@Techmeme@techhub.socialSurveillance tools exported by China, based on US tech and obtained by Chinese companies, to countries like Nepal are being used to stifle Tibetan refugees (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/china-tibet-nepal-sur…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHelp Us Stand Up to Authoritarianism: Become a Paid Subscriber This Holiday Season (Shikha Dalmia/The UnPopulist)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/help-us-stand-up-to-authoritarianism
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p96#a251217p96
@Dragofix@veganism.socialNo Blood for Oil: Demand a Fossil-Free Future! #environment
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeHappy Saturday morning! Each week, Metacurity offers our free and paid subscribers a run-down of the top infosec-related long reads we couldn't get to in the daily crush of news.
This week's selection includes pieces that touch on
--Estonia served as the first target of Russian cyberattacks,
--Inside a sprawling scam compound in Myanmar,
--How to protest safely amid massive surveillance,
--Silicon Valley is now the tech handmaiden of US authoritarianism,…
@cdarwin@c.imThe effort to create authoritarianism is more likely to lead to a breakup of the state than to a total regime change.
This end of the United States is possible, in part,
because our president and vice-president think that it is impossible.
Because they are inside a grift bubble, they push for authoritarianism in their own interest,
without reckoning with the possibility that their actions can wreck the country.
For them, America is a limitless passive resource…
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.socialFASPE and the Center for Public Theology/Public Policy at YDS recently hosted a day-long clergy symposium on Public Theology in a Time of Authoritarianism. Videos of the main sessions now available, including this recording of Session 4! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fURT5QnOt4
@mapto@qoto.org"The Peters case represents an especially clear example of what I’ve come to see as the defining style of the second Trump administration: an incompetent form of authoritarianism that can best be described as “haphazardism.”
Haphazardism is authoritarianism without vision, a governing style defined by a series of individual attacks on democracy without any kind of overarching logic, strategic structure, or clear end state in mind. These attacks can do (and indeed have done) real d…
@islamoyankee@mastodon.socialEvent: Religious Resistance to Authoritarianism Conference
Religious Resistance to Authoritarianism Conference
On December 4, the Interfaith Center of New York, Union Theological Seminary, The Riverside Church, The Beacon, and the Interfaith Alliance will convene diverse religious leaders, civic officials, community activists, and concerned N
@UP8@mastodon.social💔 Pining for Pinochet: How crime fanned nostalgia for Chile’s dictator
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/04/world/politics/pinochet-crime-nostalgia-chile/
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioSomewhere between pacifism that is just passivism and starting a pyrrhic hot war that only entrenches authoritarianism, there’s some kind of jiu jitsu here that is active and forceful resistance, but uses the regime’s own force against them.
I do not pretend to know what exactly that is. I do believe that a diversity of tactics is important — and that we’re all going to have to accept the work of holding ourselves together as a resistance even as people choose very different tactics we’re not comfortable with ourselves.
@scott@carfree.cityI'd been meaning to switch off T-Mobile for years because of their dead zone in the Mission but never got around to it. This boycott that begins this weekend is pushing me to finally do it
https://tmobileboycott.org/
@islamoyankee@mastodon.socialEvent: Religious Resistance to Authoritarianism Conference
Religious Resistance to Authoritarianism Conference On December 4, the Interfaith Center of New York, Union Theological Seminary, The Riverside Church, The Beacon, and the Interfaith Alliance will convene diverse religious leaders, civic officials, community activists, and concerned New Yorkers to explore past and present examples of faith community resistance to authoritarian rule. We will learn from the…
@markhburton@mstdn.social
@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
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social"Hope is a Thing With Calloused Hands." Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove of the Center for Public Theology/Public Policy at YDS interviews religion author and sociologist Robert P. Jones on the "Advent in a Time of Authoritarianism" series. https://ourmoralmoment.substack.com/p/
@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialI'm sure the Felon-in-Chief, Lord Donald the Convicted, is hard at work on his continuing series of conspiracy fantasy short stories after last night's election results.
#resist #authoritarianism #fascism
@benb@osintua.eu‘A cult of death’ — Former Soviet dissident on Russia and authoritarianism's global rise: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/02/a-cult-of-death-former.html
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaThis reminds me of how truth is just whatever monster people decide to follow.
