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Nick Szabo· 2026-02-08 21:24
RT Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre)Democracy is a stupid form of government but it becomes suicidal once immigration increasesLaw ceases to matter because the law is written by people who hate you and want your stuffRule of law really means rule of cultural norms which cease to exist under multiculturalism ...
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Bloomberg· 2026-02-08 19:14
Since the turn of the century, election night has usually been great for pro-democracy reformers and miserable for Thailand’s royalists. Now the establishment has finally backed a winner, and the country may see some stability as a result. https://t.co/DjFgutJ4AA ...
Marty Baron: Bezos gutted The Washington Post because he is ‘worried about reprisals from Trump’
MSNBC· 2026-02-08 19:04
LAST NIGHT, WILL LEWIS, The embattled CEO and publisher of the Washington Post stepped down just three days after the paper laid off a third of its staff and eliminated or gutted several areas of coverage. Will Lewis will be replaced by the current CFO, Jeff D HE WAS SPOTTED THE NEXT DAY, BY THE WAY, AFTER AN NFL RED CARPET EVENT IN SAN FRANCISCO. Lewis's farewell letter was just four sentences long, but it was noteworthy.In it, he thanked the paper's billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, but made absolutely no me ...
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Bloomberg· 2026-02-08 10:14
Thailand’s next leader is set to emerge as polls closed in Sunday's election. The contest between pro-democracy reformers and status-quo conservatives risks deepening the country’s political paralysis. https://t.co/wKWZRZ6ZtB ...
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The Economist· 2026-02-08 06:20
The spread of the term from the extremist fringe towards the mainstream illustrates how far-right groups are extending their influence in democracies https://t.co/xTIEyvhnSJ ...
‘Dangerous clown car for democracy’: Why Trump officials can’t keep their story straight on Gabbard
MSNBC· 2026-02-07 14:17
of national intelligce, Tulsi Gabbard, was seen among F .B .I. agents who were raiding an election center in Fulton County, Georgia, seizing ballots and other election material from the 2020 presidential election. In the day since, we've heard many different explanations from President TRUMP AND HIS ADMINISTRATION FOR WHY SHE WAS THERE, WITH THE MOST RECENT VERSION COMING FROM ATTORNEY GENERAL PAM BONDY YESTERDAY.SHE WAS DOWN THERE WITH DEPUTY DIRECTOR THE F .B .I. , AND I'M NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT ANY OTHE ...
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Nick Szabo· 2026-02-06 21:36
RT Hans-Hermann Hoppe (@HoppeQuotes)"Democracy turns many people into small children. It makes them believe that all problems can be solved quickly and easily if the right people are elected, if money is printed, or if wealth is redistributed from one group of inhabitants to another"https://t.co/9EIby4KB0P https://t.co/dBX1QmMgbZ ...
They Hijacked Our Tech—Here’s How We Fight Back | Ricardo Ferrer Rivero | TEDxMünchen
TEDx Talks· 2026-02-06 17:39
10 years ago, I stood on a similar TED X stage and said that the technology behind Bitcoin, one of the biggest innovations of our time, would soon impact society in a positive way. It was a statement that was received with big question marks. Almost nobody knew what blockchain meant today.Probably most of you know about it. Some of you maybe haven't invested and if you were lucky, you made some money out of it. But that's about it.That's what it's known for today as a way to get rich fast, avoid play paying ...
'Absolutely lawless': VA Gov. Spanberger blasts Trump's threats to nationalize elections
MSNBC· 2026-02-06 04:31
Our next guest is Fulfilling a Campaign Promise, Virginia's newly elected Democratic Governor Abigail Spanberger. won her election by 15 points. Four years after, the Republican governor won by two points.She took the governorship away from the Republicans and has now cut THE STATE OF VIRGINIA'S TIES WITH IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT. THE WASHINGTON POST REPORTS ONE OF HER FIRST ACTS AFTER BEING SWORN IN JANUARY 17TH WAS TO ISSUE AN EXECUTIVE ORDER RESCINDING AN ACTION BY HER predecessor, former Repu ...
Holder: Democratic Party must be 'defender of democracy' not just 'opposition party'
MSNBC· 2026-02-05 23:45
“If we are going to save this democracy, Democrats have to be not an opposition party in normal times, but a defender of democracy.” On the latest episode of “The Best People” with Nicolle Wallace, former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder breaks down how Democrats can harness the power of American protesters in their fight against the Trump administration. MS NOW: My Source for News, Opinion, and the World. Same mission. New name. » Subscribe to MS NOW: https://www.youtube.com/@msnow MS NOW is the go-to des ...