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eliothiggins.bsky.social
Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat. Democracy isn't dead, it just smells funny.
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BREAKING via AP Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines and pledged to replace them with his own picks.

submitted 4 hours ago • 49 comments

It's amazing how often I see this exact claim over years of different protests in the US. It's like a conspiracy meme.

submitted 4 hours ago • 10 comments

Q: "Would you support mobilizing the Marines and do you think Congress would need to sign off on that first?" Sen. Lankford: "Active duty marines are not going to be put into local law enforcement...Local law enforcement should take care of this."

submitted 1 day ago • 130 comments

Efficiency is when you make the troops homeless *before* they're veterans

submitted 5 hours ago • 46 comments

The question of who had actually set fire to the Reichstag quickly became irrelevant.

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

Timothy Snyder - 20 Lesson on Tyranny. #18. Be calm when the unthinkable arrives. Modern tyranny is terror management. When the terrorist attack comes, remember that authoritarians exploit such events in order to consolidate power. Do not fall for it.

submitted 5 hours ago • 9 comments

Good day to listen to my new interview with @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social about how to talk to your son about fascism. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

As I wrote at Law Dork on Sunday: "Say there’s a problem, create new rules or restrictions, and justify future escalations based on opposition to the new rules." www.lawdork.com/p/trump-is-s...

submitted 5 hours ago • 3 comments

In case you're wondering, authoritarians use this strategy of escalation to manufacture crisis, provoke outrage, then use the reaction to justify repression. It’s not about restoring order, it's about creating a spectacle of chaos they can claim only they can control.

submitted 5 hours ago • 46 comments

Provoke the locals to justify more force to provoke the locals. Its the authoritarian playbook in the streets of LA.

submitted 5 hours ago • 7 comments

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submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

🧵 Several people have raised questions about what I meant by "deservedly so" when referring to the decline of institutional trust. It's a fair question, so I want to explain that, because it sits at the heart of my work on how democracies collapse when their epistemic foundations rot.

submitted 6 hours ago • 30 comments

Episode 2 of the Mobilizing Data for Justice podcast features interviews with the investigative research collective Bellingcat.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

“Patel, Bongino and the other leaders are caught in a trap of their own making. The world they helped create, a world in which conspiracy destroys facts, is now the world they have to inhabit.”

submitted 10 hours ago • 5 comments

Here's a recent interview I did about Bellingcat's work, disordered discourse, and the problems we face thanks to algorithms youtu.be/beTPCvNqVlY?...

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

What does "train in Ai" even mean?

submitted 16 hours ago • 53 comments

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

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