"My family is fleeing the country. [...] It is only a matter of time before Trump and Elon take this next step. Once they have consolidated their power at the federal level, and once their regime is secure enough that public outrage cannot threaten it, they will be free to defy the courts as much as they want. I give it less than six months before we reach that point."
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Why I Am Leaving the USA - Dame Magazine
My family is fleeing the country. We are not doing this in a panic; this is an orderly retreat from an unwinnable situation. We are slowly but sure...
This could be a moment of uproar against the catholic church but it's a moment of dutiful obedience. That even progressive voices feel obligated to voice ambiguous praise for a not-as-terrible-pope says little about how okay-ish the pope was and a lot about how afraid we are to speak truth to this violent and oppressive institution (and the far-right alliances it is part of). This is not respect. It's fear of being outside public expectations.
When they came for the migrants, I kept quiet, I wasn't a migrant. When they locked up the pro Palestine students, I kept quiet, I wasn't pro Palastine. When they took the climate protestors, I kept quiet, I wasn't a climate protestor. When they came for me, there was no one left, who could protest.
Columbia Activist Arrested by ICE at His Appointment for Citizenship
Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal permanent resident, has lived in the United States for 10 years and was arrested in Vermont. He has not been charged with a...
In der aktuellen @analyse & kritik sind zwei sehr gute Texte zu "Faschismus" erschienen: 1. Von Morten Paul über die verschiedenen Versuche, "Faschismus" theoretisch zu beschreiben:
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Das F-Wort
Was ist, oder genauer, ist das Faschismus? Diese Frage ist in aller Munde. Wie auch immer die Antwort ausfällt, belegt wird sie gern mit dem Verwe...
 2. Von Lukas Hermsmeier zu der Frage, ob das US-Regime als faschistisch bezeichnet werden muss und welche Rolle Big Tech/Silicon Valley dabei spielen.
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Fast zehn Jahre liegt es mittlerweile zurück, dass Donald Trump die goldene Rolltreppe des Trump Towers in Manhattan hinunterglitt, um vor Fans un...
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Yesterday I was invited to speak for the @AfD-Verbot Jetzt! campaign at the "Good Night Far Right" conference of @🔴 Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung. It was humbling. Also on the panel were brave humans from Greece, Peru and Brasil who shared strategies and learings from their fights against their regions flavor of the extreme right. What stuck with me is how fundemental this well known and ofter repeated truth ist: DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE!
Please don't call it "techno-feudalism". Really. Don't. I know it sounds fancy but it's really not helping. It's still friggin' capitalism but with tech monopolies and a focus on rent-extraction. Capitalism always changed. No need to invent fancy new terms for every iteration. That would only disguise the exploitative dynamics of contemporary (but still) capitalism and the structural changes needed to overcome them.
This is it. The most important book about digital policy of our present. When you are active or interested in the areas of tech, digital policy or antifascism you must read "Cyberlibertarianism" by David Golumbia. I come out swinging with such an clear recommendation because I think that one would not oerestimate the possible influence of this book if one would count it as one of the most relevant works of political analysis in our digital age. Buy and read it now. image
"Die Federführung und die Aufsicht über die Wirtschaft soll beim Bund angesiedelt werden. Die bislang für den Datenschutz zuständige Behörde "Bundesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit (BfDI)" soll umbenannt werden in "Beauftragte für Datennutzung." Hey Zivilgesellschaft, some opposition please 👀
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Arbeitsgruppen-Entwurf: Kommt das Digital-Ministerium?
Fundamentale Neuausrichtung inhaltlich und ein neues Ministerium: Was der künftigen Koalition bei Digitalisierung, Datenschutz und KI vorschwebt.
"Es geht nicht um ein imaginäres Wettrennen zwischen Regionen der Welt. Es geht darum, das öffentliche Interesse vor den Tech-Oligarchen zu schützen." - Cecilia Rikap und @npub1l7g6...nudk im heutigen Tagesspiegel Background ✨ https://background.tagesspiegel.de/digitalisierung-und-ki/briefing/demokratisch-kontrollierte-alternativen-gegen-technologische-abhaengigkeit
"Planwirtschaft ist nicht nur möglich, sondern bereits überall um uns herum da, wenn auch in hierarchischer und undemokratischer Form" schrieben Leigh Phillips und Michal Rozworski in ihrem 2019er Buch "The people's republic of Wallmart". 2021 brachten Timo Daum und @npub1vn3u...4h3m dann ihren Sammelband "Die unsichtbare Hand des Plans" heraus und leisteten damit einen wichtigen Beitrag dazu, die Planungsdebatte in Deutschland neu zu beleben. Immer noch lesenswert! image