Bongolian<p>Gabe Lezra, Diamond Brown, Siven Watt, and Francois Barrilleaux: 15 Ways You Can Fight for <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> Every day, hundreds of family members, friends, and Contrarian readers reach out to ask what they can do to stop <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/tRump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tRump</span></a> and turn the tide against <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a>. We can help </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TheContrarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheContrarian</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resistance</span></a><br><a href="https://contrarian.substack.com/p/15-ways-you-can-fight-for-democracy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">contrarian.substack.com/p/15-w</span><span class="invisible">ays-you-can-fight-for-democracy</span></a></p>
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Touaregtweet<p>"The Federal Judges Association said on Tuesday that “continued violence, intimidation and defiance directed at judges simply because they are fulfilling their sworn judicial duties” risked “the collapse of the rule of law.”</p><p><a href="https://substack.com/@robertreich/note/p-159338459" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">substack.com/@robertreich/note</span><span class="invisible">/p-159338459</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RuleOfLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RuleOfLaw</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coup</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/kleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kleptocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ImpeachTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ImpeachTrump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/deportMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deportMusk</span></a></p>
Touaregtweet<p>Jamie Raskin is a Democrat Who Fights Back</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ainpiVnTEfU" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=ainpiVnTEfU</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fight</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Resist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coup</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/kleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kleptocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JamieRaskin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JamieRaskin</span></a></p>
DrALJONES<p>Email Congress: Demand the release of student activist Mahmoud Khalil</p><p>"These are the actions of a fascist government, & we must fiercely resist & speak out, & generate overwhelming public outrage & pressure to ensure Mahmoud's release...</p><p>"and to demand that elected officials & universities start protecting students from the reach of the Trump regime."</p><p><a href="https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/email-congress-demand-the-release-of-student-activist-mahmoud-khalil/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resour</span><span class="invisible">ce/email-congress-demand-the-release-of-student-activist-mahmoud-khalil/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MahmoudKhalil</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JewishVoiceforPeace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JewishVoiceforPeace</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StudentProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StudentProtests</span></a> .</p>
Nonilex<p>Development on this report:</p><p>... “The US Institute for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Peace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Peace</span></a> [<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USIP</span></a>] called the DC police on the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> team members [<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a>] in an effort to stop them from trespassing because the institute has control of its own building & the land it sits on. But instead, the DC police allowed them to enter & kicked out the institute's officials.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tyranny</span></a> <br><a href="https://apnews.com/article/doge-trump-us-institute-of-peace-03362c3440884c6b29e28ad0d88f5014" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/doge-trump-</span><span class="invisible">us-institute-of-peace-03362c3440884c6b29e28ad0d88f5014</span></a></p>
Touaregtweet<p>Beto o'Rourke: "Nonetheless, despite these circumstances… in fact, because of these circumstances, we cannot give in, we cannot give up, we cannot despair. Because, what’s the alternative? Accepting this lawless, corrupt, authoritarian regime as our permanent future? Fuck that!" ✊ </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BetoForPresident" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BetoForPresident</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://substack.com/home/post/p-159284154" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">substack.com/home/post/p-15928</span><span class="invisible">4154</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coup</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EveryoneHatesElon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EveryoneHatesElon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fightoligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fightoligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChuckSchumer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChuckSchumer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rRESIST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rRESIST</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FIGHT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FIGHT</span></a></p>
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>When this story broke a few days ago, I decided to skip covering Trump's shocking DoJ speech because I only have so much time to write each day, and applying a power dynamic analysis to the news at the time lead me to believe focusing on Trump's anti-trans policies, attacks on protest rights, and direct violation of judge's orders designed to protect marginalized targets of the Trump regime from state oppression, was more important than raising awareness about Downmarket Mussolini's so-called "airing of grievances" towards government lawyers who prosecuted him for very real crimes he absolutely committed. If nothing else I assumed the media would swiftly jump to the defense of DoJ lawyers, but they'd be less inclined to do so for incarcerated ppl, deported migrants, student protestors, and trans Americans. </p><p>Unfortunately in the time since, corporate media coverage of Trump's threats during his DoJ speech has become extremely squishy, actively working to minimize the gravity of what Trump said, while simultaneously Dowmarket Mussolini has revealed that said speech was simply an early salvo in what is almost certainly going to be an ongoing quest to root out and punish anyone who dared to bring court cases (criminal or civil) against him. Given that this is *not* going away, we're gonna have to back up a few days here and talk about Trump's DoJ speech and why its implications are far more serious than the "airing of grievances" many larger media outlets reported it as.