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Opinion | Study confirms what many suspected: the 2024 election was rigged
Written by Thom Hartmann, July 10, 2026
"It sure looks like #TechBillionaires and foreign #dictatorships gave us Trump in 2024. This is as bad as the massive #RussianBot presence on #Facebook and #Twitter back in 2016, which Robert Mueller documented gave Trump the presidency that time.
"A peer-reviewed study released Thursday in Nature, the world’s most prestigious scientific journal, has finally put hard numbers to what a lot of us suspected the moment the 2024 election was called for Trump (and Republicans in Congress) by the big networks: the algorithms that control our largest #SocialMedia platforms intentionally and explicitly tilted the playing field, and they tilted it for Donald #Trump and the #GOP.
"Researchers at New York University Abu Dhabi created hundreds of 'sock puppet' #TikTok accounts in New York, Texas, and Georgia (via VPN), uploaded to them either pro-Democratic or pro-Republican videos to show their political leanings, and then watched what TikTok’s algorithm fed back to them every day over the 27 weeks leading up to #ElectionDay.
"Across more than 280,000 recommendations, Republican-seeded accounts received about 11.5 percent more 'party-aligned content' than their Democratic counterparts, while the pro-Democratic accounts were force-fed 7.5 percent more attacks from the other side. As Professor Talal Rahwan put it:
'The algorithm wasn’t just giving people what they want; it was giving one side more of what the other side says about them.'"The pro-#rightwing bias was even more dramatic when researchers looked at how the candidates’ own accounts did. Candidate Trump’s official TikTok videos were pushed to Democratic-leaning users 27 percent of the time, while #KamalaHarris’s videos only reached Republican-leaning users just 15.3 percent of the time.
"Translation: Leading up to the 2024 election, TikTok was working overtime to expose Democrats and lefties to MAGA’s most persuasive messaging, all while shielding rightwingers, independents, and Republican voters from Harris’s voice."
Source:
xhttps://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/election-rigged-2024Archived version:
https://archive.ph/2q8gO#USPol #USElections #TechBros #TechBroFascism #RiggedElections #Technofascism #Oligarchy #Technogarchy
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Opinion | Study confirms what many suspected: the 2024 election was rigged
Written by Thom Hartmann, July 10, 2026
"It sure looks like #TechBillionaires and foreign #dictatorships gave us Trump in 2024. This is as bad as the massive #RussianBot presence on #Facebook and #Twitter back in 2016, which Robert Mueller documented gave Trump the presidency that time.
"A peer-reviewed study released Thursday in Nature, the world’s most prestigious scientific journal, has finally put hard numbers to what a lot of us suspected the moment the 2024 election was called for Trump (and Republicans in Congress) by the big networks: the algorithms that control our largest #SocialMedia platforms intentionally and explicitly tilted the playing field, and they tilted it for Donald #Trump and the #GOP.
"Researchers at New York University Abu Dhabi created hundreds of 'sock puppet' #TikTok accounts in New York, Texas, and Georgia (via VPN), uploaded to them either pro-Democratic or pro-Republican videos to show their political leanings, and then watched what TikTok’s algorithm fed back to them every day over the 27 weeks leading up to #ElectionDay.
"Across more than 280,000 recommendations, Republican-seeded accounts received about 11.5 percent more 'party-aligned content' than their Democratic counterparts, while the pro-Democratic accounts were force-fed 7.5 percent more attacks from the other side. As Professor Talal Rahwan put it:
'The algorithm wasn’t just giving people what they want; it was giving one side more of what the other side says about them.'"The pro-#rightwing bias was even more dramatic when researchers looked at how the candidates’ own accounts did. Candidate Trump’s official TikTok videos were pushed to Democratic-leaning users 27 percent of the time, while #KamalaHarris’s videos only reached Republican-leaning users just 15.3 percent of the time.
"Translation: Leading up to the 2024 election, TikTok was working overtime to expose Democrats and lefties to MAGA’s most persuasive messaging, all while shielding rightwingers, independents, and Republican voters from Harris’s voice."
Source:
xhttps://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/election-rigged-2024Archived version:
https://archive.ph/2q8gO#USPol #USElections #TechBros #TechBroFascism #RiggedElections #Technofascism #Oligarchy #Technogarchy
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Opinion | Study confirms what many suspected: the 2024 election was rigged
Written by Thom Hartmann, July 10, 2026
"It sure looks like #TechBillionaires and foreign #dictatorships gave us Trump in 2024. This is as bad as the massive #RussianBot presence on #Facebook and #Twitter back in 2016, which Robert Mueller documented gave Trump the presidency that time.
"A peer-reviewed study released Thursday in Nature, the world’s most prestigious scientific journal, has finally put hard numbers to what a lot of us suspected the moment the 2024 election was called for Trump (and Republicans in Congress) by the big networks: the algorithms that control our largest #SocialMedia platforms intentionally and explicitly tilted the playing field, and they tilted it for Donald #Trump and the #GOP.
"Researchers at New York University Abu Dhabi created hundreds of 'sock puppet' #TikTok accounts in New York, Texas, and Georgia (via VPN), uploaded to them either pro-Democratic or pro-Republican videos to show their political leanings, and then watched what TikTok’s algorithm fed back to them every day over the 27 weeks leading up to #ElectionDay.
"Across more than 280,000 recommendations, Republican-seeded accounts received about 11.5 percent more 'party-aligned content' than their Democratic counterparts, while the pro-Democratic accounts were force-fed 7.5 percent more attacks from the other side. As Professor Talal Rahwan put it:
'The algorithm wasn’t just giving people what they want; it was giving one side more of what the other side says about them.'"The pro-#rightwing bias was even more dramatic when researchers looked at how the candidates’ own accounts did. Candidate Trump’s official TikTok videos were pushed to Democratic-leaning users 27 percent of the time, while #KamalaHarris’s videos only reached Republican-leaning users just 15.3 percent of the time.
