Mastodawn

I am looking forward to hearing this discussion between Scott Stephens, Wales Aly and M Gessen.
#TheMinefield #MGessen

Hurting more people is worse Jul 13, 2025

#Trump was running out of time and didn't get any big enough terror attacks, so he was forced to share with #Netanyahu and #BenGvir

This is M. Gessen predicting that the rise of facism in the #USA will be set off by the response to a terror attack. https://harpers.org/archive/2017/07/the-reichstag-fire-next-time/

It took me ages to find a date on this ctrl+F couldn't find #Gaza so I knew it was from before the current mess. I've now seen the URL says 2017.

#ReichstagFire #MGessen

cc @kmpiw @kmpiw @kmpiw

Alberto Chimal Apr 3, 2025

“When the range of factors that can get a person arrested stretches from #political speech to a paperwork error, we are in territory described by the Russian saying, ‘Give us a person and we’ll find the infraction.’”
Arbitrary #arrests. #Surveillance. Spying and snitching. Fear. The #US is now a #PoliceState. This is happening as you read these lines.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/opinion/trump-ice-immigrants.html?unlocked_article_code=1.804.54Pj.CukVLf6NVFQy&smid=nytcore-android-share
#authoritarianism #trumpism #tyranny #CurrentEvents #MGessen

Opinion | Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. America’s Police State Has Arrived.

Those of us who’ve seen secret police in action can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity.

The New York Times

Peter Riley Mar 21, 2025

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/14/m_gessen

#mGessen #Canada #Greenland #PanamaCanal #Project2025
#DemocracyNow

“Imperialism and Totalitarianism Go Hand in Hand”: M. Gessen on Trump’s Policies at Home & Abroad

We speak with the acclaimed Russian American writer M. Gessen, who says Donald Trump has entered his second term prepared to enact his radical Project 2025 agenda, including a crackdown on LGBTQ rights and dissent. Gessen, who has spent decades writing about authoritarianism at home and abroad, argues that while he was something of an “accidental president” in his first term, “Trump has been transformed by power” and is now increasingly “imperialist” and “totalitarian.”

Democracy Now!