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#ABC Accuses #Government of Violating #FirstAmendment
The network’s argument, made to the #FCC, is the most aggressive [long overdue] posture taken yet by a television network toward the #Trump admin.
#law #constitution #FreeSpeech #FreePress #media #entertainment #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
nytimes.com/2026/05/08/busines…
#Trump demands gratitude in DC. So he put up banners thanking himself.
Signs appearing around the capital twist appreciation & patriotism into an authoritarian knot.
#narcissism #megalomania #vanity #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #MadKing
washingtonpost.com/style/2026/…
Internal #ICE records reveal the widespread #UseOfForce in “#detention” centers [#ConcentrationCamps].
Reports detail how guards have increasingly used chemical agents & physical tactics on detainees, including on people demanding adequate water, food & medical care.
#Trump #law #immigration #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #Authoritarianism #Autocracy #fascism #HumanitarianLaw #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #PoliceBrutality #ExcessiveForce #WhiteSupremacy
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#SCOTUS kills #VotingRights
The Supreme Court’s decision to upend a key provision of the #VotingRightsAct [#VRA] has plunged the nation into a dizzying new era of partisan conflict, most likely ushering in a forever #redistricting war that could produce fewer competitive seats in #Congress & further #polarize #US politics.
#law #ElectionLaw #CivilRights #democracy #RepresentationMatters #authoritarianism #illiberalism #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt
nytimes.com/2026/04/30/us/poli…
Some seriously kerazy — & for once literal — #irony
250 years ago the #UnitedStates declared its #independence from a monarchy.
Today, that very #monarchy, is warning the #US of making a #king of its #illiberal #ExecutiveBranch.
#NoKings #US #Constitution #democracy #independence #ForThePeopleByThePeople #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
apnews.com/article/king-charle…
OMG this muther effing craze-ballz narcissist…
Image of #Trump to be featured inside new #passports to [supposedly] mark the #US’ 250th
Trump’s likeness — along with the Declaration of Independence text [which teeny-weeny-peeny has never read] — & the flag of the United States of America will be on an inside page of new passports.
Kill me now
#law #megalomania #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
washingtonpost.com/politics/20…
"Journalists – even lazy journalists – can’t miss this authoritarian rot.
It’s not cluelessness anymore. It’s cowardice and complicity. And it’s inexcusable. …
It’s obvious that Republicans are trying to end democracy and establish a dictatorship. News media that don’t tell you that are failing you."
~ Mark Jacob
#Trump #Republicans #authoritarianism #fascism #media
stopthepresses.news/p/its-not-…
It’s not media cluelessness – it’s cowardice and complicity
But there’s another word starting with “C” that describes some journalists: courage.Mark Jacob (Stop the Presses)
"Muslims are not neutral subjects in the global order, and Islam is already positioned as suspect within it. The conversation about hijab does not happen in a vacuum. Take authoritarianism in Iran, for example.
Instead of seeing authoritarianism as inherently gendered and violent, as an inevitable feature of patriarchy, as a system that justifies itself by co-opting any moral framework, you view it as either “uniquely Islam”, an “Abrahamic religions issue”, or “proof that all religions are oppressive.” Why don’t you name a secular, non-authoritarian, non-misogynistic nation-state, then?"
#authoritarianism #Iran #Islam #Muslim #Orientalism #edwardsaid #hijab #press #anarchism #activism #politics #critique #muslimah #muslimwomen #Indonesian #palestine #imperialism #communism #marxism
Orientalism and the Denial of Muslim Political Agency
A critique of Orientalism in Western political frameworks and how it denies Muslim political agency and dehumanises Islamic resistance.wrzky
