US former spies are worried.

"The report, titled #AcceleratingAuthoritarianDynamics: Assessment of Democratic Decline, was released on Thursday by the #SteadyState, a network of more than 340 former officers of the #CIA, #NSA, state department, and other national-security agencies." [1]

"We wrote it because the same tools we once used to assess foreign risks now show unmistakable warning signs at home." [1]

#BackslidingDemocracy #CompetitiveAuthoritarianism

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/16/trump-authoritarianism-warning

#GeorgiaProtests are continuing non-stop daily against #BackslidingDemocracy and Georgians are hoping to peacefully overthrow the #Ivanishvili dictatorship on 4 Oct 2025 [1]. This includes the hard detailed slog of legal defences [2] - with a solid base of decades of sustained organising:

#GYLA [3][4]
#RightsGeorgia [5][6]

[1] https://civil.ge/archives/700904

[2] https://civil.ge/archives/700500

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_Young_Lawyers%27_Association

[4] https://gyla.ge/en

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights_Georgia

[6] https://www.rights.ge/en