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20 Years of Propaganda Knowledge in 15 Mins

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It’s # WomensDay2025 and # WomensHistoryMonth

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Famous graphic with a woman looking powerful. Beside her stands: #WomensHistoryMonth means fighting for democracy and academic freedom

It’s #WomensDay2025 and #WomensHistoryMonth. In the last years, we introduced you to female and non-male #emdiplomats or to #emdiplomacy research by female* historians. This year, we feel the need to #standUpForScience and #democracy. Both are under thread – most visibly in the US, but also in Europe, the recent elections in Austria and Germany clearly demonstrate this. We as historians and academics are profoundly aware of the dangers fascisms represents for democracy and human rights as well as academic freedom. (1/5)

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Trump’s ‘bald power grab’ could set US on path to dictatorship, critics fear

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Trump’s executive order stripped agencies of their independence by making them directly accountable to a part of the presidency: the office of management and budget (OMB). The OMB is led by Russell Vought, founder of the rightwing Center for Renewing America (CRA) thinktank and one of the primary authors of the Project 2025 plan for an authoritarian takeover of government.

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Can Moldova – population 2.4m – show the world how to stand up to Putin?

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Multipolar oligarchy

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An edit of a famous propaganda poster from 1981 which showed the global being sucked dry by two giant mosquitos at opposite poles: USA and USSR, and a spray can (anti-mosquito) with the slogan: "FAST ACTING RELIEF FROM ANNOYING PESTS! NEW! IMPROVED! ANARCHY. Satisfaction guaranteed or your oppression back. Caution: combustible mixture, continued use may provoke authoritarian wrath. This edit has Putin's angry head as the red mosquito and Trump's angry head as blue mosquito, with Musk's head as satellites in between them.
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Governable Spaces - Democratic Design for Online Life

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When was the last time you participated in an election for an online group chat or sat on a jury for a dispute about a controversial post? Platforms nudge users to tolerate nearly all-powerful admins, moderators, and “benevolent dictators for life.” In Governable Spaces, Nathan Schneider argues that the internet has been plagued by a phenomenon he calls “implicit feudalism”: a bias, both cultural and technical, for building communities as fiefdoms. The consequences have spread far beyond online spaces themselves. Feudal defaults train us to give up on our communities’ democratic potential, inclining us to be more tolerant of autocratic tech CEOs and authoritarian politicians. But online spaces could be sites of a creative, radical, and democratic renaissance. Schneider shows how the internet can learn from governance legacies of the past to become a more democratic medium, responsive and inventive unlike anything that has come before.

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Reposting: Hannah Arendt Sought to Maintain Power-Shareholders

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Reposting: Hannah Arendt Sought to Maintain Power-Shareholders

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The White Storm by Martin Gelin, 2024

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In The White Storm, the journalist and author Martin Gelin looks back at two decades as a political correspondent and three centuries of American history to understand this moment of crisis. In the vein of Alexis de Tocqueville or Tony Judt, fellow Europeans who traveled America searching for answers to its political contradictions, this is a journey across time and space, from Thomas Jefferson's Monticello to the slave plantations of Louisiana, from mass prisons in rural Arizona to memorials for lynching victims in Alabama.

The White Storm by Martin Gelin, 2024

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American Apocalypse: The Six Far-Right Groups Waging War on Democracy by Rena Steinzor, 2024

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- big business, the House Freedom Caucus, the Federalist Society, Fox News, white evangelicals, and armed militias. In American Apocalypse Rena Steinzor argues that these groups are nothing more than well-financed armies fighting a battle of attrition against the national government, with power, money, and fame as their central motivations. The book begins at the end of Lyndon Johnson's presidency, when the modern regulatory state was born. Agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration ensured that everything from our air to our medicine was safe. But efforts to thwart this "big government" agenda began swiftly, albeit in the shadows. Business leaders built a multi-billion dollar presence in the Capitol, and the rest of the six interest groups soon followed. While the groups do not coordinate their attacks, and sometimes their short-term goals even conflict, their priorities fall within a surprisingly tight bullseye: the size and power of the administrative state. In the near-term, their campaigns will bring the crucial functions of government to a halt, which will lead to immediate suffering by the working classes, and a rapid deterioration of race relations. Over the long-term, as the prevalence of global pandemics and climate crises increase, an incapacitated national government will usher in unimaginable harm.