</p><p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-trump-justice-department-speech_n_67d4a1ace4b08455bb0719ee" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">huffpost.com/entry/us-trump-ju</span><span class="invisible">stice-department-speech_n_67d4a1ace4b08455bb0719ee</span></a></p><p>Trump Pledges To 'Expel Rogue Actors' In Political Speech At Justice Department</p><p>"Though other presidents have spoken from the Justice Department’s ceremonial Great Hall, Trump’s address amounted to an extraordinary display of partisan politics and personal grievance inside an institution that is meant to be blind to both. Casting himself as the country’s “chief law enforcement officer,” a title ordinarily reserved for the attorney general, he promised to target his perceived enemies even as he claimed to be ending what he called the weaponization of the department.</p><p>The speech marked the latest manifestation of Trump’s unparalleled takeover of the department and came amid a brazen campaign of retribution already undertaken under his watch, including the firing of prosecutors who investigated him during the Biden administration and the scrutiny of thousands of FBI agents who investigated the president’s supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.</p><p>“Our predecessors turned this Department of Justice into the Department of Injustice. But I stand before you today to declare that those days are over, and they are never going to come back and never coming back,” Trump said to cheers from a crowd that included local law enforcement officials, political allies and FBI Director Kash Patel. “So now, as the chief law enforcement officer in our country, I will insist upon and demand full and complete accountability for the wrongs and abuses that have occurred.”</p><p>There's a lot to unpack here; including Trump's effective termination of the official independence of the Department of Justice, his direct identification of individuals in the DoJ he intends to target for reprisals, and the transformation of the department into his de facto private legal team by way of placing people who acted in his legal defense in positions of power throughout the DoJ. While this article still doesn't seem to grasp the full scope of Trump's fascist intentions here, I recommend reading it in its entirety anyway because it does a good job of not minimizing what he said and demonstrating a pattern of persecution in how Trump uses the law and the DoJ to target his enemies. </p><p>Additionally however, I think it's important to acknowledge how this story now fits into a larger, identifiable pattern in how Trump rules and how he's prosecuting his fascist agenda, in light of recent attempts to declare Biden's pardons invalid based on a longstanding right wing conspiracy about autopens and what "signing" a presidential order actually means. Whether we're talking about annexing Canada, mass deportations, kidnapping student protestors, or illegally handing over the power of the purse to Elon Musk, Trump appears to always preview his fascist activities by bringing them up, often casually, in his rambling public appearances first. This then establishes his personal antipathies as state antipathies, and his personal definition of reality as officially recognized reality. Once that is accomplished, the fascist administration will increasingly operate as if Trump's public utterances have always been known reality, and prosecute the regime's agenda based on that; "Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia" indeed. As such, it's no longer reasonable to question which of Trump's fascist ravings are "serious," but rather we must question when they will become "reality" and what fascist agendas they will ultimately support.</p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/DoJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DoJ</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autocracy</span></a></p>
Dejan<p><a href="https://www.cenzolovka.rs/drzava-i-mediji/prirucnik-za-autokrate-kako-vlast-u-gruziji-slovackoj-i-srbiji-koristi-iste-narative-i-taktike-protiv-protesta/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cenzolovka.rs/drzava-i-mediji/</span><span class="invisible">prirucnik-za-autokrate-kako-vlast-u-gruziji-slovackoj-i-srbiji-koristi-iste-narative-i-taktike-protiv-protesta/</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/serbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>serbia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dictature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dictature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/slovakia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slovakia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/georgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>georgia</span></a></p>
DrALJONES<p>"Email Congress: Demand the release of student activist Mahmoud Khalil"</p><p>"These are the actions of a fascist government, & we must fiercely resist & speak out, & generate overwhelming public outrage & pressure to ensure Mahmoud's release...</p><p>"and to demand that elected officials & universities start protecting students from the reach of the Trump regime."</p><p><a href="https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/email-congress-demand-the-release-of-student-activist-mahmoud-khalil/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resour</span><span class="invisible">ce/email-congress-demand-the-release-of-student-activist-mahmoud-khalil/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MahmoudKhalil</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JewishVoiceforPeace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JewishVoiceforPeace</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StudentProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StudentProtests</span></a> .</p>
DrALJONES<p>Report: Three Cornell University scholars have filed a lawsuit seeking a nationwide injunction to block Trump orders to deport or jail advocates for Palestinian rights.</p><p>“We’ve been here before", said one, "McCarthyism to Civil Rights to Vietnam, times when this country has deviated from its stated commitments to free speech.</p><p>"This is another generational moment, another hour of reckoning. Why is there a Palestine exception?"</p><p><a href="https://aje.io/b9a7n9?update=3584127" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">aje.io/b9a7n9?update=3584127</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StudentProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StudentProtests</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> .</p>
