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All about Fascist population engineering and remigration: open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...

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“Hope is a precondition of resistance because it keeps alive the idea that another reality is possible in the future and that our daily actions in the courts, at the ballot box, and in the streets can make a difference.” @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social #hope

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Excellent essay by @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social on self care in difficult times. open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...

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While Musk's been busy dismantling our government institutions, his company's stock is plummeting and endangering our members' retirement funds. We're demanding he focuses on his job at Tesla so workers can retire with security and dignity. www.thetimes.com/us/business/...

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My latest for Lucid: Trump insults the military because he knows they embody a courage and integrity he will never have. open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

Thank goodness we have historians like @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social to sort things out for us. If you haven't read her book, "Strongmen: Mussolini To The Present," it's highly recommended. It has echoes of what we're living today. lucid.substack.com/p/corruption...

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Yes, we got a tip when the $TRUMP whales (biggest buyers of his crypto) were going to show up Friday at the White House for their VIP tour and The NYT was there. We had a list with their names. So we knew who they were. But they did not want to chat. I still tried...

submitted 6 days ago • 131 comments

Qatari donations to U.S. institutions are “a subtle and pernicious form of influence peddling designed to launder Qatar’s reputation—a form of soft corruption that Trump has now characteristically taken to cartoonish excess,” writes @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social:

submitted 6 days ago • 25 comments

Very clear explanation of how authoritarians take over. @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social youtu.be/-y6Byx77qxM?...

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

The anti-Tesla movement is one of the most successful cases of social coordination in American history. In the span of six months the Tesla brand has been made radioactive. This isn’t a subjective view. You can see it in the data.

submitted 9 days ago • 118 comments

@ruthbenghiat.bsky.social I just started your book, “Strongmen, Mussolini to the Present” and I’m already impressed. Looking forward to learning more in the pages ahead!

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

Great news! I'm told a few moments ago US Institute of Peace Board Chair Amb. George Moose went to the USIP building where he and legal counsel were able to retake possession after the recent court decision. They were accompanied by a small team securing the building and assessing maintenance needs.

submitted 8 days ago • 124 comments

Guys the whole point of authoritarianism is being above and beyond the law which is why it attracts "lawless" individuals such as Noem. Habeus corpus is an annoyance for authoritarians.

submitted 10 days ago • 24 comments

Trump's war on Medicaid will institutionalize millions of people

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My latest for Lucid: Arresting Judges, the Trump Administration Follows the Authoritarian Playbook. open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...

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DEMOCRATS! Throwing Joe Biden under the bus won’t help you. •It won’t win over the base. •It won’t boost your approval. •It won’t bring back voters who sat out 2024. •It won’t fix 2026. It makes you look petty while Trump is burning it all down. REPAIR AND BUILD THE PARTY!

submitted 13 days ago • 668 comments

"...in all my studies of authoritarian regimes and wreckings of democracy, I've never seen a government so quickly try and wreck a country in a holistic manner: public health, foreign policy, disaster relief, information..." @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social @wajali.bsky.social

submitted 12 days ago • 9 comments

Jeff Bezos once grieved Jamal Khashoggi’s killing—now he’s in business with the man who orchestrated the savage murder, in a deal that lays bare his true colors, @passantino.bsky.social writes for the Saturday edition of @status.news. Read the piece here: www.status.news/p/jeff-bezos...

submitted 13 days ago • 471 comments

DOGE took control of the FAA, fired hundreds of air traffic employees—and then our air traffic control system mysteriously started shitting itself. Probably just a coincidence!

submitted 14 days ago • 34 comments

I had a great convo with @jimacosta.bsky.social today!

submitted 15 days ago • 12 comments

TODAY the NYT publishes an investigation into the Trump memecoin $TRUMP and how it has turned into a extraordinary venue for foreign influence campaigns. What we are seeing is potentially corrupt attempts to change US policy by paying the Trump family money. This is no "Russian Hoax" nyti.ms/4kkv7D7

submitted 18 days ago • 521 comments

This administration is becoming the tool of the Persian Gulf autocracies...they do not give without expecting in return...

