#mashagessen — Public Fediverse posts
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The State Capitol is one of a few major tourist attractions in Topeka. Another is the Westboro Baptist Church, infamous for spewing hate against gays, trans people, Jews, soldiers and many other groups, and for winning a 2011 Supreme Court case that secured its right to do so in audacious ways. The church displays hate messages in rotation on a giant marquee. (I won’t quote them, but if you hover over this phrase, you’ll see the URL the church uses.) Two houses stand across the street from the church, one painted the rainbow colors of the L.G.B.T.Q. flag, the other pink, white and blue, the colors of the trans flag. Two visions of Kansas, silently facing off day after day.
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Vielschichtige Reportage von Masha Gessen über Péter Magyars Sieg in Ungarn (mit Aufnahmen von Máté Bartha, die die Stimmung nach der Wahl festhalten): https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/opinion/hungary-win-election-viktor-orban.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mVA.yHR9.5iwQNPRcDcHN&smid=url-share (Geschenk-Link). Gessen hat u.a. Bálint Magyar, den Entwickler des Konzepts des Authoritarian Breakthrough, gefragt, wie es gelang das Orbán-Regime zu besiegen. Der Pluralismus der Bewegung, die ausgezeichnete Organisation und Péter Magyars relativer Outsider-Status waren mitentscheidend. Man ist bewusst anders vorgegangen als Orbán, hat auf die unterschiedlichen Stimmen in der Bevölkerung gehört und auf reale Menschen gesetzt statt auf Online-Mobilisierung.
Wir haben in der Steiermark einen FPÖ-Landeshauptmann, der Orbán verehrt. Orbán setzte in seiner Symbolpolitik auf ungarische Minderheiten in Nachbarstaaten – Kunasek provoziert durch eine Landeshymne, die die slowenische Südsteiermark zum Teil der „Heimat“ erklärt. Sollten Kunasek und sein Parteichef Erfolg haben, stehen wir am Anfang der Orbanisierung, mit der Ungarn gebrochen hat. (Ich fürchte, dass Putin ihnen dabei durch Angriffe und Kriegsdrohungen helfen wird.) Wir nehmen diese Gefahr immer noch nicht erst genug – während Masha Gessen immer auch Trump meint, wenn von Orbán die Rede ist.
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"As for the next presidential election, Trump has made his intentions clear: He is not planning to leave his throne. He may look for a pretext to cancel the vote. (When President Volodymyr Zelensky told him that Ukraine can’t have an election during the war, Trump visibly lit up: 'So you mean if we happen to be in a war with somebody, no more elections? Oh, that’s good.') He may find a way to invalidate the vote after the election — he has been laying the groundwork for such a move since his first term. Even if he doesn’t, it is foolish to think that this iteration of our national nightmare will end in three years.
One term for regimes that maintain the trappings of democracy, such as legislatures, courts and elections, but use them primarily as decoration is 'electoral authoritarianism.' This is what we are becoming.
(. . .)
We can’t count on change being brought about by elections when we can’t count on elections. We can’t count on the freedoms and resources we enjoy today to still be available to us tomorrow."
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@andrewstroehlein Thank you. A very impactful piece. #MashaGessen is uniquely qualified to report on suppression by government entities. The perspective by a person who was born in the #USSR and lived the most part of their adult life in #Russia and the #US connects the dots how totalitarian regimes survive by inflicting fear and paralysis on a society.
*Correction: I misgendered. I'm deeply sorry. English is not my native language. -
Lese einen Artikel von M. Gessen über Normalisierung, über die Gewöhnung an die Folgen des authoritarian breakthrough in den USA. Und habe beinahe schon vergessen, dass der rechtsradikale Soziallandesrat der Steiermark Amesbauer ukrainischen Kriegsflüchtlingen gerade die erste Notunterkunft gestrichen hat, so dass einige in Graz unter freiem Himmel übernachten.
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Germany deporting EU citizens for their political activism is another chilling step towards a new era of authoritarianism - orchestrated not by the AfD, but by the so-called political centre...
And worse again, most of the German media seem to ignore this latest incident!
