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https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/30/politics/trump-punish-opponents/index.html
President Donald Trump is using the power of the federal government to intimidate or neuter potential sources of opposition to him: The legal establishment, academia and prominent cultural institutions, the media, the judiciary, the Democratic Party, Congress and independent government oversight.
#Trump #MAGA #authoritarianism #GOP #press
#tyranny #authoritarianism #dictatorship #Trump #Musk #Republicans #TimothySnyder
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https://snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-lessons-read-by-john-lithgow
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharingTimothy Snyder (Thinking about...)
Some students have been picked up off the street by immigration agents and held in detention centers, sometimes a thousand miles away from their homes, with little warning
By Daniella Silva, Chloe Atkins, Julia Ainsley and Abigail Williams, March 27, 2025
"Secretary of State #MarcoRubio said Thursday the State Department has revoked 300 or more #StudentVisas, as the White House increasingly targets foreign-born students whose main transgression seems to be #activism.
"Rubio warned that the administration was looking out for 'these lunatics.' Around the country, #scholars have been picked up, in some cases by masked immigration agents, and held in #DetentionCenters, sometimes a thousand miles from their homes with little warning and often with few details about why they were being detained.
"'It might be more than 300 at this point. We do it every day. Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take away their visas,' Rubio said at a news conference in Guyana, where he was meeting with leaders.
"Many of those rounded up by Trump officials attended or were part of the pro-Palestinian movement that swept college campuses last year, and while the administration hasn’t said publicly why these students are being singled out over others, at least one sought by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement appeared on lists made by far-right pro-Israel groups as targets for deportation.
"And Trump allies, many in government again, telegraphed for months before he took office that they’d seek to deport students who openly advocated for Hamas or other U.S.-designated terrorist groups or after they participated in an unauthorized campus #protest and were suspended, expelled or jailed.
"The detentions are a signal of a broader effort by President Donald Trump to clamp down on the actions of legal permanent residents, student visa holders and others who live and work legally in the United States, one that threatens to undermine a fundamental American right to #FreeSpeech and to assemble, experts and advocates said."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-administration-takes-aim-immigrant-students-rcna198346?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#USPol #ThoughtPolice #Authoritarianism #Orwellian #CharacteristicsOfFascism #Clampdown #SilencingDissent #CriminalizingDissent #CriminalizingActivism #RightToAssemble #FirstAmendment #USPol
Rubio says State Department has revoked at least 300 student visas
The Trump administration has been targeting foreign-born graduate and doctoral students whose main transgression seems to be activism.Daniella Silva (NBC News)
#Stefanik’s withdrawal suggests #Republicans are sweating their thin margins
By Andrew Howard, Ally Mutnick and Ben Jacobs
03/28/2025 04:45 AM EDT
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/28/stefaniks-withdrawal-suggests-republicans-are-sweating-their-thin-margins-00255984
#Elections #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Resist #TrumpRegrets #USPol
Believe the evidence of your eyes and ears.
#jews #palestine #Israel #fascism #Authoritarianism
https://youtu.be/Jqof0Zl_0rs?si=DjQRm2_rOIFocnec
"Portugal said it has updated its travel advice for the U.S. to reflect tighter entry conditions and changes around gender recognition. The Portuguese foreign ministry confirmed the changes in a statement to Newsweek.
Portugal is now one of a growing number of European countries that have updated travel advice for the U.S. as America's stricter immigration and enforcement practices under President Donald Trump have caused global concern.
It comes following a number of U.S. border-entry incidents that have happened in recent weeks, including a French scientist being denied entry after border officials searched his phone and found messages that were critical of Trump, and U.K. tourist Becky Burke also being detained at border control."
https://www.newsweek.com/portugal-issues-travel-warning-us-2051891
#Portugal #USA #Trump #Authoritarianism
Portugal Issues Travel Warning For US
Portugal has joined several other European states in updating its travel advice for the US.Shane Croucher (Newsweek)
The purpose of due process is to make sure the government doesn’t punish innocent people. The way it works is that when the government makes an accusation against someone, that person is then allowed a court process where they can defend themselves. The purpose of this process is to make sure that the government can prove its case against someone before punishing them.
