This looks tremendous (education modules) from @historians.org--contributions from a couple dozen top historians with expertise on authoritarianism & its many political, social, & cultural contexts!! #authoritarianism #fascism #postcolonialism #history

https://www.historians.org/news-publications/american-historical-review/ahrsyllabus/authoritarianism-101/

Narcissism is Shocking, Never Mind How Educated You Are
https://youtu.be/bBkxYTQFnWA

#MentalHealth #Narcissism #Abuse #Authoritarianism

Why Georgia 🇬🇪 needs intternational help, that is international pressure on its regime:

"Georgian Dream will never lose an election it organizes.
Not because it commands majority support. Because it has engineered a system where losing is not a permitted outcome."
- Terje Helland (@terjehelland.bsky.social)

https://skywriter.blue/@terjehelland.bsky.social/3mjhafno4x22y

#Georgia #GeorgianDream #Hungary #authoritarianism

"In 2018, Nigel Farage, an Orbán-backer, posted, “Viktor Orbán is the strongest leader in Europe and the EU’s biggest nightmare.” The #ReformUK leader may now feel the effects of any decline in support for hard-right politics."

#UKPol #EUPol #Hungary #Populism #Authoritarianism

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/14/viktor-orban-europe-britain-hard-right-populism

"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 and the politics of resentment that have become part of mainstream political discourse."

#EUPol #Authoritarianism

https://theconversation.com/what-viktor-orbans-election-loss-means-for-putin-trump-and-the-rise-of-right-wing-populism-280447

Viktor Orban loses election
If Hungary can get rid of its autocrat, America can too
- Ann Telnaes
https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/viktor-orban-loses-election

#PoliticalCartoon #Politics #Cartoon #Humor #AnnTelnaes #EditorialCartoon #DonaldTrump #Trump #ViktorOrban #Orban #Hungary #US #USA #Authoritarianism #Autocracy

"Americans are dying in droves. Deaths due to avoidable causes in the United States –which could be dealt with via prevention or proper healthcare – far outpace those in most of country’s peers in the industrialized world. Most notably, Americans die of treatable conditions at nearly twice the rate as Spaniards, French, Japanese and Australians.

They would most likely live longer if they enjoyed better access to healthcare. Americans are the most likely to skip a doctor’s appointment due to its cost, the most likely to skip a medical test and to skimp on prescription drugs. This is unsurprising, given the extraordinary lack of public health insurance in the United States. Americans face the highest out-of-pocket expenses for medical services in their peer group.

Donald Trump evidently does not believe this is an issue for the world’s richest nation.

If the budget for 2027 the White House proposed last week is anything to go by, healthcare is not the government’s problem: the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) could see its budget cut by over $15bn, 12% less compared with this year.

The cut comes on top of the evisceration of the healthcare budget last year, when the president’s “big, beautiful bill” (BBB) cut more than $1tn over 10 years from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act marketplaces, largely by imposing onerous work requirements on Medicaid that will push 15 million Americans to lose health insurance, according to some analysts."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/12/trump-budget-healthcare-military?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#USA #Trump #Healthcare #Militarism #Fascism #Authoritarianism

"The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled. All this is common knowledge, but because it dribbles out in news stories about this specific incident or department, the reports never adequately describe an administration sabotaging the functioning of the federal government and also trashing the global economy, international alliances and relationships, and the national and global environment in ways that will have downstream consequences for decades and perhaps, especially when it comes to climate, centuries.

Across the branches of government, the services that are supposed to protect us – nuclear stockpile monitoring, cybersecurity, counter-terrorism – are being undermined, understaffed or trashed. A different kind of protection that consists of public health, vaccination programs, food safety, clean air and water, social services, civil rights and the rule of law is also under attack."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/12/united-states-trump-destruction?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#USA #Neofascism #Authoritarianism #Trump #MAGA

"Maybe we should participate in democracy?" - Known Shitlib Rosa Luxemburg (voted down by the KPD)

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1980503/maybe-we-should-participate-in-democracy-known-shitlib-rosa-luxemburg-voted-down-by-the