The PM says he will not negotiate a 'youth mobility scheme' with the EU. Why not? Only Brexit die-hards would oppose re-opening this cultural, social and economic opportunity which was available to every young person pre-Brexit including all MPs.

Google Trump’s signature and then Google Mussolini’s signature A Scholar of Fascism Sees a Lot That’s Familiar with Trump | The New Yorker ⁦Ruth Ben-Ghiat⁩ newyorker.com/culture/cultur…

The next connection to this Russian Disinformation ring? The fake “Freedom Convoy”. I promised it would come. Hold on to your truck nuts…

👀 That 2016 campaign was full of people with special talents and connections: Simes, Manafort are just a few.

Note to media. Russia recruiting Americans to destabilize/sow chaos in the U.S. is nothing new. Reminder that in the early 2010s Russia brought over evangelical leaders, NRA, far right peeps, think tank people, Sheriff Clarke, Flynn, Jill Stein, and so so many others to Moscow in

We have a big problem with this guy, Pierre Poilievre, who’s running for Prime Minister of Canada. Seen here with Kat Kanada who’s recently been exposed as part of a Russian propaganda operation in Canada. Ask yourself why, Putin is so interested in having Poilievre as our PM.

Fox News is probably declining to air it as an act of support for Trump, since the network is invested in keeping his personality cult robust and his performances work against that.

When will the EU stop funding this Putin partner? Time for a new paradigm: the current one is EU collective self-harm at this point.

In Grand Rapids, historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat leads a conversation on authoritarianism, what’s at stake this year for our democratic republic, and why Americans need to unite to preserve our democracy and the rule of law. michiganadvance.com/2024/09/06/in-…

History in the US and very sad and dangerous. But wherever authoritarian forces take hold turning rule of law into rule by the lawless occurs.

Could write a whole essay about this one comment. But Trump is already in the machismo/misogyny chapter of #Strongmen saying similar things.

I get that the Tenet stuff is huge, but the indictment reveals deeper stuff... From what I gather, this indicates that common practice for RT has been paying people to create videos on their personal YouTube account where they pretend to be solo (ie, not limited to Tenet).

Sick humor, Trump-style

How authoritarians behave. The famous "home visit" about a possible "crime" or offense.

Duterte with a touch of Bukele

I am also excited about doing this democracyFIRST 🇺🇸 event with Ruth Ben-Ghiat and John Nichols on Thursday, September 12, in Fox Point (Milwaukee): eventbrite.com/e/united-to-pr…

Recalls the Fascist "efficiency" of "the trains running on time" while prisons filled up with many of the same groups Trump and Musk target: liberals, leftists, LGBTQ people, the homeless, etc. I write about the disasters of authoritarian "efficiency" in #Strongmen.

Just got this in the mail! #Strongmen