@Europablog@mastodon.social2025-12-20 09:14:11
Guinea returns to the path of democracy. By Jürgen Klute.
#Guinea
@Europablog@mastodon.social2025-12-20 09:14:11
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-20 17:20:43
Trump's Attack on Democracy Is Faltering (Quinta Jurecic/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/american-democracy-signs-life/685678/?gift=mTq34Ny-ZVr996jdTJS9ThMkDXmwXvrSUQTDHU2TaTY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p67#a260120p67
@juer@juergenklute@digitalcourage.social2025-12-20 09:22:41
Guinea returns to the path of democracy. By Jürgen Klute.
https://europa.blog/en/guinea-returns-to-the-path-of-democracy/
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-20 06:55:21
The seeds of the January 6, 2021, insurrection can be traced back to the early 1900s,
when industrialists concerned with the erosion of their wealth and power
attempted to control the currency and restrict government spending.
Later these forces, in alignment with America Firsters,
aggrieved veterans,
and antisemitic splinter groups that mirrored various features of European fascism,
including white supremacists,
rallied to oppose Roosevelt and the …
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-01-19 02:13:33
Maybe the red line for you is deploying •active duty military• to Minnesota, and not just National Guard. They did that in LA with marines — briefly, just a little, just in the background, little or no confrontation — and that too got smacked down hard.
That one’s a pretty bright red line. Domestic deployment of the military is in fact the origin of the phrase “crossing the Rubicon:” when Julius Caesar led troops across the Rubicon river, leading the troops to invade his own country, that marked the beginning of civil war in Rome, and a death knell for democracy.
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@yaxu@post.lurk.org2026-01-19 12:08:28
Content warning: Sheffield
If you live in or visit Sheffield and have been impacted by the excessive use of amplifiers on the moor by preachers etc, please sign and share this petition! #sheffield
https://
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-20 20:05:37
Trump Exhaustion Syndrome (Ashley Parker/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/trump-first-year-democracy/685658/?gift=c_badRqhhaNnVNIbhIguYyfAN5rKnDXToAAOqzEVoCM
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p87#a260120p87
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to2026-01-19 07:43:21
"Where will the von Neumanns, the Einsteins, and the Gödels of our age migrate after the SCOTUS overrules democracy in 2024 and Gödel’s Loophole is proven to exist? At this time, the two major powers of our time, the United States and China seem unlikely locations for brains to settle and grow in the long term."
(Inadvertently and ironically published on July 4th, 2022)
@timbray@cosocial.ca2025-12-16 07:18:14
Brutal.
Aristotle on Democracy - Existential Comics
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/633
@curiouscat@fosstodon.org2026-01-16 19:01:46
pro-democracy grades to the media by Mark Jacobs. I am far from an expert but the complete failure of many outlets is obvious https://www.stopthepresses.news/p/im-handing-out-pro-democracy-grades
The Guardian: A
ProPublica: A
I have long found thes…
@servelan@newsie.social2026-02-15 00:52:23
Bangladesh's Tarique Rahman pledges to work for democracy after landslide victory in election | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/bangladeshs-tarique-rahman-pledges-to-work-for-democracy-after-landslide-victory-in-election/
@tokensane@mastodon.me.uk2026-01-17 08:50:56
From email:
> Parliament is going to debate the petition you signed – “Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy”.
> https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/744215
> The debate is scheduled for 9 February 2026.
@relcfp@mastodon.social2026-01-17 07:09:50
Call for Papers: “A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy” Conference, February 27–28, 2026 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20137830/call-papers-vision-liberating-our-democracy-conference-february-27-28
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-20 18:02:33
Have you heard?
The Montana Plan will make Citizens United irrelevant!
Read more about it and chip in today
>> https://transparent-elections.org
TEI
@kctipton@mas.to2026-01-14 19:35:20
Opinion: The events of 2025 exposed the enemy within our own borders - El Paso Matters https://elpasomatters.org/2025/12/29/opinion-2025-america-democracy-moral-collapse/
@lapizistik@social.tchncs.de2026-01-18 11:37:59
Wenn man den Nordatlantikvertrag¹ (aka NATO) so liest, wird schnell klar, daß angefangen von Artikel 1 ganz vieles darin Trump nicht gefallen kann – und vor allem aber nicht nur die USA sich nie wirklich daran gehalten haben…
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¹https://www.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-12-16 09:40:24
Sadly, the whole rest of the world also gets what you voted for.
