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✍️ Two UK writers dissecting the post-imperial drift of Britain & the US 🔍 Independent, anti-fascist, unafraid to call things out 📰 New essays weekly on politics, power & the culture of decay 👉 plagueisland.com | ☕ buymeacoffee.com/notesfromplagueisland

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Plague Island is fuelled by strong tea, milky coffee, and a stubborn refusal to look away.

We write about UK and US politics, post-imperial myths, and the human cost of bad policy.

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Peter Thiel's apocalyptic theology borrows from Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt to justify dismantling democracy. How billionaire prophecy enables authoritarianism.

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Part 9: The Billionaire Prophet: How Peter Thiel’s Apocalyptic Theology Justifies Dismantling Democracy

Peter Thiel's apocalyptic theology borrows from Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt to justify dismantling democracy. How billionaire prophecy enables authoritarianism.

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Stephen Miller: "We are the storm." Days later: "Use legitimate state power to dismantle terrorism"—meaning political opposition. He's not just an ideologue. He's the architect building American fascism

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Part 10: The Architect of American Fascism: How Stephen Miller Is Building the Authoritarian State

Stephen Miller is building American fascism through bureaucratic competence, using immigration as a laboratory to test authoritarian methods before broader application..

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Stephen Miller: "We are the storm." Days later: "Use legitimate state power to dismantle terrorism"—meaning political opposition. He's not just an ideologue. He's the architect building American fascism

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Part 10: The Architect of American Fascism: How Stephen Miller Is Building the Authoritarian State

Stephen Miller is building American fascism through bureaucratic competence, using immigration as a laboratory to test authoritarian methods before broader application..

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Stephen Miller: "We are the storm." Days later: "Use legitimate state power to dismantle terrorism"—meaning political opposition. He's not just an ideologue. He's the architect building American fascism

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Part 10: The Architect of American Fascism: How Stephen Miller Is Building the Authoritarian State

Stephen Miller is building American fascism through bureaucratic competence, using immigration as a laboratory to test authoritarian methods before broader application..

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Stephen Miller: "We are the storm." Days later: "Use legitimate state power to dismantle terrorism"—meaning political opposition. He's not just an ideologue. He's the architect building American fascism

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Part 10: The Architect of American Fascism: How Stephen Miller Is Building the Authoritarian State

Stephen Miller is building American fascism through bureaucratic competence, using immigration as a laboratory to test authoritarian methods before broader application..

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Stephen Miller: "We are the storm." Days later: "Use legitimate state power to dismantle terrorism"—meaning political opposition. He's not just an ideologue. He's the architect building American fascism

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Part 10: The Architect of American Fascism: How Stephen Miller Is Building the Authoritarian State

Stephen Miller is building American fascism through bureaucratic competence, using immigration as a laboratory to test authoritarian methods before broader application..

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Stephen Miller: "We are the storm." Days later: "Use legitimate state power to dismantle terrorism"—meaning political opposition. He's not just an ideologue. He's the architect building American fascism

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Stephen Miller: "We are the storm." Days later: "Use legitimate state power to dismantle terrorism"—meaning political opposition. He's not just an ideologue. He's the architect building American fascism

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Part 10: The Architect of American Fascism: How Stephen Miller Is Building the Authoritarian State

Stephen Miller is building American fascism through bureaucratic competence, using immigration as a laboratory to test authoritarian methods before broader application..

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Stephen Miller: "We are the storm." Days later: "Use legitimate state power to dismantle terrorism"—meaning political opposition. He's not just an ideologue. He's the architect building American fascism

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Part 10: The Architect of American Fascism: How Stephen Miller Is Building the Authoritarian State

Stephen Miller is building American fascism through bureaucratic competence, using immigration as a laboratory to test authoritarian methods before broader application..

