@cdarwin@c.imWe are not in an era where democracy is “challenged.”
We are in an era where democracy is under siege.
Authoritarianism isn’t knocking…it’s battering the door.
Propaganda isn’t creeping…it’s flooding.
The public isn’t outraged…they’re exhausted.
This isn’t a moment for:
“Be Inspired.”
“Stay Hopeful.”
“Vote Blue.”
“We’ll Be Fine.”
This is a moment for:
“DO. NOT. LET. GO. OF DEMOCRACY.”
@UP8@mastodon.social🏙️ Mamdani Can Learn From Latin American Municipal Socialism
#politics
@memeorandum@universeodon.comYou Can Kill a Democracy Without a Dictator (Will Freeman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/opinion/peru-dictator-democracy-boluarte.html?unlocked_article_code=1.v08.gQZf.dfBOA57dClXS&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.memeorandum.com/251024/p43#a251024p43
@publicvoit@graz.social"#Austria’s Democracy on the Decline"
“The Situation is Serious”: #Democracy Index with Sobering Result for Austria
https://www.europesays…
@kuba@toot.kuba-orlik.name> Consumer-protection organisations call for tighter rules, while online platforms such as Tik ToK argue that there is only a very limited need for further regulatory intervention.
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/legislative
@mia@hcommons.socialThis quote encapsulates some of my thinking about AI and knowledge creators, language communities: '"Inclusive institutions" reward you for baking more cake. Inclusive institutions like the rule of law, contracts, and open competition ensure that if you invest, you will reap the rewards.
"Extractive institutions" are how elites grab instead of bake cake.
They siphon state revenues, seize assets, block competition, smother innovation, centralise power, explo…
@davidaugust@mastodon.online"...roughly one in 50 Americans gathered under one slogan (“No Kings!”) to protest against the president’s authoritarian methods and monarchical aspirations. And while Trump’s allies may feign ignorance with regard to claims that he’s seeking arbitrary and unaccountable power…it takes no time at all to write out a litany of offenses that threaten the republican foundations of American democracy."
@markhburton@mstdn.socialSo now the Labour Party is a democracy that money can buy.
"Powell, who has cast herself as the "independent choice" in the contest, has also been boosted by a £15,000 donation from green energy industrialist Dale Vince."
Phillipson: I've been the victim of sexist briefings - BBC News
https://www.
@Europablog@mastodon.socialGuinea returns to the path of democracy. By Jürgen Klute.
#Guinea
@brian_gettler@mas.toEverywhere I turn, I stumble over stories - different in details, but similar in implications - of society in decay. These include rapid growth in student food bank use, spiking anxiety among kids, random acts of aggression on public transit, rejection of expertise during crises of health, homelessness, democracy, etc, and on and on. These stories are always accompanied by hand-wringing over cause and remedy, but somehow state provision of financial resources only rarely comes up. Funny that…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe Rot Creeping Into Our Minds (David Brooks/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/opinion/shutdown-democracy-democrats.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251024/p4#a251024p4
@cdarwin@c.imThe Parenti text challenges students, perhaps for the first time,
to critically assess the dominant pluralist paradigm;
that it invites students to consider the ubiquity of politics in their lives;
that they confront the struggle and inevitable conflict between democracy and capitalism, which is usually ignored.
—Christopher A. Leu,
California State University, Northridge
@relcfp@mastodon.socialLECTURE> MU-CRS Seminar with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tomas Larsson about “Sacred Things and Democracy in Thailand”
https://ift.tt/LZ4o0By
Summer 2026 Vietnamese Language Study with Indiana University Kathleen Evans 09/19/2025 - 9:31am …
via Input 4 RELCFP
@hippyjo@c.imUkraine update: Russian propaganda continues to be the most powerful asset the Kremlin has.
It is exhausting to keep track of the lies, between Trump and The "mainstream" media.
Giorgio shares the friendlink for reports he writes on the frontlines of democracy in Ukraine. He is a hero who risks his life to provide a glimmer of the truth Russia wants to hide.
