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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#Authoritarianism #AntiTrump #AntiMusk #Antifa #AntiFascist #AntiFascism #AntiFascisme #AntiFascismo #Dictatorship #DictatorshipUSA #Tyranny #DonaldTrump #Trump #DOGE #SwastiCars #SwastiCar #BoycottUSA #Boycott #Freedom #FreeSpeechUnderAttack #FreeSpeech
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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
Mike Masnick compares how the Free Press covered the (misleading-to-false) story of the #Biden admin’s "censorship" of #SocialMedia [actually trying to combat harmful #disinformation like #election & #COVID #lies & #ConspiracyTheories or #HateSpeech like #WhiteSupremacy], to how they handled the very real #censorship attack on #Wikipedia by #Trump’s DC #USAttorney #EdMartin.
Spoiler: there are differences.
#law #tech #moderation #dictatorship #FourthEstate #journalism
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/28/government-actually-threatens-wikipedias-editorial-freedom-self-proclaimed-free-speech-warriors-suddenly-have-other-plans/
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100% ILLEGAL
WHAT COUNTRY IS THIS?!?!?
#Trump administration asks #IRS to revoke #Harvard’s #TaxExempt status
The directive to the IRS is a significant escalation of Trump’s feud with #HarvardUniversity & other Ivy League institutions & other #nonprofit groups his admin views as “woke.”
#law #AcademicFreedom #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #AbuseOfPower #ExecutivePower #Autocracy #Tyranny #AntiIntellectualism #censorship #Dictatorship
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/16/trump-harvard-tax-exempt-irs/
Edited 122d ago
How is this even slightly legal?
(Hint, it’s not)
#Trump Admin Halts #Harvard’s Ability to Enroll #InternationalStudents
The move was a major escalation in the admin’s efforts to pressure the #college to fall in line with Trump’s demands.
#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #immigration #BrainDrain #AntiIntellectualism #authoritarianism #dictatorship #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/politics/trump-harvard-international-students.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=FEF8C80B-EF9E-4A25-B3B7-9273FF569BA5
Edited 86d ago
In an attempt to circumvent the courts, #Trump Wednesday moved to block nearly all #InternationalStudents from entering the country to attend #HarvardUniversity, in his latest attack on the #school.
In an #ExecutiveOrder Trump declared that it would jeopardize *#NationalSecurity* [his ego] to allow #Harvard to continue hosting foreign students on its campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
#dictatorship #law #immigration #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #education #judiciary
https://apnews.com/article/trump-harvard-students-ban-foreign-immigrations-a8ab4c05ce284c2625e7f883f8e7e07a
Dear G-d:
When I said that I wondered what watching a dictatorship form would be like, I didn't mean it *this* way!
#Trump admin halts scheduling of ALL new #StudentVisa appointments
Trump ordered US #missions abroad to stop scheduling new appointments for student & #exchange visitor #visa applicants as the #State Dept prepares to expand #socialmedia vetting of all #ForeignStudents, acc/to an internal cable seen by Reuters on Tues.
#law #AbuseOfPower #immigration #surveillance #Constitution #AcademicFreedom #dictatorship #tyranny #authoritarianism #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-halts-scheduling-new-student-visa-appointments-2025-05-27/
Edited 81d ago
#Trump's #Military #Birthday Parade Was a Gross #Failure
The president's military parade, which reportedly cost up to $45 million, was short on attendees, long on political speeches
#dictatorship #authoritarianism #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-military-birthday-parade-dc-failure-1235365040/
#Trump Renews Embrace of #Putin Amid Ongoing Break With #Allies
[Despicably,] Trump opened his remarks at the #G7 gathering of industrialized nations by criticizing the decision to expel #Russia from the bloc after Moscow’s 2014 “annexation” of Crimea.
#geopolitics #authoritarianism #dictatorship #autocracy #tyranny #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/world/canada/trump-g7-russia-ukraine.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#ICE declares millions of undocumented #immigrants ineligible for bond hearings
A memo from ICE’s acting director instructs officers to hold immigrants who entered the country illegally “for the duration of their removal proceedings,” which can take months or years.
#law #Constitution #DueProcess #immigration #Trump #authoritarianism #dictatorship #tyranny #autocracy
https://wapo.st/40e4rfK
The #FBI Is Using #Polygraphs to Test Officials’ #Loyalty to #Trump & his allies
Some senior officials who have taken the test have been asked whether they said anything negative about the FBI director, #KashPatel, in a highly unusual use of the tool.
#law #fascism #authoritarianism #dictatorship #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/us/politics/fbi-polygraph-kash-patel.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#DOJ fires 9 more employees from JackSmith's team
#US AG #PamBondi on Friday fired at least 9 more *#Justice* Dept employees who worked for Special Counsel #JackSmith to investigate #Trump's retention of #ClassifiedDocuments & efforts to overturn the 2020 election, according to 5 people familiar with the matter.
#law #MafiaState #authoritarianism #dictatorship #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-justice-fires-nine-more-employees-jack-smiths-team-sources-say-2025-07-12/
微信的AI，至於這麼敏感嗎？
就因爲有「追求民主，反對獨裁」和「和平請願」，連馬敘倫的信息都要屏蔽？
太可笑了！你在怕什麼？
WeChat's AI, does it really need to be this sensitive?
Just because of phrases like “pursuing democracy and opposing dictatorship” and “peaceful petition”, even information about Ma Xu-lun is being blocked?
So ridiculous! What are you afraid of?
#china #wechat #ai #artificialintelligence #chinese #censorship #censor #blocked #democracy #dictatorship #petition #中國 #人工智能 #人工智慧 #中国 #中国式叙事 #微信 #審查 #屏蔽词 #审查 #中國特色 #中国特色 #民进 #民進 #民主 #獨裁 #独裁 #請願 #请愿
#Trump officials made unusual requests for data on #voters and #voting equipment.
#DOJ officials have asked at least 9 #states for copies of voter rolls; 2 have partially complied. It has sparked serious concerns about #ElectionInterference ahead of the 2026 midterms.
#law #ElectionLaw #dictatorship #tyranny #autocracy #MafiaState
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/16/trump-voter-fraud-elections/
#Trump Urges #Congress to ‘Kill’ #VoiceOfAmerica as Its *Leader* Defends Gutting It
In a heated hearing, #KariLake, the Trump [crackpot] ally in charge of the federally funded international broadcasting network, called the #media agency “a rotten piece of fish” that should be defunded.
#law #democracy #FreePress #SoftPower #journalism #independence #censorship #authoritarianism #dictatorship #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/us/politics/trump-lake-voice-of-america.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
The #Senate on Friday rejected a #Democratic measure that would have forced #Trump to go to #Congress for approval of another #military strike against #Iran [he was supposed to for the first]. The resolution had little chance of succeeding in a #Republican-controlled & Trump lick-spittle Congress.
#Constitution #law #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #ExecutiveAuthority #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #dictatorship #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/us/politics/trump-war-powers-iran-strike.html?smid=url-share