(...)
Of course, there are costs associated with court processes. Former President George W. Bush once acknowledged how liberal democracy can be inefficient: “If this were a dictatorship, this would be a heck of a lot easier. Just so long as I’m the dictator!”
But the cost of the government not being forced to prove its case before punishing people is that you end up punishing innocent people. There’s reporting out there that suggests the administration may be deporting people on the basis that they have football tattoos; the tattoos are alleged to be tied to the Venezuelan gang mentioned above.
Almost all Americans would say we don’t want violent criminals entering and residing in our country illegally. But did people really vote for Trump so that he would deport people based on mere suspicion without having to prove that the people being deported actually are violent criminals?"
https://www.theamericansaga.com/p/due-process-matters-because-we-dont
#USA #Trump #DueProcess #Deportations #Justice #RuleofLaw #Authoritarianism
Due Process Matters Because We Don't Want to Punish Innocent People
The Trump administration is increasingly hostile to a foundation of American justice. Here's why that matters.Zaid Jilani (The American Saga)
History suggests that mobilizing 3.5% of the populace of a country is enough to produce change"
https://hartmannreport.com/p/she-stepped-onto-a-sidewalk-in-boston-a74
#Resist #Resistance #Trump #GOP #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Politics #USPol #USPolitics #News #US #USA
She Stepped Onto a Sidewalk in Boston — and Vanished Into Trump’s Shadow State
Masked ICE agents are now snatching dissidents off the streets like a scene from Stalin’s Russia. This isn’t speculative fiction. It’s happening right now, in America…Thom Hartmann (The Hartmann Report)
Tuesday night, Tufts University PhD student #RumeysaOzturk was going out to a restaurant to meet friends when masked federal #ICE agents dressed in street clothes seized her off a public sidewalk and disappeared her. Her apparent crime was co-authoring an op-ed critical of #Trump & #Netanyahu."
- @ThomHartmann
https://hartmannreport.com/p/she-stepped-onto-a-sidewalk-in-boston-a74
#DonaldTrump #GOP #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Republicans #Politics #USPol #USPolitics #News #US #USA
#RumeysaOzturk, a student at #TuftsUniversity, drew the attention of a pro-Israel group for co-authoring an op-ed
By Charles R. Davis
Published March 26, 2025 10:01AM Updated March 26, 2025 5:27PM (EDT)
"The Trump administration has detained a Tufts University graduate student exactly one year after she coauthored a plea for 'the equal dignity and #humanity of all people,' including Palestinians.
"Rumeysa Ozturk, a native of Turkey, was 'ambushed' late Tuesday outside her apartment, according to a statement that her attorney provided to The Boston Globe. Neighbors had seen agents in #UnmarkedCars monitoring her apartment for two days prior to the arrest, the outlet reported.
"'Her arrest comes after the #ProIsrael group #CanaryMission flagged Ozturk for having 'engaged in anti-Israel activism in March 2024.'"
Read more:
https://www.salon.com/2025/03/26/dhs-detains-grad-student-advocated-for-palestine-and-the-humanity-of-all-people/
#BostonMA #Orwellian #Authoritarianism #CharacteristicsOfFascism
DHS detains grad student who advocated for Palestine and the "humanity of all people"
Rumeysa Ozturk, a student at Tufts University, drew the attention of a pro-Israel group for co-authoring an op-edSalon.com
#Trump #autocracy #authoritarianism #media
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/ann-telnaes-how-autocracies-take
Ann Telnaes: How autocracies take over the news media
Trump goes from complaining to controlling.Ann Telnaes (The Contrarian)
Sabotage masquerading as patriotism.