"Translation: Leading up to the 2024 election, TikTok was working overtime to expose Democrats and lefties to MAGA’s most persuasive messaging, all while shielding rightwingers, independents, and Republican voters from Harris’s voice."
Source:
xhttps://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/election-rigged-2024Archived version:
https://archive.ph/2q8gO#USPol #USElections #TechBros #TechBroFascism #RiggedElections #Technofascism #Oligarchy #Technogarchy
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Opinion | Study confirms what many suspected: the 2024 election was rigged
Written by Thom Hartmann, July 10, 2026
"It sure looks like #TechBillionaires and foreign #dictatorships gave us Trump in 2024. This is as bad as the massive #RussianBot presence on #Facebook and #Twitter back in 2016, which Robert Mueller documented gave Trump the presidency that time.
"A peer-reviewed study released Thursday in Nature, the world’s most prestigious scientific journal, has finally put hard numbers to what a lot of us suspected the moment the 2024 election was called for Trump (and Republicans in Congress) by the big networks: the algorithms that control our largest #SocialMedia platforms intentionally and explicitly tilted the playing field, and they tilted it for Donald #Trump and the #GOP.
"Researchers at New York University Abu Dhabi created hundreds of 'sock puppet' #TikTok accounts in New York, Texas, and Georgia (via VPN), uploaded to them either pro-Democratic or pro-Republican videos to show their political leanings, and then watched what TikTok’s algorithm fed back to them every day over the 27 weeks leading up to #ElectionDay.
"Across more than 280,000 recommendations, Republican-seeded accounts received about 11.5 percent more 'party-aligned content' than their Democratic counterparts, while the pro-Democratic accounts were force-fed 7.5 percent more attacks from the other side. As Professor Talal Rahwan put it:
'The algorithm wasn’t just giving people what they want; it was giving one side more of what the other side says about them.'"The pro-#rightwing bias was even more dramatic when researchers looked at how the candidates’ own accounts did. Candidate Trump’s official TikTok videos were pushed to Democratic-leaning users 27 percent of the time, while #KamalaHarris’s videos only reached Republican-leaning users just 15.3 percent of the time.
"Translation: Leading up to the 2024 election, TikTok was working overtime to expose Democrats and lefties to MAGA’s most persuasive messaging, all while shielding rightwingers, independents, and Republican voters from Harris’s voice."
Source:
xhttps://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/election-rigged-2024Archived version:
https://archive.ph/2q8gO#USPol #USElections #TechBros #TechBroFascism #RiggedElections #Technofascism #Oligarchy #Technogarchy
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Opinion | Study confirms what many suspected: the 2024 election was rigged
Written by Thom Hartmann, July 10, 2026
"It sure looks like #TechBillionaires and foreign #dictatorships gave us Trump in 2024. This is as bad as the massive #RussianBot presence on #Facebook and #Twitter back in 2016, which Robert Mueller documented gave Trump the presidency that time.
"A peer-reviewed study released Thursday in Nature, the world’s most prestigious scientific journal, has finally put hard numbers to what a lot of us suspected the moment the 2024 election was called for Trump (and Republicans in Congress) by the big networks: the algorithms that control our largest #SocialMedia platforms intentionally and explicitly tilted the playing field, and they tilted it for Donald #Trump and the #GOP.
"Researchers at New York University Abu Dhabi created hundreds of 'sock puppet' #TikTok accounts in New York, Texas, and Georgia (via VPN), uploaded to them either pro-Democratic or pro-Republican videos to show their political leanings, and then watched what TikTok’s algorithm fed back to them every day over the 27 weeks leading up to #ElectionDay.
"Across more than 280,000 recommendations, Republican-seeded accounts received about 11.5 percent more 'party-aligned content' than their Democratic counterparts, while the pro-Democratic accounts were force-fed 7.5 percent more attacks from the other side. As Professor Talal Rahwan put it:
'The algorithm wasn’t just giving people what they want; it was giving one side more of what the other side says about them.'"The pro-#rightwing bias was even more dramatic when researchers looked at how the candidates’ own accounts did. Candidate Trump’s official TikTok videos were pushed to Democratic-leaning users 27 percent of the time, while #KamalaHarris’s videos only reached Republican-leaning users just 15.3 percent of the time.
"Translation: Leading up to the 2024 election, TikTok was working overtime to expose Democrats and lefties to MAGA’s most persuasive messaging, all while shielding rightwingers, independents, and Republican voters from Harris’s voice."
Source:
xhttps://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/election-rigged-2024Archived version:
https://archive.ph/2q8gO#USPol #USElections #TechBros #TechBroFascism #RiggedElections #Technofascism #Oligarchy #Technogarchy
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📕 O livro "Memórias Dissidentes. Repressão e resistências quotidianas de homossexuais e lésbicas nas ditaduras ibéricas" é o resultado da investigação de doutoramento de Raquel Afonso, cuja investigação foi desenvolvida no IHC.
#Histodons #Anthropodons #SocialHistory #QueerHistory #LGBTQIA #Dictatorships #IberianPeninsula #Portugal #Spain #España #HistóriaSocial #Ditaduras #Antropologia #MastoLivros
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📕 O livro "Memórias Dissidentes. Repressão e resistências quotidianas de homossexuais e lésbicas nas ditaduras ibéricas" é o resultado da investigação de doutoramento de Raquel Afonso, cuja investigação foi desenvolvida no IHC.
#Histodons #Anthropodons #SocialHistory #QueerHistory #LGBTQIA #Dictatorships #IberianPeninsula #Portugal #Spain #España #HistóriaSocial #Ditaduras #Antropologia #MastoLivros
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📕 O livro "Memórias Dissidentes. Repressão e resistências quotidianas de homossexuais e lésbicas nas ditaduras ibéricas" é o resultado da investigação de doutoramento de Raquel Afonso, cuja investigação foi desenvolvida no IHC.