Geriatric Gardener<p>“Southport Community Independents: local interest ‘above distant bureaucracy’ is first step in national resistance”</p><p>by Ed Sykes in The Canary <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://independent-media.co.uk/@thecanaryuk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>thecanaryuk</span></a></span> </p><p>“Independent community organisations are setting up to challenge Britain’s broken electoral system, and taking the first steps towards a resurgent mass movement on the left”</p><p><a href="https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/03/16/southport-community-independents/?__s=pw3ygmyxve9etudpqdrh" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/</span><span class="invisible">03/16/southport-community-independents/?__s=pw3ygmyxve9etudpqdrh</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Press</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Left" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Left</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Independent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Independent</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Community</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Organisations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Organisations</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Resistance</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Broken" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Broken</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Electoral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Electoral</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/System" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>System</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Starmer</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FarRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FarRight</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autocracy</span></a></p>
DrALJONES<p>Interview: Trump’s policies are about "getting rid of institutions where our obligations to one another are worked out."</p><p>Musk summed it up as empathy being "the bane of Western civilization." And really, they do think that.</p><p>"Their going after things like Medicaid or Social Security is not... an unintended effect. It’s very much what they want to destroy."</p><p><a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/14/m_gessen" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">democracynow.org/2025/3/14/m_g</span><span class="invisible">essen</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a>+Rights <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Racism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Censorship</span></a> .</p>
Erik Jonker<p>Timeline of What Appears to be Defiance of a Judicial Order: Applying the Alien Enemies Act to Venezuelans Sent to El Salvador’s Prisons Without Due Process.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ruleoflaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ruleoflaw</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/courtorder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>courtorder</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a></p><p><a href="https://adamisacson.com/timeline-of-what-appears-to-be-defiance-of-a-judicial-order-applying-the-alien-enemies-act-to-venezuelans-sent-to-el-salvadors-prisons-without-due-process/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">adamisacson.com/timeline-of-wh</span><span class="invisible">at-appears-to-be-defiance-of-a-judicial-order-applying-the-alien-enemies-act-to-venezuelans-sent-to-el-salvadors-prisons-without-due-process/</span></a></p>
Erik Jonker<p>ChatGPT does a good job explaining how autocracy can become fascism, for example in the US. <br><a href="https://chatgpt.com/share/67d6dfd5-2eb8-8001-856f-f8b80a2988cd" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">chatgpt.com/share/67d6dfd5-2eb</span><span class="invisible">8-8001-856f-f8b80a2988cd</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a></p>
DrALJONES<p>Give a bully what he demands & he'll demand more.</p><p>Report: "White House tells Columbia to sack academic staff over Israel criticism"</p><p>Trump is threatening to pull government funding from Columbia & demanding it sack the leadership of the Middle Eastern, South Asian & African Studies Department & place it under “academic receivership for a minimum of five years”.</p><p><a href="https://aje.io/kb975q?update=3579730" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">aje.io/kb975q?update=3579730</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Columbia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Censorship</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Racism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Resist</span></a> .</p><p>...2</p>
DrALJONES<p>2. Another attack on free speech, this time by Yale</p><p>"This is not about me. It's not about Mahmoud Khalil."</p><p>This is a "very much coordinated attack on free speech...</p><p>"& about how much the government is terrified of not being able to silence the voices that they've been trying to silence for so many years."</p><p>~Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi</p><p> Jewish Onliner accused Doutaghi of membership of a pro-Palestinian advocacy organization.</p><p><a href="https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/exclusive-banned-yale-law-scholar-helyeh-doutaghi" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dropsitenews.com/p/exclusive-b</span><span class="invisible">anned-yale-law-scholar-helyeh-doutaghi</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Yale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yale</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>censorship</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Racism</span></a> .</p>
DrALJONES<p>"Never Again for Anyone”: 100 Jewish Activists Arrested at Trump Tower</p><p>Over 300 protesters with Jewish Voice for Peace demanded the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil.</p><p>They held banners reading “opposing fascism is a Jewish tradition.”</p><p>“I refuse to allow this administration to use our names as Jews to carry out a fascist agenda." It has far-right white supremacists that do the Nazi salute, & Trump is fine with that.</p><p><a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/14/jvp_sitin_trump_tower_mahmoud_khalil" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">democracynow.org/2025/3/14/jvp</span><span class="invisible">_sitin_trump_tower_mahmoud_khalil</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JewishVoiceforPeace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JewishVoiceforPeace</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Khalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Khalil</span></a> .</p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Trump says pressure on Columbia is only the beginning for college campuses </p><p>Trump’s crackdown on alleged "antisemitism" on college campuses is alarming students and instructors <br>-- who say the administration is trying to outlaw criticism of Israel’s war in Gaza and bend universities to his will.<br>
Trump says he’s just getting started.<br>
Since last Saturday’s detention of a Columbia University graduate student and green card holder without criminal charges, <br>the Department of Homeland Security has publicized the removal of two students who participated in Gaza protests at the school. </p><p>Federal agents entered two dorms on the New York campus with search warrants Thursday night, <br>the university’s interim president announced, saying she was <br>“heartbroken.” No one was arrested.
