@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2025-11-15 12:25:25
The 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/
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2025-11-15 12:25:25
@Ruhrnalist@mastodon.social2025-11-16 21:36:52
Diese 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.
@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…
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2025-11-14 17:12:20
"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.social2025-11-14 17:12:20
"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!
@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.
@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)
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-11-12 21:12:58
👎🏿 Americans Are Mostly United Against 𝐶𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑛𝑠 𝑈𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑑
#politics
@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…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-11-13 09:15:29
Democracy dies behind closed doors...
https://mastodon.social/@chatcontrol/115539210365913782
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2026-01-10 22:52:13
When the working class organizes on the basis of solidarity and direct action, workers and communities can collectively manage and control the means of production, while federations of workers and local communities coordinate production and social life through mutual aid and federalist principles, without bosses or the state.
In an era marked by automation, precarity, and deepening inequality, the struggle for workers’ self-management, economic democracy, and social liberation remains …
@degrowthuk@mstdn.social2025-11-12 13:52:32
Degrowth, fears and euphemisms
Reflections beyond growth: Degrowth, fears and euphemisms Álex López translated by Mark Burton In the series Prospects for Degrowth Republished from revista 15/15\15 Reflecting on the Beyond Growth Conference. Madrid, 2025 The Beyond Growth Conference document offers us a promising future: less production, less consumption... but, curiously, more public services, more rights, more democracy, more of everything good and none of the bad.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-13 05:01:06
Here's what the doctor ordered https://mstdn.social/@mcnado/115709466867787148
@david_colquhoun@mstdn.social2025-11-10 23:25:11
Welcome To Gilead—The Creeping Threat Of Christian Nationalism
https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/christian-nationalism-threat-democracy-freedom
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-10 12:50:52
Q&A with Palantir CEO Alex Karp on "the woke left and the woke right", being patriotic, the Ukraine war, Palantir's culture, Trump, democracy, Israel, and more (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/alex-karp-goes-to-war-palantir-big-inter…
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2026-01-11 23:01:48
I want to remind everyone of the Montana Plan - a viable approach to diminish the force of the Citizens United decision.
I myself have written about the power of each separate State to regulate corporations operating under the laws of that state - especially those corporations created under the laws of that state. This means that each state has the power and authority to regulate and restrict how corporations created under that state's laws spend money, and for what purpose.
@relcfp@mastodon.social2026-01-13 16:20:34
@paulwermer@sfba.social2025-11-14 17:12:20
"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!
@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
@boris@cosocial.ca2025-11-08 17:30:38
In Canada, the CBC might be the kind of entity to help run / coordinate “public service social media” as described in this Tech Policy Press article https://www.techpolicy.press/public-service-social-media-as-a-democratic-safeguard/
With interop…
@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
@daniel@social.telemetrydeck.com2026-01-10 13:31:36
Prüf Prüf prüf
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-01-12 07:10:47
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2025-11-04 18:39:48
If voting didn't matter they wouldn't try so hard to stop us from doing it. Go vote.
And after you've done your civic duty, don't forget to also sabotage the gears of capitalism/fascism.
https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/115491654406302339
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-11-05 15:45:09
MINORITIES NON-CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS REJECTION OF GREED ADVOCACY OF THE SOCIETAL WHOLE TRUE DEMOCRACY OMG WHAT ARE WE TO DO
#ReleasetheEpsteinfiles
✅ MAGA Melts Down Over Mamdani’s Mayoral Victory: “New York City Has Fallen” | Vanity Fair
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2026-01-10 18:33:11
RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115872225181248523
Syndicalists want economic democracy and federalism to replace the prevailing institutions of capitalism and nation-states.
Caught in a single phrase, that means federations of local c…
@kingconsult@berlin.social2026-01-14 11:24:28
🙌 We are delighted to welcome Henna Virkkunen, Executive Vice-President for Tech #Sovereignty, #Security & #Democracy of the 🇪🇺 @… on the #Fediverse!
👉 @…
Our concern: In addition to regulating #X & Co., democracy needs tangible investment in digitally sovereign communication infrastructure.