submitted 19 days ago • 56 comments

This is how authoritarian state security forces behave in Turkey, China and other countries. Now America joins them.

submitted 19 days ago • 92 comments

Yes

submitted 20 days ago • 43 comments

Two moments from the recent @penamerica.bsky.social @peninternational.bsky.social World Voices Festival panel on Autocracy and the Slow Death of Democracy. I had a great discussion with @shteyngart.bsky.social Jason Stanley Francine Prose, Burhan Sonmez, and @jonfreadom.bsky.social.

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

🌎 PWH Explains: Autocracy and the Media 🌎 In this video, PWH Distinguished Visiting Fellow and Professor of History and Italian Studies @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social describes warning signs of autocracy, how autocrats employ media to their advantage, and more. Watch here: youtu.be/y404FUvqanY

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Where would Trump be now if Fox News owner Murdoch had followed his first impulse to act in Nov. 2020 to “stop the Trump myth that the election [was] stolen”? ... We are living today w/ the consequences of Murdoch’s cowardly decision to instead spread Trump’s Big Lie - @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social

submitted 21 days ago • 14 comments

Crockett: Instead of the President cosplaying as the next pope, he may want to cosplay as an actual President of these United States. That means he may have to do a little bit of research and understand that he swore a an oath to defend and protect the constitution.

submitted 24 days ago • 911 comments

No one elected DOGE. This is a hostile takeover of our government and national research to benefit Musk's companies and Trump's autocracy.

submitted 25 days ago • 58 comments

The entirety of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health was wiped out last night in a form letter sent by RFK Jr. NIOSH is an agency in the CDC that investigates workplace hazards and finds solutions. It protects workers, so it’s gone. Even firefighters.

submitted 27 days ago • 80 comments

The DOGE coup continues.

submitted 26 days ago • 37 comments

I like telling authoritarians where to shove it in multiple languages

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@ruthbenghiat.bsky.social #Stongmen youtu.be/xUMATTj3Ai0?...

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social scholar of authoritarianism and author of ‘Strongmen: from Mussolini to the present’, analyses the rapid shift towards authoritarianism, personality cult, strongmen machismo and the potential for a female strongman. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUMA...

submitted 28 days ago • 5 comments

I just read “Strongmen” by @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social Everything that this administration has done so far or wants to do has been done by numerous authoritarians over and over. The current WH occupant seems to be following portions of the playbooks of Mussolini and Burlesconi (Italy).

submitted 28 days ago • 42 comments

This week, to mark Trump's first 100 days, @ellenhalliday.bsky.social and I spoke with leading autocracy scholar @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social about strongmen, when democracy ends, what brings her hope, and why "the autocrat never apologises" Plus: Is organising your bookshelves a banger or a dud?

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

What are the most critical things people should be watching for that might signal further democratic erosion or recovery? @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social shares expert insight in interview with @usatoday.com www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

submitted 30 days ago • 9 comments

Just got around to watching @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social’s Wired Tech Support episode and I’d just like to throw out into the universe that if she ever happens to need a research assistant to specialize in the GDR? Dream job.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

additionally they cancelled... @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social with the ridiculous excuse 'the lecture was a potential violation of the Hatch Act,' among several others Ken fucking Burns who wanted to screen clips from his new six-part series on the American Revolution... 1/ #fascism #GiftArticle

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

Same thing happened to me with the cancellation of my Bancroft Lecture, as the article recounts:

submitted 33 days ago • 65 comments

“agreeing to “peace proposals” advanced by autocrats almost always sets up the other party to experience more aggression.” @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social

submitted 35 days ago • 3 comments

We won!! A nationwide preliminary injunction against McMahon's February Dear Colleague letter which tried to stop public schools & higher Ed from teaching honest history or enforcing student civil rights. It’s a win for students, families & educators. democracyforward.org/updates/harm...

submitted 36 days ago • 42 comments