Yay, democracy! @… https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/115726775853906216
@StephenRees@mas.to2026-02-18 00:31:51
Meta has been blocking news content over the last few years in response to the Online News Act.
That poses a few problems for PressProgress – not only does it mean our journalism is no longer available to millions of Canadians on Facebook, but it also means we can't share information about a lawsuit that could have big implications for journalism and democracy in Canada.
PressProgress, along with CBC News and the Toronto Star, are at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsui…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-01-18 23:17:10
Content warning: ICE & resistance
In case anyone was wondering about the relevance of #LandBack in the current moment, via CrimeThinc an article on the Minneapolis resistance states:
"""
The Whipple, a federal building in Fort Snelling on the outskirts of the Minneapolis and St. Paul, has long been a regional headquarters for ICE, having previously housed other federal agencies. The complex is located across the street from a National Guard base, down the road from a military base, and next to the preserved fort itself. The fort sits on the sacred site of the convergence of two rivers. It was one of the earliest sites of colonization in the area; at one time, it was a concentration camp holding native Dakota people.
"""
If at any point in the past you ever felt that maybe Native soverignty was a niche issue, or so far from being realized that other causes were more important or relevant, things like this are a good reminder that that cause: overturning the colonial order, is the *same* cause as any meaningful change from the fascist status quo. Things like a "return to democracy" aren't necessarily bad, but the rot runs to the root of this nation, and any intervention that doesn't go that deep is going to leave us right back in this situation again later on.
The fact that ICE is detaining Native Americans is not at all a mistake given their white supremacist aims.
Article link: #ICE #LandBack
@rmdes@mstdn.social2026-02-04 21:04:02
How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post https://rmendes.net/content/bookmarks/2026-02-04-democracy-and-foreign-correspondents-die-in-darkness
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-02-14 14:21:02
Each week, Metacurity is proud to offer our free and premium subscribers a digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--Thai citizens are trafficked to unlock bank accounts with facial ID,
--Texas police deploy AI surveillance with little transparency,
--Bot swarms threaten democracy,
--Digital age checks erode privacy, security, and free speech,
-…
@markhburton@mstdn.social2026-01-17 20:27:47
"Under the banner of democracy, freedom and human rights, the United States has thereby extended its domination over large swathes of the world, presenting itself as a benevolent benefactor rather than a domineering despot. It has, in this way, perfected the use of empire denial as the best cover for the construction of its imperium."
Gabriel Rockill
True, but the current regime is taking the huge risk of ending that pretence. Let's hope that heralds its fall.
@hippyjo@c.im2026-01-18 19:55:50
Ukraine update: Russia massing white phosphorus and thermobaric bombs as politicians distract the masses with chatter about peace.
Giorgio and Alla are heroes who risk their lives in Ukraine, reporting from the trenches of Democracy where US media never goes.
Support Ukraine, support journalism, support decency and truth, by sharing the friend link to bypass the paywall:
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-20 20:31:03
DOJ 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
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-01-17 10:50:49
"There is no serious question that if #Trump so ordered it, Microsoft could deliberately shut down all services to the Scottish Government and our public sector and the Government must now react as if this is just as much a risk to our democracy as if it was discovered that Putin could send the same order to the same effect" -- @…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-02-04 10:50:53
Substack-based investigative outlet Democracy for Sale says it now has nearly 50,000 subscribers and 1,500 paying readers; its stories had 3M views in 2025 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/newsletters
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-02-17 14:47:43
But it's worth recognizing the most brutal elements of church violence were directed at "others": Jews, pagans, Muslims, even other sects of Christianity. The Church's persecution of "heretics" neatly folded into the state, as the diest god of "Providence," represented by the "all seeing eye" atop a pyramid, ultimately justified a violent "civilization" of indigenous people.
The "Christianization" of the crusades became "civilization,' which, more recently, became "spreading democracy." Where once Atheists resisted the crushing oppression of the Church, they used the same arguments to justify the invasion of majority Muslim nations and the oppression of Muslims at home...