The Fediverse is the only decentralised, independent #SocialMedia network with the greatest potential for innovation, competition and democracy!
#NeuHier #FollowFriday #OpenSource
@leftsidestory@mstdn.social2025-10-26 00:30:00
Moody Urbanity - Metro Consistency 📌
情绪化城市 - 都市质地 📌
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Orwo Wolfen P400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-10-29 08:46:56
Richard 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."
@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.
@publicvoit@graz.social2025-10-22 15:04:16
"#Austria’s Democracy on the Decline"
“The Situation is Serious”: #Democracy Index with Sobering Result for Austria
https://www.europesays…
@holger_moller@bildung.social2025-11-07 18:26:54
"Demokratische Kultur entsteht durch Übung. Jedes Gespräch, das von aufmerksamem Zuhören und aufrichtigem Sprechen geprägt ist, ist ein kleiner Schritt hin zu einer menschlicheren, inklusiveren und effektiveren Demokratie."
Josef Merk
#SprechenUndZuhören
#DemokratieStärken
@gratianriter@bildung.social2025-10-19 09:05:42
Antifa in the US:
7 000 000 and growing
There can be no democracy without antifascim
#antifa #antifascism #Antifaschismus
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-10-30 10:05:59
The fracturing of the Dutch far-right, after Wilder's reminded everyone that bigots are bad at compromise, is definitely a relief. Dutch folks I've talked to definitely see D66 as progressive, <strike>so there's no question this is a hard turn to the left (even if it's not a total flip to the far-left)</strike> a lot of folks don't agree. I'm going to let the comments speak rather than editorialize myself..
While this is a useful example of how a democracy can be far more resilient to fascism than the US, that is, perhaps, not the most interesting thing about Dutch politics. The most interesting thing is something Dutch folks take for granted and never think of as such: there are two "governments."
The election was for the Tweede Kamer. This is a house of representatives. The Dutch use proportional representation, so people can (more or less) vote for the parties they actually want. Parties <strike>rarely</strike> never actually get a ruling majority, so they have to form coalition governments. This forces compromise, which is something Wilders was extremely bad at. He was actually responsible for collapsing the coalition his party put together, which triggered this election... and a massive loss of seats for his party.
Dutch folks do still vote strategically, since a larger party has an easier time building the governing coalition and the PM tends to come from the largest party. This will likely be D66, which is really good for the EU. D66 has a pretty radical plan to solve the housing crisis, and it will be really interesting to see if they can pull it off. But that's not the government I want to talk about right now.
In the Netherlands, failure to control water can destroy entire towns. A good chunk of the country is below sea level. Both floods and land reclamation have been critical parts of Dutch history. So in the 1200's or so, the Dutch realized that some things are too important to mix with normal politics.
You see, if there's an incompetent government that isn't able to actually *do* anything (see Dick Schoof and the PVV/VVD/NSC/BBB coalition) you don't want your dikes to collapse and poulders to flood. So the Dutch created a parallel "government" that exists only to manage water: waterschap or heemraadschap (roughly "Water Board" in English). These are regional bureaucracies that exist only to manage water. They exist completely outside the thing we usually talk about as a "government" but they have some of the same properties as a government. They can, for example, levy taxes. The central government contributes funds to them, but lacks authority over them. Water boards are democratically elected and can operate more-or-less independent of the central government.
Controlling water is a common problem, so water boards were created to fulfill the role of commons management. Meanwhile, so many other things in politics run into the very same "Tragedy of the Commons" problems. The right wing solution to commons management is to let corporations ruin everything. The left-state solution is to move everything into the government so it can be undermined and destroyed by the right. The Dutch solution to this specific problem has been to move commons management out of the domain of the central government into something else.
And when I say "government" here, I'm speaking more to the liberal definition of the term than to an anarchist definition. A democratically controlled authority that facilitates resource management lacks the capacity for coercive violence that anarchists define as "government." (Though I assume they might leverage police or something if folks refuse to pay their taxes, but I can't imagine anyone choosing not to.)
