Sooo... here's something I didn't expect. Apparently the South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol is trying to grab power?

To our friends in South Korea: good luck in the coming hours and days. I wish you the best in protecting your democracy. ❤️

https://www.dw.com/en/south-korean-president-yoon-suk-yeol-declares-martial-law/a-70947817

#southkorea #martiallaw #YoonSukYeol #powergrab #democracy

I'm glad that absolutely everyone in South Korea, including politicians, is fighting to preserve the Freedom and Democracy of their country.

South Korea will remain free. The people have spoken.

#Freedom #Democracy #SouthKorea

Donald Trump gets an idea.
#MartialLaw #SouthKorea #USA #Democracy
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cn38321180et#player

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ON SOUTH KOREA 🇰🇷
Quoth Professor Heesoo Jang:
> I was preparing to pitch an op-ed on the nationwide protests calling for President Yoon's resignation, aiming to provide global context amid the limited international coverage.
>
> Given the urgency, I’m sharing it now. I didn’t expect events to escalate this quickly. #SouthKorea #Democracy
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/13cZrLIFbanNpIFNPE8xRObf_Hhko8NMpriRAH7levQo/edit (1/2) 🧵

https://www.europesays.com/1658832/ Developing | South Korean lawmakers defy president by voting to lift his declaration of martial law #agendas #AntiStateActivities #Conflicts #ConstitutionalOrder #critical #democracy #EmergencyMartialLaw #Government #NorthKorea #office #Opposition #parliament #SouthKorea #struggled #TelevisedBriefing #YoonSukYeol

Developing | South Korean lawmakers defy president by voting to lift his declaration of martial law https://www.byteseu.com/526361/ #agendas #AntiStateActivities #ConstitutionalOrder #critical #Democracy #EmergencyMartialLaw #Government #NorthKorea #office #opposition #Parliament #SouthKorea #struggled #TelevisedBriefing #YoonSukYeol

Coup d'état is South Korea!

Martial law declaration in the midst of night!

This is wild!

#southkorea #martiallaw #democracy #coup #uspolitics

WTF, #SouthKorea?!

#democracy #politics

Korean parliament declared the martial law is invalid.
After this declaration, President Yoon have to clear the martial law along the constitution.

#korea #democracy #martiallaw

The "rule of law" was abandoned by #Republicans at the State and Federal level.

Republican states are all rigged for permanent Republican majority.

Republicans commit the most election fraud every election.

We live in a Republic now. #Democracy is powerless to change the State structures and the Judiciary.

The #UnitedStates abandoned democracy for the #Republic.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/dec/02/benjamin-netanyahu-bibi-files-israeli-corruption
#netanyahu #israel #gaza #democracy #war #peace #documentary #bibifiles

“The OCCRP, the largest organised network of investigative #media in the world, hid the extent of its links with the #US government, this investigation can reveal. Washington supplies half of its budget, has a right to veto its senior staff, and funds investigations focussing on Russia and Venezuela.”
–Mediapart

It’s also about discrediting journalists. And haven’t the time to read all the paper yet, but also about how #Democracy is arbitrary depending on interests!

#censorship

🤬 we should all be VERY angry!

https://www.mediapart.fr/en/journal/international/021224/hidden-links-between-giant-investigative-journalism-and-us-government?utm_source=alerte-20241202-152359&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ALERTE&utm_content=&utm_term=&xtor=EREC-83-%5BALERTE%5D-alerte-20241202-152359&M_BT=8961966016899

Democracy fighting back with protests as president makes a stand in Georgia
#Georgia #GeorgiaElections #georgiaprotests #democracy
BBC News - Georgia president calls for new elections as protests erupt again
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy5ypkn7kjo

🥥 From the Dave Troy article:
"If democracy-minded people don’t seize control of the information environment, powerful sociopathic autocrats will do so instead. We leave a power vacuum open at our peril, and at the moment, Musk and Putin are the ones with the most will to fill it." --DaveTroy
https://davetroy.medium.com/no-elon-and-jack-are-not-competitors-theyre-collaborating-3e88cde5267d
🥥
#Democracy #Autocrats #Musk #Putin #SocialMedia #InformationEnvironment #TuckersBalls

A deeply meaningful intro and main speech.

