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Trump just ordered the DOJ to investigate Trump's own former head of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (#CISA), Chris Krebs. Krebs's primary sin appears to have been making public statements that the 2024 election was the most secure in history because almost all votes were recorded on paper ballots.

Worth noting that since Nixon it has been an important norm that the president has no say in who does or doesn't get investigated by #DOJ and #FBI. I don't think its much of an exaggeration to describe attempting to purge your own former officials as at least mildly Stalinist - maybe "Stalinish" is the right word.
cc: @briankrebs

xcancel.com/Acyn/status/191006

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Some scenes from the #AugustaME #HandsOff rally (not my images -- from the Kennebec Journal)

by Hannah Kaufman, Kennebec Journal

AUGUSTA — "By about 2:20 p.m., the protest in Augusta had effectively ended, but for a smaller group, the march continued, with some making their third and fourth laps around the block.
Organizers had intended the march to take place on the sidewalk, but the width of Capitol Street was filled with a throng of protesters shortly before 2 p.m.

"Vivian Myers-Jones, a protester from New Brunswick, Canada, said an organizer estimated 3,000 people were at the protest during its peak.

"Several students from Bates College in Lewiston said they came to Augusta to protest in support of #Palestine. One student, Dylan, said action on the Israel-Hamas war is overdue.

"'We’ve been seeing a genocide unfolding before our eyes for years now, and it’s overdue that people are doing something,' he said. 'We’ve been trying to make change, and I think some people are being shocked into action now, which is good to see.'

"Another student, Robert, said it’s important to exercise the right to protest.
'We’re fighting to continue fighting — about Palestine, about everything that’s going on in this country,' he said.
It’s important that we come together now.'"

Original article:
pressherald.com/2025/04/05/liv

Archived version:
archive.md/k03Q5#selection-201
#MaineResists #HandsOff2025 #April5th #BadDOGE #EatElon #FreePalestine #HandsOffOurRights #NoDOGE #FASCISTS #NoTaxBreaksForTheRich #RobberBarons #DeportOligarchs #ImpeachImperialImbeciles

Yoon is gone, and good riddance, but the right wing hordes behind him expanded and further radicalized. A strong majority of Koreans supported his ouster, but the minority behind him is by no means small nor is it going away. This is a good article explaining who's in that crowd and what they're up to.

bbc.com/news/articles/cgkje35g

Close-up of a large poster of Yoon Suk Yeol raising his fist against a pink background. Behind the poster is a crowd of Yoon supporters standing on the street, holding South Korean and US flags.
www.bbc.comHow the fall of Yoon fuelled the rise of S Korea's conservativesA pro-Yoon fringe movement, stoked by right-wing YouTubers, has become more energised and extreme.
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@ianbremmer speaking as a man who sold his soul, #republican party, #democracy, over the course of decades of dis-service to constituents and all #Americans who have suffered because he was bought & owned decades before #trump. #neverforget this is the man who served the will of extremists and #fascists to seat #supremecourt justices so #unethical, incompetent and venal, that our #democracy and the #judiciary will never recover. Time is long past to pander to the rich & powerful. #FreeAmerica

The top image eventually leads to the bottom image unless decent people put a stop to it. If you think that #ICE or any of their ilk in other countries are the 'good guys' then you're one of the bad guys; there are thousands of history books and millions of marked and unmarked graves that offer proof. Even #Israel now runs concentration camps on the Gaza strip... though many Jewish people wore those shoes in the bottom photo. We must rise up against #fascism and #fascists before it's too late.

"Everyone is fair game," the official said.
The context is 1)#universities & 2) everyone who the administration"deems pro-Palestinian Universities must band together. One university's negotiation w/#Nazis opens the door to all.

The #fascists' goal is to make this true regardless of context & of a specific political issue. When the State Dept official says everyone, he means everyone. We are all Venezuelans & students. Our democracy & our bodies are being kidnapped.

axios.com/2025/03/27/trump-pal

Illustration of a graduation cap with the tassel forming a no sign.
Axios · Exclusive: Trump's "pro-Hamas" purge could block foreign students from collegesBy Marc Caputo

"Everyone is fair game," the official said.
The context is 1)#universities & 2) everyone who the administration"deems pro-Palestinian Universities must band together. One university's negotiation w/#Nazis opens the door to all.

The #fascists' goal is to make this true regardless of context & of a specific political issue. When the State Dept official says everyone, he means everyone. We are all Venezuelans & students. Our democracy & our bodies are being kidnapped.

axios.com/2025/03/27/trump-pal

Illustration of a graduation cap with the tassel forming a no sign.
Axios · Exclusive: Trump's "pro-Hamas" purge could block foreign students from collegesBy Marc Caputo