Support his work, support journalism, and support Ukraine by sharing the friend link to bypass the paywall:…
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io2/2 Reflection on #citizenship:
I do not treat the concept of “#democracy" lightly. I was born into the aftermath of centuries of totalitarian oppression that ended suddenly, leaving the nascent Ukrainian state of the late 90s and early 2000s floundering in the turbulent whirlpool of hopes and fears felt by millions of people who were finally allowed to ponder: how to build a free democratic state in the place of Soviet and imperial ruins?
I was taught the words "democracy", "citizen", "freedom", "voting", “liberty" (and more) by people who, less than two decades prior, weren't allowed to leave the borders of their country. I was told about self-determination by people whose political choices were ridiculed, punished, and eviscerated form most of their lives. The duty of governing ourselves felt to us ephemeral - a nice fantasy, akin to a fairytale or a utopia from fictional works.
And then I saw those same people fight with their bodies and souls once the previously unfathomable democracy was threatened. Protests in 2004, then again in 2014, then the unthinkable war against foreign invasion in 2022. Democracy no longer felt abstract or silly. It became as tangible as saying "I love you".
I write of Ukraine as I reflect on becoming a citizen of another country because the history and values of my adopted United States feel as real as the skin on my legs, the significance of its legacy lays as heavy as the weight of my waist-long hair, and the desire to uphold the freedoms of its Constitution burns my throat as harshly as dehydration after a long day in the sun.
People have asked me why I even want to join this country, when the present moment is shrouded in impenetrable darkness. And I answer: because I've felt the warmth of a newly lit fire of freedom breaking through shadows that for centuries looked like solid walls. I have seen kindness, and solidarity heal the fear and hate of oppression. I've seen liberty emerge from nothing but the human soul.
I am not a religious person, but I have faith. Faith in the ideals at the foundation of the American project. Faint but powerful recognition that "we the people" now includes me.
I love #America. And I hope to keep loving my home for the rest of my life.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comExclusive: Government shutdown signals weakness to foes, ex-Defense Secretary says (April Rubin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/22/government-shutdown-democracy-failure-defense-leon-panetta
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p150#a251022p150
@hex@kolektiva.socialAfter #Trump finally crashes and burns (I'm still saying I don't think he makes it to the mid terms, and I think it's more than possible he won't make it to the end of the year) we'll hear a lot of people say, "the system worked!" Today people are already talking about "saving democracy" by fighting back. This will become a big rally cry to vote (for Democrats, specifically), and the complete failure of the system will be held up as the best evidence for even greater investment in it.
I just want to point out that American democracy gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile, who, before being elected was already a well known sexual predator, and who made the campaign promise to commit genocide. He then preceded to commit genocide. And like, I don't care that he's "only" kidnaped and disappeared a few thousand brown people. That's still genocide. Even if you don't kill every member of a targeted group, any attempt to do so is still "committing genocide." Trump said he would commit genocide, then he hired all the "let's go do a race war" guys he could find and *paid* them to go do a race war. And, even now as this deranged monster is crashing out, he is still authorized to use the world's largest nuclear arsenal.
He committed genocide during his first term when his administration separated migrant parents and children, then adopted those children out to other parents. That's technically genocide. The point was to destroy the very people been sending right wing terror squads after.
There was a peaceful hand over of power to a known Russian asset *twice*, and the second time he'd already committed *at least one* act of genocide *and* destroyed cultural heritage sites (oh yeah, he also destroyed indigenous grave sites, in case you forgot, during his first term).
All of this was allowed because the system is set up to protect exactly these types of people, because *exactly* these types of people are *the entire power structure*.
Going back to that system means going back to exactly the system that gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile *TWICE*.
I'm already seeing the attempts to pull people back, the congratulations as we enter the final phase, the belief that getting Trump out will let us all get back to normal. Normal. The normal that lead here in the first place. I can already see the brunch reservations being made. When Trump is over, we will be told we won. We will be told that it's time to go back to sleep.
When they tell you everything worked, everything is better, that we can stop because we won, tell them "fuck you! Never again means never again." Destroy every system that ever gave these people power, that ever protected them from consequences, that ever let them hide what they were doing.
