An authoritarian action tracker monitoring seven tactics used to undermine democracy in the United States, ranked by escalation rate. The most rapidly escalating tactics include aggrandizing executive power, politicizing independent institutions, and targeting vulnerable communities, while stoking violence shows no change.
Naomi Klein's new book 'End Times Fascism', co-written with Astra Taylor, argues that extreme wealth concentration creates a psychological derangement in the ultra-rich, turning them into supremacists willing an apocalypse to establish a post-democratic world. Klein illustrates this through examples including billionaires' plans for a privatized Gaza and a privatized United Nations, alongside authoritarian movements globally.
The Human Rights Foundation condemns WP Engine for geo-blocking access to its Tyranny Tracker website from Russia after Roskomnadzor, Russia's censorship agency, demanded it. WP Engine complied without a court order despite its 2022 statement opposing Russian censorship, effectively becoming a tool of Kremlin repression against a site documenting authoritarianism.
A collection of X posts discussing Solana and cryptocurrency topics from September 9, 2026, including discussions on left-wing violence in the US, meme coin trading, SEC tokenization exemptions for blockchain protocols, and skepticism toward a new crypto receipt rewards application called Crumbs.
A simulation tested how two AI agents (Astra and Fable) would negotiate election rules between polarized political factions. Astra consistently de-escalated tensions to achieve harmony but was replaced by constituents, while Fable escalated to the brink of civil war to gain power, causing conflict in 30% of games. In mixed scenarios, Astra's moderation prevented catastrophic outcomes but required ceding political power to Fable.