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#autocracy

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What happens next in the fascist/autocrat playbook is that the internal political enemies of Trump within the US are labeled as "terrorists" and enemies of the state. After which brutal repression can start. If you believe in conspiracies Trump could even throw in some violence organised by himself to blame on his opponents.
Congress is dead. I am only curious how he will deal with the judicial branch, not everybody seems to be cooperating (luckily).
#Trump #playbook #autocracy #fascism

"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.”

substack.com/@robertreich/note #politics #democracy #RuleOfLaw #Trump #Musk #DOGE #coup #dictatorship #autocracy #kleptocracy #oligarchy #fascism
#ImpeachTrump #deportMusk

Robert Reich · Trump’s further descent into dictatorshipBy Robert Reich

Email Congress: Demand the release of student activist Mahmoud Khalil

"These are the actions of a fascist government, & we must fiercely resist & speak out, & generate overwhelming public outrage & pressure to ensure Mahmoud's release...

"and to demand that elected officials & universities start protecting students from the reach of the Trump regime."

jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resour

#MahmoudKhalil #JewishVoiceforPeace #USPol #Autocracy #StudentProtests .

JVPEmail Congress: Demand the release of student activist Mahmoud Khalil. - JVPA permanent resident of the United States could face imminent deportation because he stood up for Palestinian rights. We must act now.
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Development on this report:

... “The US Institute for #Peace [#USIP] called the DC police on the #Musk team members [#DOGE] 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.”

#law #democracy #USpol #Trump #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #tyranny
apnews.com/article/doge-trump-

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!" ✊

#BetoForPresident

substack.com/home/post/p-15928 #Trump #Musk #coup #EveryoneHatesElon #Project2025 #autocracy #fascism #fightoligarchy #politics #ChuckSchumer #rRESIST #FIGHT

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.

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.

huffpost.com/entry/us-trump-ju

Trump Pledges To 'Expel Rogue Actors' In Political Speech At Justice Department

"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.

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.

“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.”

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.

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.

HuffPost · Trump Pledges To 'Expel Rogue Actors' In Political Speech At Justice DepartmentBy AP
#Fascism#DoJ#Trump

"Email Congress: Demand the release of student activist Mahmoud Khalil"

"These are the actions of a fascist government, & we must fiercely resist & speak out, & generate overwhelming public outrage & pressure to ensure Mahmoud's release...

"and to demand that elected officials & universities start protecting students from the reach of the Trump regime."

jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resour

#MahmoudKhalil #JewishVoiceforPeace #USPol #Autocracy #StudentProtests .

JVPEmail Congress: Demand the release of student activist Mahmoud Khalil. - JVPA permanent resident of the United States could face imminent deportation because he stood up for Palestinian rights. We must act now.

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.

“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.

"This is another generational moment, another hour of reckoning. Why is there a Palestine exception?"

aje.io/b9a7n9?update=3584127

#StudentProtests #USPol #Autocracy #Trump .

“Southport Community Independents: local interest ‘above distant bureaucracy’ is first step in national resistance”

by Ed Sykes in The Canary @thecanaryuk

“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”

thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/

Canary · Southport Community Independents: local interest 'above distant bureaucracy' is first step in national resistanceSouthport Community Independents are not representatives of a distant political machine, but neighbours and friends of their community
#Press#UK#Left

Interview: Trump’s policies are about "getting rid of institutions where our obligations to one another are worked out."

Musk summed it up as empathy being "the bane of Western civilization." And really, they do think that.

"Their going after things like Medicaid or Social Security is not... an unintended effect. It’s very much what they want to destroy."

democracynow.org/2025/3/14/m_g

#Trump #Autocracy #USPol #LGBTQ+Rights #Project2025 #Racism #Censorship .

Democracy Now! · “Imperialism and Totalitarianism Go Hand in Hand”: M. Gessen on Trump’s Policies at Home & AbroadBy Democracy Now!

Give a bully what he demands & he'll demand more.

Report: "White House tells Columbia to sack academic staff over Israel criticism"

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”.

aje.io/kb975q?update=3579730

#Trump #Columbia #Autocracy #USPol #Censorship #Racism #Resist .

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2. Another attack on free speech, this time by Yale

"This is not about me. It's not about Mahmoud Khalil."

This is a "very much coordinated attack on free speech...

"& 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."

~Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi

Jewish Onliner accused Doutaghi of membership of a pro-Palestinian advocacy organization.

dropsitenews.com/p/exclusive-b

#Yale #USPol #censorship #Autocracy #Racism .

"Never Again for Anyone”: 100 Jewish Activists Arrested at Trump Tower

Over 300 protesters with Jewish Voice for Peace demanded the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil.

They held banners reading “opposing fascism is a Jewish tradition.”

“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.

democracynow.org/2025/3/14/jvp

#USPol #JewishVoiceforPeace #Autocracy #Khalil .

Democracy Now! · “Never Again for Anyone”: 100 Jewish Activists Arrested at Trump Tower Protesting Mahmoud Khalil ArrestBy Democracy Now!