Exhibit #12,273,493
#uspol #usip #democracy #authoritarianism
~ Timothy Snyder
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #LawandOrder #fascism #authoritarianism
https://bsky.app/profile/timothysnyder.bsky.social/post/3ll5rxk57tk2t
Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by #SmearCampaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control #voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.
#Trump signs order seeking to overhaul US elections, including requiring proof of #citizenship
By ALI SWENSON and CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY, March 25, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — "President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a sweeping executive action to overhaul elections in the U.S., including requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections and demanding that all ballots be received by Election Day.
"The order says the U.S. has failed 'to enforce basic and necessary election protections' and calls on states to work with federal agencies to share voter lists and prosecute election crimes. It threatens to pull federal funding from states where election officials don’t comply."
Read more:
https://apnews.com/article/voting-elections-trump-executive-order-4e9edb53f47e61e241a43ceef8164022?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#Authoritarianism #BullyInChief
#ElectionBarriers #Fascism #Fascist #USPol
Trump signs order seeking to overhaul US elections, including requiring proof of citizenship
President Donald Trump has signed a sweeping executive action to overhaul elections in the United States. Tuesday's order demands documentary proof of citizenship be added as a requirement for federal voter registration.Ali Swenson (AP News)
"How DOGE isn't just tearing down institutions but also laying the groundwork for an experimental new kind of authoritarian rule."... a #Libertarians #techbros #Broligarchy
"The #DarkEnlightenment: The #TechOligarchy #Ideology Driving #DOGE’s Destruction"
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/03/the-dark-enlightenment-the-tech-oligarch-ideology-driving-doges-destruction.html #Libertarianism= #Fascism pretending to have democratic goals, and many of you were indoctrinated to accept it via #HarryPotter books/moovees
by Chris Hedges in The Chris Hedges Report on Substack
“Liberal institutions, including universities, traditionally surrender without a fight to the dictates of autocrats. Ours are no exception”
https://open.substack.com/pub/chrishedges/p/surrendering-to-authoritarianism?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios
#Press #US #Trump #Autocrats #Authoritarianism #Liberal #Surrender #Universities #Tyranny #Columbia #Harvard #Princeton #Yale #Indoctrination
Surrendering to Authoritarianism
Liberal institutions, including universities, traditionally surrender without a fight to the dictates of autocrats. Ours are no exception.Chris Hedges (The Chris Hedges Report)
by Chris Hedges in The Chris Hedges Report on Substack
“Liberal institutions, including universities, traditionally surrender without a fight to the dictates of autocrats. Ours are no exception”
https://open.substack.com/pub/chrishedges/p/surrendering-to-authoritarianism?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios
#Press #US #Trump #Autocrats #Authoritarianism #Liberal #Surrender #Universities Tyranny #Columbia #Harvard #Princeton #Yale #Indoctrination
Surrendering to Authoritarianism
Liberal institutions, including universities, traditionally surrender without a fight to the dictates of autocrats. Ours are no exception.Chris Hedges (The Chris Hedges Report)
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/24/putin-russia-authoritarian-navalny-lawyers-sentencing-legal-system/
The sentencing of Alexei Navalny’s lawyers marks a new era of unchecked lawlessness.
#Trussia #authoritarianism #Russia #Putin #Trump #Navalnt #opinion #press
And in that sense, I am thankful to Paul Weiss and Brad Karp. In this dangerous moment, the Democratic corporate establishment, by capitulating so obviously to Trump in return for corporate money, has just ripped out the heart that ran the Clinton, Obama, and much of the toxic parts of the Biden administrations. And they did so at the only moment in the last two decades during which normal Democrats are looking for someone to blame for their own party’s fecklessness. And who better to blame than the would-be Kamala Harris staff, a pack of Google and private equity defense lawyers - and Chuck Schumer’s brother - who, when the chips were down, bent the knee to Trump?"
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-the-democrats-corporate
#USA #Trump #Authoritarianism #BigLaw #Lobbying #Bernie
The Metropolitan Police will permanently put up live facial recognition cameras in south London, as part of a pilot project that may see the scheme extended across the capital.
