Mastodawn

When leaders say God put them in power, who’s allowed to question them?
Day 6 of our Shadows Unveiled series digs into the dangerous crossroads of faith, authority, and war.
Families are speaking out. History is echoing.
And the warning signs are impossible to ignore.
Find out why ⬇️
🔥 https://tinyurl.com/5xs9mcx8
#shadowsunveiled #ChurchAndState #accountability #PoliticalPower #FreePress #democracy #divinewill #apocalypse #PeteHegseth #MikeJohnson #blueangels #Putin #SaddamHussein #TylerSimmons

Aurianne Or 2d ago

I can’t be a tyrant without you all: https://www.aurianneor.org/i-cant-be-a-tyrant-without-you-all-la-historia-de/

#art #aurianneor #beggar #betrayal, #crime #documentaryfilm #drama #film #history #justice #kingmaker #king #lookingforrichard #movies #murders #performance #Photomontage #plays #politicalpower #politics #powerobsessed #RichardIII #Shakespeare #theater #tragedy #treason #tyrant #WilliamShakespeare #youall #alpacino #Schlesinger #AnnetteBening #GregHicks #IanMckellen #KevinSpacey #RalphFiennes #RobertDowneyJr #WinonaRyder

Tim Green 6d ago

The convergence of political influence and AI development is reshaping governance, favouring industry-connected elites while sidelining democratic participation. Powerful companies leverage political capital for dominance, raising urgent questions about accountability and future control.
Discover more at https://dev.to/rawveg/the-political-power-brokers-1feb
#HumanInTheLoop #AIpolicy #TechGovernance #PoliticalPower

The Political Power Brokers

The convergence of political influence and artificial intelligence development has accelerated beyond...

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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Mar 6

“Noem is one of several figures—a few men, but mostly women—in President Donald Trump’s orbit to undergo striking physical transformations as the boundaries that once delineated #celebrity and #politicalpower fully disintegrate.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

In your face: The brutal aesth...

In your face: The brutal aesthetics of MAGA

Does proximity to power rely on a specific look?

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Brewminate Feb 20

When rulers become gods, authority transcends administration. ⚡👑

Naram-Sin’s political deification in ancient Akkad fused sovereignty and sacred identity, reshaping legitimacy itself.

The pattern is older than empire.

#AncientHistory #PoliticalPower #Brewminate

https://brewminate.com/naram-sin-and-the-political-deification-of-authority-useful-holiness-in-ancient-akkad/

Naram-Sin and the Political Deification of Authority

How Naram-Sin’s self-deification shaped imperial rule and echoes in modern political theology and religious endorsement of power.

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Brewminate Feb 11

When rulers define dissent as insanity, debate disappears.

Under Caligula, critics could be reframed as unstable rather than opposed.

Pathologizing disagreement is one of history’s oldest political tools. 🔥🏛️

#History #AncientRome #PoliticalPower #Brewminate

https://brewminate.com/caligula-power-madness-and-the-politics-of-discrediting-dissent-in-ancient-rome/

Caligula and the Pathologizing of Political Dissent

Caligula reframed political opposition as madness, revealing a lasting strategy of power that delegitimizes dissent by questioning sanity rather than substance.

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John Griogair Bell Feb 3

“He aspired not only to spiritual leadership but also to political power. Rather than earn the devotion of his followers, Strang demanded that his councilors take a comprehensive oath of fealty during a private ceremony, replete with the theatrics of secret handshakes and gestures.” https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/02/03/he-aspired-not-only-to-spiritual-leadership-but-also-to-political-power-rather-than-earn-the-devotion-of-his-followers-strang-demanded-that-his-councilors-take-a-comprehensive-oath-of-fealty-durin/ #aspired #BeaverIsland #book #BrighamYoung #comprehensive #conspiracy #councilors #demanded #devotion #earn #fanaticism #followers #gestures #gothicDrama #highTragedy #history #JamesStrang #JohnJMiller #JosephSmith #LakeMichigan #LatterDaySaints #mormonism #Nonfiction #oathOfFealty #politicalPower #Polygamy #pride #privateCeremony #quote #ReligionSpirituality #repleteWith #secretHandshakes #sex #spiritualLeadership #theatrics #violence

French Cinema & Subtitles Jan 31

📝 Plot:
Set during the final days of the French monarchy, the film follows Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette as they are imprisoned and slowly stripped of power, identity, and illusions. Confined within stone walls, time stretches and certainties collapse. Political downfall becomes an intimate ordeal, revealing fear, dignity, and denial as history closes in and an irreversible fate takes shape.

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#historicalDrama
#FrenchRevolution
#politicalPower
#tragicHistory