Dangerous Dispatch for February 17, 2025

My "Dangerous Dispatch" video for February 17, 2025. (17 min)

5 Topics:

1- Benefits of a "news fast"

2- Heather Cox Richardson

3- Anne Applebaum article

4- Foreign Affairs article

5- BlueSky Lists (+ "Thrive Community")

All referenced links from this video are included in this slideshow.

Links include:

1. My Patreon community: "Dangerous Ideas with Wes Fryer: human rights, democratic norms, tolerance, and media literacy"

2. Heather Cox Richardson's Substack: "Letters from an American"

3. Anne Applebaum's article in The Atlantic, "There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing: How regime change happens in America" (13 Feb 2025 - paywall free version)

4. Foreign Affairs article: "The Path to American Authoritarianism: What Comes After Democratic Breakdown" by Steven Levitsky and Lucan A Way (11 Feb 2025)

5. My BlueSky list for the Thrive Community

6. My BlueSky profile / channel

7. Discovering Useful Ideas

8. More ways to learn and connect with me (Wes Fryer) are on: wesfryer.com/after

This video is also available on Patreon and YouTube.