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A new report revealed #Trump’s disturbing penchant for #executing his #political enemies. His response is somehow even worse.
Fmr Trump comms dir #AlyssaFarahGriffin revealed that Trump called for the #execution of a staffer on several occasions during his time in the WH—& the disturbing news (& Trump’s even more troubling reaction) is already fading from headlines.
#law #democracy #VoteBlue #BidenHarris2024
https://newrepublic.com/post/182791/trump-execution-threats
Trump’s Ominous Reaction to Report He Wanted to Execute People
A new report revealed Donald Trump’s disturbing penchant for executing his political enemies. His response is somehow even worse.The New Republic
So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/13/republicans-trump-congress-visit-00163264
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/mass-purges-are-new-voter-suppression
https://www.mediamatters.org/heritage-foundation/guide-project-2025-extreme-right-wing-agenda-next-republican-administration
#TrumpIsHitler #MAGA #Fascism #Democracy #DeathOfLiberty #VoterSuppression #Project2025
Mass Purges Are the New Voter Suppression
Election deniers are trying to get huge groups removed from voter rolls.Brennan Center for Justice
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...wie mir lieb wäre:
Während es #China sicherlich nicht recht wäre, die Kaufkraft eines seiner wichtigsten Handelspartner, der #EU, durch einen Krieg mit #Russland zu reduzieren, ist #Xi sicherlich die Wiedervereinigung mit #Taiwan wichtiger.
Vermutlich würde er #Putler bei einem Einmarsch in europäische NATO-Staaten erneut gewähren lassen, ähnlich wie mit der #Ukraine. Fiele dann auch noch der #AtomareSchutzschirm durch Artikel 5...
@fasnix @iThreepwood
#USpol #Democracy
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...werden, dann kann man die Frage sicherlich binnen Jahresfrist aufgrund des #MAGA-Projektes zur Machtergreifung, #Project2025, mit an Sicherheit grenzender Wahrscheinlichkeit leider verneinen. 2)
Was das für #Europa bedeuten würde (#NATO-Schutzschirn), lässt sich leider aufgrund der Aussagen zum Bündnis des nun erstmals rechtskräftig verurteilten Kriminellen leider gar nicht so schwer prognostizieren,...
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https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112215026344682993
#USpol #MAGA #TrumpMit #Project2025 und der minutiös geplanten totalitären #Machtübernahme sowie der Institutionalisierung der #MAGA-Bewegung in den #USA beschäftige ich mich schon eine ganze Weile:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/111777226067882251
'Georgia Is Our Laboratory': Inside Trump's Plan to Rig 2024
Team #Trump sees #Georgia as 'a road map' for putting Trump's heads-I-win-tails-you-lose philosophy of #elections into practice
The Peach State is unique—it's the sole battleground state in which the #Republican Party has total #control over the levers of #power: a trifecta in state #House, #Senate, & governorship
#ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #law #democracy #BidenHarris2024
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-georgia-laboratory-rig-2024-1235034510/
Inside Trump’s Plan to Rig 2024: ‘Georgia Is Our Laboratory’
Team Trump sees Georgia as ‘a road map’ for putting Trump’s heads-I-win-tails-you-lose philosophy of elections into practiceAdam Rawnsley (Rolling Stone)
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Eine ausgezeichnete Frage, die du aufwirfst:
*Kann man die #USA noch als #Demokratie westlicher Prägung betrachten?*
Ich bin kein Politikwissenschaftler, auch wenn ich mit seit sehr vielen Jahren mit der Thematik beschäftige. Ich denke, die Historikerin #NancyMcLean trifft es bislang mit ihrem Buchtitel, #DemocracyInChains1) ("Demokratie in Ketten") noch.
Sollte #Trump im November 2024 wiedergewählt...
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https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112598602729129143
HistoPol (#HP) (@HistoPol@mastodon.social)
@Snowshadow @Jeramee #USpol #Economics #MAGAnomics #MustReads (2/n) ...when right-wing economist, #Repubican economics strategist, and later-day #NobelLaureate #JamesBuchanan founded what would layer be known as the #VirginiaSchool.Mastodon
Some people argue, that #Biden should be replaced with another Democrat candidate.
I disagree.
The first priority is to prevent the further rot to the fundaments of #Democracy , then remove the rotten spots.
That isn't happening when Democrats fight over who gets to succeed Joe Biden. So Joe Biden it MUST be due to the current situation.
Should Biden become incapacitated Harris can take over as long as she retains his policies and his team until the end of her presidency.
