Calling on Fiji’s youth to learn about the country’s troubled history to build stronger understanding, social cohesion and democratic resilience for a better future.

Quo vadis, Indonesia??

Follow @repstansbury.bsky.social Democracy won’t vanish without a fight in America!

"Earlier this week Donald Trump called for a second civil war at a US military base. This scenario can be resisted and prevented, if we have the courage to listen, interpret, and act. And this Saturday we will have the occasion to act." snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-civ...

Mundus sine caesaribus! 👏

During the Arab Spring, social media became a powerful tool for sharing real-time evidence through photos, videos, and testimonies. This podcast episode explores lessons from the Arab Spring and how evolving tech will shape future open source investigations. www.patreon.com/posts/episod...

Merci 🙏🇺🇦🇫🇷🇪🇺💪@claudemalhuret.bsky.social Vive l’Ukraine, vive la France, vive L’Europe Démocratique !

Betraying #Ukraine will not make America great https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5173294-betraying-ukraine-will-not-make-america-great/

Vive le Canada! 🇨🇦

Cutting through all the cluttered anxiety and reactionary noise; cutting through all the sensationalist headlines, here’s the question that remains; here’s the question that matters: what are we going to do to stop it?

Breaking: Jasmine Crockett - ''We may be heading towards the next World War because we have a President that wants to pal around with Putin, and lying about who invaded who.''

🚨🚨 New significant #exodus news: The Supreme Court of Canada says it’s moving away from the social media platform #X. In a farewell post Wednesday to its more than 45,000 subscribers, the top court said it will focus its communication efforts on other platforms. 🧵 www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...

This is so goddamn embarrassing. www.axios.com/2025/02/24/u...

Our latest podcast @fcctpodcast is with @reaproy.bsky.social We speak about a host of issues, with Phil explaining the ins and outs of human rights, transnational repression, Myanmar, sports washing and more! Full video on YouTube below ⬇️ youtu.be/nYJczEAc0mo?...

🇩🇪🗳️ German election 2025 The conservative coalition (CDU/CSU) won Sunday’s national vote, while the far-right AfD saw its best-ever result, winning swathes of support in the east. For the SPD, it was a disaster. The results: www.politico.eu/article/germ...

Wir haben ein Islamismusproblem, ein Internetpredigerproblem, ein Justizproblem (zu späte und oft zu laschebSanktionen), ein Drogenproblem (!), ein Psychiatrieproblem, ein Erziehungsversorgungsproblem, einen unreformierten Jugendstrafvollzug und ein Abschiebeproblem bei Intensivtätern.

Elon Musk’s net worth is roughly ten times larger than USAID’s annual budget.

The Fiji TRC draws lessons from processes around the world but its mandate and functions are unique.

"If anyone with a smartphone can publish, they should also be able to verify. To combat any security threat posed by disordered information we need to teach young people these skills" By @bellingcat.com @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social https://reutersinstitute.politics.o…

Many friends are cautious and saying, "let's see where this goes" - but you are at your most powerful right now. Every day you do not act normalizes impunity and makes you and the people you serve weaker.

The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

"It does not matter that he is an ally of the President. Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup."

I don't get the sense that U.S. journalists have a good sense of who to talk to when basic government functions are being ripped out. Gutting the administrative state is not a standard beat. A short thread with some starter suggestions for who to read/talk to. Please - people add more in replies!

I agree. Rejecting cynicism is the revolution of dignity everyone can perform every day. It’s the first step towards better societies.

Informative reporting by @jasonkoebler.bsky.social on efforts by archivists to preserve datasets that are rapidly disappearing from data.gov; 2,000+ removed since Jan. 21. See @harvardlil.bsky.social's growing collection of 305K+ government datasets: lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01...

This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

For 3 years, we've been publishing anonymous diaries by Myanmar storytellers on life under/ away from military dictatorship. We'll post these regularly on Bluesky now that we've migrated here. This is a short graphic novel from an illustrator we've been supporting. kite-tales.org/en/article/l...