It makes no difference as to what people think or want or the effective of the technology. Or even what Parliament has accepted (wot you mean is has been debated? 🤔)
http://archive.today/2025.03.23-183929/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/london/article/croydon-to-get-uks-first-permanent-facial-recognition-cameras-0b6hhxhc7 (archive)
#Privacy #Policing #UkPolitics #Authoritarianism #BritishState
’His [Jacob Israël de Haan, an Orthodox Jewish queer poet and lawyer ] steadfast opposition to mainstream Zionism made de Haan a controversial figure, drawing the ire of Zionist leadership. On 30 June 1924, de Haan was assassinated by a member of the Zionist organization Haganah.’
Zionists have that way with bullets
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/mar/23/antisemitism-redefinition-jewish-safety-christian-nationalism-democracy
#Racism #Zionism #Consolidation #Authoritarianism
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/researchers-name-several-countries-as-potential-paragon-spyware-customers/
#Toronto #AU #CA #CY #DK #IL #SG #government #academic #security #research #surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #WhatsApp #Italy #IT #VentureCapital #authoritarian #authoritarianism
Researchers name six countries as likely customers of Paragon's spyware | TechCrunch
The Citizen Lab said it believes several governments may be customers of spyware maker Paragon Solutions.Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (TechCrunch)
mf mutes Voice of America, makes space for Russian and Chinese influence
#media
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250319-trump-mutes-voice-of-america-rfe-rl-makes-space-for-russian-and-chinese-influence
Trump mutes Voice of America, makes space for Russian and Chinese influence
US President Donald Trump last week cut funding for international public radio stations Voice of America and Radio Free Europe, which broadcast programmes aligned with “democratic values” to millions of listeners around the world.Sébastian SEIBT (FRANCE 24)
FT: "Turkish police detain Erdoğan’s main political rival"
https://archive.is/d9Xtc
#Turkey #Authoritarianism
It refers to ongoing events in the U.S. as unprecedented, mentioning Trump #pardoning 1,500 #criminals who supported him; #firing independent agency #watchdogs without process; #purging apolitical #police and #military brass; #ignoring #laws; and his unilaterally deleting federal programs, and even a whole organization, created by U.S. Congress
#auspol #RussianAsset
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-democracy-report-1.7486317
https://www.salon.com/2025/03/17/the-dystopian-freedom-cities-dream-fueling-elon-musks-destruction/
#Musk #Coup #Corruption #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Trump #GOP #Politics #News #USA
Tech's dystopian plans for "freedom cities" expose why Musk wants to end government by the people
"These are going to be cities without democracy" — and Trump has already promised to give them to billionairesSalon.com
#Musk #Trump #DOGE #purges #fascism #authoritarianism #diversity #DEI #USIP
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~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Musk #Trump #DOGE #purges #fascism #authoritarianism #diversity #DEI #USIP
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/yes-we-still-have-a-constitutional
~ Will Sommer
#Musk #Trump #DOGE #purges #fascism #authoritarianism #diversity #DEI #USIP
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-brocasters-grow-suspicious-of-the-jews-joe-rogan-theo-von-antisemitism
MAGA Brocasters Grow Suspicious of the Jews
Joe Rogan and Theo Von, big-league hosts who elevated Trump, now playing footsie with antisemites.Will Sommer (The Bulwark)
~ David Kurtz
#Musk #Trump #DOGE #purges #fascism #authoritarianism #diversity #DEI #USIP
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https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/showdown-between-trump-and-the-courts
Showdown Between Trump And The Courts Comes To A Head
INSIDE: Tom Homan ... Ed Martin ... Mike FlynnDavid Kurtz (Morning Memo)
~ Rachel Maddow
#Musk #Trump #DOGE #purges #fascism #authoritarianism #diversity #DEI #USIP
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https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/independent-agency-ceo-doge-has-broken-into-our-building-234654789971
Independent Agency CEO: 'DOGE has broken into our building.'
