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1y

#Trump threatening to #jail political opposition repeatedly this weekend.

Setting up another #PermissionStructure for an American #authoritarian regime.

#HarrisWalz2024 #law #democracy #Constitution

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1y

The #populist idea of #democracy is they alone represent the people.

The populist idea of representation is that all others are being fooled by the elite into not supporting their strongman champion.

The populist idea of elections is that the winner gets everything.

The populist idea of winning is retribution and striking down their enemies from ever challenging them again.

The populist idea of truth is to be able to force everyone to believe their story.

The populist only believe in power.

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Donating to @ProPublica supports a newsroom full of investigative journalists intent on bringing about real change through reporting on abuses of power in the public interest. They've done incredible work this year. And if you donate on #GivingNewsDay your donation is matched dollar for dollar. https://give.propublica.org/campaign/748664/donate?c_src=ben #givingtuesday #journalism #democracy

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1y

Democracy literally means rule of the common people. If your country is ruled by corporations and billionaires, then it is most certainly NOT a Democracy!

#Freedom #Humanity #HumanRights #Democracy #RuleOfLaw #Justice #Friday

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1y

"We at the Media and Democracy Project have created 18 election coverage guidelines that draw inspiration from the work being done by journalism nonprofits and respected media critics. The guidelines propose three key principles: treating elections like they matter more than sports scores, clearly communicating threats to democracy, and protecting the public from disinformation. "

Read our column here:
https://mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com/p/newsrooms-must-become-partisans-for

#Press #Journalism #Democracy

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259d

#MikeLuckovich brilliance

#PoliticalCartoon #Trump #PoliceState #MilitaryState #law #PosseComitatusAct #democracy #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo #AmericanAutocracy #protests #resist

Mike Luckovich political cartoon shows Putin looking at a map of Ukraine & Trump looking at a map of the United States. Putin says, “No surrender yet, but hopefully will soon have it completely under my control.” Trump says, “Ditto.”

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Official translation of President Lai Ching-te's new year's speech

"Facing China’s alarming military ambitions, Taiwan has no time to wait and certainly no time to consume ourselves with internal strife. We may hold different views on many issues, but without strong and resilient national defense, there will be no country, nor will there be space allowed for us to debate. This should be a national consensus across party lines."

https://english.president.gov.tw/News/7067#new

#Taiwan #台灣 #democracy

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📚 One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by: Omar El Akkad

On October 25th, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet: "One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late...

https://bookblabla.com/book/one-day-everyone-will-have-always-been-against-this

@bookstodon

#books #reading #libraries #biographyautobiography #world #politicalideologies #democracy

$On October 25th, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet: "One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this." This tweet was viewed more than ten million times. One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This chronicles the deep fracture that has occurred for Black, brown, Indigenous Americans, as well as the upcoming generation, many of whom had clung to a thread of faith in Western ideals, in the idea that their countries, or the countries of their adoption, actually attempted to live up to the values they espouse. This book is a reckoning with what it means to live in the West, and what it means to live in a world run by a small group of countries—America, the UK, France, and Germany.  It will be The Fire Next Time for a generation that understands we're undergoing a shift in the so-called “rules-based order,” a generation that understands the West can no longer be trusted to police and guide the world, or its own cities and campuses. It draws on intimate details of Omar's own story as an emigrant who grew up believing in the Western project, who was catapulted into journalism by the rupture of 9/11. This book is El Akkad's heartsick breakup letter with the West. It is a breakup we are watching all over the United States, on college campuses, on city streets, and the consequen$

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1y

#Introduction

1. Reality is the only morality. I reject all symbolism and emotion.
2. I know good people from every religion, tribe, race, culture, ethnicity, and social class. To protect each group, ethno-nationalism is required.
3. All of our environmental problems can be cured through Half Earth.
4. Natural Rights > (human | civil rights).
5. Eugenics is necessary to ensure genetic health.
6. People need some positive transcendent goal or they are merely reacting to fears and appetites.

I oppose #DEADS:

* #Democracy
* #Equality (#individualism)
* #Atomization (#dualism, #multiculturalism)
* #Diversity
* #Socialism

You can find my writings at https://www.amerika.org/.

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1y

An Open Letter to All European Politicians and Leaders to Abandon X/Twitter

Join the call for action against disinformation and biased agendas. Sign the petition if you agree:

https://www.openpetition.eu/petition/online/an-open-letter-to-all-european-politicians-and-leaders-to-abandon-x-twitter

P. S. I'm going to change the image of the petition. Suggestions welcome.

#X #EU #Twitter #Musk #disinformation #petition #SocialMedia #decentralization #democracy

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1y

Corporations will not stand up to fascism. They are engines to create profit for shareholders so protecting profit is their only guiding principle. They will bend to the felon-in-chief rather than face costly repercussions from a petty tyrant who wields unconstitutional power without any oversight.

