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🚨Trump plans to create #military reaction force for *civil unrest*

The #Trump admin is evaluating plans that would establish a “Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force” composed of hundreds of #NationalGuard #troops tasked with rapidly deploying into #US cities facing #protests or other unrest, acc/to internal #Pentagon docs reviewed by WaPo.

#law #PosseComitatusAct #MilitaryState #Autocracy #democracy #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest #FreeSpeech
https://wapo.st/46UGmic

"Loon Star State" is back.

Read more Texas Observer cartoonist Ben Sargent: https://www.texasobserver.org/topics/loon-star-state/

#comics #Texas #politics #USpol #democracy #TXlege #news

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“This is the most massive secrecy grab in #Texas since the adoption of the Public Information Act.”

New today from Michelle Pitcher: A move to "standardize" #police personnel files could have devastating consequences for #transparency. https://www.texasobserver.org/secrecy-g-file-police-records-texas-legislature/

#news #politics #USpol #fascism #TXlege #journalism #HumanRights #news #democracy

A Tarrant County resident who has worked as an election judge criticized the county’s move to cut more than 100 polling sites.

“You’re not saving money,” she said. “You’re sacrificing democracy to save a buck.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/tarrant-county-texas-polling-sites-early-voting-cuts?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Texas #TarrantCounty #Vote #Elections #Democracy #Voting

#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment

#Trump to sign #ExecutiveOrder directing AG to prosecute flag desecration

Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Monday that directs #US AG #PamBondi to prosecute those who desecrate the American #flag, including by burning, according to a *fact* sheet from the White House.

#FreeSpeech #democracy #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #tyranny
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-sign-executive-order-directing-ag-prosecute-flag-desecration-2025-08-25/

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The anti-autocracy handbook: how scientists can cope with democratic backsliding. This guide is a call to action, resilience, and collective defence of democracy and academic freedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism.

https://zenodo.org/records/15696097
@EU_Commission

#democracy #acedemicfreedom #authoritarianism

Dozens of towns in Massachusetts, we're coming up to an important election. It can be argued that local government is just as important - and possibly more important - than who sits in the Oval Office. So please make sure you are registered!

https://www.sec.state.ma.us/VoterRegistrationSearch/MyVoterRegStatus.aspx

I hope for everyone's sake that you check NOW, because the deadline is upon us ⬆️

#democracy #election #USA

"Vindman: Trump has ‘every intention’ to undo American democracy if reelected"

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4503490-vindman-trump-intention-undo-american-democracy-if-reelected/

“We might have only one more vote left that really matters,” Vindman said in an interview on MSNBC’s 'The Last Word' with anchor Ali Velshi. “If Trump comes to office, he’s already declared that he intends to be a dictator. The President and the chief executive is invested with broad powers.”

#GOP #Trump #democracy #authoritarianism #Vindman #MSNBC

Will Bunch: “It was McConnell’s rank amorality, in a wetlands where everything and everybody—even justices of the Supreme Court—is up for sale, that caused the utter devastation that burned the pathway for a narcissistic dictator.…He’s smart enough to know he doesn’t want to be seen wandering lost among the smoldering wreckage he created. Somewhere in the darkness, this gambler did not break even. It’s time to run.”
#MitchMcConnell #SCOTUS #democracy
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/mitch-mcconnell-destroyed-america-runs-away-20240303.html

Raw Story:
Internet melts down as Trump identified as 'unindicted co-conspirator' in Arizona filing

Trump's own niece, Mary Trump, had this to say about the news from Arizona:

"Good. Now indict the unindicted."
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-unindicted-arizona/

#News #Politics #Trump #Democracy #Democrats

Any Texan, in particular, can cast propaganda aside and simply look around to see that our state is built, maintained, and improved every day by unauthorized workers.

In our magazine, Interim Editor-in-Chief @gusbova asks why #Democrats keep flip-flopping on an issue at the heart of the American experiment. https://www.texasobserver.org/border-immigration-cowardice-democrats-biden-allred/

#immigration #border #MayDay #Texas #WorkersRights #democracy #Biden

Latest comic: The Great Regression

#cartoon #comic #fascism #race #abortion #lgbtq #democracy #uspol

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As Heather Cox Richardson reports, the Supreme Court just signed off on a South Carolina congressional map that dilutes Black votes by gerrymandering.

And Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion. She writes,

"Almost exactly 70 years after the Supreme Court unanimously decided Brown v. Board, it appears that the framed timbers designed to reverse the expansion of minority rights are falling into place."

#SupremeCourt #Alito #corruption #democracy
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-23-2024

#ElonMusk Ramps Up Anti-Biden Posts

The #billionaire has increasingly been using his #SocialMedia platform to criticize #POTUS #Biden.

“He is just a tragic front for a far left political machine,” #Musk wrote. It was the 29th time this year that he had posted about the president….