#Histodons #Anthropodons #SocialHistory #QueerHistory #LGBTQIA #Dictatorships #IberianPeninsula #Portugal #Spain #España #HistóriaSocial #Ditaduras #Antropologia #MastoLivros
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📕 O livro "Memórias Dissidentes. Repressão e resistências quotidianas de homossexuais e lésbicas nas ditaduras ibéricas" é o resultado da investigação de doutoramento de Raquel Afonso, cuja investigação foi desenvolvida no IHC.
#Histodons #Anthropodons #SocialHistory #QueerHistory #LGBTQIA #Dictatorships #IberianPeninsula #Portugal #Spain #España #HistóriaSocial #Ditaduras #Antropologia #MastoLivros
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📕 O livro "Memórias Dissidentes. Repressão e resistências quotidianas de homossexuais e lésbicas nas ditaduras ibéricas" é o resultado da investigação de doutoramento de Raquel Afonso, cuja investigação foi desenvolvida no IHC.
#Histodons #Anthropodons #SocialHistory #QueerHistory #LGBTQIA #Dictatorships #IberianPeninsula #Portugal #Spain #España #HistóriaSocial #Ditaduras #Antropologia #MastoLivros
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Prominent #pro-Kremlin #blogger known for his aggressive attacks on #Russia’s opposition abruptly turned against #Putin with series of scathing critiques
A day later, he was admitted to #psychiatric #hospital
Ilya #Remeslo, built #blog targeting late opposition leader #Navalny
His sudden reversal, & speed he disappeared, has drawn intense attention in Russia’s tightly controlled media
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On this day in 2025 (at FB)
#USpol #Trumpizm #HimNotUs #SmokeAndMirror #ResidentEvil #Dictatorships #SelfDelusion #AsymptomaticCarrier
News:
"State department signs off on bombs and missiles sales that the US claims would help Israel ‘defend its borders’"
Comment:
"Course not. He has no interest in ordinary people, as all his other policies demonstrate."
If the latter could be your comment, I need to say something to you.
Here, in Europe (especially at the "wrong side of The Iron Curtain"), we are pretty well-versed in dictatorships. Franco, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, now Łukaszenka and Putin... They come and they go like in a political Hurricane Alley of sorts, so we know them well (those who chose to know, at least).
And there is a particular takeaway lesson I want to convey here:It is not him. It never was. It is us.
Whoever's name and face appears as the figurehead of the "current edition", is just a token. The dictatorship is us all. It is the crew that makes the ship.
If you work for him, you are him.
If you respect people who are him, you are him.
If you talk to your neighbour, who is him, you are him.
If you let your children play with his children, you are him.
Even if you fight him, you are still him.
Dictatorship is a highly contagious disease, and no one within its realm stays untouched.
BUT one glorious day, it is gone.
Halleluyah! We Are Saved And Redeemed!
We can go back to be our great good selves!
Because it was just him. Or maybe few scoundrels and misled simpletons, who are already dangling from the lamposts or hiding in Argentina.
We were never part of it. True?
TRUE?Not. It was not just him. It never was. It was us.
If you worked for him, you were him.
If you respected people who were him, you were him.
If you talked to your neighbour, who was him, you were him.
If you let your children play with his children, you were him.
Even if you fought him, still. You. Were. Him.
Unless you accept the fact, confront it, and find the way to control this resident evil in you, you will be just another asymptomatic carrier, waiting for just another "unexpected" outbreak. Which is going to happen. -
On this day in 2025 (at FB)
#USpol #Trumpizm #HimNotUs #SmokeAndMirror #ResidentEvil #Dictatorships #SelfDelusion #AsymptomaticCarrier
News:
"State department signs off on bombs and missiles sales that the US claims would help Israel ‘defend its borders’"
Comment:
"Course not. He has no interest in ordinary people, as all his other policies demonstrate."
If the latter could be your comment, I need to say something to you.
Here, in Europe (especially at the "wrong side of The Iron Curtain"), we are pretty well-versed in dictatorships. Franco, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, now Łukaszenka and Putin... They come and they go like in a political Hurricane Alley of sorts, so we know them well (those who chose to know, at least).
And there is a particular takeaway lesson I want to convey here:It is not him. It never was. It is us.
Whoever's name and face appears as the figurehead of the "current edition", is just a token. The dictatorship is us all. It is the crew that makes the ship.
If you work for him, you are him.
If you respect people who are him, you are him.
If you talk to your neighbour, who is him, you are him.
If you let your children play with his children, you are him.
Even if you fight him, you are still him.
Dictatorship is a highly contagious disease, and no one within its realm stays untouched.
BUT one glorious day, it is gone.
Halleluyah! We Are Saved And Redeemed!
We can go back to be our great good selves!
Because it was just him. Or maybe few scoundrels and misled simpletons, who are already dangling from the lamposts or hiding in Argentina.
We were never part of it. True?
TRUE?Not. It was not just him. It never was. It was us.
If you worked for him, you were him.
If you respected people who were him, you were him.
If you talked to your neighbour, who was him, you were him.
If you let your children play with his children, you were him.
Even if you fought him, still. You. Were. Him.
