“When those #algorithms are controlled — or are poised to be controlled — by deeply conservative social media conglomerates, what could once have been a digital public square becomes a battleground for ideological intimidation. Every good-faith questioner is now a dissenter. You either open yourself up to harassment or, like most people, you choose silence. And if silence is the only logical choice, then #authoritarianism has arrived.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/opinion/charlie-kirk-media-truth-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qE8.PYbz.x2nuH3Hw6dCP&smid=url-share #Trump #Maga #giftarticle
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#JBPritzker blasts plan for #NationalGuard deployment to #Chicago
#Pritzker says the #Trump admin is giving the go-ahead to send troops to Chicago, a move he & Chicago Mayor #BrandonJohnson called #unconstitutional & politically motivated.
The news comes as #Illinois joined other states in filing a lawsuit against the admin for withholding #PublicSafety & #DisasterRelief funds.
#law #PosseComitatusAct #military #MilitaryState #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/29/jackbooted-thugs-pritzker-blasts-plan-for-national-guard-deployment-00585709
“It’s a pretext for bringing #troops into the city & normalizing the #militarization of our cities, & we just won’t allow that,” said #JBPritzker during a press conference from his state offices in downtown #Chicago.
Of the federal #immigration & customs agents already operating in #Illinois, Pritzker accused them of wreaking “chaos” & “havoc” across communities. “They’re not targeting violent criminals or gang members. They’re arresting tamale vendors & delivery men & shaking down families.”
#JBPritzker warned of broader threats posed by #Trump’s actions, stating, “You cannot call this anything except an attack on the #Constitution of the #UnitedStates.”
#law #PosseComitatusAct #MilitaryState #democracy #CivilRights #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #Gestapo #coup #TrumpCoup2
#JBPritzker blasts plan for #NationalGuard deployment to #Chicago
#Pritzker says the #Trump admin is giving the go-ahead to send troops to Chicago, a move he & Chicago Mayor #BrandonJohnson called #unconstitutional & politically motivated.
The news comes as #Illinois joined other states in filing a lawsuit against the admin for withholding #PublicSafety & #DisasterRelief funds.
#law #PosseComitatusAct #military #MilitaryState #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/29/jackbooted-thugs-pritzker-blasts-plan-for-national-guard-deployment-00585709
#JBPritzker blasts plan for #NationalGuard deployment to #Chicago
#Pritzker says the #Trump admin is giving the go-ahead to send troops to Chicago, a move he & Chicago Mayor #BrandonJohnson called #unconstitutional & politically motivated.
The news comes as #Illinois joined other states in filing a lawsuit against the admin for withholding #PublicSafety & #DisasterRelief funds.
#law #PosseComitatusAct #military #MilitaryState #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/29/jackbooted-thugs-pritzker-blasts-plan-for-national-guard-deployment-00585709
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The Man Behind #Trump’s Push for an All-Powerful Presidency
Russell T. Vought spent years drawing up plans to expand presidential #power & shrink federal bureaucracy. Now he is moving closer to making that vision a reality, threatening to erode #ChecksAndBalances.
#RussVought #Project2025 #law #democracy #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/us/politics/russell-vought-trump-budget.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
“We’re going to let #DOGE break things, & we’ll pick up the pieces later,” #RussVought told his staff during one flash of irritation, according to 3 of those people. Vought’s spokeswoman, Rachel Cauley, denied that he made those comments, & that he felt frustrated by #Musk.
This had not been Vought’s plan.
#Project2025 #law #democracy #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
#RussVought, who also directed the White House #OMB in Trump’s first term, had spent 4 years in exile from power. He worked through Joe #Biden’s presidency from an old rowhouse near the Capitol, where he complained of pigeons infesting his ceiling & coordinated with other #Trump loyalists to draw up sweeping, detailed plans for a comeback.
#Project2025 #law #democracy #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
#RussVought, the #WhiteHouse budget [#OMB] director, was preparing the #Trump admin’s 2026 budget proposal this spring when his staff got some surprising news: #ElonMusk’s cost-cutting team was unilaterally axing items that Vought had intended to keep.
Vought, a numbers wonk who rarely raises his voice, could barely contain his frustration, telling colleagues that he felt sidelined & undermined by the haphazard chaos of the #Musk-led #DOGE, acc/to 6 people w/knowledge of his comments….
“We’re going to let #DOGE break things, & we’ll pick up the pieces later,” #RussVought told his staff during one flash of irritation, according to 3 of those people. Vought’s spokeswoman, Rachel Cauley, denied that he made those comments, & that he felt frustrated by #Musk.