Several agencies sent a joint letter demanding disciplinary changes <br>and the right to monitor an academic department <br>as a precondition to restoring $400 million in federal funding. </p><p>Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said the Justice Department is investigating Columbia not only for civil rights violations but also for<br> “terrorism crimes.”
Administration officials, including Trump, have been vague about what constitutes "antisemitism". </p><p>But the crackdown fulfills multiple campaign promises: </p><p>a pledge to stand with American Jews [Ha! Trump is the antisemite], <br>whom he heavily courted for their votes in November; </p><p>a promise to combat “anti-American” behavior on liberal campuses [Again, Trump is Anti American]</p><p>and, perhaps his top policy priority, <br>the deportation of noncitizens living in the United States illegally [Now you found it].<br>
What is clear is that Trump is willing to use the full power of the federal government, <br>including its purse strings, to dramatically change behavior <br>— by both students and administrators <br>— on college campuses. </p><p>Trump applauded the detention of Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil and called it “the first arrest of many to come.”<br>
“The chill seems to be the point here,” <br>said Will Creeley, legal director at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. </p><p>“If we say that folks who are here lawfully, even those folks who have committed no crime, need to watch what they say, lest they get a knock on the door in the middle of the night, <br>we’re essentially no better than the countries that folks have left for decades and centuries to come here.”
On Thursday, Columbia announced expulsions, multiyear suspensions, temporary degree revocations and other punishments for students who the university said had violated rules while protesting the Israel-Gaza war. </p><p>The actions stemmed from high-profile protests last spring that sparked a national movement of tent encampments and police crackdowns across the country. </p><p>It also animated a campaign rallying cry by Trump and other Republicans, <br>who lambasted elite college presidents for struggling to distinguish protected free expression from misconduct, <br>leading to resignations at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania.
Columbia has been investigating and holding hearings for nearly a year.<br>
The Trump administration’s letter to the university, from the Education and Health and Human Services departments and the General Services Administration, <br>directed school officials to expel or suspend protesters who joined an encampment and seized a university building last year. </p><p>The letter, obtained by The Washington Post, also demanded that the school define antisemitism, <br>ban masks, <br>"reform" admissions <br>and impose five years of academic receivership for its department of Middle East, South Asian and African studies.</p><p>
The letter set a deadline of March 20 for the measures as a <br>“precondition for formal negotiations regarding Columbia University’s continued financial relationship with the United States government.” </p><p>And it shocked advocates for free speech.<br>
“The subjugation of universities to official power is a hallmark of <a href="https://c.im/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a>,” <br>said Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia. </p><p>“No one should be under any illusions about what’s going on here.”
The ripple effects are already apparent.<br>
On Tuesday, Columbia Journalism School held a meeting with students to talk about free speech and reporting after Khalil’s arrest. </p><p>Someone asked what the school was doing to protect visa-holding students from arrest and deportation. </p><p>The school’s dean, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jelani" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jelani</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cobb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cobb</span></a>, said that he would do anything in his power to protect students and their ability to report <br>but that no one has the capacity to stop DHS from jeopardizing their safety.<br>
“These are, in fact, dangerous times,” <br>Cobb posted later on social media. </p><p>“They require as much caution as they do courage.”<br>
DHS said Friday that it revoked the visa of a Columbia student from India who participated in protests <br>and that she left the country on Tuesday, <br>releasing surveillance footage of her departure. </p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/15/trump-columbia-antisemitism-protests/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/politics/20</span><span class="invisible">25/03/15/trump-columbia-antisemitism-protests/</span></a></p>
Erik Jonker<p>Things are going bad in the US for Trump, the economy is tanking, people start noticing the effects of his destructive measures. His only way forward is more repression, destroying government, censorship, control and creating fear. Or maybe create some major "diversion", grabbing Panama, invading Greenland or Canada (yes it sounds extreme but it's not totally impossible). I see no happy ending for the USA, anyone does ?<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/geopolitics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>geopolitics</span></a></span></p>
DrALJONES<p>"Never Again for Anyone”: 100 Jewish Activists Arrested at Trump Tower</p><p>Over 300 protesters with Jewish Voice for Peace demanded the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil.</p><p>They held banners reading “opposing fascism is a Jewish tradition.”</p><p>“I refuse to allow this administration to use our names as Jews to carry out a fascist agenda." It has far-right white supremacists that do the Nazi salute, & Trump is fine with that.</p><p><a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/14/jvp_sitin_trump_tower_mahmoud_khalil" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">democracynow.org/2025/3/14/jvp</span><span class="invisible">_sitin_trump_tower_mahmoud_khalil</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JewishVoiceforPeace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JewishVoiceforPeace</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Khalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Khalil</span></a> .</p>
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