Unless you accept the fact, confront it, and find the way to control this resident evil in you, you will be just another asymptomatic carrier, waiting for just another "unexpected" outbreak. Which is going to happen. -
Captain of Seized Tanker Rushed Out of #UK by #USCG Ahead of Court Hearing
#US had said vessel was brought to #Scotland to be resupplied [US lied]
Lawyer for wife of captain asserted the US has #abducted the crewmembers, raising serious constitutional and legal concerns
Earlier they complained #Scottish authorities had not acted to protect the #crew & let US remove the crew without observing the laws
#tyrants #dictatorships #USAggression #InternationalLaw #BoycottUSA
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Captain of Seized Tanker Rushed Out of #UK by #USCG Ahead of Court Hearing
#US had said vessel was brought to #Scotland to be resupplied [US lied]
Lawyer for wife of captain asserted the US has #abducted the crewmembers, raising serious constitutional and legal concerns
Earlier they complained #Scottish authorities had not acted to protect the #crew & let US remove the crew without observing the laws
#tyrants #dictatorships #USAggression #InternationalLaw #BoycottUSA
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Captain of Seized Tanker Rushed Out of #UK by #USCG Ahead of Court Hearing
#US had said vessel was brought to #Scotland to be resupplied [US lied]
Lawyer for wife of captain asserted the US has #abducted the crewmembers, raising serious constitutional and legal concerns
Earlier they complained #Scottish authorities had not acted to protect the #crew & let US remove the crew without observing the laws
#tyrants #dictatorships #USAggression #InternationalLaw #BoycottUSA
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Captain of Seized Tanker Rushed Out of #UK by #USCG Ahead of Court Hearing
#US had said vessel was brought to #Scotland to be resupplied [US lied]
Lawyer for wife of captain asserted the US has #abducted the crewmembers, raising serious constitutional and legal concerns
Earlier they complained #Scottish authorities had not acted to protect the #crew & let US remove the crew without observing the laws
#tyrants #dictatorships #USAggression #InternationalLaw #BoycottUSA
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Captain of Seized Tanker Rushed Out of #UK by #USCG Ahead of Court Hearing
#US had said vessel was brought to #Scotland to be resupplied [US lied]
Lawyer for wife of captain asserted the US has #abducted the crewmembers, raising serious constitutional and legal concerns
Earlier they complained #Scottish authorities had not acted to protect the #crew & let US remove the crew without observing the laws
#tyrants #dictatorships #USAggression #InternationalLaw #BoycottUSA
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⚠️ Today is the last day to submit applications for the position of Junior Researcher to join the #STEXEU project!
🇩🇪 The researcher will be responsible for the German case study, i.e., conducting historical research on #authoritarianism and the crisis of #democracy in #Germany in the years 1900–1939.
👉 https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/jr-stexeu-de-2026/
#Histodons #EU_Funded #ERC #ERCStG #EUfunded #Dictatorships #StatesOfException #HistoryJobs #ScienceJobs #PoliticalHistory #SocialHistory #MastoJobs #EUFunded
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⚠️ Today is the last day to submit applications for the position of Junior Researcher to join the #STEXEU project!
🇩🇪 The researcher will be responsible for the German case study, i.e., conducting historical research on #authoritarianism and the crisis of #democracy in #Germany in the years 1900–1939.
👉 https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/jr-stexeu-de-2026/
#Histodons #EU_Funded #ERC #ERCStG #EUfunded #Dictatorships #StatesOfException #HistoryJobs #ScienceJobs #PoliticalHistory #SocialHistory #MastoJobs #EUFunded
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⚠️ Today is the last day to submit applications for the position of Junior Researcher to join the #STEXEU project!
🇩🇪 The researcher will be responsible for the German case study, i.e., conducting historical research on #authoritarianism and the crisis of #democracy in #Germany in the years 1900–1939.
👉 https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/jr-stexeu-de-2026/
#Histodons #EU_Funded #ERC #ERCStG #EUfunded #Dictatorships #StatesOfException #HistoryJobs #ScienceJobs #PoliticalHistory #SocialHistory #MastoJobs #EUFunded
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⚠️ Today is the last day to submit applications for the position of Junior Researcher to join the #STEXEU project!
🇩🇪 The researcher will be responsible for the German case study, i.e., conducting historical research on #authoritarianism and the crisis of #democracy in #Germany in the years 1900–1939.
👉 https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/jr-stexeu-de-2026/
#Histodons #EU_Funded #ERC #ERCStG #EUfunded #Dictatorships #StatesOfException #HistoryJobs #ScienceJobs #PoliticalHistory #SocialHistory #MastoJobs #EUFunded
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⚠️ Today is the last day to submit applications for the position of Junior Researcher to join the #STEXEU project!
🇩🇪 The researcher will be responsible for the German case study, i.e., conducting historical research on #authoritarianism and the crisis of #democracy in #Germany in the years 1900–1939.
👉 https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/jr-stexeu-de-2026/
#Histodons #EU_Funded #ERC #ERCStG #EUfunded #Dictatorships #StatesOfException #HistoryJobs #ScienceJobs #PoliticalHistory #SocialHistory #MastoJobs #EUFunded
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Donald Trump is borrowing a strategy from authoritarian regimes to #intimidate potential critics and #discourage them from speaking out, according to a senator under investigation by his administration.
#Elissa #Slotkin, a Democrat from Michigan, faces questioning after she organised and appeared in a #video with other Democrats imploring military service members to #refuse “#illegal #orders”.
Fellow senator #Mark #Kelly and three Democrats from the House of Representatives are also being investigated.
To Slotkin, a former analyst with the Central Intelligence Agency ( #CIA ), it is a deliberate effort to chill free speech that rhymes with her experience of #dictatorships around the world.
“They’re now using a well-worn playbook that employs #physical intimidation and #legal intimidation to get,
A, you to shut up, and
B, for other people thinking of criticising the president on such issues to be dissuaded from doing so,”
she told the Guardian in a phone interview.“It’s absolutely a strategy well used in other countries and other authoritarian governments.
As a CIA officer I’ve served in places like this,
I’ve studied places like this my entire life,
and Trump is sadly using that #playbook in the United States right now.”Now 49, Slotkin completed three tours in Iraq with the US military before moving into national security roles at the Pentagon and White House under presidents George W Bush and Barack Obama.
In 2018 she turned to electoral politics, winning a long-held Republican seat in #Michigan and helping Democrats reclaim control of the House.
She secured re-election in 2020 and 2022, campaigning on issues such as access to affordable healthcare and efforts to bring manufacturing back to her home state.
