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  1. Steady decline in #Putin's ratings is sending a message, just not the kind #polls in #democracies are designed to capture

    As #Kremlin's grip over internet tightens , #pro-war military #bloggers, state-approved “opposition” parties & even #influencers railed against #online #crackdown

    State-linked #pollsters report Putin's approval rating has steadily declined, reaching its lowest point during the all-out invasion of Ukraine.

    kyivindependent.com/russias-on

    #Russia #RussianInvasion #WarCrimes

  2. Steady decline in #Putin's ratings is sending a message, just not the kind #polls in #democracies are designed to capture

    As #Kremlin's grip over internet tightens , #pro-war military #bloggers, state-approved “opposition” parties & even #influencers railed against #online #crackdown

    State-linked #pollsters report Putin's approval rating has steadily declined, reaching its lowest point during the all-out invasion of Ukraine.

    kyivindependent.com/russias-on

    #Russia #RussianInvasion #WarCrimes

  3. Steady decline in #Putin's ratings is sending a message, just not the kind #polls in #democracies are designed to capture

    As #Kremlin's grip over internet tightens , #pro-war military #bloggers, state-approved “opposition” parties & even #influencers railed against #online #crackdown

    State-linked #pollsters report Putin's approval rating has steadily declined, reaching its lowest point during the all-out invasion of Ukraine.

    kyivindependent.com/russias-on

    #Russia #RussianInvasion #WarCrimes

  4. Steady decline in #Putin's ratings is sending a message, just not the kind #polls in #democracies are designed to capture

    As #Kremlin's grip over internet tightens , #pro-war military #bloggers, state-approved “opposition” parties & even #influencers railed against #online #crackdown

    State-linked #pollsters report Putin's approval rating has steadily declined, reaching its lowest point during the all-out invasion of Ukraine.

    kyivindependent.com/russias-on

    #Russia #RussianInvasion #WarCrimes

  5. Steady decline in #Putin's ratings is sending a message, just not the kind #polls in #democracies are designed to capture

    As #Kremlin's grip over internet tightens , #pro-war military #bloggers, state-approved “opposition” parties & even #influencers railed against #online #crackdown

    State-linked #pollsters report Putin's approval rating has steadily declined, reaching its lowest point during the all-out invasion of Ukraine.

    kyivindependent.com/russias-on

    #Russia #RussianInvasion #WarCrimes

  6. Watch Aya Jaffs’s inspiring talk at the #2MR-Conference online:

    »Reclaim the internet for #democracies. How Tech Cooperatives can help«
    👉 watch.2mr.social/w/53cbnLPN9gA

    > If this is success, their version of #freedom sounds like a threat.

    Also check out Aya's column »Code & Capital« at @surplusmagazin:
    surplusmagazin.de/autoren/aya-

    #AyaJaff #Broligarchy #BigTech #OMR #democracy #digitalrights

  7. Watch Aya Jaffs’s inspiring talk at the #2MR-Conference online:

    »Reclaim the internet for #democracies. How Tech Cooperatives can help«
    👉 watch.2mr.social/w/53cbnLPN9gA

    > If this is success, their version of #freedom sounds like a threat.

    Also check out Aya's column »Code & Capital« at @surplusmagazin:
    surplusmagazin.de/autoren/aya-

    #AyaJaff #Broligarchy #BigTech #OMR #democracy #digitalrights

  8. Watch Aya Jaffs’s inspiring talk at the #2MR-Conference online:

    »Reclaim the internet for #democracies. How Tech Cooperatives can help«
    👉 watch.2mr.social/w/53cbnLPN9gA

    > If this is success, their version of #freedom sounds like a threat.

    Also check out Aya's column »Code & Capital« at @surplusmagazin:
    surplusmagazin.de/autoren/aya-

    #AyaJaff #Broligarchy #BigTech #OMR #democracy #digitalrights

  9. Watch Aya Jaffs’s inspiring talk at the #2MR-Conference online:

    »Reclaim the internet for #democracies. How Tech Cooperatives can help«
    👉 watch.2mr.social/w/53cbnLPN9gA

    > If this is success, their version of #freedom sounds like a threat.

    Also check out Aya's column »Code & Capital« at @surplusmagazin:
    surplusmagazin.de/autoren/aya-

    #AyaJaff #Broligarchy #BigTech #OMR #democracy #digitalrights

  10. Watch Aya Jaffs’s inspiring talk at the #2MR-Conference online:

    »Reclaim the internet for #democracies. How Tech Cooperatives can help«
    👉 watch.2mr.social/w/53cbnLPN9gA

    > If this is success, their version of #freedom sounds like a threat.