These democrats funded a genocide abroad and laid the groundwork for genocide at home. They protected these predators, for years. The whole power structure is guilty. As these files implicate so many powerful people, they're trying to shove everything back in the box. After all the suffering, after we've finally made it clear that we are the once with the power, only now they're willing to sacrifice Trump to calm us all down.
No, that's a good start but it can't be the end.
Winning can't be enough to quench that rage. Keep it burning. When this is over, let victory fan that anger until every institution that made this possible lies in ashes. Burn it all down and salt the earth. Taking down Trump is a great start, but it's not time to give up until this isn't possible again.
#USPol
@cdarwin@c.im
@juer@juergenklute@digitalcourage.socialGuinea returns to the path of democracy. By Jürgen Klute.
https://europa.blog/en/guinea-returns-to-the-path-of-democracy/
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"When news becomes an extension of political and corporate power, democracy loses its immune system. The Fourth Estate collapses. And disinformation rules.
This is what happens when billionaires control information. They decide what you see, what you don’t, who becomes a villain, who gets rehabilitated, and whose death is worth remembering"
#kleptocracy
Legacy Media…
@rafa_font@mastodon.onlineI'm a proud financial supporter of Ukraine's war efforts through the #NAFO initiative. The badge I received is just perfect. I hope Jake Broe keeps on hitting the Bingo. Stay strong, defend democracy, protect Europe, slava ukraini!
@jpanzer@mastodon.socialI’ll be here tomorrow for #NoKings, please join me here or… just about anywhere, really! There’s over 2,500 events tomorrow nationwide.
https://www.indivisiblepeninsulabayarea.org/nokings/…
@StephenRees@mas.toFair Vote Canada is pleased to announce the Teacher Resources section of our website. The first teacher resource has now been added.
A Fair Vote? Rights, Responsibilities, and Decision-Making in a Democracy is an exciting new resource for Grade 5 Social Studies teachers, which was developed by the Elementary Teachers of Toronto and Fair Vote Canada.
@timbray@cosocial.caBrutal.
Aristotle on Democracy - Existential Comics
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/633
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caone of the coolest things about the #bcndp convention has been the use if this little ballot book for voting for elected positions within the party.
They announce the number and colour of the page, you rip out the paper and use it to make your selection.
Then the committee folks go around with ballot boxes like offerings at church 😆
Democracy is cool wherever it happens and in all its iterations.
#bcndp #democracy
@memeorandum@universeodon.com15 More Ways You Can Fight for Democracy (Gabriel Lezra/The Contrarian)
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/15-more-ways-you-can-fight-for-democracy
http://www.memeorandum.com/251021/p121#a251021p121
@benb@osintua.euHow Important Is Preserving Democracy to Ukrainians? A Machine Learning Analysis of Democratic Attitudes: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/08/how-important-is-preserving-democracy.html
@PaulWermer@sfba.social"Despite the generally strong support for democracy, there was an equally strong desire for radical change, with more people in most countries thinking the system was rigged in favour of the rich and powerful rather than working for everyone."
What? Do ordinary mortals think the neoliberal cosnsenus has failed us? How can this be? Look at all the wonderful things the billionaires have developed for us!
@paulwermer@sfba.social"Despite the generally strong support for democracy, there was an equally strong desire for radical change, with more people in most countries thinking the system was rigged in favour of the rich and powerful rather than working for everyone."
What? Do ordinary mortals think the neoliberal cosnsenus has failed us? How can this be? Look at all the wonderful things the billionaires have developed for us!
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgLooking for suggestions how to defend your democracy?
Some great suggestions here. Keep talking to strangers, participate in society and, for Europeans, *Keep Regulating #UStech"
Intro in Danish, Interview with @… in English starts at 6 mins.
#DigitalSovereignty #SovereignSocialMedia
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/115401865282856120
Langsomme samtaler: Timothy Snyder: Trump forestiller sig et militært diktatur, hvor han selv skal være diktatoren
Episode webpage: https://samtaleromusa.podbean.com/e/timothy-snyder-trump-forestiller-sig-et-militært-diktatur-hvor-han-selv-skal-være-diktatoren/
@david_colquhoun@mstdn.socialWelcome To Gilead—The Creeping Threat Of Christian Nationalism
https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/christian-nationalism-threat-democracy-freedom
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineNo Kings rally in Evanston, IL, looking N, W and S.