Her ascent continued in 2024 when she won an open Senate seat despite Trump carrying Michigan in the presidential election.
Last year she delivered the Democrats’ rebuttal to Trump’s joint congressional address.
Then in November she was among six congressional Democrats,
all with military or intelligence backgrounds,
who in a 90-second video cited the "Uniform Code of Military Justice"
and said no one has to carry out orders that violate the law or constitution.#Trump branded the video message “treasonous” and amplified a social media post suggesting that the six Democrats be #hanged.
Defence secretary Pete #Hegseth is attempting to #retroactively #demote Kelly,
a former navy pilot and astronaut,
from his retired rank of captain.👏The Arizona senator is suing Hegseth to block those proceedings,
calling them an unconstitutional act of retribution.Meanwhile US attorney #Jeanine #Pirro, the justice department’s chief prosecutor in Washington, has requested an interview with Slotkin.
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Donald Trump is borrowing a strategy from authoritarian regimes to #intimidate potential critics and #discourage them from speaking out, according to a senator under investigation by his administration.
#Elissa #Slotkin, a Democrat from Michigan, faces questioning after she organised and appeared in a #video with other Democrats imploring military service members to #refuse “#illegal #orders”.
Fellow senator #Mark #Kelly and three Democrats from the House of Representatives are also being investigated.
To Slotkin, a former analyst with the Central Intelligence Agency ( #CIA ), it is a deliberate effort to chill free speech that rhymes with her experience of #dictatorships around the world.
“They’re now using a well-worn playbook that employs #physical intimidation and #legal intimidation to get,
A, you to shut up, and
B, for other people thinking of criticising the president on such issues to be dissuaded from doing so,”
she told the Guardian in a phone interview.“It’s absolutely a strategy well used in other countries and other authoritarian governments.
As a CIA officer I’ve served in places like this,
I’ve studied places like this my entire life,
and Trump is sadly using that #playbook in the United States right now.”Now 49, Slotkin completed three tours in Iraq with the US military before moving into national security roles at the Pentagon and White House under presidents George W Bush and Barack Obama.
In 2018 she turned to electoral politics, winning a long-held Republican seat in #Michigan and helping Democrats reclaim control of the House.
She secured re-election in 2020 and 2022, campaigning on issues such as access to affordable healthcare and efforts to bring manufacturing back to her home state.
Her ascent continued in 2024 when she won an open Senate seat despite Trump carrying Michigan in the presidential election.
Last year she delivered the Democrats’ rebuttal to Trump’s joint congressional address.
Then in November she was among six congressional Democrats,
all with military or intelligence backgrounds,
who in a 90-second video cited the "Uniform Code of Military Justice"
and said no one has to carry out orders that violate the law or constitution.#Trump branded the video message “treasonous” and amplified a social media post suggesting that the six Democrats be #hanged.
Defence secretary Pete #Hegseth is attempting to #retroactively #demote Kelly,
a former navy pilot and astronaut,
from his retired rank of captain.👏The Arizona senator is suing Hegseth to block those proceedings,
calling them an unconstitutional act of retribution.Meanwhile US attorney #Jeanine #Pirro, the justice department’s chief prosecutor in Washington, has requested an interview with Slotkin.
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Donald Trump is borrowing a strategy from authoritarian regimes to #intimidate potential critics and #discourage them from speaking out, according to a senator under investigation by his administration.
#Elissa #Slotkin, a Democrat from Michigan, faces questioning after she organised and appeared in a #video with other Democrats imploring military service members to #refuse “#illegal #orders”.
Fellow senator #Mark #Kelly and three Democrats from the House of Representatives are also being investigated.
To Slotkin, a former analyst with the Central Intelligence Agency ( #CIA ), it is a deliberate effort to chill free speech that rhymes with her experience of #dictatorships around the world.
“They’re now using a well-worn playbook that employs #physical intimidation and #legal intimidation to get,
A, you to shut up, and
B, for other people thinking of criticising the president on such issues to be dissuaded from doing so,”
she told the Guardian in a phone interview.“It’s absolutely a strategy well used in other countries and other authoritarian governments.
As a CIA officer I’ve served in places like this,
I’ve studied places like this my entire life,
and Trump is sadly using that #playbook in the United States right now.”Now 49, Slotkin completed three tours in Iraq with the US military before moving into national security roles at the Pentagon and White House under presidents George W Bush and Barack Obama.
In 2018 she turned to electoral politics, winning a long-held Republican seat in #Michigan and helping Democrats reclaim control of the House.
She secured re-election in 2020 and 2022, campaigning on issues such as access to affordable healthcare and efforts to bring manufacturing back to her home state.
Her ascent continued in 2024 when she won an open Senate seat despite Trump carrying Michigan in the presidential election.
Last year she delivered the Democrats’ rebuttal to Trump’s joint congressional address.
Then in November she was among six congressional Democrats,
all with military or intelligence backgrounds,
who in a 90-second video cited the "Uniform Code of Military Justice"
and said no one has to carry out orders that violate the law or constitution.#Trump branded the video message “treasonous” and amplified a social media post suggesting that the six Democrats be #hanged.
Defence secretary Pete #Hegseth is attempting to #retroactively #demote Kelly,
a former navy pilot and astronaut,
from his retired rank of captain.👏The Arizona senator is suing Hegseth to block those proceedings,
calling them an unconstitutional act of retribution.Meanwhile US attorney #Jeanine #Pirro, the justice department’s chief prosecutor in Washington, has requested an interview with Slotkin.
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Donald Trump is borrowing a strategy from authoritarian regimes to #intimidate potential critics and #discourage them from speaking out, according to a senator under investigation by his administration.
#Elissa #Slotkin, a Democrat from Michigan, faces questioning after she organised and appeared in a #video with other Democrats imploring military service members to #refuse “#illegal #orders”.
Fellow senator #Mark #Kelly and three Democrats from the House of Representatives are also being investigated.