This had not been Vought’s plan.
#Project2025 #law #democracy #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
The Man Behind #Trump’s Push for an All-Powerful Presidency
Russell T. Vought spent years drawing up plans to expand presidential #power & shrink federal bureaucracy. Now he is moving closer to making that vision a reality, threatening to erode #ChecksAndBalances.
#RussVought #Project2025 #law #democracy #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/us/politics/russell-vought-trump-budget.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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"He's either too confused to recognize AI-generated videos of himself, or he just doesn't care. Neither option is reassuring. ...
We’ve reached a point where the President of the United States is posting AI-generated videos promoting conspiracy theories about miracle cures —"
~ Parker Molloy
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #Epstein #military #PoliticsofDistraction #PoliticsofTheater
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https://www.readtpa.com/p/trump-shared-some-ai-slop-about-miracle
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"Trump is desperate, as he grows more unpopular, his government fails and his powers ebb, to find ways to make him feel STRONG and POWERFUL and MANLY. It is almost impossible to imagine something more authoritarian, more illiberal, more mad - & more dangerous - than the use of the military on our streets to fight a fictional enemy in an imaginary war."
~ Simon Rosenberg
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #Epstein #military #PoliticsofDistraction #PoliticsofTheater
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https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/we-must-keep-the-military-off-our
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"For the sake of our own mental health, it’s better to predict and understand the likely outcome of any background investigation of a killer: If he’s white and conservative, it will be forgotten among the thousands of examples we have of such shooters; if he’s Muslim/minority/trans, we won’t hear the end of it for a long time, if ever."
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #Epstein #military #PoliticsofDistraction #PoliticsofTheater
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"Now that Trump has, or thinks he has, a military command structure loyal to him, he’s been deploying soldiers to Democratic Party-controlled cities, including Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., to 'fight crime' and 'protect ICE agents.'”
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #Epstein #military #PoliticsofDistraction #PoliticsofTheater
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"The first thing he did this time around was to appoint a puppet Pentagon chief, the execrable mock-Nazi tattooed Pete Hegseth, who almost immediately started firing military commanders he alleged were 'woke.'"
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #Epstein #military #PoliticsofDistraction #PoliticsofTheater #Hegseth
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"Donald Trump, whose desire to deploy the military was stymied by senior Pentagon leaders after demonstrations around the country against the police murder of George Floyd in 2020, has no such constraints on him now."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #Epstein #military #PoliticsofDistraction #PoliticsofTheater
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https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/will-portland-be-trumps-first-step
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"[Liza] Goitein told me that 'presidents have deployed troops domestically to quell civil unrest or enforce the law only 30 times in our nation’s 250-year history, yet if Trump follows through in Portland, he will have done it three times in nine months. This is wildly out of step with our nation’s principles and traditions.'"
~ Joyce Vance
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #Epstein #military #PoliticsofDistraction #PoliticsofTheater
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"Trump also announced Saturday that he intends to send the U.S. military to Portland, Oregon, authorizing 'Full Force, if necessary' to 'protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists.' …
What’s been the media’s response to Trump’s bonkers postings and announcements this weekend? Nada."
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #Epstein #military #PoliticsofDistraction #PoliticsofTheater #healthcare #dementia
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"Trump also posted (again, without any basis in fact) that the FBI 'secretly placed … 274 FBI Agents into the Crowd just prior to, and during' the January 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, during which they were 'probably acting as Agitators and Insurrectionists.'"
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #Epstein #military #PoliticsofDistraction #PoliticsofTheater #healthcare #dementia
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"Over the weekend, on his Truth Social, Trump shared a video purporting to be a segment on Fox News — it wasn’t — in which an AI-generated, deepfaked version of himself sat in the White House and promised that 'every American will soon receive their own MedBed card' that will grant them access to new 'MedBed hospitals.'”
~ Robert Reich
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #Epstein #military #PoliticsofDistraction #PoliticsofTheater #healthcare #dementia
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-isnt-the-media-reporting-on-trumps-d1e
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"We are no longer at a 'tipping point' or 'an inflection point.' We are no longer 'sliding' toward autocracy. Donald Trump no longer 'aspires' to be an autocrat. Last week, in case you had any doubt, the Trump regime went full-bore authoritarian. We cannot accurately describe the current United States government as a functional democracy."
~ Jennifer Rubin
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #Epstein #military #PoliticsofDistraction #PoliticsofTheater #ApprovalRating
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