The Idiot - This American Life M. Gessen returns to our show with a true crime story that all takes place in their own family.

The latest season of #Serial by #MGessen is fantastic. Definitely worth adding to your #podcast feed. @nytimes.com

www.thisamericanlife.org/the-idiot

#841 #842 #mgessen #art #contemporaryart #walkerart

#Trump was running out of time and didn't get any big enough terror attacks, so he was forced to share with #Netanyahu and #BenGvir

This is M. Gessen predicting that the rise of facism in the #USA will be set off by the response to a terror attack […]

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I’d love to hear ppl like @chenoweth.bsky.social #MGessen etc on this q and intl comrades who have lived under regimes like this.

David Hogg's statement about his role with the DNC. - Democratic Underground Forums

Here is David Hogg's statement about why he is no longer a DNC vice-chair. Need for a new vision -- as also written by #MGessen in NYTimes. www.democraticunderground.com/100220389161

Sure, but we’re in the upside down so nothing means anything anymore. Masha Gessen’s Surviving Autocracy: Meanings of words are the first to go. Facts haven’t been facts since Kelly Ann’s meltdown over crowd size with C Todd in January 2017. Weaponizing the Death of Truth. #ThePowerLie #MGessen

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Literary arts closer for the season was Masha Gessen. An amazing thinker of our time, author of Surviving Autocracy. #surviningautocracy #mgessen #mashagessen

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 way of thinking- be universities and not businesses really appeals. Perhaps scientific publishing should consider the same? This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They Dare #mgessen www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

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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Last day to leave comments on state department passport changes that @mashagessen.bsky.social chillingly described in today's NY Times as an example of "denationalizing" trans and intersex people. #transnews #translivesmatter #transrights #intersex #trans #mgessen #autocracy #passports

"There are many good reasons to accommodate budding dictators, and only one reason not to: Anticipatory obedience is a key building block of their power." #MGessen #NewYorkTimes