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   (1/N) MUSK COUP INFORMATION: Here are the collected information links that I have on the ongoing Elon Musk administrative coup that started this weekend.

   1. Yale historian of fascism Tim Snyder:
   "The Logic of Destruction"
   https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-of-destruction

   "The federal government has immense capacity and control over trillions of dollars. That power was a cocreation of the American people. It belongs to them. The oligarchs around Trump are working now to take it for themselves."

   #uspol #coup #Musk

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     3. ChooseDemocracy.us information page:
     https://choosedemocracy.us/what-is-an-administrative-coup/

     "We are in an Administrative Coup.
     This is not a test — it’s not a “Test of the Constitution” or testing the “limits of presidential power.” It’s a fully-fledged coup attempt.
     Coup d’état, or coups, are illegal or overt attempts to seize control of a government. You can have a coup by a democratically elected regime."

     #uspol #coup

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     4. Indivisible's call to act: go to your Senators' offices this week in person

     Indivisible asks all supporters of the U.S. as a functioning country to PHYSICALLY go to their U.S. Senators' offices this week to demand a "no" vote on Project 2025 author Russell Vought, and to demand that Democrats use all possible procedural power to slow-walk the U.S. Senate.

     Background:
     https://bsky.app/profile/joshuajfriedman.com/post/3lhag7plcl22m

     Indivisible "We Choose to Fight" state office toolkit document:
     https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Cru6DBkH5gadq3S-mVhiSU72mC2ZeDHXG93jeiemFH0

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     2. Fascism and authoritarianism scholar Ruth Ben-Ghiat, New York University:
     "A New Kind of Coup: Trump and Musk are Updating the Autocratic Playbook"
     https://lucid.substack.com/p/a-new-kind-of-coup-trump-and-musk

     "Musk and his surrogates have physically occupied the Office of Personnel Management, setting up beds to have a 24/7 presence. They have also infiltrated the General Services Administration, which manages technology in government buildings..."

     #uspol #coup

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     Ben-Ghiat cont:

     "That means that random individuals, whose credentials seem to lie mainly in their loyalty to Musk, now have enormous power over America’s purse strings and access to a treasure trove of sensitive personal data. They locked out the federal employees to prevent any obstructions to this access.

     This is what militaries do during coups: you capture the major targets, with government buildings high on the list, and you take over communications and other systems."

     #uspol #coup

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     5. Heather Cox Richardson, professor of history at Boston College

     Richardson's video update from Sunday Feb. 2 (login not required):

     https://www.facebook.com/heathercoxrichardson/videos/sunday-chat-february-2-2025/590837890530283

     She confirms in the video that what we're seeing is a coup. She also covered what's known as of Sunday about the computer systems that Musk and his coup supporters have seized.

     #uspol #coup