A good time, peaceful, neighborly. Democracy.
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@ErikJonker@mastodon.social @memeorandum@universeodon.com'Democracy is worth fighting for': Obama rallies California redistricting supporters (Lindsey Holden/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/22/obama-prop-50-00618888
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p163#a251022p163
@gratianriter@bildung.socialAntifa in the US:
7 000 000 and growing
There can be no democracy without antifascim
#antifa #antifascism #Antifaschismus
@aral@mastodon.ar.alSadly, the whole rest of the world also gets what you voted for.
Yay, democracy! @… https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/115726775853906216
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social"I was elected mayor of Istanbul, but I write this from jail: Turkish democracy is under grave threat"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/24/mayor-istanbul-jail-ekrem-imamoglu-turkey-democracy
@cheryanne@aus.socialWe're wandering down this afternoon to the Jessie Price Keep Bean on the map: Reconnecting Our Supporter Community!
Enjoy a democracy sausage BBQ.
Jessie and David Pocock will be in conversation about the critical importance of community Independents on the crossbench in the context of a Coalition shambles and Labor majority - sharpening the role of the crossbench in holding the government to account and pushing for stronger action.
Tuggeranong Park Stage, 2-4pm and a…
@servelan@newsie.social‘No suggestion of democracy’ in US plan for future governance of the Gaza Strip
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20251014-no-suggestion-of-democracy-in-us-plan-for-future-governance-of-the-gaza-strip
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzhttps://newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/07/anne-salmond-academic-freedom-and-its-enemies/ I can't help but wonder why Salmon doesn't explicitly name the Atlas Network as ACT's inspiration, nor compare what's going to the American Heritage Foundati…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaRigging Elections to Save Democracy
#Elections #Election
@memeorandum@universeodon.comElection Conspiracy Theorist at DHS Denies Department Is Using Voter Data From DOJ (Matt Cohen/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/election-conspiracy-theorist-at-dhs-denies-department-is-using-voter-data-from-doj/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251023/p131#a251023p131
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialCalifornia's Prop 50 to combat Trump's blatant rigging of our elections is listed here.
Californians: This is the whole ballgame. Vote YES on Prop 50.
✅ Key Contests This November That Will Shape the Future of Democracy - Democracy Docket
https://www.
@vform@openbiblio.socialThe Librarians Film | Official Site
https://thelibrariansfilm.com/
“Librarians under siege join forces as unlikely defenders fighting on the frontlines of democracy“
Gerade bei Aspekte (
@mapto@qoto.orgQuite exciting talk:
EFF presents: Rewiring Democracy with Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders in conversation with Cindy Cohn
3 December, online
https://www.eff.org/event/rewiring-democracy
@mia@hcommons.social'Archivist fired by Trump launches a national effort to strengthen democracy': 'On Constitution Day, Shogan launched a national bipartisan effort called "More Perfect" to work on strengthening democracy' https://www.pbs.org/newsho…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caI voted for what you might call the "anti-establishment" voice for president. He wore a kaffiyeh and talked of environment and how the BCNDP could meet this incredibly challenging moment.
Glad I was able to support him. he came second by a large margin but I am grateful that support is there.
#bcndp #bcndp #democracy
@Ruhrnalist@mastodon.socialDiese Idee gefällt mir:
Was wäre ein geeignetes Denkmal für Trump? Aber nur ein einziges, bitte. Ein Erinnerungsstück, dass alle Dimensionen umfasst? Und wo sollte es stehen? Oder eine Medaille, mit 2 Seiten?
Ich fürchte, wenn wir ihn gewähren lassen, wird verbrannte Erde an ihn erinnern.
https://www.
@yaya@jorts.horseNo Kings? bullshit. The Kings rule https://cathode.church/@okadaibro/115392718725342799
@carloshr@lile.clBueno, y el premio Nobel de la Paz 2025 es para la venezolana Maria Corina Machado
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nobel-peace-prize-maria-corina-machado-venezuela-opposition-leader-2025/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDOJ Seeks to Revive Dismissed Cases Against Former FBI Chief Comey, New York AG James (Jacob Knutson/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-doj-james-comey-letitia-james-dismissal-appeal/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p97#a251222p97
@cdarwin@c.imSince Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the president has made it clear that voter suppression is a top priority.