It brings into relief the absolute necessity of resistance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRm90F1HqnU

#genocide #gaza #democracy

"For decades, generation after generation of #Palestinians have been deprived of their basic rights and liberties under the auspices of the Israeli occupation. For them, the idea of an Israeli rule of law is as absurd as any colonial attempt to legitimise tyranny through hollow legality.
...the #ICC warrants are too little and too late.
Palestinians were not surprised, but truthfully, neither were Israelis. We read and see the statements of the Israeli government, unfiltered and untranslated. We know senior ministers celebrated the killing of innocents while another announced their plan to empty more than half of the population in order to make space for Jewish settlements within the next few years. When I, a member of the Knesset, spoke out against these crimes in #parliament, I was punished harshly. I am currently serving a six-month suspension from all parliamentary activities for using the term “#genocide”. The ethics committee has stated that it reached the decision based on my use of the term “genocide” and opposition to alleged war crimes perpetrated in #Gaza.
...#Democracy in #Israel never really existed, owing to the state of Israel’s definition as an ethnic concept, antithetical to political egalitarianism."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/29/israel-knesset-benjamin-netanyahu-peace
#IsraelApartheid #IsraelTerroristState #media

US suspends strategic partnership with Georgia after EU membership talks halted https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/30/us-suspends-partnership-georgia-00192044?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication #ForeignAffairs #Neighborhood #Enlargement #Parliament #Buildings #Democracy #Elections #Politics #Kremlin #LGBTQ+ #Rights #Fraud #Media #Water #NGOs #Gas

Latest comic: Capitulation

#cartoon #comic #uspol #media #politics #democracy

Transparency International reckons that at least 10% of all money donated to the major political parties comes from dubious sources, and that's before taking account for benefits in kind enjoyed by various MPs & ministers.

the Q. is: what are people getting for this money, because they sure as hell aren't giving it way out of the goodness of their hearts?

One more argument for regulated state funding of political parties?

#democracy #politics

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/nov/30/uk-political-donations-dark-money

further with Pankaj Mishra, assisted by Vlad Vexler
https://pdbowman.studio/quareidfaciam/estate/

#PankajMishra #VladVexler #GabrielWinant #StuartHall #media #journalism #liberalDemocracy #democracy

https://www.europesays.com/?p=1639289 Haaretz controversy sparks debate on democracy and media freedoms #democracy #FreePress #FreeSpeech #Haaretz #Israel #media #MinistryOfCommunications

https://www.europesays.com/1639135/ Romania’s far-right, pro-Russian lurch spells big trouble for EU and NATO – POLITICO #AndrejBabis #borders #CalinGeorgescu #corruption #democracy #elections #ElenaLasconi #europe #Extremism #GeorgeSimion #Georgia #hungary #MaiaSandu #MarcelCiolacu #media #MilanNič #Moldova #populism #rights #RobertFico #romania #Russia #SiegfriedMuresan #slovakia #ThanasisBakolas #TraianBăsescu #Ukraine #UnitedStates #ViktorOrbán #VladimirPutin #war

Romania’s far-right, pro-Russian lurch spells big trouble for EU and NATO https://www.politico.eu/article/could-romania-break-eu-and-nato-elections-russia-influence-moldova-georgia-calin-georgescu/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication #Corruption #Democracy #Elections #Extremism #Populism #Politics #Borders #Defense #Rights #Media #War

🗳Savor the Victories!🗳

In #missouri WE THE PEOPLE overturned the state’s abortion ban and won Proposition A, a ballot initiative for a $15 minimum wage and paid sick leave, which won with more than 58 percent of votes! #uspol #uspolitics #election #election2024 #freedom #democracy #Democrats

Is there reason to be optimistic about the future of journalism, and its desire & ability to keep us informed and able to avoid complete suffocation by our new tech overlords in the dark times that are ahead? 🤔

