@lmevanderveken
Embrace Openness: – Encourage CURIOSITY 🧠 – Enhance COMPASSION ❤️ – Empower COURAGE 💪 As authoritarian movements nurture: •VoJ ~ voices of judgment •VoC ~ voices of cynicism •VoF ~ voices of fear to exalt closedness in a world of woe and sin
Human interaction is going to shift to discords and group chats, invite-only. The open web and social media are going to be left for the agents lurking amongst the ruins. Everything public will be Moltbook.
It hasn’t fully hit BlueSky yet, but LinkedIn and X are just meaning-shaped comments by LLMs
The Prince & the Paedophile
Richard Sanders 🎙️ Aaron Bastani
@PulaRJS, @AaronBastani, @novaramedia
orig Y2019 • Dispatches investigation • elitism • the worthless • connections • influence • recruitment • the systemic gathering of compromising material
youtu.be/WgYSEeKXMvY
👇📺 YT 55m 👀👂
Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647.
open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
In Munich "I did not meet a single person of any nationality who thinks that the American-European relationship is returning to business as usual"
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
WE KNOW what happens when you hand over your republic to:
• the enemies of tolerance
• the enemies of a free society
• the enemies of democracy
as Karl R. Popper noted on his in 1945 published book 📕 « The open society and it’s enemies » cf. « the paradox of tolerance »
archive.org/details/in.e...
black and white • The Welsh philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell smoking a pipe while standing in a library. 🤔 • text with a exact excerpt from him in 1940 reads: « The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other. This technique is as old as the hills; it was practiced in almost every Greek city, and the moderns have only enlarged its scale. » Reference source: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2024/02/28/fools-muzzle
🧵 Bertrand Russell warned:
when a republic yields to the enemies of tolerance, a free society cannot endure.
History doesn’t drift — it confronts.
And our freedom isn’t given.
It’s kept.
♨️Freedom♨️ & ♨️Liberation♨️ are an unending task‼️
Our time is another test.
Trump in person, Trump MAGA judge, and Trump MAGA DOJ all scheme together to destroy Special Counsel report. youtu.be/IosHp7M707M?...
Here's Colbert's interview with Talarico, not on the Carr-controlled, Trump-tainted airwaves but in the free air of the internet. As I post this, 500k have watched. Let's make sure more people see it on YouTube than TV. Call that the Carr Effect.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...
Evil Ellison network stops Colbert from interviewing James Talarico, exploiting supposed threat from Federal Censorship Commission chair Brendan Carr. Fascism, folks. It's fascism.
youtu.be/oh7DPSP65JA?...
Bari Weiss took this interview down at the request of her masters in the white house. Let’s share this widely and remind her the internet is forever.
youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...
Wow.
The Rest Is Politics: MSC26
📺 youtu.be/MzalF9cbyww
🇺🇸 The “Greenland” factor changed everything. A turning point for the next gen: safety & prosperity, or not.
Middle powers 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇦🇺🇯🇵🇰🇷…
—More us
—Pooling sovereignties
—Coordinated speak & action
—Independent networked capacity
—Defense 1st
—…
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨
War. Deterrence. The future security of Europe.
Join @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social and Rory from the Munich Security Conference as they break down the biggest speeches, the key moments, and what it all means for Europe’s future.
Link in the replies 👇
Rep. Lieu: “Howard Lutnick must resign… The Epstein Files new release shows that not only did Howard Lutnick lie to the American people, he went into business with Jeffrey Epstein, he visited Epstein Island, and Howard Lutnick did this knowing how evil Epstein was.”
Alarming new revelations about ICE's use of administrative subpoenas to get information about people the administration wanted to detain and deport because of their protests against government policies. theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...
Chris Hedges and Professor Mearsheimer via @consortiumnews.bsky.social
consortiumnews.com/2026/02/05/h...
This powerful PSA from Epstein survivors will air during the Super Bowl. “Stand with us.” ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼
[World Without Exploitation]
BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors
I read thousands of pages of Epstein files this weekend trying to understand what he wanted out of his meeting with 4chan's Christopher Poole. Here's everything we know about Epstein's plans to dismantle the internet and, eventually, democracy.
www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how...
Today we’re releasing the International AI Safety Report 2026: the most comprehensive evidence-based assessment of AI capabilities, emerging risks, and safety measures to date. 🧵
(1/19)
Immigrants saved US government at all levels $14.5 trillion from 1994 to 2023 because the taxes they paid cut budget deficits by nearly one-third in real terms, a new Cato Institute study reports. Learn more from David Bier.
https://ow.ly/QG2150Y8lav
as per 👇 bsky.app/profile/newr...
Interregnum, “time of monsters"
from a distance:
• The 'Divided' States is the reality.
• The 'United' States is a legacy brand.
Soon individual states will start to see they can cut better DEALS with the EU, UK, Canada, Australia, Japan, … on their own terms.
The Great Realignment is coming.
"I do believe that the real problem is that the border between democracy and authoritarianism is the least protected border in the world."--Ivan Krastev
"I do believe that West Europeans are shocked because they don't understand what Trump is doing, and East Europeans, we are scared because we do."--Ivan Krastev
The Social Security Administration says members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team working at the agency accessed and shared sensitive data. It seemed to confirm some key concerns first raised in a whistleblower complaint. https://to.pbs.org/3LBgsry
Trump's arrest of Don Lemon shows that his "pivot" is an utter farce. As legal experts tell me, this looks appallingly corrupt. Indeed, it's likely this is all about sending a message that Trump isn't deescalating in the slightest.
New piece with fresh details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
« Streets of Minneapolis »
#BruceSpringsteen #theBoss
• iconic •
• Urgent • Relevant •
• Fury • Accurate •
• Sing Through the Bloody Mist •
• Chant in Unity •
👇 hear and see his protest song👇
"This is unacceptable…"
All Former presidents should speak now.
Tolerant societies need defending to.
What comes next is not automatic.
It’s our choice:
— authoritarianism
— care & real democracy
— or minority rule
Passivity is a choice too.
Read. Share. Speak out. Act collectively & wisely.