#Fascism #Nazis #Authoritarianism
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.socialImportant clergy symposium hosted by FASPE and the Center for Public Theology & Public Policy. November 10 at YDS. https://www.theologyandpolicy.yale.edu/blog/public-theology-in-a-time-of-authoritarianism-a-clergy-symposium
@aral@mastodon.ar.al
@hex@kolektiva.socialThere tends to be this implicit assumption that only the state can provide services to the people. It's endemic to liberals. If authoritarians seize power, the thinking goes, there's nothing we can do.
But we have ample examples of the opposite. Trumpism is a specific type of authoritarianism where the state withdraws to allow corporations to control most things. They get a degree of autonomy and, in exchange, bow to the sovereign.
This is common in South American dictatorships (often those backed and supported by the US). So it can be helpful to look to these as examples of how to deal with that type of regime.
#USPol
@cdarwin@c.imIn the wake of President Trump’s return to the White House,
independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders spent months crisscrossing the nation rallying huge crowds in red and blue states during his Fighting Oligarchy tour.
His new book,
“Fight Oligarchy,” is an extension of those rallies and also serves as a blueprint for how everyday Americans can push back against the deep-pocketed forces shaping politics today.
But at 84 years old, the two-time presidential candidate …
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioMAGA / Jim Crow / KKK is evil racists scratching their evil racist itches, but it’s not •just• that. It’s authoritarianism. Not even a slippery slope or “opening the door to….” It just is.
There isn’t just a line from white supremacy to dictatorship. They’re the same picture.
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@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.socialRead our new story by Timothy Cahill '16 M.A.R. on the recent clergy symposium co-hosted by the Center for Public Theology & Public Policy at YDS, exploring ethical possibilities of religion and faith amid rising #Authoritarianism.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioMAGA is a fragile, already-teetering coalition that — even more than usual in US politics! — is run by, paid for by, and kept alive by a very, very few ultra-wealthy people. Yes, racism and fascistic thinking are rampant, but the forces that organize them into a coherent movement are forces of concentrated wealth.
I don’t think we even have to completely unravel the entirety of US political-economic imperialism to unravel this authoritarian slide. We just have to make authoritarianism in the US look unprofitable.
There’s plenty of good work for all of us there, inside and outside the US.
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.socialLast month, FASPE and the Center for Public Theology/Public Policy at YDS hosted a day-long clergy symposium on Public Theology in a Time of Authoritarianism. Videos of the main sessions now available, including this recording of Session 3 https://youtu.be/WgmfW4caDbM?si=g9gVe9G-ihSU6ryt
@memeorandum@universeodon.comSenator Merkley Rings 'the Alarm Bells' on Authoritarianism in Nearly 23-Hour Speech (Carl Hulse/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/us/politics/senator-merkley-speech-trump.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251023/p4#a251023p4
@cdarwin@c.imA Liberty Van camera crew caught video of Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino blatantly violating a court order during a confrontation with Chicago protestors last week.
Watch the video.
Share it far and wide.
Help us pour more resources into capturing moments of authoritarianism like this in Chicago, LA, and other cities across the country.
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@cdarwin@c.imOn 4 March, Donald Trump delivered his epic 100-minute speech to Congress, the longest such presidential address in US history.
Having finished speaking, in time-honored fashion, he walked down the line of supreme court justices, gladhanding each in turn before coming to a stop before the chief justice, #John #Roberts
@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.”
@cdarwin@c.imTech journalist Gil Duran outlines a disturbing theory
that a growing number of Silicon Valley elites are pursuing a vision of power
not rooted in the common good,
but in profit, feudal hierarchy, and total control of the platforms that define daily life for hundreds of millions of people.
Duran dubs this emerging ideology the “Nerd Reich”
— a slurry of right-wing ideas championed by ruthless tech overlords like
Palantir founder Peter Thiel,
Tesla an…
@cdarwin@c.imAmong those who joined Jeff Merkly
on the Senate floor was
Cory Booker, who said:
“We are seeing a time now that if we do not ring the alarm bells,
more and more Americans will be hurt by a president
who is acting more like an authoritarian leader than a democratically elected executive.”
Connecticut’s Richard Blumenthal likened Trump’s partial demolition of the White House East Wing
to layoffs and funding cuts he has ordered across the government.