@UP8@mastodon.social2026-01-02 00:54:13
😅 New research finds Americans deeply concerned about US democracy
#usa
@relcfp@mastodon.social2026-01-17 06:09:28
Call for Papers: “A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy” Conference, February 27–28, 2026 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20137830/call-papers-vision-liberating-our-democracy-conference-february-27-28
@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social2026-02-09 18:29:53
Three solutions to secure Europe’s digital sovereignty
1. Eurostack: building an independent European tech stack
2. Homegrown European social networks
3. Strong enforcement of Europe’s digital laws
https://www.techpolicy.press/europe-cant-de…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-02-19 17:10:57
Susan Collins hands Trump the 50th vote against free and fair elections (Marc Elias/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/susan-collins-hands-trump-the-50th-vote-against-free-and-fair-elections/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260219/p50#a260219p50
@mapto@qoto.org2025-12-17 06:45:30
"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…
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2026-02-05 16:19:07
@fremandolasse@mastodon.social2026-02-15 08:57:13
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2026-01-19 16:56:06
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-19 20:26:04
DOJ 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
@chiraag@mastodon.online2026-02-15 07:36:38
@newsie@darktundra.xyz2026-02-06 18:41:23
@relcfp@mastodon.social2026-01-17 19:55:14
Call for Papers: “A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy” Conference, February 27–28, 2026 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20137830/call-papers-vision-liberating-our-democracy-conference-february-27-28
@qbi@freie-re.de2026-01-14 09:36:34
Folgeempfehlung:
@…
Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy of the @…
@thijs_lucas@norden.social2026-01-14 10:22:12
Hello @…, Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy of the European Commission, welcome to the Fediverse.
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-01-25 13:45:27
Important blog about a threat few people understand.
"AI bot swarms threaten to undermine democracy. When AI Can Fake Majorities, Democracy Slips Away""
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/ai-bot-swarms-threaten-to-undermine
Underlying …
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2026-01-06 07:02:09
"Does Trump only want oil from Venezuela, or is he also concerned about democracy there?", asks @….
Oh come on, Trouw, that's rather the extreme end of naivety. Trump championing democracy 🤦♀️🤦🤦♂️. He'd be laughing all the way to the bank if he heard that.
@hippyjo@c.im2025-12-18 18:15:32
Ukraine update: Russia losing on all fronts except for the information war.
Now, more than ever, we need to fight the lies with careful questions and clear analysis.
Useful idiots for the Kremlin are all around us. It matters not whether the idiot is aware of how they serve the Kremlin, the result is the same.
Giorgio reports from the trenches of democracy in Ukraine. He provides video, images, and written reporting from the scene so you can see the truth.
Support Uk…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-02-19 15:25:57
New York appellate court allows redraw of congressional map to move forward (Matthew Kupfer/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/new-york-appellate-court-allows-redraw-of-congressional-map-to-move-forward/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260219/p32#a260219p32
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-08 05:42:48
“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 …
@bici@mastodon.social2026-02-04 03:00:49
"American democracy is too weak and fragile "
Just MULL over those words.
Sure doesn't square with all the hubris of The concept of America as a "shining city on a hill" — a beacon of hope, #democracy, and freedom— does it.
Wake up #America you are hea…
@servelan@newsie.social2026-02-10 19:42:47
Mass layoffs at Washington Post: Dimming democracy's light
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/5729864-democracy-dies-in-darkness/
@lpryszcz@genomic.social2026-02-15 20:44:35
If historians object that Trump is not a copy of Mussolini or Hitler or Franco, the reply is yes—but so what? Trump is building something new on old principles. He is showing us in real time what 21st-century American fascism looks like.
...
Americans who support liberal democracy need to recognize what we’re dealing with in order to cope with it, and to recognize something, one must name it. Trump has revealed himself, and we must name what we see.
@grumpybozo@toad.social2025-12-14 23:37:09
Leon Panetta on New Yorker Radio Hour: asked to express his greatest worry explicitly given his broader and deeper knowledge of foreign affairs, he names the dysfunction of American Democracy.
