Notices tagged with authoritarianism

Securing Democracy Dispatch

#Elections #Geopolitics #Authoritarianism #InternationalRelations #Security

https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/securing-democracy-dispatch-330/

I have a piece in The Progressive today on “The Danger of MAGA History.”

It’s about memory holes, memory trolls, and the creature in the Oval Office.

I hope you’ll read and perhaps boost or repost where you think there might be interest.

#RMOL

https://progressive.org/latest/the-danger-of-maga-history-karn-20250130/

#history #uspol #democracy #authoritarianism #histodons

@histodons

This is NOT HYPERBOLE

WAKE UP

PAY ATTENTION MOTHER FUCKERS!

#Trump #Gaza #Isreal #Hamas #Palestinians #Usexpansionism #WhatsMineIsMineAndWhatsYourIsMine #Imperialism #Authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #InternationalLaw #WarCrimes
https://apnews.com/article/trump-netanyahu-washington-ceasefire-1c8deec4dd46177e08e07d669d595ed3

#Trump just said a minute ago that the #UnitedStates will “take ownership” of the #Gaza Strip & #develop it as a Mediterranean beach situation [just like #JaredKushner pitched about a year ago] after #Palestinians are *#resettled* elsewhere.

“We will own it & be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs & other weapons on the site,” Trump said at a joint news conference w/ #Israel PM #Netanyahu.

#Imperialism #Authoritarianism #tyranny #InternationalLaw #WarCrimes

Please REMEMBER this is not new

#Trump is an #imperialist

Old article I posted ~1year ago:

#JaredKushner, #Trump’s son-in-law, praises ‘very valuable’ potential of #Gaza’s ‘waterfront property’

#SickShit #Gaza #Isreal #Imperialism #Authoritarianism #tyranny #InternationalLaw #WarCrimes
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/19/jared-kushner-gaza-waterfront-property-israel-negev

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨#Trump:🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

#UnitedStates to TAKE OVER the #Gaza Strip

#Isreal #Hamas #Palestinians #geopolitics #MiddleEast #Usexpansionism #WhatsMineIsMineAndWhatsYourIsMine #Imperialism #Authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #InternationalLaw #WarCrimes

Which Way To The Front?

#DemocracyUnderThreat #GlobalLessons #Authoritarianism #MediaFreedom #FightForRights

https://digbysblog.net/2025/02/04/which-way-to-the-front/

FBI Purge VERY BAD. That's It, That's The Headline.

#ProtectDemocracy #HumanRights #FBIPurge #Authoritarianism #FastTracking

https://www.wonkette.com/p/fbi-purge-very-bad-thats-it-thats

#Trudeau says he’s been trying to get on the phone with Trump since inauguration day, but has been unsuccessful.

Yes, you heard it right: #Trump won't take a call from his ally and starts a trade #war instead, but expects President #Zelenskyy to talk to wanted war criminal #Putin who is a mass murderer, a liar, says #Ukraine doesn't exist and wants Zelenskyy dead.

The charade goes on...

#US #authoritarianism
#Canada #NATO #Europe
#ArrestPutin #ArmUkraineToWIN

"Elon Musk appears to be trying to do to the federal government what he did at Twitter/X: massively disrupt its functioning and drive out experienced employees not on board with his transformations and his personality cult."

~ Seth Masket

#Musk #Trump #authoritarianism #oligarchy #EconomicElites
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https://smotus.substack.com/p/friday-night-musk-acre

"Musk truly believes he can do to America what he did to Twitter, to simply bend us to his will and make us more like him — a racist, rapacious psychopath — so he can fulfill his teenage destiny of being 'The Elon.'

So far, I am sad to report, he’s right.:

~ Jim Stewartson

#Musk #Trump #authoritarianism #oligarchy #EconomicElites
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https://www.mind-war.com/p/hyper-racism-rage-and-the-twitterization

"Billionaire Elon Musk spent at least $288 million to help elect President Donald Trump and other Republican candidates, according to a Washington Post analysis of new Federal Election Commission filings that offered an end-of-year snapshotof what was spent during the 2024 election cycle."

~ Trisha Thadani, Clara Ence Morse, and Maeve Reston

#Musk #Trump #authoritarianism #oligarchy #EconomicElites
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/31/elon-musk-trump-donor-2024-election/

#Trump #Treasury Secy #ScottlBessent gave reps of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency full access to the federal payment system late on Fri, acc/to 3 people…, handing #ElonMusk & the team he is leading a powerful tool to monitor & potentially limit government #money.

#law #criminal #kleptocracy #TrumpCoup2 #robbery #GovernmentOverthrow #broligarchy #plutocracy #autocracy #authoritarianism #technocracy #USpol #GiftArticle

And it’s done . . .

#ElonMusk’s team has gotten access to the most sensitive #Treasury Department’s payments system.

The system could give #Trump another mechanism to attempt to unilaterally restrict disbursement of #money approved for specific purposes by Congress, a push that has faced legal roadblocks.

#law #criminal #kleptocracy #TrumpCoup2 #robbery #GovernmentOverthrow #broligarchy #plutocracy #autocracy #authoritarianism #technocracy #USpol #GiftArticle
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02/01/us/trump-tariffs-news/treasury-department-payments-system?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

As I watch, I think of what the Milgram experiment proved about us over 60 decades ago.

A majority of us will, told by an authority figure to harm someone else, willingly comply with the order. Even (or especially?) when we witness the pain we're inflicting….

Milgram was brutally attacked for publicizing the results of his experiments.

#Trump #MilgramExperiment #authoritarianism #dictator #cruelty
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Germany's Christian Democrats unite with far-right AfD against refugees

#Racism #RefugeeCrisis #GermanyPolitics #Authoritarianism #ParliamentaryFirst

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/01/31/brwr-j31.html

A settlement would be an extraordinary concession by a major US #media company to a sitting president, especially in a case in which there is NO EVIDENCE that the network got #facts wrong or damaged the plaintiff’s reputation.

It could also cause an uproar within #CBS News & among the #60Minutes staff. #Journalists at the network have expressed deep concern about the notion of their parent company settling….

#law #FreePress #tyranny #authoritarianism #autocracy #plutocracy #democracy

#BredanCarr has said that the #FCC would probably look into the #60Minutes interview as part of its review of the #Paramount merger.

#Trump’s demonization of the #news #media is a centerpiece of his political rise, & he has repeatedly clashed w/ 60 Minutes, which is the country’s most popular TV news show.

#law #FreePress #journalism #FourthEstate #tyranny #authoritarianism #autocracy #plutocracy #democracy #capitulation #propaganda #revisionism

#Trump declined to be interviewed by the program during last year’s presidential race. In 2020, Trump…[stormed out of] an interview w/ #LesleyStahl after becoming irritated w/her questions; his campaign then posted unfiltered footage from the interview online [which just showed him acting like a spoiled petulant man-baby].

#law #FreePress #journalism #FourthEstate #tyranny #authoritarianism #autocracy #plutocracy #democracy #capitulation #propaganda #revisionism

[technically #Trump was found liable for sexual abuse, though the judge in the case repeatedly said Trump raped #EJeanCarroll in his written ruling.]

#GiftArticle

Judge clarifies: Yes, Trump was found to have raped E. Jean Carroll

https://wapo.st/4jvGXum

#law #FreePress #tyranny #authoritarianism #autocracy #plutocracy #democracy #capitulation #propaganda #revisionism