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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."

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Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social · 1d

I feel very moved by the Portland resistance - inflatable people, hot-to-go dancers and twerking dinosaurs, as this piece outlines , it’s true courage, defanging fear

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as "war-torn" becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it's, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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RobinK 👊🇪🇺🔥 @templeofhate.com · 2d

This interview with @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social is quite brilliant. »Olesya Khromeychuk spoke to Peter Pomerantsev about the subtleties of waging information warfare, the challenges of cultivating a world of truth and justice today, and creating the kind of space where democracy can be practised.«

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Zesmerelda in Hellda @zesmerelda.bsky.social · 3d

"How to Win an Information War: Sefton Delmer, the Genius Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler"-Peter Pomerantsev. Read this based on a Ted talk by the author. It's an expanded version of that w/more history, details, citations. Fascinating look at the propaganda war in WWII (both sides). #booksky #204

Cover of How to Win an Information War by Peter Pomerantsev

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Peter Pomerantsev @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you

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Peter Pomerantsev @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social · 4d

@timothysnyder.bsky.social great books are important- but nothing is quite as tangible in its direct impact as his campaign to fundraise frontline trucks and buses with anti drone equipment. Join us!

www.help99.co/patches/timo...

Timothy Snyder: Freedom is Action

Professor Timothy Snyder – a prominent voice of freedom, teams up with NAFO to fundraise for ten trucks and ten cargo buses with anti-drone jamming systems. These will transport and protect those who ...

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Peter Pomerantsev @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social · 11d

When are words war crimes?

www.politico.eu/article/russ...

How to hold Russia’s propagandists accountable

The most dangerous words aren’t necessarily the most violent ones. And disinformation campaigns could offer a new avenue for establishing responsibility.

www.politico.eu

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 16d

Negotiations have stalled. Trump keeps changing his policies. Ukrainians, backed by Europeans, are taking matters into their own hands, by targeting the Russian oil industry:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Ukraine’s Plan to Starve the Russian War Machine

Negotiations have stalled. Trump keeps changing his policies. Ukrainians, backed by Europeans, are taking matters into their own hands.

www.theatlantic.com

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20d

The Lib Dems are right. I know for a fact that a lot of Russian interference isn’t publicised. The Government needs to start calling it out every time it happens so that the public understands we’re at war,

Aafke van Zwieten @aafkevanzwieten.bsky.social · 20d

Hell yes @chadbourn.bsky.social @twmcltd.bsky.social

Bc if it is, that means Russia wants art5
We all know it will happen, jus rip off the damn bandaid and get it done

news.sky.com/story/cyber-...

Airports latest: Government must say if Russia behind European airport cyber attack chaos, Lib Dems demand

Multiple European airports have said they have been impacted by a suspected cyber attack, with Heathrow passengers stranded for hours and flights cancelled in Brussels.

news.sky.com

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 22d

Good moment to remember that US foreign policy is also being reoriented to enable foreign censors and authoritarian propaganda around the world

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

America Surrenders in the Global Information Wars

The U.S. is reorienting its foreign policy to protect governments that manipulate and suppress information.

www.theatlantic.com

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 24d

Chotiner interview with @lilymasonphd.bsky.social

www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Where Political Violence Comes From

Is our era of extreme partisanship to blame?

www.newyorker.com

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 24d

Poland says it is facing up to 50 Russian sabotage attempts daily, including hacks on hospitals and city water supplies.

This is clearly war. And there is no doubt which country Putin is targeting after Ukraine.

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Simon Gray @sagray.bsky.social · Sep 8

Finished “The Damned King” by Justin Lee Anderson (enjoyed but do wish there would be summaries of the previous books when reading a series…my memory is not what it was). Now on to “How to win an Information War” by Peter Pomerantsev - which so far is an entirely new perspective on WW2 history

Picture of Hitler in uniform in greyscale with two radio towers with concentric circles emitting radio waves either side on a pale yellow cover. “The propagandist who outwitted hitler”

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Peter Pomerantsev @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social · Sep 6

As Russia, China and Iran augment their information war tools America retreats from the cognitive domain…

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Sep 5

On our unilateral disarmament: America is reorienting its foreign policy to help governments that manipulate and suppress information.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

America Surrenders in the Global Information Wars

The U.S. is reorienting its foreign policy to protect governments that manipulate and suppress information.

www.theatlantic.com

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Sep 4

The Bad Guys are Winning, from 2021
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Sep 3

Even the world's most surveilled state can't control the thoughts and dreams of its citizens
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/b...

A Hidden Camera Protest Turned the Tables on China’s Surveillance State

www.nytimes.com

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · Aug 25

this point—that this era is not forever and accountability can come in many forms—has for some reason proved bizarrely elusive for democrats

Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · Aug 25

Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago:

"If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · Aug 30

New work by @brendannyhan.bsky.social & @jasonreifler.bsky.social shows further evidence of positive impact of prebunking

This is why EIP wrote What to Expect rumor guides for certain periods in elections! And it’s why election deniers reframe this as “brainwashing”

www.science.org/content/arti...

Trust in elections rises after ‘inoculations’ meant to preempt false fraud claims

New U.S.-Brazil study points to ways of countering election misinformation, political scientists say

www.science.org

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Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · Aug 29

"And the only thing more dangerous than an aggrieved dictator is a world too afraid to confront him".

Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · Jul 20

Free World accounts for 50% of global GDP; russia less than 2%. It’s no superpower, just a declining empire throwing a tantrum.
russia's foundation (economic, moral, demographic) is rotten to the core.
And the only thing more dangerous than an aggrieved dictator is a world too afraid to confront him

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Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · Aug 29

"Eleven years into its crusade against a neighbor one-quarter its size, Russia holds less Ukrainian ground than it did in 2022, and its latest tactics — terrorizing civilians — are best described as a tyrant tantrum."

Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · Jul 20

find it here
nypost.com/2025/07/20/o...

Vladimir Putin throws a tyrant tantrum — but Russia is big, brutish and bluffing

Russia’s president declared this recession will not stand. Like a comic-book villain — melodramatic and delusional — Vladimir Putin seems convinced saying something makes it true. But the out-of-co…

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · Aug 29

New study by @brendannyhan.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that prebunking election fraud rumors — by warning about anticipated false claims & filling conceptual gaps that those claims exploit — helps to reduce belief in falsehoods: www.science.org/content/arti...

Trust in elections rises after ‘inoculations’ meant to preempt false fraud claims

New U.S.-Brazil study points to ways of countering election misinformation, political scientists say

www.science.org

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · Aug 29

Bringing a proposal for somewhat improved bureaucratic coordination to a no-holds barred geopolitical cage match.

Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · Aug 29

Yet, after spending much of 2025 in the crosshairs of superpowers’ more advanced and direct weapons – economic and otherwise – there is a growing sense that Europe may still be bringing a knife to a gunfight.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · Aug 29

I think this turned out pretty well.

Foreign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com · Aug 28

Listen to the latest episode of “The Foreign Affairs Interview,” featuring @himself.bsky.social and @abenewman.bsky.social on how the United States has weaponized economic interdependence for decades—and why the tables are turning today:
https://fam.ag/45VUghA

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Peter Pomerantsev @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social · Aug 28

like an undercooked blancmange

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Aug 28

What did Putin think of the Alaska summit? Well, he just sent drones and missiles to hit an apartment building, a shopping mall and the headquarters of the European Union in Kyiv.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

2 Weeks After Trump Talks, Russia Bombards Kyiv, Killing at Least 18

www.nytimes.com

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