That’s after having mentioned all the external crises we currently face overseas. He made the excellent point that our inability to handle our own business (e.g. immigration, health care, taxation) in a responsible way threatens our global credibility & security.
(He’s right)
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2025-12-12 22:57:22
I 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.
@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie2025-12-11 17:39:57
New Mini-Gist: Power’s Walled Cities
A Democracy where politicians are in constant office, but do not respond to citizens’ wishes (or even just their own voters’ interests) but just advance the policies that suit monied lobbies is a disaffection machine.
https://www.thegist.ie/mini-gist-powers-wa
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-02-18 21:55:55
How one country stopped a Trump-style authoritarian in his tracks (Zack Beauchamp/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/politics/479290/brazil-democracy-trump-bolsonaro-multiparty
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p98#a260218p98
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-01-11 05:53:57
“‘Fascism thrives on indifference and ignorance,’ it warned. Freedom requires ‘being alert and on guard against the infringement not only of our own freedom but the freedom of every American. If we permit discrimination, prejudice, or hate to rob anyone of his democratic rights, our own freedom and all democracy is threatened.’”
https://
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social2026-02-03 09:17:51
➡️ Isn't it about time people start paying a little more attention to George Monbiot?
He is on the side of 🌱 survival, and if we don't start paying attention to his analysis of our time now, future historians (if our civilisation survives at all) will wonder why he was not listened to more.
As voters, we must hurry and elect as many people as possible who think like Monbiot, or
👋🏼 goodbye democracy, goodbye environment.
@cdonat@hostsharing.coop2026-01-15 17:52:56
Trump and Iran: TACO TACO TACO!
Twenty thousand deaths aren't enough to intervene. Let them kill all those pesky democracy-lovers first. Then Iranian fascists, and US-fascists can finally make "peace".
Not that I actually expected Trump to do anything useful by accident. Yet he again has betrayed everyone, who hoped for his support. Another data point, a terrible, and bloody one.
#Trump
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-02-10 03:54:35
This is exactly the groundwork we need to be laying right now, and I’m delighted to hear it coming from a US Senator (!):
If Trump tries to prevent a fair election from happening, then we need “a true national strike in the sense that, if they do this, if they try to overthrow our democracy, if you are allied with democracy, do not go to work . If you’re a pilot, do not show up. If you drive a train, do not show up. If you’re a teacher, do not show up. We grind the country to a halt.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/06/donald-trump-voting-midterms-democrat-national-strike
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@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-12-15 03:05:34
Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai is found guilty of colluding with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiring to publish seditious articles (Kanis Leung/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/hong-kong-jimmy-lai-ve…
@relcfp@mastodon.social2026-01-19 06:10:29
Call for Papers: “A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy” Conference, February 27–28, 2026
https://ift.tt/zXyn63t
CFP: [FRISTVERLÄNGERUNG] Variations 28/2021: Gender through technology (25.09.2021) Call…
via Input 4 RELCFP
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-12-04 17:55:33
@servelan@newsie.social2026-02-09 04:04:47
Hong Kong media baron and pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years in prison
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/09/hong-kong-media-tycoon-democracy-activist-jimmy-lai-sentenced-imprisonment.html
@mapto@qoto.org2025-11-27 05:56:39
Quite 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
@hippyjo@c.im2026-01-17 19:18:37
It terrifies me to confront how monstrously selfish and stupid people can be.
Giorgio is a hero who reports from the trenches of democracy in Ukraine. He risks his life to bring the receipts of what is really happening in Ukraine.
If you don't like to read, he also makes a lot of videos.
Please support Ukraine and give the world a glimpse of the truth by sharing the friend link that bypasses the paywall:
@timbray@cosocial.ca2026-02-02 17:45:31
Optimism about US democracy, with sports metaphors and statics nerdery: https://open.substack.com/pub/natesilver/p/dont-discount-american-democracys?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-16 17:23:57
Trump Admin Planning to Spend Over $38 Billion to Buy Warehouses and Convert Them into ICE Jails
https://bsky.app/profile/democracynow.org/post/3meyknueukp25
@StephenRees@mas.to2026-01-30 18:07:42
From Evidence for Democracy
On 28 January 2025, Commissioner Marie-Josee Hogue held a press conference on the Foreign Interference Commission’s final report, where she identified misinformation as the single greatest existential threat to Canadian democracy. Our research team at Evidence for Democracy carried out a broad review of the state of misinformation in Canada, and what we can do to rebuild public trust in Canada’s democracy.
