#Authoritarianism

Loren DeJonge Schulman

LorenRaeDeJ

Good morning world!Today is my last day at my beloved @CNASdc. I love this organization, its people, its mission, its output, and its culture more than anything I can think

GET A GRIP

docrussjackson

“It’s just a horse, a dumb, unfeeling creature, unaware of pain, unaware even of its own existence... When you whip a horse it doesn’t think “This is so painful &

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

All right. This is extremely important. People need to understand exactly the threat we're facing.Let's talk about Donald Trump and the rising threat of white-identity evangelical fascism.Here's what I learned

Sascha Ruppert

SashRu88

While the SPD-led Justice Ministry in #Germany is providing the political infrastructure to investigate crimes against humanity committed by agents of the #Assad regime, its sister party in #Denmark decides

DANIΣL

danielvelez

I see way too many people in this corner saying"Serotonin is the Happy Hormone. Do this to increase it!"Let's go deep into the history of serotonin to see why it's

Teri Kanefield

Teri_Kanefield

(thread) How California Turned Blue Alternate title: California shows the wayCalifornia used to be Republican. We gave the nation Nixon and Reagan.Republican candidates won CA in every presidential election between

HUNTSMAN 🇺🇸

man_integrated

𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐞 (𝐨𝐫 𝐃𝐚𝐦) 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐬1,000 km upriver from Shanghai and the mouth of the Yangtze Delta sits a marvel of modern mega-engineering:The Three Gorges Dam.It might be a

Hong Kong Hermit

HongKongHermit

Fuck me, the genocide denial blog Grayzone is continually surprised at the fact that white Hongkongers exist, because clearly that offends their pure vision of a homogenous ethno-state.https://twitter.com/TheGrayzoneNews/status/129221005392

Jeff Ostler

Jeff__Ostler

A very long thread about Jeffrey Flynn-Paul’s Spectator essay on the “myth” that the U.S. and Canada are built on lands stolen from Indigenous nations.https://bit.ly/2ER0ozt Karl Jacoby and I pitched

Dr. Asatar Bair

asatarbair

People have been asking me about the @MadEmpanada video that purports to be a ‘balanced’ view of is there oppression against the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, so here’s a thread. (tldr:

The Cosmist Insurrection, Inc. ™

yungneocon

There is an irresolvable contradiction between the well being of workers in the imperial core in the Global North & the Global South, and between any kind of productivism &

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Canadian Prime Ministers have a fun gambit: when things start to go really badly for them, they "prorogue" (suspend) Parliament, which dissolves all committees, inquiries, etc, until such time as

CZEdwards ($2KforAll)

CZEdwards

Thread: The Peelian Principles and American Policing1.A long thread on the primary alternative to the US model of policing, with some history, mostly for context.Long thread. References at end. (And

Gwen Snyder is uncivil

gwensnyderPHL

I think lot of folks who are new to the left and don't have more than a passing familiarity with Ganergate and the rise of the Alt-reich are genuinely confused

Sadie Farrell 🏴 ↙️↙️↙️

Marusya_1312

Part II: Grayzone News & the Rise of Left ConspiratismI left off discussing how American Affairs helped fuel RW tendencies in Dirtbag & DSA circles thru their useful idiots. Now

David Dark's Borrowed Eloquence

DavidDark

This is really helpful & (to my mind) compassionate work from @plmanseau on the conception of self and others @PressSec sustains & draws from. I'm a Nashville lifer, so....I breathe