To Slotkin, a former analyst with the Central Intelligence Agency ( #CIA ), it is a deliberate effort to chill free speech that rhymes with her experience of #dictatorships around the world.
“They’re now using a well-worn playbook that employs #physical intimidation and #legal intimidation to get,
A, you to shut up, and
B, for other people thinking of criticising the president on such issues to be dissuaded from doing so,”
she told the Guardian in a phone interview.“It’s absolutely a strategy well used in other countries and other authoritarian governments.
As a CIA officer I’ve served in places like this,
I’ve studied places like this my entire life,
and Trump is sadly using that #playbook in the United States right now.”Now 49, Slotkin completed three tours in Iraq with the US military before moving into national security roles at the Pentagon and White House under presidents George W Bush and Barack Obama.
In 2018 she turned to electoral politics, winning a long-held Republican seat in #Michigan and helping Democrats reclaim control of the House.
She secured re-election in 2020 and 2022, campaigning on issues such as access to affordable healthcare and efforts to bring manufacturing back to her home state.
Her ascent continued in 2024 when she won an open Senate seat despite Trump carrying Michigan in the presidential election.
Last year she delivered the Democrats’ rebuttal to Trump’s joint congressional address.
Then in November she was among six congressional Democrats,
all with military or intelligence backgrounds,
who in a 90-second video cited the "Uniform Code of Military Justice"
and said no one has to carry out orders that violate the law or constitution.#Trump branded the video message “treasonous” and amplified a social media post suggesting that the six Democrats be #hanged.
Defence secretary Pete #Hegseth is attempting to #retroactively #demote Kelly,
a former navy pilot and astronaut,
from his retired rank of captain.👏The Arizona senator is suing Hegseth to block those proceedings,
calling them an unconstitutional act of retribution.Meanwhile US attorney #Jeanine #Pirro, the justice department’s chief prosecutor in Washington, has requested an interview with Slotkin.
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Donald Trump is borrowing a strategy from authoritarian regimes to #intimidate potential critics and #discourage them from speaking out, according to a senator under investigation by his administration.
#Elissa #Slotkin, a Democrat from Michigan, faces questioning after she organised and appeared in a #video with other Democrats imploring military service members to #refuse “#illegal #orders”.
Fellow senator #Mark #Kelly and three Democrats from the House of Representatives are also being investigated.
To Slotkin, a former analyst with the Central Intelligence Agency ( #CIA ), it is a deliberate effort to chill free speech that rhymes with her experience of #dictatorships around the world.
“They’re now using a well-worn playbook that employs #physical intimidation and #legal intimidation to get,
A, you to shut up, and
B, for other people thinking of criticising the president on such issues to be dissuaded from doing so,”
she told the Guardian in a phone interview.“It’s absolutely a strategy well used in other countries and other authoritarian governments.
As a CIA officer I’ve served in places like this,
I’ve studied places like this my entire life,
and Trump is sadly using that #playbook in the United States right now.”Now 49, Slotkin completed three tours in Iraq with the US military before moving into national security roles at the Pentagon and White House under presidents George W Bush and Barack Obama.
In 2018 she turned to electoral politics, winning a long-held Republican seat in #Michigan and helping Democrats reclaim control of the House.
She secured re-election in 2020 and 2022, campaigning on issues such as access to affordable healthcare and efforts to bring manufacturing back to her home state.
Her ascent continued in 2024 when she won an open Senate seat despite Trump carrying Michigan in the presidential election.
Last year she delivered the Democrats’ rebuttal to Trump’s joint congressional address.
Then in November she was among six congressional Democrats,
all with military or intelligence backgrounds,
who in a 90-second video cited the "Uniform Code of Military Justice"
and said no one has to carry out orders that violate the law or constitution.#Trump branded the video message “treasonous” and amplified a social media post suggesting that the six Democrats be #hanged.
Defence secretary Pete #Hegseth is attempting to #retroactively #demote Kelly,
a former navy pilot and astronaut,
from his retired rank of captain.👏The Arizona senator is suing Hegseth to block those proceedings,
calling them an unconstitutional act of retribution.Meanwhile US attorney #Jeanine #Pirro, the justice department’s chief prosecutor in Washington, has requested an interview with Slotkin.
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📣 #STEXEU is hiring an early-career researcher!
The selected candidate will join the project team, led by Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez, and focus on historical research on authoritarianism, states of exception, and the crisis of democracy in #Germany in the years 1900-1939.
👉 https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/jr-stexeu-de-2026/
#Histodons #EU_Funded #ERC #ERCStG #EUfunded #Dictatorships #Authoritarianism #StatesOfException #HistoryJobs #ScienceJobs #PoliticalHistory #SocialHistory #MastoJobs
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📣 #STEXEU is hiring an early-career researcher!
The selected candidate will join the project team, led by Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez, and focus on historical research on authoritarianism, states of exception, and the crisis of democracy in #Germany in the years 1900-1939.
👉 https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/jr-stexeu-de-2026/
#Histodons #EU_Funded #ERC #ERCStG #EUfunded #Dictatorships #Authoritarianism #StatesOfException #HistoryJobs #ScienceJobs #PoliticalHistory #SocialHistory #MastoJobs
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📣 #STEXEU is hiring an early-career researcher!
The selected candidate will join the project team, led by Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez, and focus on historical research on authoritarianism, states of exception, and the crisis of democracy in #Germany in the years 1900-1939.
👉 https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/jr-stexeu-de-2026/
#Histodons #EU_Funded #ERC #ERCStG #EUfunded #Dictatorships #Authoritarianism #StatesOfException #HistoryJobs #ScienceJobs #PoliticalHistory #SocialHistory #MastoJobs
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📣 #STEXEU is hiring an early-career researcher!
The selected candidate will join the project team, led by Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez, and focus on historical research on authoritarianism, states of exception, and the crisis of democracy in #Germany in the years 1900-1939.