#power #influence #TaxCutsForTheWealthy #CorporateTaxCuts #gaslighting #propaganda #BigLie #democracy #VoteBlue #BidenHarris2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/technology/elon-musk-x-biden.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

Wallace on MSBNC: “Trump unhinged, rambling, incoherent after teleprompter fails at rally…

Trump is, of course, a convicted felon. His worldview is devoid of facts and untethered to reality. He offers no vision for the future and instead rants and rambles about sharks, electric boats, windmills, & toilets. He constantly lies about the border, even though he was the person who killed the bipartisan border deal. He lies 1/2
R/t Biden- Harris HQ

https://tinyurl.com/4y6eykd8 #trump #democracy #press

'Georgia Is Our Laboratory': Inside Trump's Plan to Rig 2024

Team #Trump sees #Georgia as 'a road map' for putting Trump's heads-I-win-tails-you-lose philosophy of #elections into practice

The Peach State is unique—it's the sole battleground state in which the #Republican Party has total #control over the levers of #power: a trifecta in state #House, #Senate, & governorship

#ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #law #democracy #BidenHarris2024
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-georgia-laboratory-rig-2024-1235034510/

This is an amazing clip. Doug’s kids talking about what it’s like to be in Kamala’s family.
Compare with any single minute of Don Jr on camera.

#HarrisWalz2024 #JoyfulWarriors #TheBigWalzowski #TonicMasculinity
#TheWalzAbides
#KamalaHarris2024 #KHive #YesWeKam #MALA #MakeAmericaLaughAgain #MastodonForHarris #ThankYouJoe #USPol #Politics #Democracy
@kamalaharrisforpresidentnews

From his home office in…KY, a political operative is quietly investigating scores of federal employees suspected of being hostile to… #Trump….

#TomJones & his #AmericanAccountabilityFoundation are digging into the backgrounds, #socialmedia & commentary of key govt employees, starting w/the #DHS.…+They’re preparing to publish the findings online.

#HeritageFoundation #Project2025 #BlackListing #Sonderfahndungsliste #Gestapo #democracy #BidenHarris2024
https://apnews.com/article/trump-biden-president-project-2025-33d3fc2999a74f4aa424f1128dca2d16

To state the obvious, Trump is being the monstrous dictator he, you know, promised he was going to be. He means it, but he's also pushing so hard, so early, to see what he can get away with.

In case you're wondering, the answer should be nothing. Hold the line. Do not compromise. You are not buying time, you are signaling your weak spots, and his allies will pounce. Use every tool at your disposal while they are still at your disposal.

#tyranny #democracy

Great video kids interviewing MVP #KamalaHarris

The last kid kills me.

Harris: “I don’t like mean people.”

Kid doesn’t miss a beat: “I don’t like Donald Trump.”

Harris: “Yeah, me neither.”

Kid’s face is priceless. I don’t think he expected her to be so honest.

h/t @Sromano
#law #ProsecutorHarris #CriminalTrump #ProsecutorVFelon #democracy #Biden #POTUS #PresidentHarris #TheFirstButNotTheLast #HarrisForPresident #VoteBlue #Election2024 #Harris2024

#Trump’s self-proclaimed “secretary of #retribution” was given a pass to the RNC despite calling for Trump’s enemies to be executed.

#IvanRaiklin, fmr soldier & intelligence ofcl, was free to roam the venue despite being described by one prominent congressman as a “clear & present danger to American #democracy” for his plans to round up hundreds of Trump enemies.

He also claimed in Feb that an #assassination attempt on Trump would benefit the #MAGA movement.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/conspiracy-theorist-huge-social-media-dm-dump-is-coming

Did #Trump‘s VP pick #JDVance just ‘#swiftboat’ #TimWalz by attacking his #military record?

[Yep. Vance is pretty effin stupid.]

#Vance, accused his opponent of “stolen valor garbage” & accused him of having “abandoned” his unit in 2005 ahead of a planned deployment to Iraq.

#weird #SwiftBoatVeteransForTruth #Veterans #democracy #freedom #CommonSense #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.nj.com/politics/2024/08/did-trumps-vp-pick-jd-vance-just-swift-boat-tim-walz-by-attacking-his-military-record.html

📣We’re urging newsrooms to improve their election coverage!

Today, the Media and Democracy Project, along with 3,258 individuals, sent an open letter to executives, publishers, and union leaders of major media orgs urging them to adopt our pro-democracy election coverage guidelines.

Americans need press coverage that portrays the stakes of this election.

Read our open letter, see our guidelines and who's signed, and add your name here:
https://www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/2024-election-coverage

#Media #Democracy
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Raw Story:
'You're gonna lose this!' Trump fans rebel against him over 'A.I.' Harris rally claim

Donald Trump is getting pushback on Sunday on his latest conspiracy theory from an unlikely source: his own MAGA supporters.

@Deplorable59 ... told Trump to "STFU about the crowd size."

"She's getting bigger crowds now face that fact. You're gonna lose this!" the user wrote on Sunday. "Stop with this bulls--- - ..."
https://www.rawstory.com/maga-fans-rebel-against-him-over-fake-rally-claim/

#News #Politics #Trump #Democracy #Democrats

People don't understand what corporations are

A corp is a legal contract They are entirely creations of govt. Corps exist for the good of the public. WHY ELSE would a democracy allow them?

Corps are not sentient entities. They do not "do" anything. Executives do.

Shareholders do not "own" a corp, they have a claim on its assets in a bankruptcy. (Often after lenders.)

You can't punish a corp. A fine only takes shareholder money. PUNISH EXECUTIVES for corp harms!

#corporations #democracy