In March, Trump issued a sweeping anti-voting executive order that could disenfranchise millions.
And while courts have blocked key provisions of his order, the White House promised that another order, likely targeting mail voting, is on the way.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is engaged in an unprecedented attack on voting rights,
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social«The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich. If democracy is the problem capital is always trying to solve, propaganda is part of the solution.»
On the epistemic crisis we're all in, thanks to most ways of knowing and disseminating knowledge being in the hands of a couple of billionaires. 
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/14/climate-crisis-communication-super-rich
@inthehands@hachyderm.io❝Americans are democracy’s equivalent of second-generation wealth. They were born into democracy and have no appreciation of what life is like without it.❞
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/14/wang-jian-china-journalist-reports-united-states-donald-trump-xi-jinping
@hippyjo@c.imUPDATE: POKROVSK, Ukraine...
Giorgio is an Italian journalist working in Ukraine, reporting from the trenches of democracy.
He shares the friend link to bypass the paywall so that the world can get a glimpse of truth beyond the distorting propaganda of corporate media, who dare not venture into the danger zone where truth lives...
Please support his work and Ukraine, share the link, watch his YouTube videos, witness the warcrimes Russia commits daily in Ukraine.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comLetitia James Moves to Sanction Trump-Appointed Prosecutor Over "Stunning' Texts to Reporter (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/letitia-james-moves-to-sanction-trump-appointed-prosecutor-over-stunning-texts-to-reporter/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251023/p144#a251023p144
@UP8@mastodon.social👎🏿 Americans Are Mostly United Against 𝐶𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑛𝑠 𝑈𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑑
#politics
@cdarwin@c.imOpus Dei’s story is less about religion than about the weaponization of belief
— the transformation of faith into infrastructure.
When devotion becomes a strategy for power, and purity a currency for control,
democracy itself becomes collateral damage.
The deeper question is no longer whether a group like Opus Dei is religious or political
— it’s how long societies can endure when the two become indistinguishable.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotI feel a wee essay coming on on why #democracy and #liberalism are incompatible with one another.
I suspect it will irritate a lot of people, because, like the emperor's lack of clothes, this is not something we are supposed to notice.
@markhburton@mstdn.socialRichard Murphy, who previously advocated green growth, gets there in the end.
"The real challenge we face is not how to restart a growth engine that has already driven us to the edge of environmental collapse. It is how to redesign the economy so that the resources we already have are used to meet human and ecological needs.
Growth is not coming back — and nor should our democracy depend upon it."
@servelan@newsie.socialFive Ways Tuesday’s Results Will Affect Voting Rules and Democracy | Bolts
https://boltsmag.org/five-ways-2025-elections-affect-voting-rules-and-democracy/
@cdarwin@c.imThis is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
https://bsky.app/profile/indivisible.org/post/3m3iwjohoxc2e
@aral@mastodon.ar.alThe Authoritarian Stack.
This is brilliant – if you’re interested in human rights, democracy, and tech, and want to understand technofascism/corporatocracy bookmark and read this.👇
#AuthoritarianStack #tech
@relcfp@mastodon.social#CFP: United Lutheran Seminary to Host “A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy” Conference, February 27–28, 2026 #acrel #Religidons
@ErikJonker@mastodon.sociali wish all people going out on the streets tomorrow during #NoKings day good luck, you are protesting for freedom and democracy.
https://www.nokings.org/
@cdarwin@c.imCongress Works For You.
Here’s How to Be a Better Boss:
https://www.propublica.org/series/a-users-guide-to-democracy
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialSay NO to Trump's political control over UCLA's academic freedom.
Rally begins Nov 18, 12–2pm, 445 Charles E Young Dr, LA, CA
☑️ Academic Freedom Rally hosted by the UCLA Faculty Asdoc & UCLA-AFT · NELA Alliance for Democracy
https://www.mobilize.us/nelaalliancefordem
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caThe most beautiful democratic act happening right now in Canada is in Alberta, yes Alberta, where constituents are using the new - easier to reach - petitioning and recall rules enacted by the current UCP government to launch recall campaigns on UCP Members of the Legislature.