The U.S. Institute for Peace announced Monday that despite being independent of the executive branch and controlling its own building and the land it sits on, their objections to members of Elon Musk's DOGE team trespassing in their building were ove…MSNBC
If there’s any lesson so far in Trump’s second term, it’s that playing nice isn’t just bad optics — it’s a losing strategy.
"Justin Hansford, a Howard Law professor and founder of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center, argued that #capitulation had only emboldened Trump. 'The more that they cave in, the more damage that gets done,' said Hansford."
by Jessica Washington, March 15 2025
"Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., capitulated to President Donald Trump and the GOP over the budget this week, sacrificing one of Democrats’ last pieces of leverage as Trump bulldozes the federal government and jails activists. Schumer defended voting yes on the GOP budget that would neuter the legislative branch, arguing that he had no choice but to give in or face a government shutdown. He’s not the first to make that kind of decision.
"Leaders of businesses, universities, and nations across the globe face the same question: Should they fight Trump, or hope that by giving him what he wants he’ll somehow do less harm?
"Far too often, these leaders have chosen appeasement over #resistance — and, in return, gotten nothing."
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/15/appeasing-trump-doesnt-work/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/j1U1P
#ResistFascism #ResistTrump #Authoritarianism #CorporateFascism #CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol
https://cpj.org/2025/03/cpj-urges-us-congress-to-stop-trump-from-gutting-voa-parent-other-agencies/
#voa #popaganda #maga #authoritarianism #journalism
CPJ urges US Congress to stop Trump from gutting VOA parent as ‘mass suspensions’ begin - Committee to Protect Journalists
Washington, D.C., March 15, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists urges United States congressional leaders to protect the U.S.CPJ Staff (Committee to Protect Journalists)
Public historian Tad Stoermer on the brutal truth that there is NO normal to go back to, and there is no point at which Power decides it has reached its bottom.
It's worth a look, even if it is on TikTok.
#ResistanceHistory #Authoritarianism
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2bg9F3S/
Heretical_i (@heretical_i@kafeneio.social)
Attached: 1 image For #MahmoudKhalil... A taste of the #ThoughtPolice before many of you were born. #AbbieHoffman at the Czechago Conspiracy kangaroo kkkourt. More proof US #Fascism existed long before #Trump.kafeneio
This episode is the latest in what the left warned would be Trump’s anti-democratic crusade were he to be re-elected. What New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg calls the 'Greatest Threat to Free Speech Since the Red Scare.'”
~ Todd Beeton
#Trump #MahmoudKhalil #FreeSpeech #authoritarianism
https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/mahmoud-kahlil-trump-detention
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NdUuZJSLDU
#authoritarianism #Trump #politics #TrumpMindSet #Resistance
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And yes, outrage is warranted, but Columbia has in its toolbox some of the brightest legal graduates and professors. If they don’t think they can lawyer up enough to stop this illegal curtailing of speech, the problem is a lot bigger than many people realize. Not the least of which is that other countries are dictating what people can say on American soil.
On one hand, the dean is trying to protect his students, on the other hand, never obey in advance.
(Archive link because NYT) https://archive.ph/zHMoo
#columbia #freespeech #authoritarianism #aipac #gaza #lebanon #palestine
"With immense sadness I am writing to let you know that I have resigned from The Washington Post, in an email sent this morning to Jeff Bezos and Will Lewis and pasted below."
#WashingtonPost #RuthMarcus #FreeSpeech #media #JeffBezos #billionaires #EconomicElites #Trump #authoritarianism
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https://www.readtpa.com/p/another-dark-day-at-the-bezos-post
Another Dark Day at the Bezos Post: Ruth Marcus Resigns After Censorship
The billionaire squeeze tightens as another respected journalist refuses to fall in line with Bezos's rightward push.Parker Molloy (The Present Age)