#journalism #democracy

#Trump #Musk #Ramaswamy have huge ambitions no humility about what they are undertaking. What they have talked about amounts to wholesale attack on federal agencies designed to eliminate thousands of #regulations, reduce the federal #workforce by an order of magnitude that could cripple the delivery of vital services, effect cost savings that would amount to nearly 1/3 of the #federal #budget or the entire #discretionary part of the budget #government #economy #democracyhttps://wapo.st/4fHN3FA

Elite Paywalls or Social Media Misinformation: The Alarming Future of ‘Two Tier’ Journalism

https://bylinetimes.com/2024/11/25/elite-paywalls-or-social-media-misinformation-the-alarming-future-of-two-tier-journalism/

#Journalism #Paywalls #Misinformation #Democracy

Many factors why #Trump won

The most crucial piece is that #socialmedia is the center of all attention

Not unique to the #USA

Example:

"#FarRight #candidate takes shock lead in #Romania presidential #election"

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9dlw5pq967o

#Georgescu is anti-#NATO, anti-#EU and admires #Putin

He joined in August in 8th place. He is now in 1st

Why?

Social media saturation

Forget #cable, forget the #press: dead #media

Social media is killing #Democracy

This is now our greatest struggle

Communications Minister Karhi: the supreme court should be cancelled and a new court circuit should replace it, that will not attack the #democracy.

Translation: even two branches of #government are too many, #Israel should have only one.

That's the same guy who wants to shred our public broadcasting corp and delete as much of whatever is left of our local culture and common history. If he manages to pull this off, we will probably get kicked out of the #eurovision too.

#MaralagoJoe and Mika may have just put the last nail in the coffin of #MSNBC which had been in a pretty bad place already. I wonder how their colleagues are gonna treat them when they lose their multi-million dollar contracts thanks to their cowardice ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx2aw--osiM

#MorningJoe #politics #USpolitics #democracy #Trump #TrumpIsNotFitToBePresident #TV #news #journalism #FreePress #cablenews

So it looks like #MichaelCohen joins #MaralagoJoe and #washingtonpost in bending the knee to convicted felon #OrangeFace ... Disappointing but not surprising. I guess we will know see who is the real deal and who is just a spineless opportunist ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28eGsKPislI

#Trump #democracy #freedom #USpolitics #journalism #news #MSNBC #TrumpResistance #TrumpIsNotFitToBePresident #TrumIsAFascist #BoycottMorningJoe

Technology is an amplifier and what Big Tech amplifies is fascism.

You want to amplify the opposite? Then build, raise awareness about, and help fund the opposite:

Small Tech.

https://small-tech.org/about/#small-technology

#BigTech #SmallTech #fascism #democracy #humanRights #technology

I've always had enormous respect for Bernie Sanders. He would have made a great president. #Politics #Democracy #Gaza https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/20/bernie-sanders-israel-gaza-resolution

FWIW, folks I follow used these hashtags today: #scotus (150) #law (43) #tech (37) #legaltech (37) #autosum (37) #trump (6) #mattgaetz (3) #dailystats (3) #currentevents (3) #cop29 (3) #contracts (3) #opensource (3) #democracy (3) #justicesystem (3) #Climate (3) #Cybersecurity (3) #legaldrama (3) #lawfedi (3) #education (3) #singapore (2) #privacy (2) #academia (2) #fedilaw (2) #media (2) #surveillance (2) #uspolitics (2) #economy (2) #bluesky (2) [#DailyStats]

Now is a really good time to start researching how #media #technology & #democracy intersect, and what it means for our shared future.

Thankfully, we have an amazing 1-year MA program on just this subject in Washington #DC. Check it out:

https://www.american.edu/soc/communication-studies/ma/ma-mtd.cfm #academia #academicchatter #highered #commodon @academicchatter @commodon

In my position, I have had the opportunity to speak to some members of congress.

We are now in a situation where there are members who support totalitarianism/Authoritarianism.

I'm asking the community, if given the opportunity to meet with these anti-democratic legislators, what specifically would you say or ask to make the best argument for them to protect our democratic republic?

#democracy #MAGA #government #resist