Notices tagged with authoritarianism

Trump lashes out at his new favorite 'radical left lunatic'

#ProgressivePolitics #WorkingClassPlatform #Authoritarianism #MamdaniStandsUpToTrump #ZohranMamdani

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/6/30/2330949/-Trump-lashes-out-at-his-new-favorite-radical-left-lunatic

Deepening The Swamp

#PoliticalPrisoners #ProtestCrackdown #Authoritarianism #HumanRightsViolations #FragileDemocracy

https://digbysblog.net/2025/06/29/deepening-the-swamp/

I maxed out on how much news I can handle rather quickly today.
#authoritarianism #SocialMedia

▶ Trump gets RUDE AWAKENING as World PROTESTS ERUPT

#RudeAwakening #Eruptions #Authoritarianism #WorldProtests #GlobalReaction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r7adTTAc8I

The #Senate on Friday rejected a #Democratic measure that would have forced #Trump to go to #Congress for approval of another #military strike against #Iran [he was supposed to for the first]. The resolution had little chance of succeeding in a #Republican-controlled & Trump lick-spittle Congress.

#Constitution #law #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #ExecutiveAuthority #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #dictatorship #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/us/politics/trump-war-powers-iran-strike.html?smid=url-share

#america #politik #jdvance #faschismus #authoritarianism #maga #trumpism #political #meme #fascism

Liberal supreme court justices' dissents reveal concerns that the US faces a crisis

#TrumpPresidency #AmericanPolitics #ReligiousRights #Authoritarianism #LiberalJustices

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/27/us-supreme-court-dissents

'Artists always get a carte blanche'. The anonymous curator of Meduza's anniversary exhibition on the show's origins, history's echoes, and the role of art in times of crisis

#KunstraumKreuzbergBethanien #Authoritarianism #Loneliness #BerlinArt #RoleOfArtInSociety

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/06/27/artists-always-get-a-carte-blanche

'Sickening': MAGA lawmaker sparks outrage with call to 'denaturalize' Mamdani

#PamBondi #Authoritarianism #ZohranMamdani #NYCMayoralRace #TrumpInvestigation

https://www.rawstory.com/gop-2672443092/

Why Authoritarians Always Come for Gender Studies First

#Trump #Authoritarianism #CriticalThinking #AcademicFreedom #RepublicanParty

https://msmagazine.com/2025/06/26/gender-studies-trump-authoritarian/

"We Fight for Working People with No Apology": Zohran Mamdani Beats Cuomo in NYC Mayoral Primary

#HopefulPolitics #HistoryMade #Authoritarianism #DemocraticSocialist #UpsetVictory

http://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/25/zohran_nyc

This announcement is alarming. It is unclear what "a legitimate business need" means or who will make that determination. Are they planning to review the research plans of individual scholars? https://www.archives.gov/college-park #NationalArchives #authoritarianism

Georgia jails top opposition figures as authorities ramp up crackdown

#GeorgiaJails #Authoritarianism #OppositionCrackdown #ProtestArrests #PoliticalPrisoners

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/georgia-tbilisi-russia-european-union-b2775998.html

"When Trump announced, via a Saturday evening bleet, that he had bombed Iranian nuclear sites, it put his most vocal fans in a quandary: Should they sacrifice any sense of ideological consistency to keep supporting Trump, or should they try to maintain some sense of self-respect and dignity by criticizing the man around whom they’ve built their careers?"

~ Will Sommer

#Trump #Iran #war #authoritarianism #autocrat #lies #disinformation
/22

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-doves-learn-to-love-the-bomb-trump-iran

"This weekend, the world moved closer to catastrophe. …

According to a bombshell report from The New York Times, Trump acted not out of strategic necessity but based on how Israel’s assault on Iran was playing out on Fox News."

~ Danielle Moody

#Trump #Iran #war #authoritarianism #autocrat #lies #disinformation #Fox
/20

https://daniellemoodie.substack.com/p/bombs-and-vibes-trump-attacks-iran

"For most, the choice hasn’t been particularly hard. With only a few exceptions, right-wing figures who had positioned themselves against the neocon war machine suddenly discovered a new enthusiasm for American military might."

Consistency? Respect? Dignity? Those words aren't in the MAGA vocabulary.

#Trump #Iran #war #authoritarianism #autocrat #lies #disinformation
/23

"A few closing notes from [Dan Rather], who has spent a fair portion of his life covering wars:

Truth IS the first casualty of war.

The first things you hear often are untrue, and so are many of the things you hear later.

Wars are by their very nature chaotic and unpredictable. What you most expect frequently does not happen; what you least expect often does."

#Trump #Iran #war #authoritarianism #autocrat #lies #disinformation
/24

https://steady.substack.com/p/when-incompetence-goes-to-war

As Paul Waldman notes, somehow the US got through a couple of hundred years without law enforcement officers needing to cover their faces. Yet suddenly this is the norm for the Trump administration, which claims this is necessary to protect the officers. Why?

#Trump #ICE #masks #violence #authoritarianism
/1

https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/masked-men-with-guns-are-there-to

Dan Froomkin:

"Three huge truths the media leaves out of its Iran coverage:

It’s all about Trump’s ego, it’s illegal, and it’s war."

#Trump #Iran #war #authoritarianism #autocrat #lies #disinformation #media
/17

https://criticalread.substack.com/p/three-huge-truths-the-media-leaves

"Trump is gathering his national security team at the White House as I write this. They are scheduled to meet at 1 p.m. in the Situation Room to discuss Iran’s retaliatory strikes and what the U.S. response should be.

It's here we go again time at the Pennsylvania Avenue OK Corral, folks."

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#Trump #Iran #war #authoritarianism #autocrat #lies #disinformation #media
/18

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-situation-room-is-getting-very