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Anne Frank stuff, all of this. Link to the full ProPublica piece is here:

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America, 2026

МОНУМЕНТАЛНИТЕ - The Monumentals Five Plovdiv Artists and Their Legacy in the City

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Clickbait Citizen Podcast | Chris Baldwin | Substack A podcast on power, propaganda, art and culture presented by award-winning theatre director, curator and author.

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"War can be informalized, normalised, inserted into heads of as simply part of everyday life... And this is where arts and culture are called to assist."

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“A U.S. citizen!” And now he’s missing.

Adrian Martinez tried to defend a man ICE was harassing. Video shows six agents swarming him. He struggles but doesn’t lay hands on them. They take him to the ground & shove him into a CBP vehicle.

Abuse of power. Keep recording. Don’t stop.
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If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention.

🎥: Time, 💬 Greta Thunberg

Join us live now for the second session of Forum Tomizza 's discussion and where the main topic #InPraiseofFolly would lead us
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Making it to the other side How to imagine is our solemn task.

Making it to the other side

Will you join us there?

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Privilege and Mimesis

In this first full length episode I examine the way professional politicians have been highly adept at employing the power of performance across a wide spectrum of their own activities.
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Ice director wants to run deportations like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’ Todd Lyons said he wanted US immigration agency to be ‘like a business’ in its deportation process

German businesses heard a similar pitch in 1940.
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Protests aren’t the only tool in the anti-authoritarian toolkit, but they’re incredibly important. Protests help us see each other; they make it feel safer to refuse to obey the dictator, and make it more possible for us to organize mass non-cooperation.

It’s an essential step in the process.

Thank you so much, Richard, for all your efforts and videos over recent years.

Thank you

Total Cost to Musicians Since Brexit - European Movement UK The cost of Brexit to UK musicians is staggering. Discover the impact in Spotify streams, Wembley tickets, vinyl LPs, and more. Support the campaign and sign the petition!

UK musicians hit with £914M+ loss post-Brexit. Streams, tickets, vinyl - it’s grim. Join @europeanmovement.co.uk to sign the petition: www.europeanmovement.co.uk/brexit_music...

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Culture and Nuclear Fission When the ancient actor stepped out of the chorus to comment on the action it was the equivalent of cultural nuclear fission. Authority responded, first with regulation and then with violence.

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Narrative Launderers From Melno Park to Theresienstadt

Narrative Launderers - From Melno Park to Theresienstadt.

"Propaganda is aimed not only at communicating a message, but at constructing reality itself".

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Prompt: Five Arenas Politicians depend on fictions as much as facts to communicate and accumulate power with and from their audiences, us citizens. This is how artists become indispensable.

The artist does have an obligation to consider the jeopardy at play for their audience citizens...

Prompt: Five Arenas

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Be part of a community discussing democracy and culture through a wider lens.

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Prompt: Five Arenas Politicians depend on fictions as much as facts to communicate and accumulate power with and from their audiences, us citizens. This is how artists become indispensable.

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If they did not exist, we would have to re-invent them. Festivals are the decentralised and irreplaceable spaces for imagining the unimaginable. Welcome to Trieste.

"An unapologetic celebration of diversity as a human need and not as a political option one can reject or replace with some other concept."

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"Politicians depend on fictions as much as facts to communicate and accumulate power with and from their audiences, us citizens".

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American statements in the Oval Office indistinguishable from Russian propaganda and celebrated by Russian propagandists.

Given that the Trump people did nothing to induce Russia to end the war, it’s fair to conclude that the whole idea of pursuing peace was just a pretext to renew relations with Russia.

President Donald J. Trump on Instagram 392K likes, 40K comments - realdonaldtrump on February 25, 2025

Trump's video of Gaza speaks to a US which has become the victim of its own visual language - capable of generating a fictitious, grotesque vision of the future while falls into a dependence on that very vision as a political road-map. Marvel brings you Genocide.
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"Recoup the costs" The sadism of American policy to war-torn Ukraine

"The increase to Musk's wealth since Trump was elected president three months ago is greater than all of the American aid given to Ukraine over the last three years."-- @timothysnyder.bsky.social