As the US federal government destroys the social fabric of the US, as Trump guts programs critical to people's survival, it might be worth thinking about this model. These authorities weren't created by any central authority, they evolved from the people. Nothing stops Americans from building similar institutions that are both democratic and outside of the authority of a government that could choose to defund and abolish them... nothing but the realization that yes, you actually can.
#USPol #NLPol
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-11-09 22:49:57
💪 10 effective things citizens can do to make change in addition to attending a protest
https://theconversation.com/10-effective-things-citizens-can-do-to-make-change-in-addition-to-attending-a-protest-266432…
@bthalpin@mastodon.social2025-10-25 17:44:44
Anyone looking for context on the Irish presidential election, here is everything you need to know:
https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/24/messy-democracy-irelands-reshaped-presidency/
@cheryanne@aus.social2025-10-24 23:50:48
Democracy After Disaster
Natural disasters rip away our collective sense of control, so it's critical that the road of recovery is paved with community voice and agency...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/democracy-after-…
@fortune@social.linux.pizza2025-11-29 12:00:02
Wake up all you citizens, hear your country's call,
Not to arms and violence, But peace for one and all.
Crush out hate and prejudice, fear and greed and sin,
Help bring back her dignity, restore her faith again.
Work hard for a common cause, don't let our country fall.
Make her proud and strong again, democracy for all.
Yes, make our country strong again, keep our flag unfurled.
Make our country well again, respected by the world.
Make her w…
@stefan@gardenstate.social2025-10-31 01:05:58
Carving Pumpkins to save democracy
#uspol
@fgraver@hcommons.social2026-01-03 18:26:54
Some of us have been saything this for a long time, but there can no longer be any doubt: under the Trump administration, the US is an enemy of democracy. Since taking power, Trump and his minions have:
⁃ Threatened to annex Greenland. Several times.
⁃ Meddled in the affairs of NATO allies by calling for right-wing extremist parties to come to power.
⁃ Attacked nations on other continents (including Iran and Nigeria)
⁃ Launched a military raid on Venezuela, illegally kid…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-11-07 01:52:17
Five Ways Tuesday’s Results Will Affect Voting Rules and Democracy | Bolts
https://boltsmag.org/five-ways-2025-elections-affect-voting-rules-and-democracy/
@Europablog@mastodon.social2025-12-20 09:14:11
Guinea returns to the path of democracy. By Jürgen Klute.
#Guinea
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-11-06 10:35:30
The 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
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2026-01-07 04:31:22
And there it is. The end of Democracy. Because our Congress & Supreme Court failed us. But most of all, the voters.
☑️ 'Dictator' Trump floats idea of canceling midterm elections
https://www.thedailybeast.com/dictator-trump-floats-ide…
@jpanzer@mastodon.social2025-10-17 18:53:49
I’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/…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-12-05 00:11:00
Jane Fonda warns that a WBD merger in any form is an alarming escalation in media consolidation, threatening the entertainment industry and the First Amendment (Jane Fonda/The Ankler)
https://theankler.com/p/jane-fonda-op-ed-the-wbd-deal-puts
@Speckdaene@nrw.social2025-11-08 10:36:26
#idw #Immigrants Share Democratic Basic Values
International study: #Migrants identify with #democracy to a similarl…
@bici@mastodon.social2025-10-30 01:52:20
"The story of the East Wing’s demolition is the story of the Trump admini.writ large, a metaphor for what he’s doing to American democracy. The current President doesn’t seek permission. He fears no one and nothing. He is protected by the most lethal army in the world and a Supreme Court that has made it almost impossible to hold him liable for actions even remotely connected to his duties. This has allowed Mr. Trump to become the most openly corrupt president in American history."…
@mia@hcommons.social2025-10-23 12:21:43
This 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…
@degrowthuk@mstdn.social2025-10-30 11:38:05
What is #degrowth?
We offer a definition wherein the fundamental core is the planned reduction of energy and material use to keep within planetary limits, while the associated 'pluriversal' belt of concepts and practices is also essential to degrowth.
