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Video: Opinion | America Has Entered an Entirely New Situation Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension exposes a chilling new reality of the media bowing to political pressure from the Trump administration, the New York Times Opinion columnist M. Gessen argues. “The only way f...

M. Gessen's opinion video - good! But also - in a capitalist economy, it's doubtful that mainstream media will band together and "resist" - we didn't even see that in educational instutitions, and it's all undergirded by access to and retention of capital 🙃😵‍💫🙄 #Gessen #NYT #Kimmel #Resist #Democracy

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As a trans person, #Gessen describes a new, personal sense of danger.

They recount searching "famous trans people" online before returning home from a trip—an "inexact way of measuring the risk that someone would target me" after a weekend of being blamed for Charlie Kirk's death.

Opinion | Christo Grozev Is the Man Putin Couldn’t Kill Putin had Christo Grozev in his sights. Grozev was way ahead of him.

#Putin was determined “to silence a single inconvenient voice,” writes our columnist M. #Gessen. “The story of how that single voice refused to be silenced” is “a reminder that it’s possible to continue to speak, and act, in the face of mortal danger.”

How to stop an autocrat Vilnius, Lithuania: Bronze sculpture Aukojimas (The Sacrifice) created by sculptor Darius Braziunas and architect Arturas Asauskas. Memorial...

For many years the number of democracies increased but since some time autocracies are on the rise. How to stop them? How to survive them? New blog: philosophybytheway.blogspot.com/2025/04/how-...
#democracy #autocracy #authoritarian #Gessen #nonviolence #resistance #survival

Opinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They Dare It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.

This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They Dare www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o... #mgessen
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While #Roose blathers vacuously about his vibes, #Gessen rightly recognizes that #HannahArendt is a great thinker for our times.

The connection to #AI is this: one undermines the "right to have rights" by counting (or not counting).

#Weizenbaum also knew this and took Arendt has his muse.

#Gessen on how he foresaw Trump and the similarities to #Dictators and #Mafia states.

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Opinion | There’s a Reason Even ‘Smart’ People Surrender to Trump (Gift Article) M. Gessen and Patrick Healy try to reckon with the president’s whiplash authoritarianism.

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"La lengua de siete décadas de Totalitarismo ha alterado la sociedad hasta pervertirla en la acepción más común del término, hacer que se adquieran vicios y costumbres que desde la normalidad consideramos reprobables. Putin ha vaciado las palabras de significado."
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Opinion | Harris Must Persuade Gaza Protesters, Not Dismiss Them For a candidate who positions herself as caring, her failure to acknowledge their pain is especially jarring.

#GiftArticle for #Gessen fans
www.nytimes.com/2024/08/10/o...

Wie viele Raketen wurden aus dem Warschauer Ghetto täglich abgefeuert, Frau #Gessen?
Wann wurde eine terroristische Gottes-Fraktion DEMOKRATISCH im Warschauer Ghetto gewählt, Frau #Gessen?
Wie viele Zivilisten wurden bei einem Attentat aus dem Ghetto heraus abgeschlachtet, entführt, vergewaltigt?