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What democracy?

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Over the past week I thought I'd recalibrated sufficiently to not be shocked this week, but nope. Fail.

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more steps down the path of robust authoritarianism

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Keep hearing people say protests against first Trump administration were ineffective. Evidence suggests otherwise.

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

Letter to leadership of universities being targeted, to run in Chronicle tomorrow. Academic friends, pls sign if you are a US citizen and tenured (ie it’s safe for you to do so) “We Must Leverage the Strength of Our Institutions and Stand Together” Text in replies docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

Watching academic freedom wither so quickly and with so little protest is horrifying www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n...

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Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:

submitted 8 days ago • 113 comments

Sowing chaos, disorder and violence generates demand for more strongman rule. Classic move. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...

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The arts are the core of resistance when authoritarianism reigns.

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Organized Resistance matters and always accomplishes more than what people often realize.

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"the Leader determines what is true and what is false and who is human and who is not ("monsters") through a procedure of charismatic violence"

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

so it dawned on me that the word for Dems like Schumer isn't "surrender" but "appeasement"

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lololololol

submitted 12 days ago • 10 comments

Couldn't agree more. Key question to be asking now that we are no longer a democracy, "Will the United States remain competitive authoritarian? Can we really dismiss the threat of full-on authoritarianism?"

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Extraordinary moment — Nancy Pelosi issues a statement calling on Democratic senators to reject the House funding bill, i.e. to defy Chuck Schumer. "Democratic senators should listen to the women," she says, referring to Murray/DeLauro who want a 1-month stopgap bill instead.

submitted 13 days ago • 1144 comments

The pervasiveness of this attitude explains so much about how we got here and why things keep getting worse. This is not about "good people on both sides!"

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

No need to post random evidence we aren't a democracy anymore. We just aren't. Period.

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More random evidence: Adams can run for mayor again and all charges dropped. And yes, of course NYC needs a socialist mayor!

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More random evidence we no longer live in a democracy: what kind of regime has a months-long feud with a university and cancels grants and contracts?

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Random evidence we no longer live in a democracy: talk about disappearing permanent residents by non-random folks

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Courage and intelligence by Georgetown Law Dean, unlike the cowardice and anticipatory capitulation of the BOV at UVA www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

The Precarious State of the Union - What we’ve learned – about either party – from the bizarre spectacle of Trump’s speech in Congress. - What to make of the Supreme Court’s relationship with MAGA and why John Roberts will absolutely not be the savior of democracy. New Is This Democracy:

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when the restrained Steven Levitsky tells the NY Times "we’ve crossed the line into some form of authoritarianism," there's no more pretending. That's where we are. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...

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hey guess what trump's numbers about social security are total horseshit www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 23 days ago • 136 comments

This doesn't feel like democratic backsliding but like competitive authoritarianism, as predicted. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/04/n...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Anyone affiliated with a University in any way should start preparing for the National Day of Action for Higher Education on April 17th, 2025. Go to the website for more info — They are doing lots of Zoom organizing calls beforehand too.

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

Everyone at UVA currently sheltering in place and the obvious finally clicked: some people find appeals to stability, order and strong man rule comforting in a culture of rampant gun violence, especially as it doesn't require them to give up their guns.

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Thank you, Governor Janet Mills of Maine! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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Teaching Rafael's brilliant book on populism www.dukeupress.edu/the-sovereig... and students are asking how to overturn an authoritarian regime. Never thought I'd be turning to the democratization literature to answer that question for the U.S.!

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“Congolese are paying the price as the world needs Congo's resources," says Kambale Musavuli, Congolese author and human rights advocate. Reports describe widespread looting, killings, and mass displacement in the Democratic Republic of Congo as Rwanda-backed M23 insurgents take key cities.

submitted 35 days ago • 4 comments

petition time for political scientists docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

😎 Not all of us can attend a rally. 👉 There are many ways to #SpeakUp and #FightBack. 💪 Please share widely. Invite a friend to join you in an action and pass it on.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

We the People are pissed! #50501movement #FiftyFiftyOne #BuildTheResistance #PoliticalRevolution #NoVoiceUnheard #NoKings #VoicesOfFlorida #VoicesUnheard @polrev.bsky.social

submitted 38 days ago • 679 comments

Tessie McMillan Cottom's terrific op-ed on Musk's chaos: it's about generating "content." In my lingo, it's a tactic of political rule. Resistance demands action-generating counter-content, not factual or legal arguments. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...

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An early critique of the Levitsky and Way article on competitive authoritarianism, arguing they are underestimating the havoc AI can play in countering resistance: www.flyingpenguin.com?p=66321

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I had some disagreements with their book, This is How Democracies Die, but this article on competitive authoritarianism convincingly conveys the big picture and where we are headed. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

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This Wednesday I'll be teaching "Feminism for the 99%" at UVA in solidarity with the Project 2025 protests around the country, including in Richmond, Virginia. Let's make some noise! ✊💜 rvamag.com/community/ri...

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