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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
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!
👋
#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
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#Turkey #Erdoğan #fascism #İmamoğlu #humanRights #democracy
More than 1,100 detained in Turkey amid huge demonstrations over mayor’s arrest – Europe live
Tens of thousands gathered in Istanbul with unrest likely to continue over treatment of presidential challenger to ErdoğanHayden Vernon (The Guardian)
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
This week's comic: Zero dimensional chess
#cartoon #comic #uspol #media #journalism #authoritarianism #democracy
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.
#democracy #elections
Arrested and stripped of degree: Twin moves to bar Istanbul mayor from ballot suggests Turkey’s Erdogan is really worried this time
Long-serving, autocratic-leaning Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is seeking to extend his tenure beyond constitutionally set term limit.The Conversation
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.
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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
Careless people
Notes from “Careless People: A story of where I used to work: Power. Greed. Madness.” by Sarah-Wynn WilliamsAral Balkan
THIS IS GENIUS.
#teslatakedown #overthrowmusk #counterdisruption @pluralistic #democracy #investInTheDEMOS
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Paul Cantrell (@inthehands@hachyderm.io)
Once you have your brokerage account: - Transfer that small “I’m willing to lose this much” amount into your brokerage account - Buy TSLZ, TSLQ, and TSLS. - Hold on to it.Hachyderm.io
!["Many leaders. including #Reagan and #Nixon, saw the opening of CUNY [the City University of New York]... as a real ideological threat." said CUNY professor #AshlevDawson. 1)
At a 1970 Republican fundraiser, Vice President #SpiroAgnew made his concerns exolicit, #Dawson and #Franklin documented. #Agnew inveighed against “Black student militancy" at protests like the historic 1969 camp ocvupation at #CityCollege that hastened open admissions, arguing that too high a proportion of Black students were admitted to college. Open admissions, were the means “by which a wave of unqualified students are being swept into college on the
wave of the #NewSocialism. "
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"Ashley Dawson is Distinguished Professor of English at the College of Staten Island and a consortial faculty member in the Ph.D. program in English at the CUNY Graduate Center. He earned his Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Before coming to CUNY in 2001, he taught for four years at the University of Iowa. At CSI and the Graduate Center, Professor Dawson teaches courses in postcolonial literature and theory, and in the environmental humanities."
https://www.cuny.edu/blog/iconic_faculty/ashley-dawson/](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/4548215 "\"Many leaders. including #Reagan and #Nixon, saw the opening of CUNY [the City University of New York]... as a real ideological threat.\" said CUNY professor #AshlevDawson. 1)
At a 1970 Republican fundraiser, Vice President #SpiroAgnew made his concerns exolicit, #Dawson and #Franklin documented. #Agnew inveighed against “Black student militancy\" at protests like the historic 1969 camp ocvupation at #CityCollege that hastened open admissions, arguing that too high a proportion of Black students were admitted to college. Open admissions, were the means “by which a wave of unqualified students are being swept into college on the
wave of the #NewSocialism. \"
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\"Ashley Dawson is Distinguished Professor of English at the College of Staten Island and a consortial faculty member in the Ph.D. program in English at the CUNY Graduate Center. He earned his Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Before coming to CUNY in 2001, he taught for four years at the University of Iowa. At CSI and the Graduate Center, Professor Dawson teaches courses in postcolonial literature and theory, and in the environmental humanities.\"
https://www.cuny.edu/blog/iconic_faculty/ashley-dawson/")
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.
Thousands rally outside Istanbul city hall for 2nd night over mayor's arrest
Thousands of people have gathered outside Istanbul’s city hall for a second consecutive night to rally against the arrest of the city’s popular mayor.Mehmet Guzel (AP News)
"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
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#Trump #Coup #Corruption #Fascism #Authoritarianism #GOP #Republicans #Politics #USPol #News #RuthBenGhiat #US #USA
Erdogan Arrests Top Opposition Politician
On CNN Int at 2:30pmET to talk about Turkey; My WIRED Video on DictatorsRuth Ben-Ghiat (Lucid)
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
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Trump administration guts board of US Institute of Peace. Group says DOGE arrives
The Trump administration has fired most of the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace and sent its new leader into the Washington headquarters of the independent organization.Matthew Lee (AP News)
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
Data Broker Brags About Having Highly Detailed Personal Information on Nearly All Internet Users
The advertising industry is immensely powerful, and disturbingly opaque.Lucas Ropek (Gizmodo)
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.
#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…
Fridays in Trumpland: 3.13.2025
Feckless, Foolish F*ckers, or WE FIGHT BACKElizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (The Newsletter with ECM)
#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…
Elon Musk Seeks to Put $100 Million Into Trump Political Operation
Elon Musk has signaled he wants to make some donations not just to his own super PAC, which is called America PAC and has spent heavily on President Trump in the past, but to an outside entity.Theodore Schleifer (The New York Times)
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...
I’m content that we can post here, as is our right to do so, no one should get bonus points for just doing the right thing & allowing truthspeakers the right to speak. MASTODON needs to step up & lead the way.
#warcrimes
#propaganda
#Genocide
#opensource
#bds
#tiktok
#democracy
#humanrights
#Gaza
#Palestine
#Syria
#fediverse
#geopolitics
@palestine
@lebanon @yemen @irannachrichten
@blackvoices
@blackgirlnerds
@BLKNewsNow
@blackgirlnerds
#AntiImperialism
#antiPalestinianracism
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.”
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French University to Fund American Scientists Who Fear Trump Censorship
The program, called ‘safe place for science,’ offers American scientists funding to continue their research in France.Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
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
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"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
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Trump And Vance Ambush Zelensky In Prelude To Betrayal
President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance moved to betray a key U.S. ally that has lost hundreds of thousands of people in fending off a Russian…Josh Kovensky (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
"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
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Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats
Recent incidents indicate US is no longer characterizing Russia as a cybersecurity threat, marking a radical departure: ‘Putin is on the inside now’Stephanie Kirchgaessner (The Guardian)
"Shortly after the blowup, Trump ran to his Truth Social account to bloviate."
~ Walter Einenkel
#Trump #JDVance #Zelenskyy #Ukraine #Putin #Russia #democracy #PutinsPoodle
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Zelenskyy shows true leadership as Trump implodes in Oval Office meltdown
Donald Trump and JD Vance teamed up to embarrass the United States on Friday and derail any meaningful efforts toward a peace deal in the Russia-Ukraine War when they decided to publicly berate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during what was.Daily Kos
"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
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contrarian.substack.com/p/aler…
ALERT: Trump and Vance berate Zelensky, kick him out of White House
*Special Alert from The Contrarian*Ilan Goldenberg (The Contrarian)
"Trump has shamed us all."
~ Gene Weingarten
#Trump #JDVance #Zelenskyy #Ukraine #Putin #Russia #democracy
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Trump Has Shamed Us All
Rachel and I are leaving to have dinner at Ruta, D.C.’s only Ukrainian-owned, Ukrainian run, Ukrainian cuisine restaurant.Gene Weingarten (The Gene Pool)
"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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