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Nobody home this morning at the United States Institute of Peace web site.

Sabotage masquerading as patriotism.

Exhibit #12,273,493

#uspol #usip #democracy #authoritarianism



…it was a mistake to think that even the #Nazis would entirely dispense w/normal #laws.…They had a complex, broadly #capitalist economy to maintain. “A nation of 80M people,”…needs stable rules. The trick was to find a way to keep the #law going for #Christian Germans who supported or…tolerated the Nazis, while ruthlessly executing the #führer’s directives against the state’s enemies, real & perceived. #Capitalism could jog nicely alongside the brutal suppression of #democracy, & even #genocide.


You want to fight authoritarianism? Start local. School boards. City councils. Labor unions. That's where power builds—and where democracy is most vulnerable. #Resistance #Democracy


You might be seeing images coming out of Turkey with huge protests against Erdoğan.

But who is Erdoğan?

Why, he’s our dear friend in the EU who we pay billions of euros to so he keeps the Brown people away from our shores, of course.

Hey @EUCommission, wanna wave to your BFF? Go on, don’t be shy!

👋:awesome:

#Erdogan #Erdoğan #Turkey #Türkiye #fascism #faşizm #democracy #demokrasi #EU #refugees #EuropeanValues #Imamoglu #İmamoğlu


More than 1,100 detained in Turkey amid huge demonstrations over mayor’s arrest

theguardian.com/world/live/202…

#Turkey #Erdoğan #fascism #İmamoğlu #humanRights #democracy


Bernie is drawing big crowds


R. Scott Pert - 2025-03-24 01:45:02 GMT

Bernie Sanders on tour in Denver: 'We will not allow America to become an oligarchy'> The #Vermont senator and leader of the progressive left wants to build a movement beyond the Democratic Party to encourage citizens to defend #democracy. lemonde.fr/en/international/ar… #BernieSanders


I completely agree that the #billionaires should suffer, not the common folk.

However, that same common folk continues to buy from #Amazon & the like en masse.

That same common folk voted for #Trump, many of whom indicate that they'd *still* vote for Trump even now.

That common folk stayed absent during the elections because they didn't agree with either candidate.

Not trying to defend billionaires, but come on....

Democracy doesn't protect itself, the people protect their #democracy.


How do you know #UnitedStates #Democracy is nearly destroyed and in #coma?

The same guy who empowered #Trump is the only guy that can smack Trump down.
#SCOTUS
#Roberts

One man controls the entire #Republican agenda and it's Justice Roberts.

#Democrats vs #Republicans
#election2026
#2026election


Arrested and stripped of degree: Twin moves to bar Istanbul mayor from ballot suggests Turkey’s Erdogan is really worried this time theconversation.com/arrested-a…
#democracy #elections


My “not a book review” of Careless People – the book Facebook doesn’t want you to read.

With highlights on Ireland’s complicity and the lengths people farmers (as I call them) will go to to appease authoritarian regimes like China.

ar.al/2025/03/21/careless-peop…

It’s clear from this that Ireland should be stripped of the authority to enforce GDPR and, really, people farmers – and the business model of people farming in general – should be banned in the EU.

(Don’t hold your breaths.)

#carelessPeople #facebook #peopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism #surveillanceCapitalism #BigTech #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #USA #fascism #technofascism #EU #Ireland #tax #GDPR #tech #humanRights #democracy


THIS IS GENIUS.
#teslatakedown #overthrowmusk #counterdisruption @pluralistic #democracy #investInTheDEMOS

hachyderm.io/@inthehands/11419…



Inside #CISA, vital support staff are gone, international partnerships have been strained, & workers are afraid to discuss #threats to #democracy that they’re now PROHIBITED from countering. Employees are even more overworked than usual, & new assignments from the admin are interfering w/important tasks. Meanwhile, CISA’s temporary leader is doing everything she can to appease #Trump, infuriating employees who say she’s out of touch & refusing to protect them.

#InfoSec #NationalSecurity #Musk


Turkey isn’t a dictatorship.

(Is what people who want to stay out of prison say in Turkey.)

#turkey #türkiye #democracy #autocracy #fascism #erdoğan


In Turkey, one of the prerequisites for running for president is to already be the president.

#turkey #türkiye #democracy #autocracy #fascism #erdoğan



"What’s clear is that autocrats everywhere are becoming more emboldened because they know that they will encounter no real consequences from the Trump-Musk administration for their aggressions. They know that the #UnitedStates government is trying to destroy #democracy at home and around the #world."👀 😢
-Ruth Ben-Ghiat

lucid.substack.com/p/erdogan-a…

#Trump #Coup #Corruption #Fascism #Authoritarianism #GOP #Republicans #Politics #USPol #News #RuthBenGhiat #US #USA


Development on this report:

... “The US Institute for #Peace [#USIP] called the DC police on the #Musk team members [#DOGE] in an effort to stop them from trespassing because the institute has control of its own building & the land it sits on. But instead, the DC police allowed them to enter & kicked out the institute's officials.”

#law #democracy #USpol #Trump #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #tyranny
apnews.com/article/doge-trump-…


Turkish university annuls Erdogan rival's degree, preventing run for president

reuters.com/world/asia-pacific…

This is what democracy looks like when there’s no democracy.