This is the 3rd one to be approved to move on to the signature-gathering stage!
*chefskiss*
#ABPoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Democracy
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/nolan-dyck-recall-petition-9.6988293?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
@servelan@newsie.socialJudge ‘Doubts the Lawfulness’ of Trump’s Voter Purge Database But Won’t Block It For Now - Democracy Docket
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/judge-doubts-the-lawfulness-of-trumps-voter-purge-database-but-wont-block-it-for-now/
@davidaugust@mastodon.online"The GOP is now brazenly lying about the breadth and popularity of the No Kings movement, and the fact that the millions who will turn out are Americans citizens and residents who oppose authoritarian, fascist policies and officials and want to save our democracy and the rule of law. They are scared, and we are getting to them."
@aral@mastodon.ar.al @cdarwin@c.im“If a fascist is merely someone who opposes democracy, then let me be clear: I oppose democracy — and have always opposed democracy,” Jason Lee Van Dyke wrote.
That was a part of a lengthy response I received after I’d emailed the North Texas lawyer to ask a few questions
because on Nov. 11, he filed paperwork to become a Republican candidate for the open Justice of the Peace, Precinct 1 seat in Wise County.
I wrote about Van Dyke for The Barbed Wireback in August, breaking …
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialThe US is not only no longer an ally of Europe, it is actively undermining democracy in Europe.
https://www.politico.eu/article/large-afd-delegation-set-travel-washington-us-congress-member-says/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump's Plan To Remain on His Throne (Marc Elias/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trumps-plan-to-remain-on-his-throne/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251020/p159#a251020p159
@aral@mastodon.ar.alMake no mistake, the only values the European Commission gives a single damn about are expressed in Euros and cents.
The guiding principle of the successor to the European Coal and Steel Community isn’t human rights, democracy, and the rule of law, it’s the Single Market.
How dare you even pretend to care when you are beyond silent in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, you despicable bunch of fancy-suited hypocrites.
@servelan@newsie.socialGregg Nunziata: "Why Conservatives Must Defend Liberal Democracy," at the NYU Democracy Project - Election Law Blog
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=153405
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDOJ Likely Pulled Photo of Trump from Released Epstein Files (Jacob Knutson/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/doj-remove-trump-photo-epstein-files-release/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251220/p45#a251220p45
@memeorandum@universeodon.comNorth Carolina Senate Approves Gerrymander Targeting Black Voters (Jen Rice/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/north-carolina-senate-approves-gerrymander-targeting-black-voters/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251021/p73#a251021p73
@cdarwin@c.imHave you heard?
The Montana Plan will make Citizens United irrelevant!
Read more about it and chip in today
>> https://transparent-elections.org
TEI
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe Situation: Democracy Dies in Both Sides-ism (Lawfare)
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-situation--democracy-dies-in-both-sides-ism
http://www.memeorandum.com/251014/p123#a251014p123
@cdarwin@c.imAmid deepening threats to pluralism and free expression, support for innovative civil society organizations that counter digital authoritarianism and build democratic infrastructure is key to carving out a freer future
https://bsky.app/profile/techpolicypress.bsky.so…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s efforts to disband programs that promote democracy abroad
and to downplay allegations of corruption and human rights abuses in other countries
took on an added dimension this week
when he appeared before Israel’s parliament and called for pardoning Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The request to dismiss corruption charges was the latest in a long line of actions reversing America’s long-standing posture as an exporter of democratic values.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/11/america-democracy-autocracy/684335/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK39aSMipcYjqT3FSdM6_hvGI&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251014/p63#a251014p63
@cdarwin@c.imDemocracy Now! speaks to William Hartung about his new book
“The Trillion Dollar War Machine”
and who profits from the United States’ runaway military spending that fuels foreign wars.
Hartung says that U.S. policy is “based on profit”
and calls for a rethinking of our foreign entanglements.
“We haven’t won a war in this century.
We’ve caused immense harm.