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Wallace on MSBNC: “Trump unhinged, rambling, incoherent after teleprompter fails at rally…
Trump is, of course, a convicted felon. His worldview is devoid of facts and untethered to reality. He offers no vision for the future and instead rants and rambles about sharks, electric boats, windmills, & toilets. He constantly lies about the border, even though he was the person who killed the bipartisan border deal. He lies 1/2
R/t Biden- Harris HQ
https://tinyurl.com/4y6eykd8 #trump #democracy #press
‘Unhinged, rambling, incoherent’: Nicolle Wallace’s take on Trump’s speech after teleprompter breaks
Vaughn Hillyard, NBC News Correspondent joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with reaction to Donald Trump’s most rambling and unhinged campaign speech thus far in the campaign, showing what happens when a teleprompter malfunctions and Donal…MSNBC.com (MSNBC)
If we had proper news media in the US Americans would be looking at what's going on in Europe right now.
Europeans voted for their equivalent of the House of Representatives today and the first results show, as predicted, that pro-Putin, climate-change deniers, pro-life, anti-LGBTQ+ fascist parties are closer and closer to take control of Europe.
In Germany voters under 30 went "in droves" to the far right.
Same in France.
In short Europe is becoming a deep Red State and that should worry you.
#vote #elections #europe #abortion #climatechange #democracy #abortion #lgbtq+ #voteblue #biden #maga #trump
EU elections 2024: Millions across Europe head to the polls in final day of voting – live
Voters in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Poland among those heading to polling booths on SundayAshifa Kassam (The Guardian)
The #legal fight over the #2024election has begun
Trump's team is more focused so far on building a sprawling network of "#ElectionIntegrity" #lawyers & #PollWatchers than on rounding up organizers & door knockers to reach voters.
It's a sign that 5 months before Election Day, the legal battle is underway —& that Trump PLANS to cry "rigged" if he loses, as it did after the #2020election & his #felony #convictions.
#gaslighting #autocracy #democracy #BidenHarris2024
https://www.axios.com/2024/06/02/legal-battle-2024-election-begun-biden-trump
#Trump plans to claim sweeping #authority over #federal #spending
In a 2nd term, Trump will look at unilateral funding cuts for the #WHO & #green #energy initiatives.
He is vowing to wrest key spending powers from #Congress & to assert more control over the federal #budget than any president in #US #history.
#law #Constitution #SCOTUS #power #government #extortion #EconomicPolicy #MafiaState #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #democracy #BidenHarris2024
https://wapo.st/3XekhX4
A vote against authoritarianism in the world’s largest #democracy
In India, the voters have spoken. They do not want autocracy.
#India #Modi #elections #voting #democracy #geopolitics #GiftArticle #GiftLink #GoodNews
The fmr White House chief of staff — along w/ #MikeRoman, who worked on Trump’s 2020 campaign — pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from their alleged efforts to try to subvert Joe Biden’s win.
#law #democracy #TrumpCoupAttempt #insurrection #BidenHarris2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/06/07/arizona-mark-meadows-mike-roman/
"Perhaps there is still time to reject through elections those who seek office only to enhance their own power.
"Or perhaps it is so late that even that approach will not work."
https://theconversation.com/500-years-ago-machiavelli-warned-the-public-not-to-get-complacent-in-the-face-of-self-interested-charismatic-figures-226434
#Trump #Democracy #Elections #Authoritarianism via @TheConversationUS
500 years ago, Machiavelli warned the public not to get complacent in the face of self-interested charismatic figures
Renaissance philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli dissected the threats authoritarian figures pose to representative government.The Conversation
Modi’s authoritarian Hindu nationalist party did not fare well in India’s recent elections. This unexpected result shows that polls and prognostications are certainly not infallible. What matters is the vote.
Here’s an accessible, sophisticated discussion of the current health secular democracy in India. It isn’t out of the woods, but it is better off after the latest elections. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/opinion/india-election-modi.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xk0.xk92.zySnhG-wM3fv&smid=url-share #democracy #secularDemocracy
Indian voters reject Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision for a one-party state in win for competitive democracy.
CNN reports: "In what opposition parties have declared as a victory for pluralism, voters in the world’s largest democracy partially rejected Modi’s populist vision for a Hindu-first nation, reducing the BJP’s share of the vote by 63 seats – bringing its total down to 240, far below the 272 required for a parliamentary majority."
#Biden leads the #UnitedStates as the American century is fading into an uncertain future, a changing world of #threats, opportunities, & #power shifts. At 81, he holds fast to a vision that has reigned since WWII, in which a rich & powerful America leads an #alliance of #democracies to safeguard the globe from #tyranny.
Ensuring Diversity: Ownership Rules and Audience Limits – Part 4, Media Independence and Diversity
Explores the concepts of restricted ownership shares in media corporations and limited audience shares for media corporations. The aim of these ideas or chan...YouTube
Happy Pride Month 🏳️🌈
June is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Pride Month. This month-long celebration demonstrates how LGBTQ Americans have strengthened our country, by using their talent and creativity to help create awareness and goodwill.
https://www.loc.gov/lgbt-pride-month/
#news #journalism #pridemonth #lgbtq #queer #goodwill #democracy #freedom @mastodonindians
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Pride Month | Library of Congress
Welcome from the Library of Congress June is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Pride Month.The Library of Congress
Is the Global Tide Turning in Favor of #Democracy?