Part of our response to @…
@UP8@mastodon.social2026-01-02 00:54:13
😅 New research finds Americans deeply concerned about US democracy
#usa
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2025-10-31 15:30:23
@grumpybozo@toad.social2025-10-28 21:38:57
FWIW: Germany had only been a nominal liberal democracy for a dozen years and had a judicial class trained in the system of the Kaiser and Bismarck, no matter what the Weimar Constitution said.
Also: the vilest sorts of anti-semitism had been mainstream German beliefs since before Luther, who was awful. https://
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-11-09 05:01:50
The Supreme Court's been nothing but partisan - giving complete free reign to Trump.
Now, on tariffs & SNAP food funding, we're about to see if the court is absolute evil.
▶️ New Rule: Democracy's Last Line of Defense | Real Time with Bill Maher
https://youtube.com/watch?v=f6MX…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-11-02 17:16:35
Wise words from @….
Reflecting now on how often I find myself saying “Just show up, over and over, and do some work. Don’t worry about whether it’s enough, about whether you’re going to get an A. Just show up. Do some work.”
Wanting to get really good at [software dev skill]?
Worried about passing the class?
Not sure if you’re a Real Programmer yet?
Impostor feelings?
Horrified at politics?
Wanting to saving democracy?
Feeling powerless?
Anxious? Depressed? Panicking?
Show up. Work. https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/115481201032837751
@relcfp@mastodon.social2026-01-07 16:34:49
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-12-04 14:25:50
Ex-Tory MP Ben Howlett says he paid £100 for a 50% stake in influential X account PoliticsUK, which he used for posts that aligned with his clients' interests (Democracy for Sale)
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-our-fake-chinese-ai-investor<…
@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/
@adjb@social.lol2026-01-07 16:41:35
📝 #CFP: United Lutheran Seminary to Host “A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy” Conference, February 27–28, 2026 @relcfp #acrel https://relcfp.com/2025/11/20/cfp-a-vision-for-liberating-our-democracy/
@fortune@social.linux.pizza2025-11-28 12:00:02
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who
will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-11-04 10:18:06
Make 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.
@cheryanne@aus.social2025-12-28 23:41:39
In November, the Whitlam Institute convened a major national symposium marking the 50th Anniversary of the 1975 Dismissal. The event brought together leading historians, legal scholars, policymakers and commentators to reflect on the Dismissal’s enduring impact on Australian democracy.
The full keynote addresses and panel discussions are now available to watch online, providing a lasting public resource on one of the most significant moments in Australia’s political history.
Watc…
@vform@openbiblio.social2025-10-17 23:09:47
The 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.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
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-11-20 22:27:26
After #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
@hakona@im.alstadheim.no2025-11-02 09:15:33
RE: #USPOL
What you can do, in the next *two weeks* . Keep a bare minimum of democracy f…
@boris@cosocial.ca2025-11-29 17:30:52
“[open social] must be funded like infrastructure, not consumer apps. In fact, given the scale of hybrid threats, it should be funded from defense budgets, not innovation leftovers.
The strategic layer of democracy is the information layer. And right now, it is outsourced.” @seabass.bsky.social
<…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-12-30 17:14:23
Myths About Anarchism, Democracy, and Decision-Making
#Anarchism
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-12-01 09:10:38
🙋♂️ What the fuck is wrong with you?
❓ Have you ever seen a bandwagon you didn’t want to jump on?
💩 Can you please be less shit? https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115643458015221823
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2025-10-27 07:35:20
Maybe a bit controversial statement, but has democracy not already died in the US? Congress has no effective oversight anymore, GOP only listens to Trump, democratic party is totally ineffective. Rule of law is severely damaged.
#USA #democracy
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-10-26 16:26:09
California'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.
@relcfp@mastodon.social2025-12-02 18:30:58
@servelan@newsie.social2025-12-30 01:15:58
DOJ Organizing Vast Conspiracy Investigation Against Trump Enemies, Bondi Says - Democracy Docket
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/attorney-general-pam-bondi-conspiracy-investigation-trump-enemies/
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-11-24 18:16:38
🏙️ Mamdani Can Learn From Latin American Municipal Socialism
#politics
@kingconsult@berlin.social2025-12-10 10:19:56
> The concept that civic institutions should own their own social channels, aligns strongly with #Mastodon’s own vision and values.