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Stephen Miller: "We are the storm." Days later: "Use legitimate state power to dismantle terrorism"—meaning political opposition. He's not just an ideologue. He's the architect building American fascism

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Part 10: The Architect of American Fascism: How Stephen Miller Is Building the Authoritarian State

Stephen Miller is building American fascism through bureaucratic competence, using immigration as a laboratory to test authoritarian methods before broader application..

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10h

"Stalinism and Stephen Miller: Cause for concern"
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Stalinism and Stephen Miller (video)

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Stephen Miller: "We are the storm." Days later: "Use legitimate state power to dismantle terrorism"—meaning political opposition. He's not just an ideologue. He's the architect building American fascism

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Part 10: The Architect of American Fascism: How Stephen Miller Is Building the Authoritarian State

Stephen Miller is building American fascism through bureaucratic competence, using immigration as a laboratory to test authoritarian methods before broader application..

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Stephen Miller: "We are the storm." Days later: "Use legitimate state power to dismantle terrorism"—meaning political opposition. He's not just an ideologue. He's the architect building American fascism

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Part 10: The Architect of American Fascism: How Stephen Miller Is Building the Authoritarian State

Stephen Miller is building American fascism through bureaucratic competence, using immigration as a laboratory to test authoritarian methods before broader application..

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Stephen Miller: "We are the storm." Days later: "Use legitimate state power to dismantle terrorism"—meaning political opposition. He's not just an ideologue. He's the architect building American fascism

Please read, share & subscribe

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Part 10: The Architect of American Fascism: How Stephen Miller Is Building the Authoritarian State

Stephen Miller is building American fascism through bureaucratic competence, using immigration as a laboratory to test authoritarian methods before broader application..

www.plagueisland.com

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Stephen Miller: "We are the storm." Days later: "Use legitimate state power to dismantle terrorism"—meaning political opposition. He's not just an ideologue. He's the architect building American fascism

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Part 10: The Architect of American Fascism: How Stephen Miller Is Building the Authoritarian State

Stephen Miller is building American fascism through bureaucratic competence, using immigration as a laboratory to test authoritarian methods before broader application..

www.plagueisland.com

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 1d

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On complicity and moral responsibility as genocide happens in real-time. When the full truth emerges, what excuse will we have

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Gaza's Dead and Their Secrets

A meditation on complicity and moral responsibility as genocide unfolds in real-time. When the full truth emerges, what excuse will we have? A Coming Reckoning

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Stephen Miller: "We are the storm." Days later: "Use legitimate state power to dismantle terrorism"—meaning political opposition. He's not just an ideologue. He's the architect building American fascism

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Part 10: The Architect of American Fascism: How Stephen Miller Is Building the Authoritarian State

Stephen Miller is building American fascism through bureaucratic competence, using immigration as a laboratory to test authoritarian methods before broader application..

www.plagueisland.com

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Stephen Miller: "We are the storm." Days later: "Use legitimate state power to dismantle terrorism"—meaning political opposition. He's not just an ideologue. He's the architect building American fascism

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Part 10: The Architect of American Fascism: How Stephen Miller Is Building the Authoritarian State

Stephen Miller is building American fascism through bureaucratic competence, using immigration as a laboratory to test authoritarian methods before broader application..

www.plagueisland.com

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Stephen Miller: "We are the storm." Days later: "Use legitimate state power to dismantle terrorism"—meaning political opposition. He's not just an ideologue. He's the architect building American fascism

Please read, share & subscribe

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Part 10: The Architect of American Fascism: How Stephen Miller Is Building the Authoritarian State

Stephen Miller is building American fascism through bureaucratic competence, using immigration as a laboratory to test authoritarian methods before broader application..

www.plagueisland.com

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

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The foundations of democracy feel increasingly precarious, not under siege from tanks in the streets, but from something perhaps more insidious: a 'slow strangulation' conducted from within. Across the democratic world, norms erode,

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Part 1: The Dark Enlightenment Lens: Understanding the Slow Strangulation of Democracy

Part 2: The Shadow of Christian Nationalism: J.D.

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