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-01-12 07:10:47
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-11-24 18:16:38
🏙️ Mamdani Can Learn From Latin American Municipal Socialism
#politics
@hippyjo@c.im2025-12-17 18:22:57
News from the front lines in Ukraine:
Russian desperation in Ukraine is directly relational to Trump's ridiculous demands and attempts.
As Russian cruelty and bombings increase, the need to fight the lies and sabotage of the Kremlin grows more desperate.
Giorgio is a hero who reports from the trenches of democracy in Ukraine. He shares the friend link so the world can get a glimpse of the truth, through the murky fog of war.
Please support Ukraine, and journalism,…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-07 14:18:56
Democracy experts believe there is no longer any doubt about Trump’s desire to interfere with this fall’s elections.
“We should not be waiting for the next shoe to drop,”
said Wendy Weiser, vice-president for democracy at the Brennan Center for Justice.
🆘“There is a full-blown effort to seize control of some of the mechanisms of our elections and to lay the foundation for interfering in upcoming elections.”
The president has no power over federal elections,
and …
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-13 15:46:07
Harris 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
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-12-10 20:40:15
I don’t know if this is a sick burn (by a FOSDEM organiser spilling the truth about FOSDEM) or an own goal.
🤷♂️ https://pleroma.debian.social/objects/f49df30a-d65e-4195-833d-29b7481b3aba
@servelan@newsie.social2025-12-08 17:36:29
Gregg Nunziata: "Why Conservatives Must Defend Liberal Democracy," at the NYU Democracy Project - Election Law Blog
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=153405
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-02-12 19:25:39
It strikes me that #ICE is the clearest possible illustration of the importance of the principle of the separation of powers in a democracy.
The executive should not be empowered to directly control any agency which is capable of exercising deadly coercive force against citizens.
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-02-10 03:56:09
This part is especially important (emphasis added):
“If we have to destroy the stock market to save democracy, we need to accept that and, more importantly, •••the richest and the most powerful people in the world and in this country need to understand that that is a real possibility.••• There is no economic stability without democratic stability. If you take away our democratic stability, we will take away the economic stability.”
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@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-09 16:28:09
A dysfunctional United States government is fertile ground for an authoritarian takeover
But instead of addressing needed changes to address the dysfunction, opinion writers too often choose to focus instead on merely how democratic principles are being sabotaged and by whom.
Until the causes of government failure to live up to democratic principles are actually addressed,
the trend towards more authoritarian rule will continue
regardless of complaints in the media,…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-17 02:36:13
DOJ sues Virginia for access to voter rolls, as courts reject effort in other states (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/doj-sues-virginia-for-access-to-voter-rolls/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p146#a260116p146
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-01-10 18:43:36
RE: #ireland
@hippyjo@c.im2025-12-16 19:28:54
Ukrainian update: Trump does not speak for Ukrainian people, and he is in fact, a conniving thief and murderous war criminal.
As the news of Ukraine is dominated by Russian spokesmen Witkoff and Kushner, it is refreshing to have a perspective not steeped in greed, cruelty, and deceit.
Giorgio reports from the trenches of democracy, on the ground in Ukraine.
He shares the friend link to bypass the paywall, and give truth a fighting chance of being discovered by those who ca…
@servelan@newsie.social2026-02-14 08:17:29
So, this could be the common thread: "In the extensive correspondence between the Silicon Valley venture capitalist and the late pedophile, both men expressed a deep aversion to democracy."
What Peter Thiel Saw in Jeffrey Epstein | The Nation
https://archive.ph/febt9#selection-743.0-743.150
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-15 02:55:55
🏆On the first night of Hanukkah, we celebrate Election Day
Democrats swept in key contests from Virginia to Georgia to New Jersey.
The success proved that voters like YOU turned out to fight for democracy and oppose Trump's authoritarian regime.
https://www.
