Post by @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social

The #BrokenTimes moves its twee authoritarian slider up one notch while refusing to recognize full-blown fascism all around us.
Trump’s Election Interference Is Eroding American Democracy https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/08/20/opinion/trump-election-interference-democracy.html?smid=tw-share

Based on Mr. Trump's statements and actions about the 2026
midterms, we are moving our assessment of one of the categories
— manipulating the law to stay in power— up one notch, to Level
3:
Manipulating the law to stay in power
then the times slider from DEMOCRACY to AUTOCRACY, the red button now up to 3 — Based on Mr. Trump's statements and actions about the 2026 midterms, we are moving our assessment of one of the categories — manipulating the law to stay in power— up one notch, to Level 3: Manipulating the law to stay in power then the times slider from DEMOCRACY to AUTOCRACY, the red button now up to 3

https://www.nytimes.com

Opinion | Trump’s Election Interference Is Eroding American Democracy

#brokentimes

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six_grandfathers_mountain

@six_grandfathers_mountain@mastodon.social 21 min. ago

@jeffjarvis
Re
#BrokenTimes authoritarian slider

WTF, the #NYT saying the #MAGA #Republicans #trumpadministration are just "eroding" ⁉️
I'm with Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis in sliding the stain all the way more right

Strange, the https://archive.md page for this cant show the moved settings, the NYT is frozen, must be a #Java thing with my #Firefox

https://archive.md/Ei7gC

Iimage from NYC (not Archive.md) that show the LOW settings

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