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  1. Historian #JillLepore, in her upcoming book “The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State,” argues that #bigtech is replacing #democraticgovernment functions, leading to a return to #tyranny. She contends that this shift, driven by private corporations, undermines #democracy and #equalrights. Lepore traces the rise of this #artificialstate through #sciencefiction and explores alternative paths that were not taken. techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/hist #tech #news #ainews

  2. Historian #JillLepore, in her upcoming book “The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State,” argues that #bigtech is replacing #democraticgovernment functions, leading to a return to #tyranny. She contends that this shift, driven by private corporations, undermines #democracy and #equalrights. Lepore traces the rise of this #artificialstate through #sciencefiction and explores alternative paths that were not taken. techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/hist #tech #news #ainews

  3. @Nonilex So, in addition to carrying LRAD-sound and microwave reflecting signs, protesters and #ICE watchers need to start wearing electrical-insulator base layers under surface layers with a continuous mesh of copper thread or another conductor sewn in. I'm going to assume these gloves will be cheaply built and lack overload protection and thermal circuit cutoffs.

    #immigration #protest #CivilRights #ExcessiveForce #Sturmabteilung #authoritarianism #fascism #tyranny

  4. @Nonilex So, in addition to carrying LRAD-sound and microwave reflecting signs, protesters and #ICE watchers need to start wearing electrical-insulator base layers under surface layers with a continuous mesh of copper thread or another conductor sewn in. I'm going to assume these gloves will be cheaply built and lack overload protection and thermal circuit cutoffs.

    #immigration #protest #CivilRights #ExcessiveForce #Sturmabteilung #authoritarianism #fascism #tyranny

  5. A quotation from Twain

    Unlimited power is the ideal thing when it is in safe hands. The despotism of heaven is the one absolutely perfect government, and earthly despotism would be the absolute perfect earthly government if the conditions were the same; namely the despot the perfectest individual of the human race, and his lease of life perpetual; but as a perishable, perfect man must die and leave his despotism in the hands of an imperfect successor, an earthly despotism is not merely a bad form of government, it is the worst form that is possible.

    Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
    Novel (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Part 3 “The Tale of the Lost Land,” ch. 10 “Beginnings of Civilization”

    More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/85346/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #connecticutyankee #absolutepower #despotism #dictatorship #humannature #mortality #perfection #succession #tyranny

  6. A quotation from Frederick Douglass

    Americans! your republican politics, not less than your republican religion, are flagrantly inconsistent. You boast of your love of liberty, your superior civilization, and your pure Christianity, while the whole political power of the nation (as embodied in the two great political parties), is solemnly pledged to support and perpetuate the enslavement of three millions of your countrymen. You hurl your anathemas at the crowned headed tyrants of Russia and Austria, and pride yourselves on your Democratic institutions, while you yourselves consent to be the mere tools and body-guards of the tyrants of Virginia and Carolina.

    Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer
    Speech (1852-07-05), “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York

    More about this quote: wist.info/douglass-frederick/8…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #frederickdouglass #America #enslavement #hypocrisy #pretension #slavery #systemicracism #tyranny

  7. A quotation from Frederick Douglass

    Americans! your republican politics, not less than your republican religion, are flagrantly inconsistent. You boast of your love of liberty, your superior civilization, and your pure Christianity, while the whole political power of the nation (as embodied in the two great political parties), is solemnly pledged to support and perpetuate the enslavement of three millions of your countrymen. You hurl your anathemas at the crowned headed tyrants of Russia and Austria, and pride yourselves on your Democratic institutions, while you yourselves consent to be the mere tools and body-guards of the tyrants of Virginia and Carolina.

    Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer
    Speech (1852-07-05), “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York

    More about this quote: wist.info/douglass-frederick/8…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #frederickdouglass #America #enslavement #hypocrisy #pretension #slavery #systemicracism #tyranny

  8. To me, as a complete outsider, it’s baffling that some #Democrats are turning on others at this late date in America’s slide into #tyranny

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ujmfk45hs5smet3y3fxynzyi/post/3msfyrkmkoc2e

  9. To me, as a complete outsider, it’s baffling that some #Democrats are turning on others at this late date in America’s slide into #tyranny

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ujmfk45hs5smet3y3fxynzyi/post/3msfyrkmkoc2e

  10. In a written ruling Tuesday, Mehta said he was dismissing the #OathKeepers’ charges reluctantly at the request of the #DOJ. He criticized prosecutors for claiming in a court filing that wiping out the most serious convictions from the #Jan6 riot was in the public interest.

    #Trump #whitewashing #RevisionistHistory #propaganda #law #ElectionInterference #BigLie #coup #SeditiousConspiracy #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny

  11. In a written ruling Tuesday, Mehta said he was dismissing the #OathKeepers’ charges reluctantly at the request of the #DOJ. He criticized prosecutors for claiming in a court filing that wiping out the most serious convictions from the #Jan6 riot was in the public interest.

    #Trump #whitewashing #RevisionistHistory #propaganda #law #ElectionInterference #BigLie #coup #SeditiousConspiracy #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny

  12. Mehta had sentenced Rhodes to 18 years in prison & imposed lesser prison terms on other top #OathKeepers who were #convicted at #jury trials. #Trump commuted those prison sentences on his first day in office last year, & he pardoned more than 1,500 rioters.

    #whitewashing #RevisionistHistory #propaganda #law #ElectionInterference #BigLie #coup #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny

  13. Mehta had sentenced Rhodes to 18 years in prison & imposed lesser prison terms on other top #OathKeepers who were #convicted at #jury trials. #Trump commuted those prison sentences on his first day in office last year, & he pardoned more than 1,500 rioters.

    #whitewashing #RevisionistHistory #propaganda #law #ElectionInterference #BigLie #coup #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny

  14. A quotation from Diderot

    And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails,
    For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
     
    [Et ses mains ourdiraient les entrailles du prêtre,
    Au défaut d’un cordon pour étrangler les rois.]

    Denis Diderot (1713-1784) French editor, philosopher
    Poem (1772), “Les Éleuthéromanes”

    Much more about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/diderot-denis/6524/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #diderot #denisdiderot #authority #Christianity #church #clergy #freedom #king #liberty #monarchy #priest #priesthood #rebellion #revolution #royalty #strangulation #tyranny

  15. ...enough said?

    *(i guess not when "#law" has always been used to enforce #tyranny...)

  16. ...enough said?

    *(i guess not when "#law" has always been used to enforce #tyranny...)

  17. #Trump is considering removing #JeaninePirro, the #USattorney for #DC, over a #DOJ conclusion that problems with the Lincoln Memorial #ReflectingPool stemmed from a flawed renovation rather than vandalism….

    Trump is “furious” with Pirro, one of the sources said, telling CNN that he fumed about her all weekend. They added that based on his criticisms of her, they find it “highly likely she’s removed from her job.”

    #law #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny