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#Trump’s Newest Crackdown on #Dissent
[BS] Assault charges against a #Democratic member of #Congress look more like #intimidation than #law enforcement.
#Trump #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #law #democracy #UnitedStates #Constitution #SlouchingTowardsBethlehem
theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…
Trump’s newest crackdown on dissent
Assault charges against a Democratic member of Congress look more like intimidation than law enforcement.David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
The dream of a #world without #censorship is broken: reuters.com/world/europe/teleg…
#Telegram #france #humanRights #freedom #democracy #fail #spy #problem #politics #justice #communication #europe #eu #news
The Biden Scandal Goes Well Beyond the Aging Cover-Up | The Nation
The former president’s stubbornness and narcissism led to disastrous Trump victory.The Nation
“Palestinian Liberation has always shown us that everything is interconnected.”
Out today in Deceleration: San Marcos' city council wouldn't acknowledge the genocide in #Gaza, so Amanda Rodriguez ran for city council and won. My interview with her and others from Palestine Solidarity SMTX. deceleration.news/gaza-ceasefi…
#Texas #politics #USpol #news #GregAbbott #Palestine #democracy #solidarity #activism
Celebrando el Museo y Paseo del Westside
We invite you to our 16th Annual Paseo por El Westside, a cultural and historic preservation community gathering on the Westside of San Antonio on Saturday, May 24, 2025 at Rinconcito de Esperanza As part of National Historic Preservation Month, Pase…Kit O’Connell (Deceleration)
w00t! We did it! Thank you so very much to every one of you who signed this. You’re legends!
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#EU #Europe #trans #transRights #humanRights #citizensInitiative #democracy mastodon.ar.al/@aral/114504918…
Are you an EU citizen?Don’t want trans people to be tortured?
Sign this now:
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
It’s a citizens initiative with three days to go and your vote can make a difference.
#EU #Europe #trans #transRights #humanRights #citizensInitiative #democracy
Eloon can't let go of polluting & tainting the air.🤢
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At a 2013 event, Musk’s brother and Zip2 co-founder, Kimbal Musk, recalled that the brothers “were illegal immigrants.” Elon Musk responded on stage that it was “more of a gray area.”
Derek Proudian, a former Zip2 board member, told The Washington Post that their immigration status at the time “was not what it should be for them to be legally employed running a company in the U.S.”
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stanforddaily.com/2024/11/11/e…
"While overstaying a student visa is somewhat common and officials have at times turned a blind eye to it, it remains illegal."
theguardian.com/technology/202…
#RuleOfLaw #ExpelMusk #IllegalImmigration #ImmigrationLaws #DeportMusk #Subversion #ObstructionOfUSGovernment #Law #Justice #Freedom #Democracy #USPol #USPolitics
Elon Musk worked in US illegally in 1995 after quitting school – report
Washington Post contrasts the episode with the South African multibillionaire’s anti-immigration viewsEdward Helmore (The Guardian)
Trump State Dept. Leaned on African Nations to Help Musk’s Starlink
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-musk-starlink-state-department-gambia-africa-pressure [Joshua Kaplan, Brett Murphy, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski at ProPublica]From my colleagues on the newsroom side at ProPublica, a story about how theBen Werdmuller (Werd I/O)
Nice try. They all retired.
Republicans are all #MAGA now and forever more.
The #Republican evolved into it's own process, an athema to US #Democracy.
#premarket
#investing
#election2026
#2026election
#newsrewind
Are you an EU citizen?
Don’t want trans people to be tortured?
Sign this now:
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It’s a citizens initiative with three days to go and your vote can make a difference.
#EU #Europe #trans #transRights #humanRights #citizensInitiative #democracy
John Young Of Cryptome.org:
"Spiritual Godfather Of Online Leaking"
#cryptome #whistleblower #leaks #RIP #legacy #infosec #Cybersecurity #transparency #governance #democracy #humanrights #Wikileaks #security
“Aral, you’re scaremongering about this whole privacy thing.”
– A veritable smorgasbord of random people over the past decade
jacobin.com/2025/05/airlines-d…
#USA #fascism #data #privacy #humanRights #democracy
Airlines Are Selling Your Data to ICE
An aviation industry clearinghouse is collecting data on air travelers from billions of flights — and selling it to Trump’s immigration enforcers.jacobin.com
@tg9541
#UKpol #UKpolitics
#Precrime #ThoughtCrime #FreeSpeech #PeacefulProtest
#CivilRights #Legal
👉A friendly warning to the #Starmer Government👈
(5/n)
...relatively small countries on the periphery lies in strengh through unity. De facto, the #UK is an #enclave of the #EuropeanUnion.
Unless, which is not unlikely, the majority of the #EU's country will be ruled by rightwing or neofascist governments, #Britain is likely to fail the test of #democracy if it...
@tg9541
#UKpol #UKpolitics
#Precrime #ThoughtCrime #FreeSpeech #PeacefulProtest
#CivilRights #Legal
👉A friendly warning to the #Starmer Government👈
(2/n)
...the other hand, having being only partially settled by #colonists from the inventors of #democracy, #Athens, is a different story entirely, politically and geographically.
President #Erdogan has been leading the country towards an #authoritarian model of society, ever further away from the #EU's principles.
With the...
“When citizens must think twice about criticizing or opposing the government because they could credibly face govt #retribution, they no longer live in a full #democracy.
“By that measure, #America has crossed the line into competitive #authoritarianism. The #Trump administration’s #WeaponizationOfGovernment agencies & flurry of punitive actions against critics has raised the cost of opposition for a wide range of Americans.”
#law #USpol #AmericanAutocracy
nytimes.com/2025/05/08/opinion…
With further entry to the library barred, a growing crowd of #demonstrators outside the building moved to the streets just beyond the campus gates.
One #student org representing the #protesters said on social media that school security had assaulted demonstrators & acknowledged that some activists had refused to show their IDs to ofcls.
#democracy #dissent #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest #ColumbiaUniversity #Palestinians #Israel #Gaza #war
#Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a collection of #student groups, recirculated long-standing demands on social media on Wednesday for the #university to no longer invest its $14.8B #endowment in #weapons makers & other companies that support #Israel's #military #occupation of #Palestinian territories.
On Monday, pro-Palestinian #protesters occupied a University of #Washington bldg, demanding the school cut ties w/ #Boeing over its contracts w/the #IDF.
Dozens of #students arrested in pro-#Palestinian #protest at #ColumbiaUniversity
#Police #arrested dozens of #Columbia students who seized part of the school's main library on Wednesday in one of the biggest pro-Palestinian #demonstrations on campus since last year's wave of protests against #Israel's #war in #Gaza.
#democracy #dissent #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest
reuters.com/world/us/dozens-pr…
"Groups like CPJ have historically focused on the dangerous climate for journalists in dictatorships and repressive regimes abroad. But Trump’s political rise has imported those same threats to the US.
CPJ said it has noticed “a significant increase in the number of newsrooms seeking safety advice, concerned that the changing national political environment could threaten their ability to report without fear of retribution from authorities.”
The USA is already saying goodbye to the rule that a president may only serve two terms in office and is taking its lead from Russia, where this has also been abolished.
source: nbcnewyork.com/news/national-i…
#usa #government #president #whitehouse #election #future #politics #democracy #problem
Trump's third-term talk freezes the potential 2028 Republican field
Trump continues to flirt with the prospect of serving until 2033, averting the perception that he's a lame duck.Peter Nicholas, Carol E. Lee, Henry J. Gomez, Matt Dixon | NBC News (NBC New York)
Donald #Trump is a #genius because he has already implemented more than Project 2025 in the first 100 days, even though he hasn't even read it.
#usa #whitehouse #government #politics #president #project2025 #fail #problem #future #democracy #news
How Donald Trump's First 100 Days Went 'Beyond' Project 2025 | U.S. Congressman Jared Huffman
The Official U.S. Congressional website of Congressman Jared Huffmanhuffman.house.gov
Lispy Gopher Show podcast – Aral Balkan
Recording for screwlisp’s show on Small Web as I couldn’t make it in person due to the time difference.Vimeo
Be concerned. Be VERY concerned.
Only MAGA, the “Camp Auschwitz” clique, can say what anti-Semitism is.
Only MAGA, the “internal enemies and vermin” clique, can say what genocide is.
Trump Fires Biden Appointees, Including Doug Emhoff, From Holocaust Museum
nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/poli…
#history #uspol #fascism #democracy
Trump Fires Biden Appointees, Including Doug Emhoff, From Holocaust Museum
“Holocaust remembrance and education should never be politicized,” Mr. Emhoff said in reaction to the removal of him and senior Biden White House officials from the board that oversees the museum.Katie Glueck (The New York Times)
All this comes amid what #Trump's critics see as signs of democratic backsliding at home that have raised concerns abroad. These include verbal attacks [& more] on #judges, a pressure campaign against #universities & the transfer of migrants to a notorious #ElSalvador prison as part of a broader #deportation drive.
#AmericanAutocracy #NewWorldOrder #Chaos #Uncertainty #economy #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #InfoSec #Government #democracy #Constitution #Law #power
#Trump's second-term "America First" agenda has alienated friends & emboldened adversaries while raising questions about how far he is prepared to go. His actions, coupled with that #uncertainty, have so unnerved some governments that they are responding in ways that could be difficult to undo, even if a more traditional US president is elected in 2028.
#AmericanAutocracy #NewWorldOrder #Chaos #economy #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #InfoSec #Government #democracy #Constitution #Law #power
#Trump has launched an unprecedented #global #tariff war & slashed #US foreign #aid. He has disparaged #NATO #allies & embraced #Russia's narrative about its invasion of #Ukraine. And he has spoken about annexing #Greenland, retaking the #PanamaCanal & making #Canada the 51st state.
[and that’s before we talk about his domestic policies]
#AmericanAutocracy #NewWorldOrder #Chaos #Uncertainty #economy #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #InfoSec #Government #democracy #Constitution #Law #power
#Trump's first 100 days: The ’America First’ president is overturning the world order
In the chaotic first 100 days since Trump returned to office, he has waged an often unpredictable campaign that has upended parts of the #RulesBasedWorldOrder that Washington helped build from the ashes of WWII.
#AmericanAutocracy #NewWorldOrder #Chaos #Uncertainty #economy #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #InfoSec #Government #democracy #Constitution #Law #power
reuters.com/world/us/trumps-fi…
Opinion | Turkey’s People Are Resisting Autocracy. They Deserve More Than Silence.
A crucial point is that Turkish voters seem to have tired of Mr. Erdogan. If elections were held today, Mr. Imamoglu would probably win, according to pollsBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Wenn bei einem @ted -Talk der Applaus ausbleibt, wurde offenbar ein wunder Punkt angesprochen... und es gibt sehr, sehr wenig Applaus für die wunderbare Carole Catwalladr bei ihrer Zerstörung der Plattformwirtschaft.
Es gab viel zu wenig Aufmerksamkeit für diesen Talk - gerade in meiner #media bubble.
Madness #AmericanAutocracy
‘Vaguely Threatening’: #Trump Federal Prosecutor #EdMartin Queries Leading #Medical Journal
The New England Journal of Medicine [#NEJM] received a letter suggesting that it was biased & compromised by external pressure. Other journals have also received the letter.
#law #censorship #FirstAmendment #Constitution #democracy #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #tyranny #dictatorship #AntiIntellectualism #science #medicine
nytimes.com/2025/04/25/health/…
‘Vaguely Threatening’: Federal Prosecutor Queries Leading Medical Journal
The New England Journal of Medicine received a letter suggesting that it was biased and compromised by external pressure. Other journals have also received the letter.Teddy Rosenbluth (The New York Times)
Elon Musk Has ‘F-Word Screaming Match’ Feet From Oval Office
“It was two billionaire, middle-aged men thinking it was WWE in the hall of the West Wing,” one witness told Axios.William Vaillancourt (The Daily Beast)
For the press pool:
President Trump, you’ve been subject to quite a few lawsuits over the years, civil, criminal, many instances.
You’ve arguably been afforded more due process during your career than any other person in the country.
Is it not important in a Constitutional democracy that others are protected by the same rights as you?
<insert optional mic drop>
JFC
#PutinsPuppet is spreading #RussianPropaganda & attacking #Zelensky, #Obama & #Biden in disgusting #racist code & advocating for #Russia’s demands.
“I have nothing to do with Russia, but have much to do with wanting to save, on average, five thousand Russian & Ukrainian soldiers a week, who are dying for no reason whatsoever.
No reason?! Just their #sovereignty, #independence & #democracy
#Trump #geopolitics #Ukraine #disinformation #alliance #NATO #authoritarianism #StandWithUkraine
Secy of State #MarcoRubio outlined plans to drastically reorganize the #State dept, saying it was “beholden to radical political ideology.” The overhaul at the nation’s diplomatic agency will include the elimination of the office of the under secretary for #civilian #security, #democracy & #HumanRights.
#State #NationalSecurity #law #ConspiracyTheories
nytimes.com/2025/04/22/us/poli…
Marco Rubio Shares Plans for Overhaul of State Department
The secretary of state posted an organizational chart and statement that revealed few details. Among the changes was the elimination of the office that advances American values around the world.Edward Wong (The New York Times)