    Also check out Aya's column »Code & Capital« at @surplusmagazin:
    surplusmagazin.de/autoren/aya-

    #AyaJaff #Broligarchy #BigTech #OMR #democracy #digitalrights

  11. 1/ An interesting contrast about two #democracies - #US Vs #India : a constitutional amendment proposed in India seeks to expand the legislature and ensure population-based representation. And the southern states (smaller population but wealthier) to oppose it as unfair. #democracy #elections

  12. In case folks are not aware of the interesting contrast about two #democracies - #US Vs #India : a constitutional amendment proposed in India seeks to expand the legislature and ensure population-based representation. And the southern states (smaller population but wealthier) to oppose it as unfair. In the US, the smaller and poorer states hold disproportionately more power in the #Senate and #ElectoralCollege

    Which one is right?

    #democracy #elections #voters #power

  13. "The #GinoGermaniInstitute of #SocialSciences and #StrategicStudies, an #Italian think tank based in #Rome and focused on countering #disinformation, has presented its 2026 research paper, “#Antisemitism and #Russian Active Measures from the #Tsars to #Putin,” authored by researcher #MassimilianoDePasquale.

    The study, which traces developments from the era of the tsars through the #Soviet period to the present day, argues that Russian antisemitism is not merely a relic of the past but an active component of contemporary hybrid warfare. Through the use of trolls, bots and compliant media outlets, #Moscow is said to stoke antisemitism across the Western world – on the right (via #whitesupremacism) and on the left (via radical #antiZionism) – with the sole aim of eroding the social fabric of liberal #democracies."

    kyivpost.com/analysis/72745

  14. "The #GinoGermaniInstitute of #SocialSciences and #StrategicStudies, an #Italian think tank based in #Rome and focused on countering #disinformation, has presented its 2026 research paper, “#Antisemitism and #Russian Active Measures from the #Tsars to #Putin,” authored by researcher #MassimilianoDePasquale.

    The study, which traces developments from the era of the tsars through the #Soviet period to the present day, argues that Russian antisemitism is not merely a relic of the past but an active component of contemporary hybrid warfare. Through the use of trolls, bots and compliant media outlets, #Moscow is said to stoke antisemitism across the Western world – on the right (via #whitesupremacism) and on the left (via radical #antiZionism) – with the sole aim of eroding the social fabric of liberal #democracies."

    kyivpost.com/analysis/72745

  15. "The #GinoGermaniInstitute of #SocialSciences and #StrategicStudies, an #Italian think tank based in #Rome and focused on countering #disinformation, has presented its 2026 research paper, “#Antisemitism and #Russian Active Measures from the #Tsars to #Putin,” authored by researcher #MassimilianoDePasquale.

    The study, which traces developments from the era of the tsars through the #Soviet period to the present day, argues that Russian antisemitism is not merely a relic of the past but an active component of contemporary hybrid warfare. Through the use of trolls, bots and compliant media outlets, #Moscow is said to stoke antisemitism across the Western world – on the right (via #whitesupremacism) and on the left (via radical #antiZionism) – with the sole aim of eroding the social fabric of liberal #democracies."

    kyivpost.com/analysis/72745

  16. "The #GinoGermaniInstitute of #SocialSciences and #StrategicStudies, an #Italian think tank based in #Rome and focused on countering #disinformation, has presented its 2026 research paper, “#Antisemitism and #Russian Active Measures from the #Tsars to #Putin,” authored by researcher #MassimilianoDePasquale.

    The study, which traces developments from the era of the tsars through the #Soviet period to the present day, argues that Russian antisemitism is not merely a relic of the past but an active component of contemporary hybrid warfare. Through the use of trolls, bots and compliant media outlets, #Moscow is said to stoke antisemitism across the Western world – on the right (via #whitesupremacism) and on the left (via radical #antiZionism) – with the sole aim of eroding the social fabric of liberal #democracies."

    kyivpost.com/analysis/72745

  17. "The #GinoGermaniInstitute of #SocialSciences and #StrategicStudies, an #Italian think tank based in #Rome and focused on countering #disinformation, has presented its 2026 research paper, “#Antisemitism and #Russian Active Measures from the #Tsars to #Putin,” authored by researcher #MassimilianoDePasquale.

