tyranny
#Trump plans to claim sweeping #authority over #federal #spending
In a 2nd term, Trump will look at unilateral funding cuts for the #WHO & #green #energy initiatives.
He is vowing to wrest key spending powers from #Congress & to assert more control over the federal #budget than any president in #US #history.
#law #Constitution #SCOTUS #power #government #extortion #EconomicPolicy #MafiaState #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #democracy #BidenHarris2024
https://wapo.st/3XekhX4
Well done.
#Fulbright Board Resigns After Accusing #Trump Aides of #PoliticalInterference
The board of the prestigious program told the #State Department it had no right to cancel #scholarships for nearly 200 American #professors & #researchers.
#law #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/us/politics/fulbright-board-resign-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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.
Add #AlsuKurmasheva to the list of American #journalists jailed in #Russia
The #RadioFreeEurope / #RadioLiberty editor was detained in 2023. Her husband & daughters came to Washington to raise awareness & ask for help.
#InternationalLaw #law #Putin #autocracy #authoritarianism #tyranny #HumanRights
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/07/29/alsu-kurmasheva-journalist-russia-detained/
🚨🚨🚨#House #Democrats plan multimedia #Project2025 hearing🚨🚨🚨
The hearing is expected to be in the style of the #Jan6, 2021, hearings.
The hearing is scheduled for next week on Tues, Sept 24, to illustrate potential impacts of Project 2025 under a hypothetical #Trump admin.
#authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #kleptocracy #dictatorship #MafiaState #Trumpism
#democracy #law
#HarrisWalz2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/19/house-democrats-plan-multimedia-project-2025-hearing/
Okay, get ready, I am going to curse . . .
HOLY MOTHER FUCKING FUCK !??!!
#Trump #Justice Department freezes ALL cases in #CivilRights division
The memo doesn’t state how long the freeze will last, but it essentially shuts down the civil rights division for at least the first weeks of the Trump administration.
#law #DOJ #HumanRights #tyranny #autocracy #Totalitarianism #Dictatorship #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #Heterosexism #WhiteChristianNationalism #USpol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/01/22/justice-civil-rights-freeze-shutdown/
Ridiculous who elected #ElonMusk anyway?
The highest-ranking career official at the #TreasuryDepartment is departing after a clash with surrogates of #billionaire Elon #Musk’s #DOGE who sought access to sensitive payment systems.
#law #Treasury #economy #USpol #FederalAgencies #kleptocracy #plutocracy #broligarchy #tyranny #autocracy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/31/elon-musk-treasury-department-payment-systems/
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨#Trump:🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
#UnitedStates to TAKE OVER the #Gaza Strip
#Isreal #Hamas #Palestinians #geopolitics #MiddleEast #Usexpansionism #WhatsMineIsMineAndWhatsYourIsMine #Imperialism #Authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #InternationalLaw #WarCrimes
#CIA Sends #Trump White House an #Unclassified Email With #Names of Some #Employees
The list of partial names was provided in an effort to comply with an #ExecutiveOrder to slash the federal #workforce.
#fascism #tyranny #USpol #law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/us/politics/cia-names-list.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
🇺🇸 How Does Tyranny Begin?
🔄 Boost for visibility!
#Authoritarianism #AntiTrump #AntiMusk #Antifa #AntiFascist #AntiFascism #AntiFascisme #AntiFascismo #Dictatorship #DictatorshipUSA #Tyranny #DonaldTrump #Trump #DOGE #SwastiCars #SwastiCar #BoycottUSA #Boycott #Freedom #FreeSpeechUnderAttack #FreeSpeech
#FBI Dir #KashPatel said Friday the bureau had arrested a #Milwaukee #judge & charged her w/obstructing an #immigration arrest op last week—the 1st known instance of *Justice* prosecuting a local official for allegedly interfering w/immigration enforcement since #Trump returned to office.
Patel announced the arrest of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge #HannahDugan in a post on social media, which he deleted moments after posting.
#law #tyranny
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi-director-says-arrested-judge-obstructing-immigration-operation-2025-04-25/
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
WTAF?
#Trump said on Sunday that he was directing the Federal Bureau of Prisons to rebuild & reopen the infamous #Alcatraz prison in the #SanFrancisco Bay to "house America’s most ruthless & violent Offenders."
"REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!" he posted on his Truth Social platform. "When we were a more serious Nation, in times past, we did not hesitate to lock up the most dangerous criminals, and keep them far away from anyone they could harm."
#law #tyranny
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-directs-bureau-prisons-reopen-alcatraz-2025-05-04/
#StateTerror
A brief guide for Americans
Yesterday the president defied a #SCOTUS ruling to return a man who was mistakenly sent to a gulag in another country, celebrated the suffering of this innocent person, & spoke of sending Americans to foreign #ConcentrationCamps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, & it has to be identified as such to be stopped.
#law #Trump #tyranny #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship
https://snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
This is not going to end well
#DHS has requested more than 20,000 #NationalGuard members to help with the #Trump admin’s #immigration crackdown, according to two US officials with knowledge of the plans.
The request to the #Defense Dept came after Trump asked DHS last week to increase its ranks by pulling in 20,000 officers from state or federal agencies.
#law #military #MilitaryState #authoritarianism #tyranny #autocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/us/politics/national-guard-immigration.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=2101FB33-83F0-4325-83B5-04AFD6257B6C
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/
The #State Dept is changing its mind about #HumanRights
The #Trump admin is substantially scaling back the State Dept's annual reports on international human rights to REMOVE longstanding critiques of #abuses such as harsh #prison conditions, govt #corruption & restrictions on participation in the political process, NPR learned.
#UnitedStates #Authoritarianism #Dictatorship #Autocracy #Tyranny #MafiaState #Freedom #law #InternationalLaw #GenevaConvention
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/18/nx-s1-5357511/state-department-human-rights-report-cuts
Several #ColumbiaUniversity student #journalists are #suspended after covering #protests (while wearing #press ID) in the main library.
Their access to campus is blocked, & they can't take final exams.
Columbia's acting president is a fmr ABC journo.
#law #Trump #Universities #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress #censorship #Dictatorship #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05/09/barnard-suspends-wkcr-and-spectator-reporters-who-covered-butler-library-protest/
evangenitals (evan-gen-i-talz): fundamentalist christians who are constantly interested in what’s in someone else’s pants.
#politics #LGBTQIA #ChristianTaliban #Evangenitals #religion #tyranny
#Trump’s Newest Crackdown on #Dissent
[BS] Assault charges against a #Democratic member of #Congress look more like #intimidation than #law enforcement.
#Trump #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #law #democracy #UnitedStates #Constitution #SlouchingTowardsBethlehem
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/05/lamonica-mciver-charged-justice-department/682864/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxX9kdA2YiTSgORe70HZMPrU&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
#AUTOCRACY NOW!
#CurtisYarvin’s calls for an American king once seemed like a joke. Today, the right is ready to bend the knee.
#USpol #law #democracy #Constitution #authoritarianism #tyranny #FarRight #Trump #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/09/curtis-yarvin-profile?utm_social-type=owned&utm_brand=tny
The giant #Trump banner at the #USDA is another sign the US is sliding into #autocracy
It may be small & petty, but these changes are part of the erosion of democratic norms, softening people up for potentially more #authoritarian behavior.
#AmericanAutocracy #fascism #tyranny
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-usda-portrait-road-from-to-authoritarianism-rcna207709