“‘For Orbán in Hungary, it took about four years, for Vučić in Serbia, it took eight years, and for Erdoğan in Turkey and Modi in India, it took about 10 years to accomplish the suppression of democratic institutions that Trump has achieved in only one year’

…

US democracy is now back at the worst recorded level since 1965, when US civil rights laws first introduced de facto universal suffrage. All progress made since then has been erased, according to the report.

Worldwide, democracy has receded to its lowest levels since the mid-70s. ‘The world has never before seen as many countries autocratising at the same time’

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A record 41% (3.4 billion) of the world’s population currently resides in countries where democracy is deteriorating, the report claims, adding that Washington is leading this global turn away from democracy.”

The very fucking *least* you can do right now is not comply in advance.

Yes, I’m looking at you, tech folks.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2026/mar/17/trump-is-aiming-for-dictatorship-thats-the-verdict-of-the-worlds-most-credible-democracy-watchdog

#fascism

Pete Hegseth is criticizing a rich oil nation for investing all its money in weapons instead of investing in its people.

This is the Pete Hegseth who right now is asking Congress for $200,000,000,000 for buying weapons, while Americans are losing their healthcare.

Svidande kritik mot Liberalerna.

"Återigen låter det lite som en misshandlad partner som försöker visa för roten till alla dess problem (SD/den misshandlande partnern) att de inte kommer käfta emot – i hopp om att det ska lösa allting trots att det för allmänheten är uppenbart att det är parten de vänder sig till som orsakat alla problem."

#svpol

https://www.dagensarena.se/opinion/nu-skryter-l-om-att-de-normaliserar-omoraliska-principer/

It’s official: There are now 3,000 protests planned for No Kings Day.

That means there will be more protests on March 28 than any previous day in American history.

Please join us: https://www.nokings.org/?SQF_SOURCE=indivisible #NoKings

A rogue #AI led to a serious security incident at #Meta

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/897528/meta-rogue-ai-agent-security-incident

#cybersecurity #privacy

🇪🇺 Unity is our greatest strength.

EU Leaders met in Brussels yesterday and tackled some of the biggest challenges shaping our future:

⚡ Action to lower energy prices and boost energy independence
🌍 Calls for de-escalation in the Middle East
🇺🇦 Continued support for Ukraine
📈 A new ‘One Europe, One Market’ agenda to strengthen competitiveness 🛡️ Stronger defence readiness and security across Europe
🌐 Commitment to multilateralism and international law

Remember the VC-funded social network that I had pointed out had problematic cryptocurrency space funding, but folks said "don't worry their CEO can be trusted and knows what she's doing"?

Their CEO just stepped down, and now it got $100m more VC funding largely from more cryptocurrency space folks:
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/bluesky-announces-100m-series-b-after-ceo-transition/

"Don't worry, it's decentralized!" – well, let's just say I am not holding my breath for that either.

#BlueSky