“Under Biden’s leadership, the United States is making valuable efforts to help bring about such an outcome through multilateral and bilateral diplomacy, economic carrots and sticks, and enhanced democracy assistance. But much more will need to be done ..”
Crossing a historic threshold, Mexicans appear poised to elect a woman as president this Sunday but to otherwise leave politics largely unchanged. Reprinted with permission from palabra. and Puente News Collaborative: https://www.texasobserver.org/in-mexicos-historic-vote-politics-are-little-changed/
#news #politics #Mexico #democracy #election2024 #border
In Mexico’s Historic Vote, Politics Are Little Changed
A Puente poll represents a rare survey of the Mexican public by U.S. media.Eduardo García (The Texas Observer)
Political parties are structured to limit democracy.
Example #853564:
‘Appalling cull’: Britain’s Labour bars another left-winger from election
The parliamentary system is particularly bad, given the leader's power, but Trump has shown that a presidential system can be equally bad.
> Critics accuse party of conducting a purge of left-wingers, as Faiza Shaheen deselected over social media posts.
"Fourteen pro-democracy activists were convicted in Hong Kong’s biggest national security case on Thursday by a court that said their plan to effect change through an unofficial primary election would have undermined the government’s authority and created a constitutional crisis."
ABC News reports: https://flip.it/xzIlpX
More more top news, follow @news-thenewsdesk
#HongKong #Democracy #Activism #Asia #News
14 pro-democracy activists convicted, 2 acquitted in Hong Kong's biggest national security case
Fourteen pro-democracy activists have been convicted in Hong Kong’s biggest national security case by a court that said their plan to effect change through an unofficial primary election would have undermined the government’s authority and created a …KANIS LEUNG Associated Press (ABC News)
Here is the (two dimensional) political placing of the parties in the forthcoming UK election from Political Compass....
If you thought you didn't have an awful lot of choice, the fact that all major parties are (on this assessment) siting in the blue (Right/Authoritarian) quadrant will confirm that suspicion
source: https://www.politicalcompass.org/uk2024
h/t @melanie @PoliceStateUK
The Political Compass
The Political Compass: a 2-dimensional typology of political opinionswww.politicalcompass.org
Paul Waldman asks,
"How'd you like to win an election with just 4% of the vote?"
"Under the GOP proposal [in Texas], a candidate could win a statewide race with just 4 percent of the vote."
#Texas #Republicans #democracy #MinorityRule
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https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-texas-gops-bonkers-attack-on
Alito is in the tank for the criminal former president and the decimation of democracy. Not that his legal opinions have ever left much room for plausible deniability on those fronts, but now it is out there flying in plain sight.
But we can also fly our own flags, ones that support #democracy and freedoms, writes @andreagrimes
https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/05/28/justice-alitos-politics-are-literally-flying-in-our-faces/
Justice Alito’s Politics Are Literally Flying in Our Faces | Dame Magazine
There’s a rule at my parents’ tony lake house neighborhood in deep East Texas, that you’re not allowed to fly “political” flags or even put “political” signs in your yard.Andrea Grimes (Dame Magazine)
Meanwhile, President #Biden's campaign is holding a news conference outside the courthouse in Manhattan, a guarantee of attention since the media has been stationed here for week.
The speakers have focused not on the #TrumpTrial, but largely on the insurrection by #Trump supporters on #Jan6, 2021, & the threats the Biden campaign argues Trump poses to #democracy & the nation's future.
#criminal #law #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference
I’m emerging from my social media hiatus to share recent comments from Ken Burns. I’ve chatted with him a few times over the years, always to my benefit. He’s very worried about American democracy — I think with good reason.
Here’s a video excerpt from his speech at Brandeis:
https://youtu.be/C3AHtlF3gSk?si=z0QwftW__YBdJGSG
A transcript of his speech:
https://www.brandeis.edu/commencement/2024/burns.html
Finally, a Washington Post column on his talk:
'There is no real choice this November': Ken Burns gives powerful defense of democracy
Filmmaker Ken Burns delivered a powerful defense of democracy while delivering the commencement address for Brandeis University. The Morning Joe panel discus...YouTube
#UK infected #blood #scandal made worse by ‘chilling’ cover-up, inquiry finds
He added: “When we told people, they didn’t believe us. They said this wouldn’t happen in the UK. Today this proves this can happen – and did happen – in the UK.
#health #politics #crime #humanRights #fail #democracy #news
UK infected blood scandal made worse by ‘chilling’ cover-up, inquiry finds
Thousands of deaths could have been avoided, final report on infection of thousands with HIV or hepatitis C concludesHaroon Siddique (The Guardian)