#USPol #Fascism #Democracy #Capitalism #Greed

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"What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, it energizes us to act, and raises at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."

— Howard Zinn

Full text: https://www.howardzinn.org/collection/a-marvelous-victory/

#HowardZinn #Resist #Protest #USPol #Democracy #Trump #GOP #Musk #DOGE #ICE #Antifa #Vote

Quote by Howard Zinn: "The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."

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Thanks to @zollak, we updated the status of ten MEPs! Now, we have 421 more politicians to persuade to leave X, which is a decrease from 60% to 59%.

Can we get that number below 50% before spring?

Contact the MEPs using our tool https://leavex.eu/politicians/

We should keep track of how many politicians left X by either stating it or deleting their accounts.

P. S. here is the code with these latest changes https://github.com/everton137/leavex-tools/commit/d49dd70bd97349adc813ddae0f5982bdddcb97bf

#LeaveX #Democracy #EU

Chart showing the reduction of politicians leaving X

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1y

Von der Demokratie in den Faschismus. FBI-Akademie, Quantico. Die Farbe stimmt schon einmal. Die Farben verschwinden. Es wird dunkel in den USA. Vielfalt und Werte werden vernichtet.
#Democracy #Freedom #USA

The Times takes a look at some of the changes underway at the F.B.I. Specifically, at the F.B.I. Academy at Quantico on Wednesday. .... JUSTICE ... DIVERSITY.... ... INTEGRITY ... COMPASSION . These words are written in bright colors on a wall.
A worker paints over them with gray paint

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1y

🤑 False Profit$$$

#BIG_KUDOS to the little quaint town of #Gainesboro, #Tennessee. Finally WE THE PEOPLE will 🥊 🚔 ENFORCE the LAW 👨‍⚖️ 👩‍⚖️ of #OUR #LAND!

NOTTA 🦘 🦘 🦘 ILLEGAL 🇮🇱 #USA #KANGAROO_GOVERNMENT!

ALL #CHRISTIAN_NATIONALISTS! aka #Askenazi_Jews! The #POT CALLING THE KETTLE #BLACK!

THEY ARE THE GODLESS who Worship Money and Ambition. Just tell the truth if that is even possible.

THE WRITINGS ARE ON THE WALL!

Let #DavidV cut to the chase SHALL WE? (Expert Black Box Tester ▪️ 26 years) .

👹 #Christian_Nationalists are nothing more than a movement to 🔫 weaponize FAL$E Christianity against #REAL_CHRISTIANITY ✝️ .

But its gets worse;( #WEBTRAFFICBROKERS.COM invented #Incentivized_Advertising in 1999. We also INVENTED 💡 #NON_Incentivized #Advertising. 🤑 #BOOYA!

btw you are being paid #CHUMP_CHANGE since incentivize advertising is the worst paying compensation model in existence = #PIE_CRUMBS

The Jews laughing at you all the way to the bank cause they are receiving the LIONS SHARE instead of you.

This is not our 1st RODEO but its YOURS!! 🏇

#USA IS NOT CAPABLE OF #INTELLIGENCE. WE HAVE had #ZERO_INTELLIGENCE 🧠 since #NSA debacle. ITS A LIE.

All that went out the window when NSA was breached. Then they brought in another moron aka elon musk with his los satellites (all the while promoting space travel while polluting space with so much space junk .. rendering space travel uninhabitable! All in the name of PRIVATE SATELLITES by GREEDY MURDERING #ASKE_NAZI JEWISH COMPANIES). Soon Russian (any country for that matter) will #TAKE_DOWN since they are a #THREAT to #WORLDWIDE_SECURITY & PEACE!

Basically what is happening now is that this FAKE MOVEMENT, that does not exist in the bible btw; are illegally #BUYING YOUR #VOTE$$$ through #INCENTIVIZED_INDOCTRINATION.

How do your think CHUMP; #CONVICTED_RETARD OF 34 #FELONIES WILL STAY IN POWER FOREVER??

TRUMP BOUGHT HIS LAST ELECTION behind the scenes. (the 3rd election he has RIGGED with massive Proof) #Democracy has been OVER since 2007 DOCUMENTED.

Get rid of the puppeteers and DEMOCRACY WILL BE FIXED

#VIDEO HERE: https://youtu.be/3X1kOeia0YY

📛 DISCLAIMER: We Cover the 'Way' the #News is #COVERED_UP! 👿

WELCOME TO #DECENTRALIZED_GLOBALIZATION 🌐 #GLOBALIZATION is NOT Dead! It's just the Beginning!..
The NEW DIGITAL GLOBAL ORDER | NO NATIONALITY LEFT BEHIND | COMING SOON! 🌏 🌍 🌎

🔴 The #Next #Global_Superpower Isn't Who You #Think 🧠 WHO is TastingTraffic.com?

