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From substack.com

February 15, 2025

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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 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...

#authoritarianism

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

20 Lessons from the 20th Century About How to Defend Democracy from Authoritarianism, According to Yale Historian Timothy Snyder

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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