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The #Trump admin on Friday will announce that it's moving ahead with a new rule, previously known as "#ScheduleF," that will make it easier to remove federal employees it believes are undercutting Trump's agenda.
By stripping #CivilService protections from about 50k people — roughly 2% of the federal work force — Trump is continuing his far-reaching effort to *trim the federal bureaucracy* & make it more answerable to him.
#law #labor #autocracy #AbuseOfPower
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The #State Dept is changing its mind about #HumanRights
The #Trump admin is substantially scaling back the State Dept's annual reports on international human rights to REMOVE longstanding critiques of #abuses such as harsh #prison conditions, govt #corruption & restrictions on participation in the political process, NPR learned.
#UnitedStates #Authoritarianism #Dictatorship #Autocracy #Tyranny #MafiaState #Freedom #law #InternationalLaw #GenevaConvention
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#IRS Is Actually Said to Be Considering Whether to Revoke #Harvard’s #TaxExempt Status — Cuz #USA Is An #Autocracy Now
The move would be a major violation of the law upon orders from the #Trump admin as it attempts to choke off federal money & support for #research & #academia in US #universities.
[Jiminy Cricket am I editorializing & cursing in print more & more now that muther f⁕⚠︎er is in office!]
#law #AntiIntellectualism #RevengePolitics #extortion #MafiaState
nytimes.com/2025/04/16/us/poli…
I.R.S. Said to Be Considering Whether to Revoke Harvard’s Tax-Exempt Status
The move would be a major escalation of the Trump administration’s attempts to choke off federal money and support for the leading research university.Andrew Duehren (The New York Times)
100% ILLEGAL
WHAT COUNTRY IS THIS?!?!?
#Trump administration asks #IRS to revoke #Harvard’s #TaxExempt status
The directive to the IRS is a significant escalation of Trump’s feud with #HarvardUniversity & other Ivy League institutions & other #nonprofit groups his admin views as “woke.”
#law #AcademicFreedom #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #AbuseOfPower #ExecutivePower #Autocracy #Tyranny #AntiIntellectualism #censorship #Dictatorship
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#StateTerror
A brief guide for Americans
by #TimothySnyder
Yesterday the president defied a #SCOTUS ruling to return a man who was mistakenly sent to a gulag in another country, celebrated the suffering of this innocent person, & spoke of sending Americans to foreign #ConcentrationCamps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, & it has to be identified as such to be stopped.
#law #Trump #tyranny #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship
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Report: "Harvard refuses to comply"
"Harvard University has said it will not comply with a list of demands from the Trump administration that purport to crack down on anti-Semitism."
The refusal puts $9bn of federal grants & contracts on the line.
Harvard's president said the institution would “not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights”.
#trump #autocracy #harvardresists #studentprotests .
Updates: Hamas rejects Gaza ceasefire proposal disarmament demand
These were the updates on Israel’s war on Gaza and attacks on the occupied West Bank for Monday, April 14.Lyndal Rowlands (Al Jazeera)
All that happy talk about RFK Jr supporting the measles vaccine was bunk. The full transcript & subsequent reporting and actions make clear he’s deeply invested in proving vaccines are the problem, not the solution.
It’s part of a much bigger blow to American HC that’ll reverberate for decades.
“Truth & transparency aren’t desired by this sec.” (& throughout the Trump regime)
A sicker, poorer electorate is easier to rule. It’s a Putinesque.
#Health #Autocracy #USPol
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Don’t Be Fooled: RFK Jr. Is Still Talking Down Vaccines
It’s part of a much bigger blow to American health care that will reverberate for decades.Jonathan Cohn (The Bulwark)
"These examples show that when democracy deteriorates, its fate is not sealed, and democratic institutions can be reclaimed."
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Four countries that have successfully reversed democratic decline in recent years
Several countries have recently managed to stop and even reverse the erosion of their democratic institutions.Our World in Data
Interview: "Jewish Students Chain Themselves to Columbia Gates to Protest ICE Jailing of Mahmoud Khalil"
The students demanded the school release information related to the targeting and ICE arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a former SIPA student.
democracynow.org/2025/4/3/ice_…
#columbia #studentprotests #autocracy #trump #uspol #ice #resistfascism #islamophobia #racism .
Jewish Students Chain Themselves to Columbia Gates to Protest ICE Jailing of Mahmoud Khalil
Jewish students at Columbia University chained themselves to a campus gate across from the graduate School of International and Public Affairs Wednesday, braving rain and cold to demand the school release information related to the targeting and ICE …Democracy Now!
30 minutes away from breaking the record. Senator #CoryBooker is still speaking about the importance of the US #Constitution & standing up for the #rights of all #people, especially those who are being targeted by a savage few with the #money & #power to do so.
And he has done it. Senator #CoryBooker has broken Strom Thurmond’s 1957 anti-civil rights filibuster.
“I am not doing this because of him, I am doing this in spite of him.”
“I’m not quite ready to wrap this up yet.”
#resist #Trump #money #power #AbuseOfPower #autocracy #tyranny #TrumpCoup
#democracy #USpol #Senate #Constitution #rights
Senator #CoryBooker has now entered his 22nd hour speaking on the #Senate floor, criticizing the #Trump admin.
If he makes it to 7:19PM ET, he will have surpassed the all time record in US history.
Senator Strom Thurmond’s 1957 civil rights debate on the Senate floor holds the record at 24 hours & 18 minutes long.
#resist #AbuseOfPower #autocracy #tyranny #TrumpCoup
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U.S. Senator #CoryBooker addresses the #Senate floor. Booker, a #Democrat from New Jersey, has promised to speak "as long" as he's physically able on the Senate floor Monday night into Tuesday morning, criticizing the #Trump admin.
Hell yeah.
#resist #AbuseOfPower #autocracy #tyranny #TrumpCoup
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#autocracy #authoritarism #Putin
First year of Georgia’s ‘foreign agent’ law shows how autocracies are replicating Russian model − and speeding up the time frame
Georgian legislation directly mirrors a contentious law Russia passed more than a decade ago to stifle dissent and quash the power of civil society groups.The Conversation
Whoa, yesterday, #Trump illegally stripped #CollectiveBargaining rights from hundreds of thousands of #FederalWorkers in 18 different departments across multiple #FederalAgencies.
The admin stated that “Certain Federal unions have declared *#war* on President Trump’s agenda.”
Is he going to use #wartime powers against #union members now?
#law #LaborLaw #labor #Musk #DOGE #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #propaganda #Trumpaganda #gaslighting #NaziState #MafiaState
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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Exempts Agencies with National Security Missions from Federal Collective Bargaining Requirements – The White House
PROTECTING OUR NATIONAL SECURITY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order using authority granted by the Civil Service Reform Act ofThe White House
US swing toward autocracy doesn’t have to be permanent – but swinging back to democracy requires vigilance, stamina and elections
The US is swinging like a pendulum between more autocratic and more democratic forms of government. How long will this destabilizing pattern last?The Conversation
