#Destroying the #judiciary -The entire Phoenix field office of #GSA has been fired, according to federal #court administrator. The field office "was the subject of #RIF reduction in force," said district court executive, clerk of court for US District Court for the District of #Arizona. Firings included people who operated and maintained the Sandra Day O'Connor U.S. Courthouse in downtown Phoenix, Lucas said. #coup #fascism #dictator #democracy #constitution https://www.yahoo.com/news/entire-phoenix-field-office-general-210120998.html #FreeAmerica
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> [#Musk’s] grandfather headed a fringe political movement in #Canada in the 1930s, Technocracy Incorporated, which sought to abolish #democracy in favour of government by elite technicians, but its overtones of #fascism saw it banned during the second world war.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/feb/08/elon-musk-politics-doge?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
#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
We’re in the moment where the US government is being taken apart :
https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxpv9_BZKAG967LMQG1vaQ4yAGsagiR4tf?si=R5gq493nyPeDrQ9J
It’s tax time - Where’s the money going?
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxDcLv4Ai2rHxQvH7AIoUvWkXMRphQGDAT?si=MrM5khq6I1SKoWgx
From #TimSnyder convo with Red, Wine & Blue:
https://youtu.be/ZQqLRew4F1g?si=wml4jbz7_s1PO9Q9
I always say that there are no moral victories in politics, and the violent stupidity unleashed by the MAGA trifecta has already been a disaster, BUT…
If any good can come from this episode of criminal incompetence, it would take the form of a vigorous public discussion of American values.
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It’s #WomensDay2025 and #WomensHistoryMonth. In the last years, we introduced you to female and non-male #emdiplomats or to #emdiplomacy research by female* historians.
This year, we feel the need to #standUpForScience and #democracy. Both are under thread – most visibly in the US, but also in Europe, the recent elections in Austria and Germany clearly demonstrate this.
We as historians and academics are profoundly aware of the dangers fascisms represents for democracy and human rights as well as academic freedom. (1/5)
@histodons @earlymodern
A US court has held that the abrupt shuttering of #USAID by the Trump administration likely violated the Constitution. But as the case winds itself through the court system, the impacts are immense, writes Mandeep Tiwana in this piece #democracy https://www.democracywithoutborders.org/36059/trump-and-musks-war-on-global-aid-civil-society-and-democracy/
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: https://open.substack.com/pub/newsletterwithecm/p/fridays-in-trumpland-3132025
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I'm saving a ton of money over the last year. Here's my secret:
-Cancelled NYT subscription
-Cancelled WaPo subscription
-Cancelled Amazon Prime
-Cancelled Spotify
Turns out I'm saving money and also giving my more directly to smaller businesses, true journalists, and artists.
Really not that hard, people.
I'm sure I'm not the only EU citizen wishing all Americans who are out on the streets today a better future. Fighting for not just your own democracy but for all of the rest of us too.
Thank you.
Stay safe!
Autocracies outnumber democracies for the first time globally in 20 years says new V-Dem #democracy assessment. United States "definitely" to be downgraded due to unprecedented and rapid autocratization https://www.democracywithoutborders.org/36317/autocracies-outnumber-democracies-for-the-first-time-in-20-years-v-dem/
"The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]" @rbreich
#Handouts #Musk #Government #Bailout #USAID #Poverty #Democracy #Capitalism
Madness #AmericanAutocracy
‘Vaguely Threatening’: #Trump Federal Prosecutor #EdMartin Queries Leading #Medical Journal
The New England Journal of Medicine [#NEJM] received a letter suggesting that it was biased & compromised by external pressure. Other journals have also received the letter.
#law #censorship #FirstAmendment #Constitution #democracy #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #tyranny #dictatorship #AntiIntellectualism #science #medicine
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/health/nejm-prosecutor-letter.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=68CE025A-703F-4C94-87AA-8D0D7D06D23B
The GOP continues to be a disaster for the country. Let's see what Republicans like Trump, Vance, Musk, and more are doing.
Hegseth put Signal on Pentagon computers. To be fair, he may have been too drunk to remember. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/23/hegseth-signal-pentagon-computer/
Plastered Pete's chief of staff just left. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/24/hegseth-chief-of-staff-pentagon-leaving-00308721
Hegseth was also screaming at a Joint Chiefs Chairman. Yeah he probably was drunk too. https://www.mediaite.com/politics/ill-hook-you-up-to-a-fg-polygraph-hegseth-reportedly-erupted-at-joint-chiefs-chairman-he-suspected-of-leaking-to-press/
Likely high on something else, Musk had a meltdown in the oval office. https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-details-emerge-in-wwe-style-blow-up-between-musk-and-bessent/
Trump doesn't want to tax the ultra-rich. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-23/trump-says-millionaire-tax-would-push-wealthy-to-leave-the-us?srnd=homepage-americas&sref=vuYGislZ
Bloomberg notes Trump's been the chump on China.. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-04-24/trump-tariff-war-won-t-bring-us-allies-on-board-against-china
Sensing weakness, China makes demands - cancel all unilateral tarrifs first. https://www.ft.com/content/3e076fb5-3988-4e21-9119-3fc637afebb8
If disease-obsessed Republican RFK gets his way, we'll face millions of measels cases over the next decade. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/04/24/measles-cases-deaths-vaccine-rates-rfk-jr/
#politics #democrats #democracy #california #santaclara #USPol #CAPol
#PBS sued #Trump on Friday to block an #ExecutiveOrder that would cut federal #funding for public television & radio, arguing that it was #unconstitutional.
The lawsuit, filed in DC by PBS & a public TV station in #Minnesota, says that Trump’s EO violates laws that “forbid the President from serving as the arbiter of the #content of PBS’s programming, including by attempting to defund PBS.”
#law #democracy #Constitution #FreePress #authoritarianism #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/business/media/pbs-trump-lawsuit-funding.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=BD8357FA-8CA8-4C37-B249-5CDD44A19A77
Dear American friends:
I hope that I don't see toots from any of you tomorrow until late evening, because you will all be participating in the protest nearest your community for the day - and either left your phone at home, or turned it off until after you left the protest area.
The time to participate is tomorrow. Your fellow citizens need you, and there may never be a better chance to have your voices heard as one.
Love,
Your Canadian friend.
More of this please:
The #NY State #Education Dept issued a defiant response to #Trump’s threats to pull federal #funding from #PublicSchools over #diversity, #equity & #inclusion programs, a remarkable departure from recent conciliatory approaches of other institutions. A day earlier, the federal govt issued a memo to education ofcls across the nation, telling them to confirm the elimination of all programs it argues *unfairly* promote #DEI.
#law #democracy #FreeSpeech
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/us/politics/new-york-trump-dei-order.html?smid=url-share
Be concerned. Be VERY concerned.
Only MAGA, the “Camp Auschwitz” clique, can say what anti-Semitism is.
Only MAGA, the “internal enemies and vermin” clique, can say what genocide is.
Trump Fires Biden Appointees, Including Doug Emhoff, From Holocaust Museum
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/trump-doug-emhoff-holocaust-museum-biden.html
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We marched through our city for #handsoff protest today. An estimated 4,000 people were in attendance in Columbus, Ohio!
This is what #democracy looks like!
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How can we thrive in a broken system? Sensemaking through irony, and not falling into a state of anger, frustration, or apathy, can lead us toward envisaging new systems. It starts with curiosity and humility.
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