Christian Dimmer

Assoc. Prof. Urban Studies｜Waseda Uni｜transition design｜public spaces／spheres｜urban practices／theories｜place {un}making／becoming｜@publicspacelab @JapanUrbanism

[Christian Dimmer @Remmid]

I’m temporarily back on Twitter to retweet pro-democracy and pro–rule of law content, helping to elevate it amid an onslaught of Trump’s totalitarian disinformation and misinformation. I’m not here to support Elon Musk in any way—other than, unavoidably, feeding his algorithms.

[Kurt Andersen @KBAndersen]

I'd never seen this -- MAD Magazine, 1991. Really good.

[Christian Dimmer @Remmid]

Honoured to be speaking at @TEDxWasedaU — exploring what #Tokyo's dense, mixed-use neighbourhoods and their #machikoba micro-factories can teach us about balancing work and life, and building cities as incubators of tolerance and cooperation.

[TEDxWasedaU @TEDxWasedaU]

2026 TEDxWasedaU Main Event: Steady In Motion - Speaker Reveal ⚖️

Prof. Christian Dimmer

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

"We don't take an oath to a king, or queen, or a tyrant or a dictator. And we don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator ...we take an oath to the Constitution ... and we're willing to die to protect it".

- Mark Milley (2023)

[Not Your Average Liberal @NotAvgLiberal]

“We don’t take an oath to a King”….

“We don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator”

“We take an oath to the Constitution.…and we're willing to die to protect it"

- General Mark Milley

[Patrick Gaspard @patrickgaspard]

Bizarre. There are no more rules and we’re truly broken. The Vice President of the U.S. openly campaigning in Hungary for the most corrupt hand puppet of Putin. Extraordinary.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

William Barr in 2024: I think [the Biden] administration is a disaster for the country

Q: Is [the Biden WH] worse than subverting the peaceful transfer of power?

Barr: Did [Trump] succeed?

*Barr served as Trump’s attorney general from 2019 to 2020.

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

“I think we are one big step into dictatorship already.” Conservative historian Robert Kagan tells me he’s deeply concerned that Trump plans to disrupt upcoming elections.

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

A list of countries that currently have mail-in voting:

Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Chile
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Iceland
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malaysia
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Pakistan
Poland
Portugal
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Korea
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
United States
Zimbabwe

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Pam Bondi, "There is no evidence that Donald Trump has committed a crime"

Ted Lieu, "You just lied under oath. There is ample evidence in the Epstein files"

Pam Bondi, "Don't you ever accuse me of a crime"

Ted Lieu, "You just lied under oath, and this is on video tape"

Ted Lieu then reads an extract from the Epstein files about a girl who says she was raped by Trump and Epstein and had her head blown off, with officer saying it couldn't have been a suicide

Ted Lieu, "You have not held a single man accountable"

"Shame on you"

"if you had any decency, you would resign after this hearing concludes"

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: Multiple Epstein victims tell NBC News that Pam Bondi intentionally un-redacted their names and other victims' names as a way to threaten them into silence!

“I think we all realize now that [the DOJ] really wanted to silence us, and [they] thought that [they] could scare us by putting our names out there.”

“It had a list of victims, and one was redacted. That makes no sense. This is a list of victims. That is INTENTIONAL!”

This is an impeachable offense. Pam Bondi needs to be impeached immediately!

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change — all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: US Olympian Chloe Kim, who has immigrant parents, speaks out:

“In moments like these it’s really important for us to unite. We are allowed to voice our opinions on what’s going on. I think we need to lead with love and compassion.”

I’m so happy that so many Olympians are not hesitant to speak out for what they believe in even when they know the president could try to bully them.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Crockett: "I don't really know where we are in this country. Why are we even having this conversation? The United States is falling apart right now, partially because he's allowing for the killings of people in the middle of the street, but the other part of it is we have a 34 count convicted felon and there are people that are still shielding him from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we are pretending like any of this is normal."

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

The spirit of No Kings—the law should be king—is more alive in the British government than in ours.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 Rep. Stansbury doesn’t mince words:

“The United States government is engaged in an active cover-up of the largest sex-trafficking and influence-peddling scandal in our history — and Donald Trump is right at the center of it.”

That’s a sitting member of Congress saying it out loud.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

A day after Donald Trump called one of her Olympic teammates “a real Loser” for criticizing some of the administration’s policies, U.S. Olympian Chloe Kim, whose parents immigrated to the U.S. from South Korea, came out in support of her teammate:

“I’m really proud to represent the United States. The U.S. has given my family so much opportunity, but I also think we are allowed to voice our opinions on what’s going on.” 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Christian Dimmer @Remmid]

Nice! More does not necessarily always add up to more. #smartEnoughCity

[Wrath Of Gnon @wrathofgnon]

Traditional Capiz windows in the Philippines, polished mother-of-pearl is set in dark wooden frames to for windows and sliding doors, from an era when glass was too expensive or impossible to get. Sustainable architecture is almost always distinctly low-tech.

[PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes]

JD Vance: “Trump is a really bad candidate and frankly, I think, a really bad person.”

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

Liam Ramos is just a baby. He should be at home with his family, not used as bait by ICE and held in a Texas detention center.

I am outraged, and you should be too.

[Ashley Haynes @odinikaeze]

Trump’s “Peace Board” — Meet the New Dictators Club

https://t.co/yS4nlhUEzB

This is who Donald Trump believes should oversee “peace” in the world:

• Vladimir Putin (President of Russia)
• Alexander Lukashenko (President of Belarus)
• Mohammed bin Salman (Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia)
• Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (President of Egypt)
• Viktor Orbán (Prime Minister of Hungary)
• Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (President of Turkey
• Mohammed bin Zayed — President of the United Arab Emirates)
• Shavkat Mirziyoyev (President of Uzbekistan)
• Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani (Emir of Qatar)
• Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (President of Kazakhstan)

Authoritarians. Strongmen. Human-rights abusers. That’s the board list.

Notably absent is Benjamin Netanyahu, who reportedly avoided Switzerland for fear of arrest under an outstanding International Criminal Court warrant for war crimes in Gaza.

This isn’t about peacebuilding. It’s legitimacy laundering for autocrats.

Watch closely. History is watching too.

https://t.co/yS4nlhUEzB