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   Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 21:38:24 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

   Trump signs executive order saying all independent agencies are directed by him, must be loyal to him, all relevant laws affecting them are interpreted by him, and have spies embedded in them which report to him https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/ensuring-accountability-for-all-agencies/

   Folks, here it is. This is totalitarianism. US friends, if you're looking for your signal of whether or not you should start making other plans, this is the one.

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     AJ Sadauskas (ajsadauskas@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 21:54:57 JST AJ Sadauskas

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     @cwebber Reading through this executive order, it's clear that Elon and Don either:

     a) Do not intend for a Democrat to even hold the presidency again, or at the very least
     b) Have executed this power grab without considering the possibility of a Democrat in the White House in the future.

     I say this, because can you seriously imagine that the Republicans would've been happy with an EO giving this much power to Obama or Biden?

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     vlkr (vlkr@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 22:17:11 JST vlkr

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     @cwebber
     The "fact sheet" is as clear as it can get (I know, this reads like a joke):

     "The President and the Attorney General (subject to the President’s supervision and control) will interpret the law for the executive branch, instead of having separate agencies adopt conflicting interpretations."

     https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-reins-in-independent-agencies-to-restore-a-government-that-answers-to-the-american-people/

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     Jürgen Hubert (juergen_hubert@mementomori.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 00:50:48 JST Jürgen Hubert

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     @cwebber I've been saying for weeks that they are doing #Gleichschaltung .

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschaltung