REALLY worth reading. Gessen is Russian-American and lived under autocratic rule. She knows of what she speaks. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/o... - ThreadSky

jbf1755.bsky.social • 3 days ago

REALLY worth reading.
Gessen is Russian-American and lived under autocratic rule. She knows of what she speaks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/opinion/trump-autocracy-bad-ideas.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yE4.y5o6.AG1GcoywG6zU

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lenbanco.bsky.social•3 days ago

The only thing that stops dictators is their death

surfingthepast.bsky.social•3 days ago

Well Bolsonaro is still alive.

shohanabee76.bsky.social•3 days ago

Thank you for sharing 🙏🏽

meh333.bsky.social•2 days ago

She warned us on Sam Bee’s show pre Trump1 “there is no bottom. We thought we had hit rock bottom and then we heard knocking from below.”

fredraker.bsky.social•3 days ago

If it’s Wednesday, it must be the One-Minute Political Update Podcast!4

Episode 55: House Speaker Sucks Up to Musk, Trump Says Ukraine Sucks

Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Jifify, the platform for peanut butter lovers.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-55-house-speaker-sucks-up-to-musk-trump-says/id1769072538?i=1000694051339

#Trump #Musk #Russia #Ukraine

sheilaae.bsky.social•3 days ago

Thank you. There are a few of us common citizens out here that speak up for the common good and defend our institutions and every once in a while someone briefly listens. Hopefully, the seeds will grow.

paul.bsky.social•3 days ago

So glad the New York Times are running all these opinion pieces critical of the Trump admin - whom they actively helped elect by sane washing all his irresponsible rhetoric on the campaign trail.

It’s almost as if they had a monetary interest in creating these problems for us all.

surfingthepast.bsky.social•3 days ago

Sure, great article but they offer no ideas for what would work only critique of what the opposition is doing now.

ckinvt.bsky.social•3 days ago

*They* know of what they speak. Masha is non-binary.

meanjean67.bsky.social•3 days ago

Thanks for the link! Very interesting and instructive.

livepaola.bsky.social•3 days ago

I thought Gessen used "they"

harris439.bsky.social•3 days ago

Thank you for the gift. I remember listening to an interview of Gessen during the election in 2016 and thinking her warnings couldn’t happen here. But it did. She even commented be just as worried if Trump loses - and she was right.

speckonblue.bsky.social•3 days ago

Masha Gessen is a walking cautionary tale.
However, this, the information blitzkrieg, is indeed something that she's seen before.

traveler199.bsky.social•3 days ago

There are 336 cities with 100 thousand people or more in the US.
If only ten people in each city were at the first protest, and each brought two more people to the next event over and over we'll be over 55 million in just 7 events! Exponential growth!

Please share!

https://bigthink.com/the-present/the-3-5-percent-solution/

lamingus.bsky.social•3 days ago

Thanks for the gifted read💝

iddybud.bsky.social•3 days ago

We need strong pushback.
It's not enough for Dems to say, "You can't do that."

"Trump understands politics as the interplay of power & ideology. His opponents see politics as procedure.."
"..never has the Democrats’ technocratic, legalistic approach been more detrimental to the cause of democracy."

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