Myanmar: Four years after coup, world must demand accountability for atrocity crimes The int’l community must take action to ensure accountability for atrocities in Myanmar, 46 orgs, including @FortifyRights, said today. Read the joint statement ⬇️ www.fortifyrights.org/mya-inv-stm-...

We welcome the decision of the President of Fiji to appoint Dr Marcus Brand, a renowned European peacebuilding and human rights professional from Austria, to serve as the Chairperson of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Fiji.

Timothy Snyder was right.

It's presidential election day in Belarus, with Europe's longest-ruling dictator, Alexander Lukashenko, looking for some fresh false legitimacy from another sham vote. The last internationally recognized fair voting in Belarus was in 1994, when Lukashenko seized power.

Nearly 100 prominent European NGOs are calling on the European Commission to move swiftly to ban PFAS and "end" the "worst pollution crisis in human history.” Tellingly, their letter describes PFAS as "the poison of the century." #ForeverChemicals #PFAS eeb.org/library/lett...

Democracy in action in Samut Prakan!

🚨🚨 For EU nerds and wonks: If you are new here I created this starter pack a while ago on EU law and politics including great commentators, journalists and politicians and news outlets. #eupolitics #eupolicy #eulaw #EU bsky.app/starter-pack...

Seen from a distance it looks like a full-fledged coup is going on in the United States, rapidly dismantling safeguards and control mechanisms. At the same time, what’s left of the international order is thrown in disarray (eg Greenland). This will end badly.

Better link protectdemocracy.org/how-to-prote...

Climate Action Week Bangkok is Southeast Asia’s premier event showcasing what “Whole of Society Climate Action” looks like. First annual city-based climate action festival engaging diverse constituencies for a vibrant, green and inclusive climate-safe future. bangkokclimateactionweek.org

For those in #bangkok Join us on 2 February at 5pm to celebrate the resilience of people of Myanmar 4 years after the #coup #burma #myanmar #whatshappeninginmyanmar #odissey #displacement #refugees #thailand

More need to have the courage to speak up for what they believe is right!

Pro-democracy Organizing against Autocracy in the United States: A Strategic Assessment & Recommendations “This report proposes nonviolent resistance strategies and support systems…for informing a broad-based pro-democracy struggle under [an]… authoritarian.” www.hks.harvard.edu/publications...

I mean, the world's richest man doing the Nazi salute at the U.S. presidential inauguration ceremony... there's something fundamentally wrong about this world right now.

The insanity of our time is hard to grasp

No matter where you fall on the TikTok ban, the President undoing by “executive order” a law passed by Congress and upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court is an unconstitutional abuse of power.

The time of monsters…

Musk, Power, and the EU We have kicked off a blog symposium, ed. by Alberto Alemanno (@alemanno.bsky.social) & Jacquelyn D. Veraldi on whether EU law can tackle the challenges of plutocracy. The first contributions and more to follow next week can be found here 🙌 verfassungsblog.de/category/deb...

Yes. Finally the EU institutions are shifting. The EU Parliament on Bluesky. Please follow and share!

Si heureuse d'être partie il y a un an de ce réseau masculiniste, sexiste et toxique, de quitter cette dictature de l'urgence, de la réaction immédiate à tout. Plutôt que de survivre dans cet égout nauséabond, les yeux rivés sur les likes, sortez-en, lisez, écrivez, débattez, c'est la démocratie !

Kinda like asking a drug dealer to remove the cocaine from their milk powder, but it's an idea - Big tech is picking apart European democracy, but there is a solution: switch off its algorithms www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Another future was possible. But we drifted off, derailed, entered a parallel universe in which we won’t recognize ourselves and will miss what we have been holding on to. Where monsters and ogres reign. Let’s not lose our minds over it. Like everything, this nightmare too will pass.