From substack.com
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After World War II, the vast majority of Americans—Democrats and Republicans alike—agreed that the federal government should regulate business, provide a basic social safety net, promote infrastructure, and protect civil rights.
#usa #coup #putsch #politics #democracy #corruption #authoritarianism #federalgovernment #HeatherCoxRichardson #musk
on Feb 17
From theguardian.com
Why fascists hate universities | Jason Stanley
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Authoritarians and would-be authoritarians are only too aware that universities are primary sites of critique and dissent
#News #Florida #fascism #hungary #Pakistan #Politics #farright #genocide #highered #tennessee
on Sep 6
From apnews.com
Critics see Trump attacks on the 'Black Smithsonian' as an effort to sanitize racism in US history
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Civil rights advocates, historians and Black political leaders are sharply rebuking President Donald Trump for his order targeting the Smithsonian Institution.
#us #uspol #racism #culture #slavery #toplink #politics #censorship #project2025 #smithsonian
20h ago
From theintercept.com
ICE Got Warrants Under “False Pretenses,” Claims Columbia Student Targeted Over Gaza Protests
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ICE got warrants under a law that bars concealment of immigrants — yet the Gaza protesters were legal residents living at Columbia.
#ice #gaza #trump #fascism #resistice #turdreich #uspolitics #momodoutaal #project2025 #yunseochung
on Fri, 7PM
From wired.com
We Mapped DOGE’s Silicon Valley and Corporate Connections
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If Elon Musk is America's CEO, DOGE is the Silicon Valley executive branch.
#usa #doge #musk #wired #infovis #elonmusk #oligarchy #siliconvalley #authoritarianism
on Fri, 2PM
From derstandard.at
Musk-Behörde bringt Chaos in die Atomsicherheit der USA
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"Niemand weiß, ob er gefeuert ist oder nicht": Dem Kürzungswahn von DOGE sollten ursprünglich auch mehr als 300 Mitarbeiter der Atomsicherheitsbehörde NNSA zum Opfer fallen
#doe #usa #doge #musk #nnsa #atombomb #atombombe #Atomwaffen #derstandard #staatskrise
on Feb 16
From nbcnews.com
Trump takes aim at foreign-born college students, with 300 visas revoked
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Some students have been picked up off the street by immigration agents and held in detention centers, sometimes a thousand miles away from their homes, with little warning
#trump #uspol #protest #activism #scholars #clampdown #orwellian #freespeech #marcorubio #studentvisas
on Fri, 3PM
From torontotoday.ca
UofT hires three prominent Yale professors worried about Trump
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Fascism scholar Jason Stanley and historians Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore have taken jobs at the University of Toronto amid concerns about the second Trump administration
#uoft #trump #uspol #fascism #ontyranny #unfreedom #braindrain #historians #marcishore #professors
on Fri, 5AM
From nbcnews.com
Speaker Mike Johnson floats eliminating federal courts as GOP ramps up attacks on judges
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Republican lawmakers are setting their sights on the judiciary following court rulings that have halted Trump's agenda.
#law #judiciary #ruleoflaw #trumpregime #authoritarianism
on Wed, 3AM
From crooksandliars.com
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A cartoon for February 16, 2025
#dei #maga #autocracy #democracy #culturewars #kennedycenter #authoritarianism #editorialcartoon #politicalcartoon
on Feb 16
From hachyderm.io
John Refior (@jrefior@hachyderm.io)
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Right-wing Jewish groups are using facial recognition software to identify protesters in the US and report them to the Trump administration for deportation: https://apnews.com/article/trump-foreign-students-campus-gaza-protests-deportation-9e2d4abc1c158454da1f68c01062c9ef #fascism #dictatorship...
6h ago
From cbs58.com
What to know about April's voter ID ballot referendum
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MADISON, Wis. (CBS 58) -- Voters will not only have to present a photo ID to vote on April 1, but they'll also be asked about adding that requirement to the state constitution.It's part of a constitutional
#uspol #fascism #photoid #voterid #wisconsin #republican #wisconsinpol #literacytests #liberalmajority #authoritarianism
8h ago
From openculture.com
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Timothy Snyder, Housum Professor of History at Yale University, is one of the foremost scholars in the U.S. and Europe on the rise and fall of totalitarianism during the 1930s and 40s.
#africa #german #hitler #nazism #racist #russia #stalin #fascism #history #histodon
11h ago
From youtube.com
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Bekijk je favoriete video's, luister naar de muziek die je leuk vindt, upload originele content en deel alles met vrienden, familie en anderen op YouTube.
#trump #fascism #cheaters #election #republicans #authoritarianism #votersuppression
16h ago
From youtube.com
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Bekijk je favoriete video's, luister naar de muziek die je leuk vindt, upload originele content en deel alles met vrienden, familie en anderen op YouTube.
#jews #trump #israel #fascism #palestine #propaganda #authoritarianism
on Sat, 3AM
From nytimes.com
Opinion | Trump Is Closing the Curtain on the American Century
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His administration is leading the world into a chaotic global order.
#collapse #uspolitics #paxamericana #authoritarianism
on Feb 17
From allafrica.com
Africa: U.S. Pullout Gives Upper Hand to Human Rights Abusers Worldwide
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When some of the world's "authoritarian and repressive regimes" were elected as members of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) -including Cuba, China, Russia, Kazakhstan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) -- a US Congressman Dana Rohrabacher infamously remarked: "The inmates...
#unhrc #Africa #humanrights #USforeignpolicy #authoritarianism
on Feb 17
From youtube.com
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Bekijk je favoriete video's, luister naar de muziek die je leuk vindt, upload originele content en deel alles met vrienden, familie en anderen op YouTube.
#america #fightback #lostdemocracy #fallofdemocracy #authoritarianism #constitutionalcrisis
on Feb 17
From slate.com
Here’s One Big Way You’ll Know if We’re in a Presidential Dictatorship
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If Trump successfully defies the courts, the only remaining obstacle to dictatorship will be public revulsion and national popular protest.
#coup #politics #democracy #governing #government #uspolitics #americancoup #dictatorship #balanceofpower #authoritarianism
on Feb 13