    The study, which traces developments from the era of the tsars through the #Soviet period to the present day, argues that Russian antisemitism is not merely a relic of the past but an active component of contemporary hybrid warfare. Through the use of trolls, bots and compliant media outlets, #Moscow is said to stoke antisemitism across the Western world – on the right (via #whitesupremacism) and on the left (via radical #antiZionism) – with the sole aim of eroding the social fabric of liberal #democracies."

    kyivpost.com/analysis/72745

  18. “Social scientists have identified at least three major forces that collectively bind together successful #democracies: #socialcapital (extensive social networks with high levels of trust), #stronginstitutions, and shared #stories. #Socialmedia has weakened all three.”

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/post/3mgzhdx3fes2e

  19. Attending #AAG2026 in #SanFrancisco?

    📘 Join us for #AuthorsMeetCritics on my recent #book Datafied #Democracies & #AI Economics Unplugged (@SpringerNature 2026).

    🗓 Mar 18 | ⏰ 4:10–5:30 PM
    📍 Mendocino 1&2, Hotel Nikko |
    🔗 link.springer.com/book/10.1007

    #DigitalSovereignty #AAG

  20. #WhenTheTaleWagsTheDog

    *👉️️️️️️️Who says #DonaldJTrump is unpredictable?👈️️️️️️️*

    (12/n)

    ...have caught too few of these modern-day tyrants👈: #Raisi, #DaSilva, #Yoon + #Maduro.

    However, much more serious than these individuals is the global degeneration of #democracies into #plutocracies and the almost enslaving trend of #Technofeudalism*..

    * Technofeudalism:
    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1119
    (#Thiel, #Musk, #Zuckerberg, #Bezos, and many others) in connection with #enshittification 5), and #shrinkflation 6).

  21. #WhenTheTaleWagsTheDog

    *👉️️️️️️️Who says #DonaldJTrump is unpredictable?👈️️️️️️️*

    (12/n)

    ...have caught too few of these modern-day tyrants👈: #Raisi, #DaSilva, #Yoon + #Maduro.

    However, much more serious than these individuals is the global degeneration of #democracies into #plutocracies and the almost enslaving trend of #Technofeudalism*..

    * Technofeudalism:
    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1119
    (#Thiel, #Musk, #Zuckerberg, #Bezos, and many others) in connection with #enshittification 5), and #shrinkflation 6).

  22. #WhenTheTaleWagsTheDog

    *👉️️️️️️️Who says #DonaldJTrump is unpredictable?👈️️️️️️️*

    (12/n)

    ...have caught too few of these modern-day tyrants👈: #Raisi, #DaSilva, #Yoon + #Maduro.

    However, much more serious than these individuals is the global degeneration of #democracies into #plutocracies and the almost enslaving trend of #Technofeudalism*..

    * Technofeudalism:
    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1119
    (#Thiel, #Musk, #Zuckerberg, #Bezos, and many others) in connection with #enshittification 5), and #shrinkflation 6).

  23. #WhenTheTaleWagsTheDog

    *👉️️️️️️️Who says #DonaldJTrump is unpredictable?👈️️️️️️️*

    (12/n)

    ...have caught too few of these modern-day tyrants👈: #Raisi, #DaSilva, #Yoon + #Maduro.

    However, much more serious than these individuals is the global degeneration of #democracies into #plutocracies and the almost enslaving trend of #Technofeudalism*..

    * Technofeudalism:
    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1119
    (#Thiel, #Musk, #Zuckerberg, #Bezos, and many others) in connection with #enshittification 5), and #shrinkflation 6).

  24. Our great #democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our #politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.

    Bertrand Russell, New Hopes for a Changing #World

    #quote #quotes #anarchocommunism

  25. @GhostOnTheHalfShell

    #GeoPol #EUpol

    Thx for pointing this out.

    I feel strongly that anyone with any interest in #EU countries should read that article:

    brusselstimes.com/belgium/1916

    The same thing seems to be happening in almost(?) all Western #Democracies.

    A century ago, it was the #RedScare that befell the world 🌍 with the #CommunistInternational. It was soon followed by the fascist "#BrownScare," aka "#NationalSocialism, " aka #Fascism.

    A #FascistInternational is in the making.

