Excellent!

Make them say "thank you"!

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

"The most effective consumer boycotts in history share two qualities: they are narrow and they are easy," writes @rutgerbregman.com

We recently held our first live event with the Václav Havel Library and NYU Prague, on the topic of an engaged citizenry. The discussion has taken on even greater urgency amid the tragic killings of civil protesters in Minneapolis. Listen here: www.thewow.world/podcast/bonu...

TincherSealedWitnessDec012426.PDF

This witness to Alex Pretti's murder not only refutes the governmen't story, but says she is afraid to go home because federal agents might arrest her. This is what it feels like to live under state terror.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Trump is giving a deranged, rambling monologue in Davos to an audience stunned into silence. He sounds incredibly tired, his voice raspy; he keeps trailing off into long pauses. It's jaw-dropping.

The sanewashing headlines are going to say "Trump Doubles Down On Greenland Demand In Davos Speech"

Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland.

And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.

Copenhagen town hall square, Denmark right now.

Massive solidarity with Greenland demonstrations.

Source: dr.dk

Maduro in Minneapolis Murderous Lies

The Trump administration is excusing murder by ICE using the same lies as those told by Maduro’s regime. These lies are part of the logic of death squads. Govt controls the story & the next murder is easier. And suddenly this is normal and people simply disappear.
snyder.substack.com/p/maduro-in-...

Carol of the Bells ("Shchedryk") from Ukrainian Defenders at Sofiivska Square, in the heart of Kyiv.

Merry Christmas, friends!

📹: miarodriges / Threads

At Weight of the World, we've talked to an amazing array of European friends of America over the past few months. They all know a thing or two about opposing authoritarianism, and they've shared a wealth of advice that will help you feel hopeful going in to 2026. www.thewow.world

Chapter 3: Russia Lays the Groundwork The Oligarchs, Spies, and Clerics Behind Russia's Global Far-Right Operation

The latest chapter of my series on Russia and the global far right...

For the latest WOWcast, I sit down with economist, philospher, and Václav Havel Library director, Tomáš Sedláček. He tells us that in Havel, we'll find inspiration to action and the key to protecting and renewing our liberal democracies. Full interview: www.thewow.world/podcast/inte...

Friends call your Senators and House Member and demand they work against this outrageous betrayal of Ukraine and Europe.

Every Dem elected at every level of government should be denouncing this rancid appeasement of Putin.

Jan Urban speaks with great moral authority. The former Czech dissident faced secret police interrogations and blacklisting for standing up to authoritarianism. Today, he's appalled by what the Trump administration is doing in the U.S. and around the world. www.thewow.world/podcast/inte...

The U.S.'s image is taking a hit on the world stage, and China is benefitting, Lithuania's former foreign minister Gabrielius Landsbergis tells me in our conversation for Weight of the World.
www.thewow.world/podcast/inte...

From my conversation on this week's WOWcast with former Lithuanian foreign minister Gabrielius Landsbergis: Europeans are concerned about what's happening in the U.S., but they're not turning their backs.
www.thewow.world/podcast/inte...

Chapter 1: Russia’s Fascist Foundations Welcome to my new series, Inside the Kremlin’s Global Far-Right Operations.

I’m excited to launch my new series on Russia and the far-right. I’ve worked on this for so long, and over the coming months will share my research and documented info in one place so everyone can see how Russia has weaponized the far-right to subvert democracy in the U.S. and across Europe.

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Sanders: These projects have been appropriated. They were signed by a president. It is illegal to rescind them. And to say to people in Vermont, in New York and California, oh, you didn't vote for Donald Trump, we're going to take away funding that was supposed to go to your state… illegal

Another brutal jobs report. The economy lost 32,000 jobs in September, and August was revised from +54,000 all the way down to -3,000. That’s not just a slowdown—it’s a collapse. The economy is clearly in trouble under Trump, and Republicans are still in total denial.

“.. a fivefold increase in U.S.-based applicants seeking to relocate to European institutions ..” 🤡

@politico.com
www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Mormon Church Gunman Had Trump Sign Outside His Home Thomas Jacob Sanford drove his car into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc, Michigan, and opened fire.

The suspect, Thomas Sanford, seemed to own Donald Trump memorabilia, with a campaign sign outside his house and a Facebook photo wearing a shirt that reads “Re-elect Trump 2020,” and “Make liberals cry again.”

However, local authorities and the FBI have not yet identified a motive. trib.al/0UwICcz

the authoritarian techbro cult wishes to subjugate humanity - the good news is that these are pathetic creeps and we can beat them

Dogs.

Former UK Right-Wing Party Leader Nathan Gill Pleads Guilty to Pro-Russian Bribery Scheme Nathan Gill, ex-Reform UK leader in Wales, pleads guilty to receiving bribes for pro-Russian advocacy as an MEP, according to BBC reports.

⚡️Former UK Reform Party leader Nathan Gill admits taking bribes from a pro-Russian politician to push Kremlin narratives in Europe.

Preach

Screenshot of tweet from WaPo foreign policy columnist Ishaan Tharoor: "A senior foreign diplomat posted at the UN texts me: 'This man is stark, raving mad. Do Americans not see how embarrassing this is?'"

usa. usa.