Godfrey642Dec 22, 2024

Everyone in any state with the spectre of fascism and oligarchy looming on the horizon, should listen to this short but compelling interview with Timothy Snyder.

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/12/20/trump_defamation_suits?jwsource=cl

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“Do Not Obey in Advance”: Timothy Snyder on How Corporate America Is Bending to Trump

We speak with Yale historian and author Timothy Snyder, an expert on authoritarianism, about how corporate America has responded to Donald Trump’s reelection. Snyder’s 2017 book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century came out just a month after Trump began his first term, and opened with the warning: “Do Not Obey in Advance.” That message has been widely cited following ABC News’s decision to settle a Trump defamation case by donating $15 million to his future presidential library. Major tech leaders have also cozied up to the president-elect in recent days, including with major donations to Trump’s inauguration. “There is a problem when the people who have the most money set the example of yielding to power first,” says Snyder. “It’s textbook anticipatory obedience.”

Democracy Now!
glauber ribeiro 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🎶Oct 16, 2024

T breaks down

Gift link, no paywall
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/10/trump-breaks-down-stage/680256/?gift=TPTA7XiYh9IfxjJRv3IEoGHyr2BpSlHDbfX4fUE0DKg&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

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Trump Breaks Down Onstage

At a campaign event last night, Trump got bored—and weirdness ensued.

The Atlantic
milkmanFeb 26, 2024

@jacklaridian
Yep. It's also all you need to know about Joe Manchin and the voters of WV who elected him.

No one will miss him when he leaves the Senate. I'm sure Jim Justice will gladly take the special interest money and continue to put that above the good of his state or the country.

#Joe_manchin #uspolics

HulavikingSep 18, 2023

Article: NM Saw Lasting Consequences from Trump's U.S.-Mexico Border Wall

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https://flip.it/uekBx3

NM Saw Lasting Consequences from Trump's U.S.-Mexico Border Wall

The unprecedented attempt to build a wall along the U.S. Mexico border has had devastating effects on wildlife from which they may not recover, according to a New Mexico wildlife expert. The Trump administration spent an estimated $15 billion constructing more than 400 miles of wall, much of which replaced smaller existing barriers. ...

Show threadHulavikingAug 15, 2023

@cindyweinstein saying more indictments should not be made is essentially saying they don't want the rule of law.

#uspolics

Aris TeonJan 9, 2023

A better headline would have been:

"Crisis of democracy: far right insurrectionists take over the House of Representatives."

But the NYT wants to normalize far right extremists.

How are people supposed to understand that there is an ongoing assault on democracy if powerful media orgs write this kind of thing?

#Politics #USpolics