Reading list for what’s to come: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/562246... - ThreadSky

nhannahjones.bsky.social • 33 days ago

Reading list for what’s to come:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/562246/how-democracies-die-by-steven-levitsky-and-daniel-ziblatt/

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whatupsteph.bsky.social•33 days ago

Lemme just ahead and 📌

beanpatchny.bsky.social•33 days ago

Loved this book

brosephus.bsky.social•33 days ago

📌

thelargess.bsky.social•33 days ago

😭

justineakehurst.bsky.social•33 days ago

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism

69rubymoon.bsky.social•33 days ago

We’ve just watched it. A MSM pushing gaslighting stories about “failed” messaging from Democrats or failure to understand Repubs “economic pain”. Those voters know EXACTLY who wrecked the economy and which party’s policies are financially beneficial. For them, it’s White Supremacy or nothing.

lasvegasnate.bsky.social•33 days ago

I have a feeling it might be a little too late….

heatherand.bsky.social•33 days ago

May I also suggest “The Hiding Place” by Corrie Ten Boom?

ajtemrani.bsky.social•33 days ago

Help Afghan refugees whose flights to the U.S. are on the verge of being canceled. Be their voice. Don’t let Trump abandon them to the Taliban.

kevinvermeer.bsky.social•33 days ago

Thanks for the reading list - added! I'm better with computer systems than human systems, but I've found Peter Turchin's "End Times" and Jared Diamond's (I know) "Upheaval" to be illuminating. Any tips on how to get started into this stuff, a "Political Science 101" that isn't biased/pop sci fluff?

invictette.bsky.social•32 days ago

This book made me second-guess my PolySci minor. It was too real, too accurate, and both depressed and frightened me. I realized that I might not have the fortitude for watching this play out in reality. It felt like I knew too much. Highly recommend!

marshab.bsky.social•33 days ago

📌

deliver23.bsky.social•33 days ago

Very good book

nannertwistie.bsky.social•33 days ago

📌

goblinfolks.bsky.social•32 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/goblinfolks.bsky.social/post/3lgbi3rsoas2o

itsbrittniwitch.bsky.social•33 days ago

📌

persistence24.bsky.social•33 days ago

hoseycow.bsky.social•33 days ago

The sequel:

"How Democracy Died"

drvdmv.bsky.social•33 days ago

Thank you for sharing. These are up next in my batch. #resist #books

margaretdumont.bsky.social•33 days ago

📌

misspam52.bsky.social•33 days ago

Any student of history knows what is coming at us.....

Today we mourn for his being sworn into office.

Tomorrow, we must stand tall and fight like hell.

#resispersistrepeat

pthorwartl.bsky.social•33 days ago

Vorgestern gekauft. Deutsche Übersetzung.

questionwonder.bsky.social•33 days ago

I've read 100s of books on hitler's rise in germany after WW1 and life after 1939 in germany and the war
I need zero help knowing how the steps unfold ahead ..

torndev.bsky.social•33 days ago

That's all minor details

Here is a bigger picture:

https://www.amazon.com/End-World-Just-Beginning-Globalization/dp/B09CS8FRRD

bayeralex.bsky.social•33 days ago

You can either read the book or keep your eyes open over the next couple of months

theopsdesk.bsky.social•33 days ago

I remember how one democracy died. They elected an old man approaching senility in Hindenburg. Hindenburg was mostly a figurehead at the end and allowed Hitler to manipulate him to gain power. That can happen when no one is in charge.

paradigmshook.bsky.social•33 days ago

📌

nhannahjones.bsky.social•33 days ago

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/558051/on-tyranny-by-timothy-snyder/

nhannahjones.bsky.social•33 days ago

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/hitler-germany-constitution-authoritarianism/681233/

ourhaus.bsky.social•33 days ago

📌

nhannahjones.bsky.social•33 days ago

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/586030/how-fascism-works-by-jason-stanley/

nhannahjones.bsky.social•33 days ago

https://www.versobooks.com/products/342-darkwater?srsltid=AfmBOopQaCvTKHmIpZgBInhDKp5b0GhjcaGYD8tKRAF43Dn6CWClxzE4

nhannahjones.bsky.social•33 days ago

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/birthright-citizens/7A4BFAF68722E7EC837C2888C46E4434

nhannahjones.bsky.social•33 days ago

https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/where-do-we-go-here-chaos-or-community

rwsiler1.bsky.social•33 days ago

Resist

bebeohio.bsky.social•33 days ago

Thanks so much for this. I have some of these and will add more this morning. You should consider adding “Laboratories of Autocracy” by David Pepper to your list.

ckberry.bsky.social•33 days ago

This is an excellent book. It’s telling the similarities that are contained that are alerting us to what is happening in the United States now. Not an easy read but alarming as to what can happen under the felon in office in DC. We were warned!!!

algardner46.bsky.social•33 days ago

Add “Why Nations Fail” from 2012.

kevinvermeer.bsky.social•33 days ago

Read it - definitely a powerful and applicable book. It's remarkable to me that it was written more than a decade ago about a wealth of historical examples from the Roman Empire to the USSR, and not yesterday about the US.

skibee.bsky.social•33 days ago

📌

noahdahl.bsky.social•33 days ago

📌

pecantan.bsky.social•33 days ago

Thank you for the book recommendation. I just added it to my Kindle.

quality1.bsky.social•33 days ago

Great book, though sad to see us living this now!

bix-noodleman.bsky.social•33 days ago

All democracies die the same way: the ruling class discovers they can massively enrich themselves by borrowing vast sums and pledging the working class to pay it off.

tonyahamilton.bsky.social•33 days ago

Heather Cox Richardson’s “How the South Won the Civil War” which profiles the political players and highlights, among other things, how intertwined the slaveholders were with the cowboy mentality in the new American west—from then through today.

carevillage.bsky.social•33 days ago

https://music.apple.com/us/album/we-shall-overcome/261687013?i=261692116

mallardbay93.bsky.social•33 days ago

Maybe, I see a healthy minority of actual human beings with caring souls. It's not terrible for a minority, many are called but few are chosen, trick is, people choose themselves to follow the light or revert to childish fear and greed

thedigitalmonk.bsky.social•32 days ago

Rules for resistance
1. Goal focus: Get 3.5% of the population in active resistance.
2. Build local support networks and get involved in local governments.
3. Coalesce with existing and experienced orgs. Don't start new ones.
4. Refrain from moralizing. Action only.
5. Make art and spectacle.