#Deutschland #Abschiebungen #EU #Ireland #Palestine #Gaza #protest #FarRight #AfD #authoritarianism #Staatsräson #NoOtherLand #MashaGessen #NancyFraser #OmriBoehm #AdaniaShibli
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“The reason you should care about this is not that it could happen to you but that it is already happening to others. It is happening to people who, we claim, have rights just because we are human. It is happening to me, personally.” #MashaGessen https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/opinion/trump-trans-denationalizing.html
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Autokratischer Durchbruch gegen die ökologische Realität: Vor Trumps zweiter Amtszeit
Ich versuche immer noch, mit so etwas wie einen Reim auf die Wahl von Trump zu machen. In der Unmenge der Kommentare nehme ich die ernst, die davor warnen, Trump zu verharmlosen, also etwa die Einschätzungen von Jan-Werner Müller und – gestern - von Irene Braam. Wie viele andere sprechen diese Analysen dafür, dass Trump umsetzen wird, was er angekündigt hat: den liberalen Staat abbauen und durch ein autoritäres Regime ähnlich dem von Orbán in Ungarn ersetzen. Es spricht auch nichts dafür, dass er mit der Nato und der EU anders als nationalistisch umgehen wird: Er wird sie benutzen, um Druck auszuüben und die Abhängigkeit von den USA zur Stärkung der US-Wirtschaft zu nutzen. […] -
@wdlindsy if you haven’t seen it, here’s a recent piece by the estimable #MashaGessen in the New Yorker. A nuanced view from the ground at Wahat al-Salam/Neve Shalom, an intentional Jewish/Arab settlement in Israel.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/06/17/wahat-al-salam-neve-shalom-israel-gaza-october-7th
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"Discussion of #Israel and #Palestine has long fallen into a special category. Some have called it 'the Palestine exception to #FreeSpeech.' #BrooklynCollege, like other universities, has weathered many controversies in this area." - #MashaGessen
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/14/opinion/brooklyn-college-jewish-currents-gaza-war.html?unlocked_article_code=1.K04.U_kS.VD_aEd7NIv85&smid=url-share
#censorship #CUNY #FreeSpeechOnCampus #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #Gaza #JewishCurrents #USpol #USpolitics @palestine -
From #JewishCurrents
Livestream and Location Sunday May 17 Event "The #USElection After #Gaza"From the broad support for the uncommitted movement, to calls to “vote blue no matter who” in order to “preserve American democracy,” navigating the electoral landscape at this moment presents unprecedented challenges. Together we’ll explore these questions with #PeterBeinart, #LaylaElabed, #MashaGessen, and #WaleedShahid, hosted by #MehdiHasan.
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Die deutsche Definition von „Antisemitismus“ schadet einer offenen Debatte – und grenzt ausländische und jüdische Künstler und Intellektuelle aus.#MashaGessen #Kulturpolitik #Antisemitismus #Debatte #Gesellschaft #Schwerpunkt
Antisemitismus-Debatte in Deutschland: Ausweitung der Tabuzone -
@Timotei #MashaGessen, who knows #Russia better than nearly anyone, said the same thing on MSNBC the other day.
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5 stars from me for "The Man Without A Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin" by Masha Gessen:
As an American, this was a fascinating and educational read. It fills in the blanks left by our myopic media and provides context to events that were quite mysterious and unexpected at the time that I was living through them.
To have finished the book, which closes describing scenes in Moscow in December 2011, when Alexei Navalny was leading hopeful protests against the Putin regime, on the same day that the news of Navalny's death in prison reached me, seems cruel, but entirely fitting. In these passages, Gessen notes that Putin and his allies were slow to recognize the danger they were in, and predicted that when they did, they would lash out violently, like a cornered animal. Perhaps with a terrorist attack, like the ones the KGB engineered against the Russian people in 1999 - 2000, when Putin was first running for president. But no. Putin started a war.
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#Books #Bookstodon #Nonfiction #MashaGessen #Putin #Russia #History @bookstodon
https://bookwyrm.social/user/SallyStrange/review/3867979/s/i-learned-so-much
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They are #Fascists and #Fascism fanboys.
This is how #democracy falls.
These are the actions of #Authoritarian #Extremist #insurrectionists and #AntiAmerican #Seditionists
How did we.get here?
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“‘You know what was good about the Second World War?’ Nayyem asked wistfully. ‘It ended!’” #MashaGessen https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/05/ukraines-democracy-in-darkness
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Can Masha Gessen get an Apology now that Israel's Smotrich called Gaza a "Ghetto" that Should be Depopulated?
https://www.juancole.com/2024/01/apology-smotrich-depopulated.html#Palestine #Gaza #Israel #ApartheidIsrael #MashaGessen #Genocide #EthnicCleasing #Liquidation
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📺 PBS: "Masha Gessen Responds to Controversy Over Gaza Comments" ⤵️
🔗 https://www.pbs.org/video/masha-gessen-responds-to-controversy-over-gaza-comments-w8p3/
🏷️ #Israel #Gaza #Antisemitismus #HannahArendt #Bremen #Preis #FreeSpeech #MashaGessen #PBS
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Masha Gessen hat Gaza mit NS-Deportationsghettos verglichen. Statt sich der folgenden Diskussion darum zu stellen, singt sie jetzt im Opferchor.#MashaGessen #HannahArendt #Gaza #Shoa #Antizionismus #MartiniShot #Buch #Kultur #Serie
Debatte um Hannah-Arendt-Preis: Argue, don’t cry!