American Apocalypse: The Six Far-Right Groups Waging War on Democracy by Rena Steinzor, 2024

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[Microblog] Circulate widely!

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Circulate widely! CFA: University of Gothenburg has announced two 4-year PhD positions – fully funded & salaried – with a focus on democracy and human rights, in any social science or humanities discipline.

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📖 Pedro Aires Oliveira e Filipe Ribeiro de Menezes examined the use of # StatesOfEmergency during Portugal's First Republic and argue that the ...

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Cover of the special issue of the journal First World War Studies dedicated to "State of Emergency Regimes in the First World War Era (Part 2)". Editors: Matthew Stibbe and André Keil. Published in late 2023.

📖 Pedro Aires Oliveira e Filipe Ribeiro de Menezes examined the use of #StatesOfEmergency during Portugal's First Republic and argue that the "suspensions of constitutional guarantees, while damaging to the quality of Portuguese democracy (...), were by no means a recent departure, having already been a feature of politics during the late constitutional monarchy."

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Ten Free Ebooks for Getting Free from HaymarketBooks

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Ten Free Ebooks for Getting Free from HaymarketBooks. "books are crucial tools in struggles against racism, imperialism, and capitalism ... join us in reading these indispensable works of analysis, history, and strategy.":haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-t@bookstodon #books #freedom #democracy #resist #Bookstodon #uspolitics

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TIL that India cut the Pythagorean theorem—Edit: its similarity proof—, periodic table, and evolution from mandatory education in June 2023 Edit: before adding it back a week later

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In a statement, the council rationalized the reduction by stating they wanted to reduce the content load on students in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. On June 1, India cut a slew of foundational topics from tenth grade textbooks, including the periodic table of elements, Darwin's theory of evolution, the Pythagorean theorem, sources of energy, sustainable management of natural resources and contribution of agriculture to the national economy, among others. These changes effectively block a major swath of Indian students from exposure to evolution through textbooks, because tenth grade is the last year mandatory science classes are offered in Indian schools.

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Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America's Political Crisis by James Davison Hunter, 2024

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While these contradictions have caused dissent and even violence, there was always an underlying and evolving solidarity drawn from the cultural resources of America’s “hybrid Enlightenment.”James Davison Hunter, who introduced the concept of “culture wars” thirty years ago, tells us in this new book that those historic sources of national solidarity have now largely dissolved. While a deepening political polarization is the most obvious sign of this, the true problem is not polarization per se but the absence of cultural resources to work through what divides us. The destructive logic that has filled the void only makes bridging our differences more challenging. In the end, all political regimes require some level of unity. If it cannot be generated organically, it will be imposed by force. Can America’s political crisis be fixed? Can an Enlightenment-era institution—liberal democracy—survive and thrive in a post-Enlightenment world? If, for some, salvaging the older sources of national solidarity is neither possible sociologically, nor desirable politically or ethically, what cultural resources will support liberal democracy in the future?

Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America's Political Crisis by James Davison Hunter, 2024

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Encyclopedia of Democratic Thought by Paul Barry Clarke & Joe Foweraker, 2003

