan. A whopping 15 of the 25 largest leaks are concentrated in this #authoritarian state."

Read more:
https://gizmodo.com/satellite-images-reveal-mega-leaks-of-potent-greenhouse-gas-2000734990

Full list:
https://stopmethane.substack.com/p/spotlight-on-the-top-25-methane-plumes

#MethaneLeaks #MethaneEmissions #WorldPol #BigOilAndGas #Oiligarchy #BigOilLies #BigGasLies #GreenhouseGas #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Iran #Venezuela #Texas #Pakistan

#Authoritarian regimes of #China, #Iran, #NorthKorea actively engaged in reshaping #economy in #Russian-occupied territories in #Ukraine

Eastern #HumanRights Group & Institute for Strategic Research & Security published analytical report that features role of Russia’s allies in economic reorientation of all #Ukrainian territories occupied by Russia since 2014 and during the full-scale invasion.

https://kyivindependent.com/china-irans-helping-russia-keep-the-economy-of-occupied-ukrainian-territories-afloat-new-report-reveals/

#RussianInvasion #RussianImperialism #RussianAggression #StandWithUkraine

A Top #Democrat Is Urging Colleagues to Support Trump’s #Spy Machine

Congressman #JimHimes claims a sweeping #surveillance authority should stay intact because he hasn't seen abuses by #KashPatel 's #FBI , according to internal messaging obtained by WIRED.
#privacy #security

> an #authoritarian administration loves to #abuse surveillance. Either he’s not looking or I start wondering if they have something on him

https://www.wired.com/story/a-top-democrat-is-urging-colleagues-to-support-trumps-spy-machine/

From: Women in the #BlackPanther Party: A roundtable, International Socialist Review, Winter 2016-17

"What I think is distinctive about gender relations within the Black Panther Party is not how those gender relations duplicated what was going on in the world around us. In fact, that world was extremely #misogynist and #authoritarian. That’s part of what inspired us to fight against it. When women suffered hostility, abuse, neglect, and assault—this was not something arising from the policies or structure of the Black Panther Party, something absent from the world—that’s what was going on in the world. The difference that being in the Black Panther Party made was that it put a woman in a position when such treatment occurred to contest it." - #KathleenCleaver.

https://isreview.org/issue/111/women-black-panther-party/index.html

#BlackPantherParty #Misogyny #BlackWomen #BlackActivists #FightBack

Friday, March 20, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/03/friday-march-20-2026/

When Authoritarians are finally dislodged, the greatest challenge is that to undo the damage, they have done.

The new government has to take measures that seem #authoritarian to undo the harm: trying corrupt leaders, reestablishing an independent judiciary by firing judges loyal to the former regime, firing thousands of civil servants loyal to the authoritarian govt.

It's an enormous, unpopular, but necessary undertaking.

#EUpol #USpol

This is literally how the Kremlin operates.
“Joe Kent, the former U.S. counterterrorism director who resigned this week over concerns about the Iran war, said Wednesday that he and other senior officials "were not allowed" to share their doubts about the airstrikes with U.S. President Donald Trump.”

Hello? USA? are you there? How long are you going to put up with your leader being this way?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/joe-kent-tucker-carlson-iran-war-criticism-9.7134242

#USA #Authoritarian #Cult #Russia #IranUSAIsraelWar #Dictatorship