Dec 9, 2025:
#CivicTech #Fediverse #Democracy #DigitalSovereignty #SocialMedia #SciComm
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-05 22:57:18
Responding to a question from @democracynow.org on Wednesday, during his first press conference as mayor-elect,
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social said ICE agents who break the law in New York will be held accountable by his administration.
"Everyone will be held to the same standard," he said.
https://
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-01-03 15:37:56
Trump is clear about democracy in Venezuela, he doesn't want that... It's all about power, oil and control.
FOX & FRIENDS: What do you think is next for the Venezuelan people now that you have removed Maduro so he can face American justice?
TRUMP: Well, we're making that decision now. We can't take a chance on letting somebody else run it, just take over where he left off. So we're making that decision
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-11-30 07:11:14
Since #Trump’s re-election, warnings that his use of presidential power to advance personal interests is corroding American democracy have grown ever louder.
☑️ All the president’s millions: how the Trumps are turning the presidency into riches
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-10-30 22:06:23
🫱🏽🫲🏿 How Anti-Corruption Can Be a Winning Issue for Democrats
#politics
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-12-27 10:06:24
In my view, those involved in reformist or traditional trade unions might consider that genuine worker self-managment comes through syndicalist structures.
Unions rooted in the workplace, organized through general assemblies, with delegates who are strictly mandated and immediately recallable, without any permanent bureaucracy, embody the principles of direct democracy and worker self-management.
Any organization claiming to be syndicalist while maintaining hierarchical decisio…
@adjb@social.lol2026-01-13 16:19:57
@cheryanne@aus.social2025-10-19 02:08:22
We'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…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-22 01:37:06
@relcfp@mastodon.social2025-12-01 06:16:17
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2025-10-17 11:38:07
i 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/
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-10-18 14:42:35
Rigging Elections to Save Democracy
#Elections #Election
@servelan@newsie.social2025-11-18 02:33:47
Judge ‘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/
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-11-17 10:04:41
Say 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
@adjb@social.lol2026-01-13 16:20:07
@kingconsult@berlin.social2026-01-08 09:21:10
Dear #OpenSource Community 👋,
The @… would like to hear your views on the »European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy« − #HaveYourSay.
– Call for evidence –
Deadline: 3 Feb. 2026
👉 #EODES #FLOSS #FOSS #OpenSource #FediAdmins #EU #Democracy #DigitalSovereignty #Demokratie #DigitaleSouveranitat #OpenSourceSoftware
@relcfp@mastodon.social2025-11-21 03:01:17
#CFP: United Lutheran Seminary to Host “A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy” Conference, February 27–28, 2026 #acrel #Religidons
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-20 14:15:27
Amid 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…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-12-31 20:40:29
@adjb@social.lol2025-12-02 18:43:15
📝 United Lutheran Seminary to host 'A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy' Conference, February 27–28 https://religionnews.com/2025/12/02/united-lutheran-seminary-to-host-a-vision-for-liberating-our-democracy-conference-february-27-28/
!Event flyer featuring three Haudenosaunee Wampum belts. (https://cdn.some.pics/adjb/692f3071e2f74.png)
@relcfp@mastodon.social2025-12-25 16:05:50
Call for Papers: A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy
https://ift.tt/YwsuGaq
updated: Wednesday, December 3, 2025 - 9:30pmfull name / name of organization: United Lutheran…
via Input 4 RELCFP
@adjb@social.lol2025-12-02 18:37:04
👀 Browsing United Lutheran Seminary to host 'A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy' Conference, February 27–28 (https://religionnews.com/2025/12/02/united-lutheran-seminary-to-host-a-vision-for-liberating-our-democracy-conference-february-27-28/).
@relcfp@mastodon.social2025-12-24 06:10:13
Call for Papers: A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy
https://ift.tt/QJmX9Pd
updated: Wednesday, December 3, 2025 - 9:30pmfull name / name of organization: United Lutheran…
via Input 4 RELCFP