👉 https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/jr-stexeu-de-2026/
#Histodons #EU_Funded #ERC #ERCStG #EUfunded #Dictatorships #Authoritarianism #StatesOfException #HistoryJobs #ScienceJobs #PoliticalHistory #SocialHistory #MastoJobs
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📣 #STEXEU is hiring an early-career researcher!
The selected candidate will join the project team, led by Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez, and focus on historical research on authoritarianism, states of exception, and the crisis of democracy in #Germany in the years 1900-1939.
👉 https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/jr-stexeu-de-2026/
#Histodons #EU_Funded #ERC #ERCStG #EUfunded #Dictatorships #Authoritarianism #StatesOfException #HistoryJobs #ScienceJobs #PoliticalHistory #SocialHistory #MastoJobs
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@CuratedHackerNews we need to be well aware of the risks in adopting #AI #models #biased by heavily #antidemocratic #dictatorships like #XiJinping #china
https://speechmap.substack.com/p/chinese-open-source-model-roundup -
@h4ckernews we need to be well aware of the risks in adopting #AI #models #biased by heavily #antidemocratic #dictatorships like #XiJinping #china
https://speechmap.substack.com/p/chinese-open-source-model-roundup -
@hollowone we need to be well aware of the risks in adopting #AI #models #biased by heavily #antidemocratic #dictatorships like #XiJinping #china
https://speechmap.substack.com/p/chinese-open-source-model-roundup -
📕 Paula Godinho comparte la coordinación del libro "Resistencia juvenil, dictaduras y políticas de memoria. A 50 años del asesinato de José António Ribeiro Santos" con Miguel Cardina y Pablo Pozzi.
🔓 Disponible en #AccesoAbierto: https://libreria.clacso.org/publicacion.php?p=4220&c=5
#Histodons #Anthropodons #Resistencia #Resiatance #HistoricalMemory #MemoriaHistorica #Dictatorships #Dictaduras #Ditaduras #EstadoNovo #RibeiroSantos #OpenAccess #AcessoAberto #MastoBooks #MastoLivros #MastoLibros
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📕 Paula Godinho comparte la coordinación del libro "Resistencia juvenil, dictaduras y políticas de memoria. A 50 años del asesinato de José António Ribeiro Santos" con Miguel Cardina y Pablo Pozzi.
🔓 Disponible en #AccesoAbierto: https://libreria.clacso.org/publicacion.php?p=4220&c=5
#Histodons #Anthropodons #Resistencia #Resiatance #HistoricalMemory #MemoriaHistorica #Dictatorships #Dictaduras #Ditaduras #EstadoNovo #RibeiroSantos #OpenAccess #AcessoAberto #MastoBooks #MastoLivros #MastoLibros
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📕 Paula Godinho comparte la coordinación del libro "Resistencia juvenil, dictaduras y políticas de memoria. A 50 años del asesinato de José António Ribeiro Santos" con Miguel Cardina y Pablo Pozzi.
🔓 Disponible en #AccesoAbierto: https://libreria.clacso.org/publicacion.php?p=4220&c=5
#Histodons #Anthropodons #Resistencia #Resiatance #HistoricalMemory #MemoriaHistorica #Dictatorships #Dictaduras #Ditaduras #EstadoNovo #RibeiroSantos #OpenAccess #AcessoAberto #MastoBooks #MastoLivros #MastoLibros
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📕 Paula Godinho comparte la coordinación del libro "Resistencia juvenil, dictaduras y políticas de memoria. A 50 años del asesinato de José António Ribeiro Santos" con Miguel Cardina y Pablo Pozzi.
🔓 Disponible en #AccesoAbierto: https://libreria.clacso.org/publicacion.php?p=4220&c=5
#Histodons #Anthropodons #Resistencia #Resiatance #HistoricalMemory #MemoriaHistorica #Dictatorships #Dictaduras #Ditaduras #EstadoNovo #RibeiroSantos #OpenAccess #AcessoAberto #MastoBooks #MastoLivros #MastoLibros
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📕 Paula Godinho comparte la coordinación del libro "Resistencia juvenil, dictaduras y políticas de memoria. A 50 años del asesinato de José António Ribeiro Santos" con Miguel Cardina y Pablo Pozzi.
🔓 Disponible en #AccesoAbierto: https://libreria.clacso.org/publicacion.php?p=4220&c=5
#Histodons #Anthropodons #Resistencia #Resiatance #HistoricalMemory #MemoriaHistorica #Dictatorships #Dictaduras #Ditaduras #EstadoNovo #RibeiroSantos #OpenAccess #AcessoAberto #MastoBooks #MastoLivros #MastoLibros
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Good corporations or Bad corporations, good, bad and evil choices theory? Real histories, oligarchs corporations or people’s collectives? Using doublespeak to sell, buy, hate and fear! #corporations #collectives #communities #interestsrights #democracy #choices #partydivisions #fascistcults #dictatorships #abstractsets #realsets #coplexsets #creativesets #infinitesets #finitesets #transfinitesets #emptyset #NothingLeft
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Good corporations or Bad corporations, good, bad and evil choices theory? Real histories, oligarchs corporations or people’s collectives? Using doublespeak to sell, buy, hate and fear! #corporations #collectives #communities #interestsrights #democracy #choices #partydivisions #fascistcults #dictatorships #abstractsets #realsets #coplexsets #creativesets #infinitesets #finitesets #transfinitesets #emptyset #NothingLeft
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#USpol #Trumpizm #HimNotUs #SmokeAndMirror #ResidentEvil #Dictatorships #SelfDelusion #AsymptomaticCarrier
News:
State department signs off on bombs and missiles sales that the US claims would help Israel ‘defend its borders’
Comment:
Course not. He has no interest in ordinary people, as all his other policies demonstrate.
If the latter could be your comment, I need to say something to you.
