Notices by David August (davidaugust@mastodon.online)

“Hitler's Enabling Act (1933) let his cabinet bypass parliament while claiming to ‘save democracy.’

Yesterday's Executive Order lets White House control all independent agencies while claiming to ‘restore democracy.’

They're not even changing the playbook. It couldn't be more obvious but they're disguising it all in democratic language to fool lesser civically-minded citizens.

See the comparison below between yesterday's EO and The Enabling Act.”

via @pardonmycrumbs@threads.net

#USpol #coup

Interesting thought:

"When the Supreme Court ruled in Citizens United v. FEC that money is speech…They justified the elimination of billionaires…free speech can be limited when it deprives others of their right to speech. If money is speech, then…hoarding of money is a threat to free speech when it allows one person to deprive citizens of their right to self-government."

"This is not democracy. This is occupation by another name."

https://aridrennen.substack.com/p/the-supreme-court-accidentally-made

#USpol #FreeSpeech #scotus

I was literally joking about the Netherlands offering to make New York into New Amsterdam again last week.

My wish has come true!

Well done @EUCommission 👏

#USpol #NLpol #EUpol #funny #YesPlease

Before yesterday I had almost 500 tabs open on my phone’s browser. I had been pushing against the limit of 500 for a long time, occasionally having to close tabs just to open something in a new one. Now I have 27 open tabs.

Progress, even in small ways, is possible.

via @MissingThePt

#USpol #coup #doge

Did you know: in prep for 45's admin, Project 2025 trained people, now in almost every federal agency's leadership, how to not take notes or write things down so they wouldn't be subject to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests or subpoenas?

Well, now you know they were trained in how to evade accountability.

Analysis of their training from August 2024: https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-project-2025-secret-training-videos-trump-election

at 19:20 evading FOIA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxe55mU4DA8&t=1160s

project page: https://www.project2025.org/training/conservative-governance-101/

#USpol #coup

Did you know that NNSA, the agency DOGE randomly fired people from without knowing the agency secures our nuclear weapons, also helps prevent asteroids from killing us all?

Well, they do, and now you know.

"NNSA works with partners to detect and mitigate impact threats from potentially hazardous near-Earth objects."

This is just the declassified stuff they do to keep us all from dying.

https://www.energy.gov/nnsa/articles/planetary-defense-teamwork

#nnsa #doge #USpol #PlanetaryDefense #asteroids #coup

Ain't no crisis like a Constitutional crisis, 'cause a Constitutional crisis don't stop.

Unless we stop it.

Please contact your Representative and Senators:

https://5calls.org/

@5calls

#USpol #coup

Just gonna leave this here.

The first Democratic member of Congress who gets arrested for defying doge, say by demanding access to agency offices, is setting themselves up for a great Presidential run.

So is the second. And third. And the fourth…

#USpol #coup

“De facto” refers to something that exists in practice or actuality, even if it is not established by law. For example, a leader who holds power without legal recognition is a “de facto” ruler, as opposed to a “de jure” ruler who is legally recognized.

I can nazi why I would coup up with…I’m sorry, I mean come up with that right now. It has been elon few weeks…damn autocorrect. A long few weeks.

#USpol #coup

@paco @SaanichGuy really well put.

People thinking that running a nation's government is simple is crazy.

330,000,000 people
~6 times zones
3,796,743 square miles
wildly complex issues facing it daily

But takes like an afternoon to learn how to run it? Yeah no...I don't think so.

#USpol #coup

@Strandjunker

On tue un homme, on est un assassin. On tue des millions d'hommes, on est un conquérant. On les tue tous, on est un dieu.

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

- Jean Rostand (1939)

Emergency cute.

For that special someone on Valentine's Day:

#meme #Valentines #Luigi

@anthk I did not know that meaning of golfo, thanks for that.

Spiral Staircase inside Peleș Castle in Sinaia, Romania

#beautiful #architecture #wood #staircase #StainedGlass #Romania

#GulfOfMexico #map

“I’m gonna doge it!” means I’m going to go off not even half cocked, break things I can’t be bothered to try to understand, hurt people and then declare victory.

#USpol #coup

#USpol #meme #tesla #ElongatedMuskrat

“‘There is reporting at other federal agencies [in addition to the U.S. Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service which handles the U.S. Government’s payment system] indicating that DOGE members have performed unauthorized changes and locked civil servants out of the sensitive systems they gained access to,’ the ‘Recommendations’ portion of the email continues. ‘We further recommend that DOGE members be placed under insider threat monitoring and alerting…”

🧵 1/2

#USpol #coup