A New Era of Corruption: Financial Conflicts of Interests for President-Elect Donald Trump and his Incoming Administration Elections & Politics #140 | By: Nicholas Gordon | December 12, 2024 Photo by Carlos Herrero __________________________________ Summary For a...
The Sidelined War: Myanmar’s Fight for Freedom Foreign Policy Brief #171 | By: Damian DeSola | December 8, 2024 Photo by Pyae Sone Htun on Unsplash __________________________________ On February 1, 2021, Myanmar’s military, the Tatmadaw, forcefully overthrew the...
What Will Trump Administration Policy Towards Ukraine Look Like? Foreign Policy Brief #170 | By: Yelena Korshunov | December 6, 2024 Photo by Markus Spiske __________________________________ The US presidential election results have been met with mixed feelings in...
The United Nations in Today's World Foreign Policy Brief #169 | By: Abran C | December 6, 2024 Photo by Hugo Magalhaes __________________________________ The United Nations (UN) is the world's largest international organization, it was founded on October 24,...
From Election to Inauguration: How Political Power Gets Transferred in the United States Elections & Politics #139 | By: Arvind Salem | November 30, 2024 Photo by Srikanta H. U on Unsplash __________________________________ Policy Issue Summary The peaceful...
Immigrants vs. the Trump Administration: Part 2:"First They Came for the Immigrants": Parallels Between Trump’s Immigration Policies and the Early Rise of Nazi Ideology Immigration #137 | By: Morgan Davidson | November 26, 2024 US RESIST NEWS has asked Morgan...
Immigrants vs. the Trump Administration: Part 1: Immigration in America: Crisis, Contribution, and the Path Forward Immigration #136 | By: Morgan Davidson | November 26, 2024 US RESIST NEWS has asked Morgan Davidson, one of our outstanding Reporters, to chronicle and...
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The post-election fallout on Elon Musk’s platform, X, has triggered a digital exodus reminiscent of political protests past. On November 6, over 115,000 users deactivated their accounts, frustrated by Musk’s overt alliance with Donald Trump and X’s growing reputation as a hub for hate speech and misinformation. High-profile figures like Stephen King, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Barbra Streisand publicly announced their departures, with many migrating to emerging platforms Bluesky and Threads. Bluesky, created by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, saw over 1 million new users in a single day, as Wired aptly dubbed the movement: “the new ‘I’m moving to Canada.’” The message is clear—people are seeking safer spaces for online discourse, and Musk’s X may no longer be it.