🧠 https://youtu.be/uiUPD-z9DTg

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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
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/01/hampton-dellinger-trump-office-special-counsel/

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HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?!?!

Slowly and deliberately. Originally published June 17, 2021

“ there is something far more sinister about these bills.

The real threat is that these bills are quietly setting Republicans up to steal the 2024 Presidential election after failing in 2020. There are steps being taken at all levels of government to make this a reality.”

https://www.rootschangemedia.com/big-lie/

#maga #uspol #trump #democracy #unitedstates #fascism #TheBigLie #RootsofChange

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31d

#GiftArticle

Yes, It’s #Fascism

Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many & too strong to deny.

By Jonathan Rauch

#Trump #UnitedStates #democracy #Constitution #law
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/america-fascism-trump-maga-ice/685751/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxfkcmlWcc1rtoivHvxtVB5E

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259d

More proof this is entirely unnecessary & serves #Trump’s interests alone.

• Distract you from his many other #illegal activities, his ineffectuality geopolitically, & his tanking of the #economy.

• Finally achieving his long coveted goal of creating an #authoritarian #MilitaryState in which no one is allowed to criticize him or even say they don’t like him.

#law #PosseComitatusAct #democracy #RightToProtest #Gestapo #California #NationalGuard #Marines #immigration
https://apnews.com/live/immigration-protests-los-angeles-6-11-2025#00000197-5f9b-d663-a5f7-5f9b5dcd0000

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1y

What Happened the Last Time a #President #Purged the #Bureaucracy. The impact can linger not just for years but decades. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/02/06/government-workers-purge-1950s-communism-00202336 #democracy #government #justice #freedom #nationalsecurity #loyalty #dictatorship #billionaires #oligarchy #power #corruption

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The old methods of dealing with anti-democratic forces have failed. Congress is not going to save us. The courts are not going to save us. Voting is not going to save us.

We need a new playbook to actually fight corruption and greed - the root causes of our current situation.

Here are Five Actions to Save Democracy, that you can start right now.

https://billhunt.dev/blog/2025/03/02/five-actions-to-save-democracy/

#Democracy #PoliticalAction #Boycott #HackThePlanet

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I’m not a psychologist.

But Trump’s malignant narcissism seems plain.

I’m not a lawyer.

But the collapse of checks and balances and the resultant constitutional crisis seems plain.

I’m not an economist.

But the hollowing out of the public sector for the benefit of corporations and billionaires seems plain.

I am an historian.

And the convergence of these forces has never ended well.

Midnight in America.

#uspol #democracy #fascism

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JFC

#PutinsPuppet is spreading #RussianPropaganda & attacking #Zelensky, #Obama & #Biden in disgusting #racist code & advocating for #Russia’s demands.

“I have nothing to do with Russia, but have much to do with wanting to save, on average, five thousand Russian & Ukrainian soldiers a week, who are dying for no reason whatsoever.

No reason?! Just their #sovereignty, #independence & #democracy

#Trump #geopolitics #Ukraine #disinformation #alliance #NATO #authoritarianism #StandWithUkraine

Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is boasting on the front page of The Wall Street Journal that, “Ukraine will not legally recognize the occupation of Crimea. There’s nothing to talk about here.” This statement is very harmful to the Peace Negotiations with Russia in that Crimea was lost years ago under the auspices of President Barack Hussein Obama, and is not even a point of discussion. Nobody is asking Zelenskyy to recognize Crimea as Russian Territory but, if he wants Crimea, why didn’t they fight for it eleven years ago when it was handed over to Russia without a shot being fired? The area also houses, for many years before “the Obama handover,” major Russian submarine bases. It’s inflammatory statements like Zelenskyy’s that makes it so difficult to settle this War. He has nothing to boast about! The situation for Ukraine is dire — He can have Peace or, he can fight for another three years before losing the whole Country. I have nothing to do with Russia, but have much to do with wanting to save, on average, five thousand Russian and Ukrainian soldiers a week, who are dying for no reason whatsoever. The statement made by Zelenskyy today will do nothing but prolong the “killing field,” and nobody wants that! We are very close to a Deal, but the man with “no cards to play” should now, finally, GET IT DONE. I look forward to being able to help Ukraine, and Russia, get out of this Complete and Total MESS, that would have never started if I were President!

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#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
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-donation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=DFBA3C3D-559A-4CDE-A0FB-ECD75001BA03