The USA is "Beginning to Look a Lot Like Russia", sung to the melody of "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" by Meredith Willson (1951).
Rachel Maddow talks with Nadya Tolokonnikova, founding member of Russian dissident activism group Pussy Riot, about what it means that the Putin has declared her a member of an "extremist" organization
#US #RU #Culture #Politics #antiDemocratic #StateViolence #TrumpRgime #PutinRegime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnT-5-ekuYw
The German Constitutional Court in Weimar has upheld the right of the state of Thuringia to exclude candidates from the legal preparatory service who demonstrat... https://news.osna.fm/?p=24980 | #news #antidemocratic #candidates #court #exclusion
We literally have the best government money can buy, and our nation, our very survival depends on unflinchingly addressing this pugnacious problem of money as free speech foisted on us by the unaccountable SCOTUS, “Repugnicans” and Corporate Democrats.
Founder of #TheLever, #DavidSirota joins #TheMajorityReport's #EmmaVigeland to discuss his new book, “MASTER PLAN: The Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption in America”
#US #Economics #Politics #SCOTUS #CitizensUnited #Corporatocracy #Oligarchy #Kleptocracy #Illiberal #AntiDemocratic #Monopolistic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRyS1goUc5s
#ReformUK hires academic with links to #Trump as #Farage senior adviser
Cambridge's James #Orr described as “a brilliant academic, #theologian, thinker” by #Reform’s head of #policy #Yusuf
Yusuf said the associate professor of the history of religion at Cambridge had joined Reform
Though not well-known public figure, Orr has been influential upon philosophy of Trump administration.
VP #Vance described him as his British sherpa
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25554809.reform-hires-academic-links-trump-farage-senior-adviser/
Prof. #TimothySnyder
Gaza and Protest
Why freedom of speech matters
https://snyder.substack.com/p/gaza-and-protest
#us #usa #trump #maga #kleptocrat #fascist #racist #sectarian #conspiracy #nazi #barbarian #inhumane #antidemocratic #anticonstritution #antifreedom #antiamerican #billionaire #looter #terror #maffia
@CuratedHackerNews we need to be well aware of the risks in adopting #AI #models #biased by heavily #antidemocratic #dictatorships like #XiJinping #china
https://speechmap.substack.com/p/chinese-open-source-model-roundup
@h4ckernews we need to be well aware of the risks in adopting #AI #models #biased by heavily #antidemocratic #dictatorships like #XiJinping #china
https://speechmap.substack.com/p/chinese-open-source-model-roundup
@hnbot we need to be well aware of the risks in adopting #AI #models #biased by heavily #antidemocratic #dictatorships like #XiJinping #china
https://speechmap.substack.com/p/chinese-open-source-model-roundup
@hollowone we need to be well aware of the risks in adopting #AI #models #biased by heavily #antidemocratic #dictatorships like #XiJinping #china
https://speechmap.substack.com/p/chinese-open-source-model-roundup
The comeuppance for, and distraction from the #Epstein saga.
Half-baked fascist self-congratulatory "statesmanship"-ish good-old-boys-club #antidemocratic palm-crossing to mutual benefit.
DJT lags on the #warcrime count, so far.
might have #solutions :D who is in?
@persagen #MacLean argues that #Buchanan believed #democracy must be suppressed for #capitalism to flourish, which explains why the #rightwing, funded behind the scenes by secretive #darkmoney networks, engages in #antidemocratic behavior and policy-making https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_Chains https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_M._Buchanan #holyfuck #argh #economy #economists #finance #money #hitler #centralbank
might have #solutions :D who is in?
@persagen #MacLean argues that #Buchanan believed #democracy must be suppressed for #capitalism to flourish, which explains why the #rightwing, funded behind the scenes by secretive #darkmoney networks, engages in #antidemocratic behavior and policy-making https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_Chains https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_M._Buchanan
As I pointed out before, Madani sudah jadi UMNO 😡 #censorship #bn #antiDemocratic
Video of a beautiful place we're going to mine?!
#Racist #AntiDemocratic
"In yet another private letter located in Stewart’s papers at #Yale, #Powell left little doubt as to who would not be elected. “Apart from my interest in having ‘my side’ prevail in a case, I view this case as crucial to the successful governance of our cities,” Powell wrote to Stewart. “If a decision by this Court required wards, and that they be shaped to assure proportional representation of identifiable ‘political groups,’ our cities could become jungles.” That shocking, racially charged language is a stark reminder of the kind of power Powell confidently wielded from the bench—and the kind of backlash politics he was urging on the chief funders of the conservative movement just prior to his elevation to the high court. It says everything about the success of Powell’s campaign to reimagine right-wing political combat in America that he drafted it on #SupremeCourt letterhead to the attention of another #justice."
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/08/john-roberts-supreme-court-racist-lewis-powell-memo.html
[en] Technologies with democratic #accountability at their core
#Cambridge #Prof Gina Neff:
"In some ways, AI can be seen as inherently #antidemocratic."
"Societies can design and implement frameworks that mitigate [...] risks and use #AI technologies to #empower citizens, enhance #transparency, and protect #democratic values."
"#Democracy can survive AI if we reimagine #technology for public not private #interest ..."
EARLY WARNING SIGNS OF FASCISM
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/01/31/the-12-early-warning-signs-of-fascism/
Poster: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USA)
#activism #antidemocratic #antifa #art #authoritarian #boycott #courage #democracy #dictatorship #emergency #fascism #freedom #humanrights #nonviolentaction #resist #solidarity #TechOligarchie #Trump #usnews
