#Authoritarian

Joäsh Taylor

JoashTaylor

I don’t see the Left generally (but the #Labour Party more specifically)’s problem with #antisemitism and our complex and strained relationship with the Jewish community improving any time soon.And that’s

American Security Matters

US_Sec_Matters

Authoritarian Ideologues Have Infiltrated American Society1) In the past, the ideologies of fascism and communism were viewed favorably by many in the political elite and academia before WW2. Following the

The Editorial Board

johnastoehr

Democracy is a faith, too. by @johnastoehr https://stoehr.substack.com/p/democracy-is-a-faith-too?r=5msd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter 1. On Monday, the Times ran an article as significant as it was general

Puff the Magic Hater

MsKellyMHayes

As y'all know I've been working nonstop for the past week to crank out extra episodes of Movement Memos that might help folks ready themselves for what's coming. It started

Teri Kanefield

Teri_Kanefield

(Thread) Why the Far Right has so much successDC asks this:https://twitter.com/dcdeejay/status/1107310447907098625Recall that the GOP has been taken over by RWAs (right wing authoritarians: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318260321

el gato malo

boriquagato

one of the fascinating aspects of the response to covid is the manner in which all past knowledge and standing guidance regarding lockdowns and quarantines got tossed out the window

Mark Changizi

MarkChangizi

1/About the Great Mass Safety Delusion of 2020, I have had so many utterly frustrated people asking me, “How do we reverse this?”(For more on what I mean by the

Philosopher Kin vs Big Brother

rogerahicks

#GeorgeOrwell wrote 1984 (pub. 1949) under the strong influence of recently defeated fascism & still rampant Soviet communism. He could hardly have imagined how #BigBrother would embrace #LiberalDemocracy, #AntiFascism &

Tomas Pueyo

tomaspueyo

When I said that the US is having one Wuhan a day (50k/day #coronavirus cases in the US vs. 50k for all time in Wuhan), many people responded: "You can't

Kristina Harrison

KJ_Harrison

It's shocking that you imply women's existence as an oppressed sex, protected under the Equality Act explicitly, is merely a belief, not a biological (& socialised) reality, one which in

Christabel Cooper

ChristabelCoops

Why the Tories, especially Sunak, struggle to get it right on Covid (with graphs!)Even before the news about the mutant strain, polls showed that people tended to think the original

Omar Wasow

owasow

Striking how the outside-the-system vigilante wing of the far-right are being arrested and charged with serious crimes while inside-the-system elected officials who encouraged vigilante violence are living their best lives

Dewa Mavhinga

dewamavhinga

Zimbabwe’s Human Rights Problem – A Thread1/20 Zimbabwe’s human rights problem goes back to days of a violent liberation struggle from 1966 to 1980 when both the Smith regime &

Nur Banu Simsek

stansocrates

Okay I read the article. I remembered halfway through that I'd read the first half of it before but had stopped, so I finished it this time.https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v40/n06/amia-srinivasan/does-anyone-have-the-right-to-sex The El

Ken Sofer 🗽

KenSofer

A few random thoughts I've been thinking about watching the militarized crackdown on Portland protesters... DHS - ordered by Trump - launched a heavy-handed crackdown on the relatively small group

Joshua Collins

InvisiblesMuros

1) A THREAD on tankie twitter: Its worth the time to take a look at this batshit crazy movement. Let's start by defining the termIn 1956 a student rebellion erupted

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