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
#BackSliding
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
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
#Singapore #ranked #leastcorrupt #country in #AsiaPacific, third in world
"🇸🇬 is top of region bec fmr champs (NZ & Australia) hv been sliding down e #ranking for past couple of years. 🇸🇬’s score stayed stable in e last few years. This says more about the #backsliding in those countries than to changes in Singapore.. one of the #challenges 🇸🇬 now faces is the influx of #illicit #financial #flows & how this could “end up becoming an issue of #public #integrity in the future"🧐
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/singapore-ranked-least-corrupt-country-in-asia-pacific-third-in-world-global-anti-graft-watchdog
‘Backsliding’: most countries to miss vital climate deadline as Cop30 nears https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/08/countries-miss-climate-deadline-cop30-trump-pollution? CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #ClimateEmergency #Targets #Backsliding
Behold the man who lived without a spine:
#dei #diversity #inclusion #backsliding
Meta terminates its DEI progra...
Another very good post on the backsliding of LGBTQ+ rights. A lot of the commentary on this is US centric for obvious reasons, but we are absolutely kidding ourselves if we assume that progressive parties around the world will not jump to the conclusion that throwing trans people under the buss will save them. I’m not sure what I could possibly write about on this subject that hasn’t already been written, and calling what I currently have here / Substack a platform would definitely be an overstatement, but I’ll try to think of something. Planned Action for LGBTQ+ & Allies in Response to Democrats Capitulating on Trans Rights https://open.substack.com/pub/juliaserano/p/planned-action-for-lgbtq-and-allies?r=4m0f50&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Once you're done looking at that, I'd appreciate it if you could check out my Substack, and I'd appreciate it even more if you could consider subscribing, which costs nothing but gives my ego a boost, as well as sharing, which inflates my ego to medically implausible proportions. I haven't written about this issue yet, but you can certainly expect a UK themed take on this issue on December Third. I'll also be writing about my experience moving out as a blind person, accessible appliance recommendations / guides, in addition to my usual mostly incoherent ramblings about whatever topic / topics happen to hold my interest at any given moment. You can find it here: https://hailymerry.substack.com/ #trans #LGBT #USPOL #queer #backsliding
Thinking about getting back into eurorack #backsliding
This is Charles Michel's invitation letter for the summit with the European Political Community which will take place in Budapest. It sounds like a bad joke - discussing all these issues in Orban's Hungary without any criticism or at least a show of inconvenience that the summit takes place in Budapest. Full normalisation of something the founding fathers vowed to never normalise again
Some really good points are made in this article on Slovakia's democratic and rule of law backsliding with a particular focus on the historic legacies in legal academia. This is a point that is rarely addressed in analyses of backsliding. Education of people who are key for the rule of law is essential in understanding specific developments. An article worth your time.
Hungary, Slovakia, and Italy fail to impress in EU Rule of Law report https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/hungary-slovakia-and-italy-fail-to-impress-in-eu-rule-of-law-report/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #annualruleoflawreport #backsliding #Democracy
In #Thailand, a #victory for #samesexmarriage in an #inhospitable #region.
Thailand is an outlier when, globally, #government #support for #LGBTQ+ #rights is #backsliding.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Asia #Thailand #SameSexMarriage #MarriageEquality
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/30/thailand-gay-marriage-same-sex/
Backsliding, often referred to as drifting away or falling from grace, poses significant dangers to a believer’s spiritual journey. It is a gradual process, often unnoticed at first, where one’s commitment to God weakens, and worldly temptations gain ground. The Bible warns us in Hebrews 2:1, “Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.” | Urgent Mission bit.ly/4b1SaxB
The sheer amount and scale of the attack on the rule of law in #Slovakia is shocking. This article is a very good recap on what Fico's new government has done in its first 100 days in power. A must-read!
#Slovakia #RuleofLaw #BackSliding #IndependentJudiciaries #CriminalLaw #WhistleBlowing
**new podcast — Is the U.S. again at risk for democratic #Backsliding and even violence? #Trump promises #Retribution, refers to opponents as #vermin, and threatens a #DeepState purge – among other things. I discuss this and more in relation to NYU Press #ItCanHappenHere bit.ly/3MhFDt9 on mAlette Smeulers terrific new podcast series.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4YAYw0sAvZJFZiTzr767e8?si=0mbee3cvSPikdf8Yk3anmw&nd=1&dlsi=54a92a0ee4824c55
🗓️SAVE THE DATE 👉 How have #covid measures increased democratic backsliding in Poland?
Join our hybrid event in Kraków on September 14, chaired by Natasza Styczyńska from Jagiellonian University!
Introducing the expert panelists: Anna Wójcik, Lena Kolarska-Bobińska, & Michał Marek Ziółkowski. 🙌
#pandemicpolitics #regroup #backsliding #law #ruleoflaw #democracy #pandemicresponse
#dictatorlove #fistbump: by overlooking #humanrights #violations and #democratic #backsliding, France, like the US, is sending the wrong message, to spreading #autocracy, #climatechange, and #surveillancecapitalism.
#WarsForOil #suppressingdemocracy #criminalizingdissent #KhashoggiMoment #complicitmedia
The main reason I'm drifting back to using #Twitter over #Mastodon isn't due to a lack of interesting people to follow here, or falling short of some critical mass, it's #TheAlgorithm. It is better.
I don't want to see the same person who just posted 4 different things all at the top of my feed, followed by someone who boosted a bunch of stuff in a row. I don't want to miss things just because I'm not online at the time they were posted.
The December 2022 issue of @PoliticsGenderJ is out now!
For the full table of contents see: https://t.co/G9C7i4vlRG
The issue includes articles on #gender #equality #policies, #women's #rights and #democratic #backsliding, gender and #populism, women and #terrorism, #lobbying, and #political #representation.
All articles are #open #access until the end of January 2023!
Click the link below for a thread of article summaries with links to full-text:
https://twitter.com/PoliticsGenderJ/status/1613209928176664577
It feels like with Elon Musk's confusing public descend into madness, people are slowly waking up to the weird powers of technology/society interfaces.
It is not surprising. It is complex. And it is going to get worse for democracy, unless we do something.
#democratic #backsliding #conspiracy #myth #social #media #epistemic #crisis #complexity #science
https://protagonistfuture.substack.com/p/asymmetric-power-in-the-information
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