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-10 04:20:51
Zelenskyy '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
@relcfp@mastodon.social2026-01-17 06:10:29
Call for Papers: “A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy” Conference, February 27–28, 2026
https://ift.tt/fzUI8Ci
CFP: [FRISTVERLÄNGERUNG] Variations 28/2021: Gender through technology (25.09.2021) Call…
via Input 4 RELCFP
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-13 05:01:06
Here's what the doctor ordered https://mstdn.social/@mcnado/115709466867787148
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-02-08 15:55:38
Democracy Dies in Broad Daylight (David Remnick/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/newsletter/the-daily/democracy-dies-in-broad-daylight
http://www.memeorandum.com/260208/p20#a260208p20
@servelan@newsie.social2026-02-12 20:25:54
Whiskey Pete lost a round.
‘Horsefeathers!’: Judge blasts Hegseth’s attempt to demote Sen. Kelly over video to U.S. troops - Democracy Docket
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/judge-blasts-hegseth-demotion-effort-senator-mark-kelly-unlawful-orders-video/
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-16 01:25:44
Trump Admin Intensifies Military Probe Against Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, Launches Command Investigation (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-admin-intensifies-military-probe-against-democratic-sen-mark-kelly-launches-command-investigation/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p123#a251215p123
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-15 00:12:25
Welcome to the Resistance:
Eric Blanc, Leah Greenberg, and Waleed Shahid
on the liberal resistance’s sharp left turn since Trump returned to the White House.
Liberals are voting for Zohran at the ballot box,
fighting ICE in the streets,
and just generally looking favorably upon social democracy.
This discussion puts the moment in historic context and plots out the strategic exigencies and opportunities ahead.
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-16 02:41:02
California GOP appeals their redistricting loss to Supreme Court in last-ditch bid to block voter-approved map (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/gop-appeals-their-california-redistricting-loss-to-supreme-court/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p152#a260115p152
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-02-08 15:10:37
As goes the Washington Post: US democracy takes another hit under Trump (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/feb/08/washington-post-layoffs-democracy-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/260208/p15#a260208p15
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-23 02:35:28
We 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.im2026-01-13 07:08:15
Federal immigration agents detained an employee of the New York City council on Monday,
sparking outrage from the city’s leaders and renewed rebukes against the Trump administration’s immigration actions.
“This is an assault on our democracy, on our city, and our values,”
Mayor Zohran Mamdanisaid in a statement on X.
“I am calling for his immediate release and will continue to monitor the situation.”
The employee was taken in during a “routine immigration appointm…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-15 14:10:56
The Minneapolis Crucible -- Will we forge democracy anew? (Paul Krugman)
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-minneapolis-crucible
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p38#a260115p38
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-05 21:43:54
Approaching the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol,
the official plaque honoring the police who defended democracy that day is nowhere to be found.
It’s not on display at the Capitol
-- as is required by law.
Its whereabouts aren’t publicly known, though it’s believed to be in storage.
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-02-05 12:36:01
Machado exclusive: A date for democracy? (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2026/02/05/machado-exclusive-a-date-for-democracy-00766683
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p12#a260205p12
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-13 17:46:54
Democratic lawmakers repeatedly called on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to resign
as they confronted her on Trump’s immigration crackdown during a heated House Homeland Security Committee hearing Thursday.
Congressmember Delia Ramirez, announced that she would begin taking steps for her impeachment.
The Department of Homeland Securityis “operating as a criminal organization” under Noem’s leadership, Ramirez tells Democracy Now!
“She thinks that she is above…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-22 04:04:55
The 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
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-02-04 04:15:53
This is what democracy looks like -- There is an uncountable number of repositories of power all across the United States. (pbump)
https://www.pbump.net/o/this-is-what-democracy-looks-like/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p145#a260203p145
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-02-12 22:51:02
Election denier involved in fake electors plot wrote much of SAVE America Act, Trump-aligned think tank claims (Jim Saksa/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/election-denier-involved-in-fake-electors-plot-wrote-much-of-save-america-act-trump-aligned-think-tank-claims/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260212/p107#a260212p107
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-05 17:55:59
A New Roosevelt Institute Report Confronts the Roots of Our Media Crisis--and Calls for Breaking Up Corporate Media (The Nation)
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/journalism-democracy-corporate-media-press/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p66#a251205p66