#turkey #erdogan #imamoglu #democracy #fascism


Important #UK #petition to sign: "Ban behavioural data extraction for advertising"

petition.parliament.uk/petitio…

If you are a UK citizen or UK resident PLEASE SIGN THIS 🙏🏼

We need the #government to take this seriously so creeps like this #databroker don't get more data:
gizmodo.com/data-broker-brags-…

And #democracy is undermined by the #microtargeting from #socialmedia - #Trump /Brexit/Romania etc

#surveillancecapitalism #dataprivacy #advertising #RTB #databreach #infosec #uspol #data #selfhosting


The rule-based world order is based on rules that are not defined anywhere and that the strongest can determine according to their own interests.


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#wisdom #quote #law #democracy #oligarchy #capitalism #constitution #politics #system #ethics #power #society #humanity #humanrights


1/x OK-doke, Mastodon #resistance peeps. Several morning 🧵 to-dos in the face of the CR shitstorm and *certain* spinless Dem capitulation.#USpol #Democracy

First up:

Good (and early) “Fridays in Trumpland” post from The Newsletter with ECM with phone numbers of all Dem Senators and script too: open.substack.com/pub/newslett…


#Musk Seeks to Put $100M Directly Into #Trump *Political Operation*

#ElonMusk has signaled he wants to make donations not just to his own #superPAC, …but to an outside entity.

It is unheard-of for a WH staffer, even one w/*part-time* status, to make such large contributions to support the agenda of the boss. But there has never been someone in the direct employ of an admin like Musk, the world’s richest person, who is leading Trump’s #DOGE.

#law #democracy #oligarchy
nytimes.com/2025/03/11/us/poli…


Franklin D. Roosevelt: "the #liberty of a #democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is #Fascism..."www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/me...

Message to Congress on Curbing...


Great crowd of angry Scientists and Science supporters at #standupforscience in San Francisco this afternoon. Speakers included scientists (among them Nobel laureate Carolyn Bertozzi), cancer survivors, students and California State Senator Scott Wiener. It felt uplifting to be among so many others standing up for democracy, fairness, scientific facts and diversity. 💪 #Democracy


Unimaginable a few weeks ago. But here we are. French university offering refuge to US scholars.

“It targets, but is not limited to, climate and environment, health, and human and social sciences.”

#democracy #science

404media.co/french-university-…


Judge says #Trump cannot fire head of #independent #watchdog agency

The federal judge’s decision blocks Trump from removing #HamptonDellinger as head of the Office of #SpecialCounsel & sets up a likely #SCOTUS battle over the president’s powers.

#law #NationalSecurity #authoritarianism #autocracy #democracy #SeparationOfPowers
washingtonpost.com/national-se…


"The Oval Office blowup, in which Trump and Vance berated Zelensky as ungrateful while dismissing the prospect that Russian President Vladimir Putin might renege on a potential ceasefire agreement, is a culmination in a weeks-long campaign to choreograph an end to U.S. support for Ukraine."

~ Josh Kovensky

#Trump #JDVance #Zelenskyy #Ukraine #Putin #Russia #democracy
/15

talkingpointsmemo.com/news/tru…


"The Trump administration has publicly and privately signaled that it does not believe Russia represents a cyber threat against US national security or critical infrastructure, marking a radical departure from longstanding intelligence assessments."

~ Stephanie Kirchgaessner

#Trump #JDVance #Zelenskyy #Ukraine #Putin #Russia #democracy #PutinsPoodle
/16

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/f…


"Shortly after the blowup, Trump ran to his Truth Social account to bloviate."

~ Walter Einenkel

#Trump #JDVance #Zelenskyy #Ukraine #Putin #Russia #democracy #PutinsPoodle
/14

dailykos.com/stories/2025/2/28…


"The sight of an American president so out of control, so lacking in either grace or gravitas, and so dismissive of our own security needs marked a low point in the annals of U.S. foreign policy."

#Trump #JDVance #Zelenskyy #Ukraine #Putin #Russia #democracy
/13


"Never before have we witnessed such a grotesque display of bullying in the Oval Office by a president and vice president of the United States. Berating a democratic ally for the temerity not to sacrifice his own country to Donald Trump’s idol, Vladimir Putin."

~ Jennifer Rubin

#Trump #JDVance #Zelenskyy #Ukraine #Putin #Russia #democracy
/12

contrarian.substack.com/p/aler…


"Trump has shamed us all."

~ Gene Weingarten

#Trump #JDVance #Zelenskyy #Ukraine #Putin #Russia #democracy
/10

geneweingarten.substack.com/p/…


"It is shameful and it makes me feel deep, deep shame to be in America because we own this. It doesn't matter how much we disagree with it or how, you know, how angry it makes us. We own this and it's horrible."

~ Jonathan V. Last

#Trump #JDVance #Zelenskyy #Ukraine #Putin #Russia #democracy
/9

thebulwark.com/p/breaking-trum…


"A member of Russia’s state-owned news agency gained access to the Oval Office on Friday to cover President Trump’s sit-down with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky – even as the AP and Reuters were barred from the high-level meeting."

~ Donald Judd and Liam Reilly

#Trump #JDVance #Zelenskyy #Ukraine #Putin #Russia #democracy
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cnn.com/2025/02/28/media/tass-…