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Garry Kasparov

@garrykasparov.bsky.social
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Vice-president of the World Liberty Congress. Founder & Chair of the Renew Democracy Initiative. Board of the Human Rights Foundation. Father, activist, author, speaker, 13th World Chess Champion.

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Shoshie Rules @shoshierules.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
TY, Garry ..."Aspiring authoritarians never ask for permission; they see what they can get away with. The only way to ensure the integrity of the 2026 midterms is to demonstrate, now, that the ideals of the American Constitution are still worth fighting for."
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Solid Gold Robot @solidgoldrobot.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
One of the most prescient statements you made, that has stuck with me as I've watched the collapse of critical thinking in America, was this: "The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth."
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Confuzination.bsky.social @confuzination.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
"The Constitution is a piece of paper."
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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Or Russia. Not a coincidence that dissidents from authoritarian nations and reporters that covered those places have been waving their arms over what the Trump White House has been doing since 2017 while most US opposition and media have been sedately concerned. It’s not confusing to us at all.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Ukrainian Navy Command has confirmed that the carnage inflicted on the Karachevsk Electrodetal plant in Bryansk last night was the result of R-360 Neptune subsonic long range cruise missiles.
A factory burns at night
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Today, Ukraine commemorates the Babyn Yar massacre - one of WWII’s darkest chapters. In Sept 1941, Nazis executed tens of thousands, mainly Kyiv’s Jews, along with Roma, POWs, and civilians. Babyn Yar stands as a symbol of Holocaust horrors. We remember to prevent history from repeating.
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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Talking about 2028 is dangerously naive; the danger is now. Trump is directing the military and justice department to go to "war" on US cities and his enemies, from TV hosts to former FBI directors. Keeping the 2026 midterms fair may be the last stand. My latest: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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The Race to Save America’s Democracy
Trump’s administration may seem chaotic, but Americans should not take the integrity of next year’s elections for granted.
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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
While Ambassador Bolton's episode will be popular today for some reason, the new Autocracy in America is an important one. My chess Grandmaster and grandmaster-politician guest, Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, speaks from the frontline of Russia's next war, Lithuania. www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...
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The View from NATO’s Eastern Flank
Lithuania has become an outspoken defender of Ukraine against the Russian invasion
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 15/08/2025
AI is being used to fabricate quotes and attribute them to real people, Yair Rosenberg reports. Here's what he did when it happened to him:
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Don’t Believe What AI Told You I Said
The chatbots are lying about me.
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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Ukraine is a secondary topic for both Trump and Putin in Alaska. This is a mafia meeting arranged by war criminal Putin to restore Russia internationally & economically. Trump wants his "peace" glory and Putin used that to get this summit. But it's mainly about money for both of them, as always.
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Franz-Stefan Gady @hoanssolo.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
I write for the @financialtimes.com on Europe's fundamental problem when making tough decisions about war and peace: the persistent refusal to ask simple first-order questions and the tendency to ignore them entirely. www.ft.com/content/a6aa...
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Europe now needs to step off the sidelines on Ukraine
If EU leaders genuinely believe Kyiv’s independence matters, they must deploy combat troops to guarantee any ceasefire
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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Europe is a sleeping beauty, with Putin and Trump handing out poisoned apples (and tea). Can it awaken to become the defender of democracy we need today? Listen or read my latest Autocracy in America podcast with Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner. www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...
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Europe, the ‘Sleeping Beauty’
Bolstering democracies will take global cooperation.
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Anders Östlund @andersostlund.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
He is just an insecure little fascist, that Elbridge Colby.
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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Making Putin feel quite at home with the Trump White House, in more ways than one.
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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
I grew up admiring the moral stands of Soviet dissidents like Sakharov, and what I saw as the beacon of individual freedom, America. My guest this week, foreign policy expert George Friedman, instead talks concrete interests and analysis in our conversation: www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...
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The Storm Before the Calm
The United States is in crisis, but George Friedman says it’s happened before.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 04/08/2025
Russia is ramping up its drone attacks on Ukraine—and this is just a glimpse. A nonstop, terrifying swarm of buzzing engines fills the sky.
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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Simply using the absurd phrase “the Ukraine conflict” says a lot. Calling out the opportunism and hypocrisy of other nations doing business with Russia is fine (China, ahem), but admit you are funding a dictator‘s unprovoked war by choice.
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Kathleen E. Corley, PhD @drkathleenecorley.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Excellent interview with John Bolton in the Atlantic today. I never thought I would miss John Bolton. Gift article. @radiofreetom.bsky.social @ericowens.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...
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How American Power Should Be Deployed
America’s retreat and its threat to democracy
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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Lost elections are rigged, won elections are fair. Good job numbers are real, bad ones are fake. Sex trafficking is bad, unless the traffickers will blame your enemies. Crime is bad, unless the criminals are pro-Trump. This isn’t 4D chess, or even tic-tac-toe, just Autocrat 101.
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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
US power, including hard power, has been a force for good in the world. Yes, I said it. My latest Autocracy In America guest Amb John Bolton also says it, with plenty to back it up. From Iran to Russia to Hamas, what Trump's isolationism gets wrong. www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...
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How American Power Should Be Deployed
America’s retreat and its threat to democracy
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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Trump’s appointees are all competing for the Nobel Prize in kissing ass.
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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
🇺🇦🙏 The number of injured of the Russian attack on the capital has increased to 82. At least 10 children were injured, 5 of them in hospitals. The Russians killed six people. ‼️ Russians damaged the mosque of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Ukraine "Umma".
