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Corrupt man scraps corrupt plans so that he can devise another way to be corrupt. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

Breaking: FIFA scraps World Cup sell-off plansFIFA has scrapped plans to sell a stake in the World Cup after the move caused a major backlash.www.abc.net.au

I never understood why this guy had such a following. His understanding of authoritarian politics was almost always wrong. He was part of a cottage industry of scholars who made up concepts to advance their public profile, but those concepts had no grounding in academic scholarship.

Last year when I wrote about the passivity of the resistance movement to Trump's authoritarianism, I listed political consumerism as one of seven missing tactics. @juddlegum.bsky.social is correct. Hit their corporate earnings and political dominos will fall. theconversation.com/has-the-trum...

Only a handful of dictatorships don't hold national elections, and that is because they are monarchies, never institutionalised them, or are in a state of prolonged conflict. Disbanding elections outright means you are betting against the notion that international democratic norms will be enforced.

Is this normal for Bluesky? Perhaps I haven’t been paying attention…

Do you think there is a ”chance” card in here where the American president corruptly interferes on your behalf? But then that interference inadvertently backfires and you lose the game? It would be quite the flex from the developers!

Americans shrugged their shoulders about Trump so far looting two billion dollars in office, so they certainly won’t care about corruption of this kind. They really need to get passed the belief that written criticism is a sufficient response to democratic backsliding.

Why do Americans gather in front of the Kennedy Center to watch the letters be pulled off the building, but not in front of Congress, Supreme Court, or Department of Justice when they destroy democracy a little bit more? www.youtube.com/live/aAhm880...

LIVE: See Donald Trump's name come off the Kennedy Center as it happensYouTube video by MS NOWwww.youtube.com

Just an amazing piece of investigative journalism by @heidiblake.bsky.social. I lost count of how many people need to rot in jail for the rest of their lives. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Andrew Tate’s Empire of AbuseHow the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women.www.newyorker.com

Like I’ve said a dozen times now, America’s mainstream media was never ready for democratic backsliding. It has proven to be woefully inept for this moment. Led by the NYT, it has failed to act as a watchdog, educator, and scrutineer for Trump’s racism, corruption, and authoritarianism.

Watching the Australian media gobble Trump’s social media propaganda up without any sense of hesitation or learning from past mistakes is fucking infuriating. If they simply reported nothing, they would be better off. So would we.

Equally insane is the complete lack of both condemnation from political elites and spontaneous mass protests from citizens. Indeed, grand corruption is already a fully normalised feature of authoritarian rule in the United States.

Waiting to access Canvas to start marking assessment. Waiting to hear from the university's Cyber Security Officer. Waiting to see how my personal data will be sold again. Waiting to be freed from our corporate tech overlords. Waiting to hear how I have to bear the consequences. Waiting 😢

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Do anthropologists have a formal set of criteria for a functioning society? Asking as a political scientist, with America in mind of course.

America’s mainstream media was never ready for democratic backsliding. It has proven itself to be woefully inept at this moment. Historians and political scientists will write - with ease - about the failure of the fourth estate to act as a watchdog, educator, and scrutineer for what has occurred.

I don’t get why people simply accept his professed Catholicism? Surely we can be more cynical in the age of Trump? Maybe, just maybe, his varying faith - look it up! - is a means to a political end… www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Vance warns the pope should 'be careful' when talking about theologyVance, who is Catholic, said the pope was wrong in saying Jesus wasn’t on the side of those who wield the sword, pointing to the U.S.’ helping defeat the Nazis during World War II.www.nbcnews.com

Ruh fucking roh

Reposting my own thread in the hope it makes a difference to all those in Hungary who believe in democratic ideas, values, norms, and institutions. Best wishes to them.

With Hungary’s crucial election a few days away, its National Election Office has published a list of accredited international observers (n. 859). Having spent nearly a decade researching the behavior of international observers, I decided to take a closer look 😊 www.valasztas.hu/en/internati...

Every time I go to type something snarky about the dumb shit Trump just said, he says something even dumber. So I delete the post and start again. It is a vicious cycle.

donald trump is wearing a suit and tie and making a funny face while speaking into a microphone .ALT: donald trump is wearing a suit and tie and making a funny face while speaking into a microphone .media.tenor.com