Mastodawn

"Questo è lo schema del #backsliding democratico.
Non arriva un colpo di Stato, né spariscono le elezioni, ma si corrodono i meccanismi che rendono effettiva la partecipazione informata e il controllo del potere."

#USA #WashingtonPost #Trump #democrazia #humanRights #7febbraio

https://noblogo.org/transit/dal-watergate-a-trump-come-le-destre-uccidono-la-democrazia

Dal Watergate a Trump: come le destre uccidono la democrazia.

(205) I licenziamenti di massa al #WashingtonPost non sono solo una crisi aziendale. Rappresentano un colpo diretto a quel poco che re...

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Dal Watergate a Trump: come le destre uccidono la democrazia.

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Paul Schoe Feb 5

@donmoyn.bsky.social

Unfortunately, I would not be surprised if Trump reaches the bottom of the 30-point scale before the mid-term elections.

"A republic, if you can keep it"

#Trump #Backsliding

FIDH Oct 28

Continuing the afternoon of Day Two of #FIDHCongress with 3 new round-tables:
👉New technologies and democratic #backsliding: disinformation, surveillance and shrinking civic space
👉Ethical documentation of sexual and gender-based violence (#SGBV): the Murad Code and the @fidh_en 's experience
👉Weaving a culture of peace: cultural rights and #restorativejustice
At the same time, Voices in action - 30-minutes sessions, will offer dynamic, engaging presentations that shine a light on inspiring initiatives from the ground.

WIST Quotations Has Moved!Sep 10, 2025

A quotation from Thomas Fuller

Thou never wast so good as thou shouldest be; if thou does not strive to be better. And thou never wilt be better, if thou doest not fear to grow worse.

Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 2, # 2092 (1727)

More info about this quote: wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/7…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasfuller #backsliding #regression #goal, #goodbehavior #goodperson #progress #selfawareness #selfcorrection #selfcriticism #selfdoubt #selfevaluation #selfimprovement #selfmotivation #selfpolicing #selfregard #selfunderstanding #selfworth

Jay Thurber Show Aug 27, 2025

All of the great world capitals have train stations full of armed soldiers. Moscow, Pyongyang, Beijing ...

Nothing says "this is a free country" like arriving in the capital city during peacetime and finding the military has seized control of the train station.

https://www.joemygod.com/2025/08/trump-admin-to-seize-control-of-dcs-union-station/

#USPol #backsliding #OrangeIsTheNewFash

Trump Admin To Seize Control Of DC’s Union Station

The Washington Post reports: The Transportation Department is planning to take over management of D.C.’s Union Station, Secretary Sean P. Duffy announced Wednesday, in another example of the White Hou

Joe.My.God.

Hacker News Apr 10, 2025

America Is Backsliding Toward Its Most Polluted Era

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/04/air-pollution-trump-administration/682361/

#HackerNews #AmericaPollution #Backsliding #EnvironmentalIssues #CleanAir #Advocacy

America Is Backsliding Toward Its Most Polluted Era

A third of Americans still breathe unhealthy air after decades of improvements—which the Trump administration wants to roll back.

The Atlantic

Kai Arzheimer Mar 28, 2025

I think this post conflates two separate mechanisms (misperceptions of risks and norm erosion), but it still makes an important point (or perhaps two) #democracy #backsliding
https://theconversation.com/the-paradox-of-democracys-success-behavioural-science-helps-explain-why-we-miss-autocratic-red-flags-251955

The paradox of democracy’s success: behavioural science helps explain why we miss autocratic red flags

We tend to underestimate the threat of rare events but we can prime ourselves to be more alert to the signs.

The Conversation

DoomsdaysCW Feb 17, 2025

Not that long ago...

@Jaden3 wrote:
"My grampa Talking to me more bout growing up in 1960's mississippi. He said black folk were completely separated. Signs everywhere ' colored' 'white'. As a kid he said he knew not to walk in a store thru the front, not to look a white person in the eye, cross the street to let a white person pass. So many rules apart from yall read bout separate drinking faintains and shit. Such a racist past the US has !"
#blackhistorymonth #blackmastodon

@Catvalente wrote:
"Women couldn’t have their own credit until 1974. Marital rape became illegal nationwide in 1994.

"We are ONE generation into women having a CHANCE at life & it’s proved so intolerable America would rather end itself than allow such a thing to continue."
#WomensRights #Backsliding #USA #USPol