We’ve spent $8 trillion,” he says
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHarris thanks supporters for 'standing up for democracy' at annual DNC meeting (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/harris-thanks-supporters-standing-up-democracy-dnc-meeting.amp
http://www.memeorandum.com/251213/p21#a251213p21
@cdarwin@c.imThe president of the United States is invading multiple US cities and liberal strongholds, in troop deployments that are now the primary component of his vast, lawless, smash-and-grab efforts to shred the nation’s constitutional and democratic order, all in the service of his personality cult.
And his enthusiasm for doing so is partially, and meaningfully, fueled by how mad he gets while binge-watching hours and hours of TV, current and former Trump advisers tell Zeteo.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump Calls for Executing Democrats Over Message to Military (Matthew Kupfer/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-calls-for-executing-democrats-over-message-to-military/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251120/p67#a251120p67
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDOJ Chickens Out on Epstein Files Release in Violation of New Law (Jacob Knutson/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/justice-department-fail-epstein-files-deadline-blanche/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p76#a251219p76
@cdarwin@c.imObama:
"When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act,
that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m3436lfc7c2a
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTo Weaken Minority Voting Power, Republicans Push For Unprecedented Mid-Decade Census (Jim Saksa/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/to-weaken-minority-voting-power-republicans-push-for-unprecedented-mid-decade-census/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p109#a251119p109
@cdarwin@c.imThe Texas redistricting hearing started on Wednesday in El Paso.
Democracy Docket is covering it every day like it is the most important case for free and for elections in the country
-- because it is.
Legacy media is no where to be found.
Support the DD team to make it possible.
https://hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
@cdarwin@c.imThe mainstream media loves making it seam like dysfunction in Washington is coming from both parties.
Hello?
Much of the GOP no longer accepts the rule of law, or the norms of democracy, or the legitimacy of the opposing party.
Enough of the false equivalence.
https://bsky.app/profile/rbr…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comZelenskyy 'ready for elections' after Trump questions Ukrainian democracy (Shaun Walker/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/09/zelenskyy-ready-for-elections-after-trump-questions-ukrainian-democracy
http://www.memeorandum.com/251209/p152#a251209p152
@cdarwin@c.imWhile the US can protect security in Europe and deserves our undying gratitude for having done so for the last 80 years,
Europeans cannot protect democracy in the US.
They can and must, however, protect liberal democracy in Europe,
which risks becoming a collateral victim of Trump’s domestic and foreign policy agenda.
What happens in America doesn’t stay in America.
It is often a precursor for trends in Europe.
Just as the
@cdarwin@c.imMothers who are legal immigrants but have brown skin
are being arrested in school drop off lines .
James Comey and Letitia James were indicted after Trump installed his inexperienced personal attorney to prosecute his enemies.
Mike Johnson is calling the ‘No Kings’ protests a planned terrorist event supporting Hamas.
The outrageious actions are building and destroying the very soul of this nation.
We cannot look away.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comFlorida Lawmakers Schedule Launch for Mid-Decade GOP Gerrymander (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/florida-lawmakers-schedule-launch-for-mid-decade-gop-gerrymander/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251117/p156#a251117p156
@cdarwin@c.imIf the Supreme Court officially makes the chief executive a unitary executive,
the advancement of the public good may depend on little more than the whims of the president,
a state of affairs normally more characteristic of dictatorship than democracy.
https://
@memeorandum@universeodon.comGreta Thunberg Describes Israeli Guards' Torture of Gaza Aid Flotilla Activists (Democracy Now)
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/16/headlines/greta_thunberg_describes_israeli_guards_torture_of_gaza_aid_flotilla_activists
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p106#a251016p106
@memeorandum@universeodon.comNorth Carolina Elections Chief Demands Voters' Full Social Security Numbers From DMV (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/north-carolina-elections-chief-demands-voters-full-social-security-numbers-from-dmv/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p148#a251016p148
@memeorandum@universeodon.comMissouri Republicans Sue to Block 'People's Veto' of GOP Gerrymander (Jen Rice/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/missouri-republicans-sue-to-block-peoples-veto-of-gop-gerrymander/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251015/p143#a251015p143