  26. “And also for reminding us that what has become a boring everyday reality for the West, such as #rights and #freedoms, constitutions and #democracies, #prosperity and predictability, which we stopped caring about and began to undermine and question, is something you are ready to fight for,” Tusk noted.

    euronews.com/2026/02/15/we-mus

    #RussianAggression #USAggression #Europe #peace

    [2/2]

  27. #Thailand’s corruption score slips
    "🇹🇭 ranked fifth in #Asean, w #Singapore the highest & #Myanmar the lowest at 169th.. #Transparency #International said global ave score in 2025 dropped one point to 42 & 122 countries scored below 50, signalling #widespread #public #sector #corruption. “Only 5 countries now score above 80 (down fr 12 a decade ago), & recent slippage in high-scoring #democracies shows corruption risks can rise even where #institutions once looked secure"🤦‍♂️
    bangkokpost.com/business/gener

  28. conclusion:

    > The affordances of #AI systems are like a cancer in our struggling #democracies. They degrade expertise, which we desperately need. They short-circuit decision-making, which make us responsible for and to each other. And they isolate people from each other, fomenting antipathy, impatience, and selfishness. This is a recipe that weakens to the point of demolition the #institutions we created and sustained to survive and thrive together. The center cannot hold.

  29. This is exactly what the #Repugliqunt, #Russian #Oligarch and #CPP Global #Overlords want!
    Why do you think the #Chinese #Communist Party and #Putin spend so much time and money poisoning the #news and #disinformation available to the #Democracies of the #West ?
    It's a long game: lobotomize their youth; erode trust in the #RuleOfLaw; promote #conspiracy and #anxiety; increase mental health #pathology... then sit back and wait for it all to crumble.

    axios.com/2024/03/22/screen-ti

  30. If floundering leaders r #newnorm we’re in v dangerous time
    "post-WW2 welfare states eroded by capital’s escape fr #regulations, #taxation & #employment #standards tt govts once enacted, & none of e nations’ #governments cld arrest e shift in income fr wages to invts. #Offshoring ⏬️ # of & rewards for jobs in #industry.. broad prosperity of 30 yrs aft WW2, when #democracies w adv econs saw #realwages & median incomes⏫️ due to #preglobal #socialcontracts has long vanished"
    prospect.org/world/2024-12-23-

  31. How long can #Singapore’s #NMP scheme stay relevant?
    🤔"Intro'ed in 1990 by then-PM Goh, e NMP platform was created to allow #nonelected MPs to provide #alternative #nonpartisan views.. scheme wasn't estab'ed to be a “talent pipeline” for #political parties.. “We must strengthen e NMP system to be the much-needed non-partisan ‘third side’ of the house to prevent the ills of #twoparty #systems tt we r seeing before our eyes in some mature #democracies” Anthea Ong" #ambition
    scmp.com/week-asia/politics/ar

  32. And at the same time the #CCP #dictatorship of #China has been forcibly #sinicizing #Tibetan children for *decades* using similar methods.

    When the clear intention is destroying the identity of people under occupation it is #genocide.

    The world is finally, still too slowly, waking up to the dangers of hostile despotism, but the evidence of it has been there for anyone interested to see for decades.

    Also, CCP getting away with enslaving Tibet emboldened it to crush the #Uighurs, and #putin to try the same by invading #Ukraine.

    The despots facing no consequences meant their victims faced it all. At least Ukraine is getting the help they deserve.

    #Democracies simply put business far ahead of the most basic moral considerations for decades...

    @fulelo

  33. The science of how (and when) we decide to speak out—or self-censor

    Freedom of speech is a foundational principle of healthy #democracies and hence a primary target for aspiring #authoritarians , who typically try to squash #dissent. There is a point where the threat from authorities is sufficiently severe that a population will self-censor rather than risk punishment.
    #censorship #authoritarianism #authoritarian #freespeech #selfcensorship

    arstechnica.com/science/2025/1

  34. wir2026.wid.world/www-site/upl... 1/ "#Inequality is the result of our #policies, #institutions, and #governance structures. The costs of escalating inequality are clear: widening divides, fragile #democracies, and a #climate #crisis borne most heavily by those least responsible."

    wir2026.wid.world/www-site/uploa...

  35. wir2026.wid.world/www-site/upl

    "#Inequality is a #political choice. It is the result of our #policies, #institutions, and #governance structures. The costs of escalating inequality are clear: widening divides, fragile #democracies, and a #climate #crisis borne most heavily by those least responsible. But the possibilities of reform are equally clear. Where #redistribution is strong, #taxation is fair, and #social investment is prioritized, inequality narrows."