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I’m having a Substack Live convo with Anne Applebaum at 9amET today. We’ll talk about autocratic alliances, Russia's war on Ukraine, and more. Make sure notifications are enabled on Substack and look for the join link (which will be emailed to all Lucid subscribers at 9am).

As an educator, I am concerned about the destruction of truth. There is a concerted effort to wipe away the importance of truth across the board — an attempt to make trusted authorities into optics of suspicion. We must keep defending all the brave, courageous truth-tellers out there.

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Identifying historical patterns, including how autocrats behave when their power is threatened, can help us to understand what may happen in the future. We should all be prepared so we can expect the unexpected and do something productive if and when that moment comes.

I am having a Substack Live conversation at 1pmET today with @jonathanswan about his new book Regime Change and where he sees the Trump presidency going. Open the Substack app, enable notifications, and look tor the join link from me at 1.

As someone who has studied strongmen throughout history, I can’t stress enough that we should not see authoritarians as infallible.

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Apparatchiks have their orders: conjure a Communist threat inside America, associating with it the entire Dem Party, to prepare people to accept whatever authoritarian crackdown the administration may be planning to stop elections from handing them a defeat.

My latest about a new communist conspiracy from MAGA, just in time for the midterms. Watch how their language and slogans align and how Communist threats to elections become the drum they beat as we head into the midterms.

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Here, I talk about why we should pay attention to what I describe as an age of “plunder.” That is, the erosion and destruction of the rights and freedoms of the many.

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Desperate times mean desperate measures, if you are an unpopular leader afraid of going the way of your friend Viktor Orban. In my latest, I wrote about the ludicrous powerpoint Trump talked about in his speech and why it reinforces the fanaticism of Trump & MAGA. open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...

I Reviewed the China-Blaming Jan. 5 2021 Power Point. Will Trump’s Speech Rely On It?Welcome back to Lucid, and hello to all new subscribers.open.substack.com

I wrote about Trump's obsession with the 2020 election and what we should pay attention to on Thursday night — The Big Lie, Foreign Interference Edition. Read my full essay at my Substack, Lucid.Substack.Com

My latest about corruption — this time about the particular role sons-in-law, like Jared Kushner, have played throughout history and why we should pay attention to them. open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...

When Corruption is a Family AffairTrump's Sons-in-Law are Part of a Patternopen.substack.com

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I was pleased to be with @aliciamenendez.bsky.social for the premiere of her new @msnowreports.bsky.social show!

Hello from the Tribeca Film Festival!

Hardly a new enemy. See the machismo and misogyny chapter of #Strongmen.

Well, they work for and are loyal to the same person- one is just smoother but is equally responsible for every death abroad caused by this administration

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Important investigation- national policy bends to the will of billionaires if the Trump clan will make $ from it

Some news...I am writing a book on resistance for @vikingbooks.bsky.social!

"we negotiate through bombs" - Hegseth