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 01/08/2025
The rapid decline of American science has few precedents in history, argues @rossandersen.bsky.social. We are witnessing an unparalleled act of self-sabotage:
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How Scientific Empires End
And what it means for America
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
The real Liberation Day will come if the courts liberate us from all these tariffs imposed without congressional authorization. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Trump says sharper tariffs to take effect in a week, including 35% for Canada
The Trump administration changed its tariff regime late Thursday night. Canada will face 35 percent tariffs but Mexico got a 90-day reprieve from higher rates.
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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
I think of this whenever I hear that Trump is going to take steps against Russia “soon”.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 29/07/2025
Increased spending on defense and a new Russian conscription law are signs of the Kremlin's increasingly aggressive posture and preparations for future conflict with Europe and NATO states, according to analysts.
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Russia's new mobilization law yet another sign Kremlin is preparing for war with NATO, analysts say
Increased spending on defense and a new Russian conscription law are signs of the Kremlin's increasingly aggressive posture and preparations for future conflict with Europe and NATO states, according ...
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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
🎯 And only then.
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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
It’s war.
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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The new episode of Autocracy in America is out and my guest is the remarkable Masih Alinejad, a fierce fighter for rights and democracy in Iran who can help Americans stop taking their own rights and democracy for granted and fight to defend them. www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...
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This Is What Standing Up to Dictators Looks Like
How to be a dissident, with Masih Alinejad
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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
🤪
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The Dispatch @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
"When chief executives start accusing their opponents of treason, it is time to throw them out." --Kevin Williamson thedispatch.com/newsletter/w...
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The Nero of Jamaica Estates
The Founding Fathers did not account for the possibility of someone like Donald Trump.
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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
As a Russian living in the US, the story of Derek Huffman—an American who moved his family to Russia—got my attention. This anti-woke crusader followed in the footsteps of American Communists who once flocked to Stalin's USSR. Now as then, a bad choice! www.thenextmove.org/p/anti-woke-...
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Anti-Woke Americans in Russia Follow a Path Paved by Communists
If you’re fortunate enough to be born in a democracy, there’s a lot you can do before uprooting your family to an authoritarian state.
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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Tick tick tick… ⏰
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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The new episode of Autocracy in America is out and my guest is the remarkable Masih Alinejad, a fierce fighter for rights and democracy in Iran who can help Americans stop taking their own rights and democracy for granted and fight to defend them. www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...
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This Is What Standing Up to Dictators Looks Like
How to be a dissident, with Masih Alinejad
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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
I'll allow the dubious chess metaphor in this case! But no matter how bad whatever is in the Epstein files is for Trump--and clearly it's bad--I'm sure whatever Putin has on him is worse.
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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Every day.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 22/07/2025
How Ukraine’s boxers crushed legends and took over the world stage.
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Why—and How—Ukrainian Boxers Keep Shattering World Records
In the early hours of July 20, Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Usyk defeated Britain’s Daniel Dubois and once again became the undisputed world ch…
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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
If the Trump admin continues to follow the Russian authoritarian scripts he loves, Maxwell will exonerate Trump, incriminate Dems, get a pardon, and fall out a window. Not necessarily in that order.
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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
My latest, on Trump’s AI-fueled Obama arrest fantasies: Surrounded by sycophants and with the two other branches paralyzed, the operative question should not be *why* would Trump arrest his opponents, but rather, *why not*? Read and subscribe to The Next Move. www.thenextmove.org/p/its-all-fu...
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It’s All Fun and Games Until Trump Has Obama Arrested
Then it’s authoritarianism.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
One can certainly debate the degree to which the Trump campaign knew about or encouraged Russian operations to influence the 2016 election, or the relevance they had to the outcome. But the evidence that such operations were real is overwhelming and widely attested by non-US intel agencies.
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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
As the saying goes, just when you think he can't get any lower, there's a knock on the floor!
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Jake M. @citizen-jake.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Why is it often so difficult to listen to people who literally know what they are talking about because they have lived through it? Read Kasparov's "Winter is coming" (www.kasparov.com/winter-is-co...).
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“Winter Is Coming”
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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Fair enough, as sending poor and ignorant people to the front lines is a traditional Russian value!
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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
🙏
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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
We failed in Russia, but democracy is worth saving in America!
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Davor Mimica @dmimica.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Fantástica, aclaradora y moderadamente terrorífica conversación sobre qué hace a Donald Trump tan valorado por tantos en EEUU. Y cómo y pq ese país se abalanza hacia el autoritarismo. Entre Gary Kasparov y Frank Luntz, en el podcast "Autocracy in America" de The Atlantic pod.link/1763234285/e...
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Autocracy in America
There are authoritarian tactics already at work in the United States. To root them out, you have to know where to look.
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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
You've inherited a movie theater, what's your first double feature? My Cousin Vinnie From Russia with Love
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Mick Ryan @warinthefuture.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
"Russian cruise missiles, along with ballistic missiles, continue to pose a persistent and serious challenge to Europe’s security environment...Urgent action is needed to close the current gap in Europe’s missile defense architecture." missilematters.substack.com/p/countering...
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Countering Russian Cruise Missiles and Long-Range Drones
Russian long-range drone and cruise missile developments, production increases, and Western interceptor capabilities.
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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Well, Colbert could run as a Republican with updating this sticker!
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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Stephen Colbert can always change careers with great success. Who can forget when he defeated me over the board!? 🤖🥊
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