Here, in Europe (especially at the "wrong side of The Iron Curtain"), we are pretty well-versed in dictatorships. Franco, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, now Łukaszenka and Putin... They come and they go like in a political Hurricane Alley of sorts, so we know them well (those who chose to know, at least).
And there is a particular takeaway lesson I want to convey here:
It is not him. It never was. It is us.
Whoever's name and face appears as the figurehead of the current edition, is just a token. The dictatorship is us all. It is the crew that makes the ship.If you work for him, you are him.
If you respect people who are him, you are him.
If you talk to your neighbour, who is him, you are him.
If you let your children play with his children, you are him.
Even if you fight him, you are still him.Dictatorship is a highly contagious disease, and no one within its realm stays untouched.
BUT one glorious day, it is gone.
Halleluyah! We Are Saved And Redeemed!
We can go back to be our great good selves!Because it was just him. Or maybe few scoundrels and misled simpletons, who are already dangling from the lamposts or hiding in Argentina.
We were never part of it. True?
TRUE?Not. It was not just him. It never was. It was us.
If you worked for him, you were him.
If you respected people who were him, you were him.
If you talked to your neighbour, who was him, you were him.
If you let your children play with his children, you were him.
Even if you fought him, still. You. Were. Him.Unless you accept the fact, confront it, and find the way to control this resident evil in you, you will be just another asymptomatic carrier, waiting for just another unexpected outbreak. Which is going to happen.
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#USpol #Trumpizm #HimNotUs #SmokeAndMirror #ResidentEvil #Dictatorships #SelfDelusion #AsymptomaticCarrier
News:
State department signs off on bombs and missiles sales that the US claims would help Israel ‘defend its borders’
Comment:
Course not. He has no interest in ordinary people, as all his other policies demonstrate.
If the latter could be your comment, I need to say something to you.
Here, in Europe (especially at the "wrong side of The Iron Curtain"), we are pretty well-versed in dictatorships. Franco, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, now Łukaszenka and Putin... They come and they go like in a political Hurricane Alley of sorts, so we know them well (those who chose to know, at least).
And there is a particular takeaway lesson I want to convey here:
It is not him. It never was. It is us.
Whoever's name and face appears as the figurehead of the current edition, is just a token. The dictatorship is us all. It is the crew that makes the ship.If you work for him, you are him.
If you respect people who are him, you are him.
If you talk to your neighbour, who is him, you are him.
If you let your children play with his children, you are him.
Even if you fight him, you are still him.Dictatorship is a highly contagious disease, and no one within its realm stays untouched.
BUT one glorious day, it is gone.
Halleluyah! We Are Saved And Redeemed!
We can go back to be our great good selves!Because it was just him. Or maybe few scoundrels and misled simpletons, who are already dangling from the lamposts or hiding in Argentina.
We were never part of it. True?
TRUE?Not. It was not just him. It never was. It was us.
If you worked for him, you were him.
If you respected people who were him, you were him.
If you talked to your neighbour, who was him, you were him.
If you let your children play with his children, you were him.
Even if you fought him, still. You. Were. Him.Unless you accept the fact, confront it, and find the way to control this resident evil in you, you will be just another asymptomatic carrier, waiting for just another unexpected outbreak. Which is going to happen.
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📖 Xurxo Ayán published a paper in the dossier "Contemporary Archaeology, politics of memory and local communities: a tricky mixture?" of the journal Archeologia Postmedievale.
The paper shows the limitations and conditions imposed by the traumatic past when developing an Archaeology project focused on the #EstadoNovo period.
ℹ️ https://www.insegnadelgiglio.it/prodotto/apm-archeologia-postmedievale-27-2023/
#Histodons #Archaeodons #ContemporaryArchaeology #DifficultPasts #Dictatorships #CommunityArchaeology #Cambedo
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📖 Xurxo Ayán published a paper in the dossier "Contemporary Archaeology, politics of memory and local communities: a tricky mixture?" of the journal Archeologia Postmedievale.
The paper shows the limitations and conditions imposed by the traumatic past when developing an Archaeology project focused on the #EstadoNovo period.
ℹ️ https://www.insegnadelgiglio.it/prodotto/apm-archeologia-postmedievale-27-2023/
#Histodons #Archaeodons #ContemporaryArchaeology #DifficultPasts #Dictatorships #CommunityArchaeology #Cambedo
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📖 Xurxo Ayán published a paper in the dossier "Contemporary Archaeology, politics of memory and local communities: a tricky mixture?" of the journal Archeologia Postmedievale.
The paper shows the limitations and conditions imposed by the traumatic past when developing an Archaeology project focused on the #EstadoNovo period.
ℹ️ https://www.insegnadelgiglio.it/prodotto/apm-archeologia-postmedievale-27-2023/
#Histodons #Archaeodons #ContemporaryArchaeology #DifficultPasts #Dictatorships #CommunityArchaeology #Cambedo
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📖 Xurxo Ayán published a paper in the dossier "Contemporary Archaeology, politics of memory and local communities: a tricky mixture?" of the journal Archeologia Postmedievale.
The paper shows the limitations and conditions imposed by the traumatic past when developing an Archaeology project focused on the #EstadoNovo period.
ℹ️ https://www.insegnadelgiglio.it/prodotto/apm-archeologia-postmedievale-27-2023/
#Histodons #Archaeodons #ContemporaryArchaeology #DifficultPasts #Dictatorships #CommunityArchaeology #Cambedo
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📖 Xurxo Ayán published a paper in the dossier "Contemporary Archaeology, politics of memory and local communities: a tricky mixture?" of the journal Archeologia Postmedievale.
The paper shows the limitations and conditions imposed by the traumatic past when developing an Archaeology project focused on the #EstadoNovo period.
ℹ️ https://www.insegnadelgiglio.it/prodotto/apm-archeologia-postmedievale-27-2023/
#Histodons #Archaeodons #ContemporaryArchaeology #DifficultPasts #Dictatorships #CommunityArchaeology #Cambedo