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It is destined to become the first port-of-call for all students, teachers and researchers of political science interested in democratic ideas, democratic practice, and the quality of democratic governance. The Encyclopedia provides extensive coverage of all the key concepts of democratic thought written by a stellar team of distinguished international contributors. The Encyclopedia draws on every tradition of democratic thought, as well as developing new thinking, in order to provide full coverage of the key democratic concepts and engage with their practical implications for the conduct of democratic politics in the world today. In this way, it brings every kind of democratic thinking to bear on the challenges facing contemporary democracies and on the possibilities of the democratic future. The Encyclopedia is global in scope and responds in detail to the democratic revolution of recent decades. Referring both to the established democratic states of Western Europe, North America and Australasia, and to the recent democracies of Latin America, Eastern and Central Europe, Africa and Asia, classical democratic concerns are related to new democracies, and to important changes in the older democracies. Supplemented by full bibliographical information, extensive cross-referencing and suggestions for further reading, the Encyclopedia of Democratic Thought is a unique work of reference combining the expertise of many of the world's leading political scientists...

Encyclopedia of Democratic Thought by Paul Barry Clarke & Joe Foweraker, 2003

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Two different Thai university groups will visit Ōsaka and Kyōto, and I will assist them before heading to Seoul for the EU-Asia digital partnerships ...

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Two different Thai university groups will visit Ōsaka and Kyōto, and I will assist them before heading to Seoul for the EU-Asia digital partnerships conference later this month. For the first group, from near Bangkok, I will guide them across Ōsaka to Kansai University (関西大学) after giving a presentation to them and members of Kindai University (近畿大学).

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New from Lise Olsen: Ultraconservative sheriffs who believe they’re above the law threaten our democracy, says # NewBook by investigative ...

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New from Lise Olsen: Ultraconservative sheriffs who believe they’re above the law threaten our democracy, says #NewBook by investigative journalist and attorney Jessica Pishko. texasobserver.org/lawmen-above

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15/20 Alan Gratz: Amy und die geheime Bibliothek nsfw

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15/20 Alan Gratz: Amy und die geheime Bibliothek. Übersetzt aus dem Englischen von Meritxell Janina PielAlan Gratz: Ban this book#Books #Libraries #ArtistsFreedom #Censorship #Culture #Emancipation #Creationist #Evangelical #Democracy #ReadingAsEntertainment #ReadingAsPoliticisingExperience #ComingOfAge #YoungReaders #10YearsOldPlus #PowerInSchool #Librarian #BookBan #BanThisBook #AlanGratzBook Challenge: 20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No (or only very short) explanations, no reviews, just the title and the book covers. Don't forget the alt text.#20books #20books20days #20Bücher #BooksThatInfluencedYou #Books #20booksMupan #BookChallengeMupan #MediaMupan@lesekreis @bookstodon @bookstodon @buchstodon @democracy @books @biodiversity

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Elections, Accountability and Democracy in Ancient Athens "But, today I want to investigate with you whether elections are really democratic at all, ...

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Elections, Accountability and Democracy in Ancient Athens"But, today I want to investigate with you whether elections are really democratic at all, let alone function as expressions of the will of the people and as a form of accountability? To get at this problem, I want to look back to the first democracy, the democracy of ancient Athens and to think about the nature of Athens’ democracy, what were its ideals, what were some of its practical manifestations and, finally, what a fuller understanding of the Athenian model might offer us as Americans when considering our own assessments of democracy and its mechanisms. Specifically, did the Athenians conceive of elections as fundamental to their democracy? Were elections an expression of the DEMOS? And, finally, were they a measure of accountability for officials?" Rebecca Futo Kennedy, 2012rfkclassics.blogspot.com/2012/#election #democracy #America #USA #Classics #ClassicalAthens #AncientAthens #Athens #accountability #Vote #WesternDemocracy @histodons

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People, Power, Change: Organizing for Democratic Renewal by Marshall Ganz, 2024

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People, Power, Change: Organizing for Democratic Renewal by Marshall Ganz, 2024

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Minnesota court upholds Walz-backed law restoring felons' right to vote

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Sen. Warren Says Supreme Court is ‘Actively Undermining Our Democracy,’ Floats Sweeping Reforms

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[Microblog] People Without Power by Thomas Frank, 2020

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People Without Power by Thomas Frank, 2020

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Who Goes Nazi?

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10 commandments for living in a healthy democracy

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