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Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> suggests sending <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/citizens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>citizens</span></a> to a prison in a foreign country known for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> violations without <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DueProcess</span></a>.</p><p>This is no longer a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ConstitutionalCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ConstitutionalCrisis</span></a>.</p><p>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> is an established <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarian</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MafiaState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MafiaState</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tyranny</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>…Most of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/intelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intelligence</span></a> community, including the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CIA</span></a> &amp; the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NSA</span></a>, agreed w/that assessment.</p><p>Only one agency, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FBI</span></a> [<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/KashPatel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KashPatel</span></a>], partly dissented. It maintained the gang has a connection to the admin of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Venezuela" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Venezuela</span></a>’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarian</span></a> president, Nicolás <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Maduro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maduro</span></a>, based on information the other agencies did not find credible.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FactCheck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FactCheck</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpLies</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AlienEnemiesAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlienEnemiesAct</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DueProcess</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseOfPower</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitics</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> doubling (tripling? quadrupling?…) down on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/illiberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>illiberal</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarian</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StochasticTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StochasticTerrorism</span></a> toward the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/judiciary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>judiciary</span></a> even going after conservative <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> Chief Justice <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JohnRoberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JohnRoberts</span></a> (see pic).</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Boasberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Boasberg</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ConstitutionalCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ConstitutionalCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChecksAndBalances" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChecksAndBalances</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JudicialBranch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JudicialBranch</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Judiciary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Judiciary</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SeparationOfPowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SeparationOfPowers</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseOfPower</span></a></p>
MARIOiVARGAS<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> and his unchecked actions are proving our point that this is not a nation of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freedom</span></a> or <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>justice</span></a> for the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a>. It is a nation of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/authoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarian</span></a> rule in which the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/market" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>market</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> take presidence over health of society. With all its oppression and exploitation world wide <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> is still failing in real time.</p><p>The answer is <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> in which the workers are empowered to seize the means of production for their benefit and to abolish the ruling class. ⚒</p>
Ned Yeung<p>So to be clear, Donald Trump ignored a federal judge's orders when he attempted to invoke a wartime act from the 18th century to illegally deport thousands with no due process under the auspices of being gang members (with as little proof as "too much skin art") and therefore "international terrorists", claiming that the Chief Justice has no authority over him, disobeying the court order, and continuing to commit his crimes.</p><p>Trump's border czar stated, “We’re not stopping. I don’t care what the judges think — I don’t care what the left thinks. We’re coming.”</p><p>The normal route for a law abiding person who doesn't agree with a judge's order would be to follow the order then appeal it, to a higher court if need be. There were plenty of legal options available to him (which I will add, are blocked to those who are less privileged).</p><p>The only truth Trump stated was that "no one man has authority", because unlike the Trump administration, no one man in the legal system has the last word. Although Trump's attempt was to make this assertion against Judge Boasberg rather than himself.</p><p>Instead, when questioned why Trump disobeyed a court order, he responded by calling for the judge to be impeached, calling Judge Boasberg a "Radical Left Lunatic of a Judge, a troublemaker and agitator", indicating that he was "sadly appointed by Barack Hussein Obama", despite the fact that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who rebuked him for this blatant disregard of the law, Judge Roberts, is a conservative institutionalist appointed by George W. Bush.</p><p>“For more than two centuries,” the chief justice wrote in an issued statement, “it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.”</p><p>"This is wartime." "I can tell my enemies by the way they look, and that makes them a terrorist and enemy of the state." "The court of law has no authority over me." "Anybody who disagrees with me is a radical left lunatic."</p><p>It's extremely important to note how any challenge to his authoritarian rule is labeled as "the left", by both Trump and his entire administration, as "the radical left" if the challenge is strong enough. Rather than from democratic and legal systems and a constitution which have been enshrined in the nation for centuries.</p><p>If anyone from "the left" had any hope that Trump's regime could be tamed or controlled, it was because they believed that his Presidential powers could still be put in check by the laws of the land. Trump is dead set to prove that hope wrong.</p><p>This is authoritarian fascism in full display.</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/authoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarian</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Nazism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nazism</span></a></p>
Aho<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://timeloop.cafe/@alienghic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>alienghic</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zeroes.ca/@hannu_ikonen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>hannu_ikonen</span></a></span> after the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bolsheviks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bolsheviks</span></a> decided set a stop to the true <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/communists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>communists</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kronstadt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kronstadt</span></a> in 1921, there not been anything that resembles of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> </p><p>The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sovietrussia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sovietrussia</span></a> was an <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/authoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarian</span></a> state pretending to follow <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialistic</span></a> norms.</p>
Ned Yeung<p>This is what happens to you in Trump's America, for countering Russian disinformation in countries that have no free press - you get "dismantled".</p><p>Even before this, Donald Trump tapped a right-wing former TV news anchor and Republican nominee, Kari Lake, to run Voice of America. Even before she arrived, the broadcaster began discouraging its journalists from saying or writing things that could be construed as critical of Mr. Trump — part of an attempt that its leaders hoped would help fend off attacks by the president.</p><p>However, under federal law the Voice of America’s director must be approved by a bipartisan board that oversees the Agency for Global Media, and the board has not voted on Ms. Lake’s nomination.</p><p>It would be easy to guess that Trump doesn't trust any bipartisan board would accept his extremely biased political appointments, so he's just dismantling the entire organization.</p><p><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/voa-cuts-trump-director-michael-abramowitz-interview/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbsnews.com/news/voa-cuts-trum</span><span class="invisible">p-director-michael-abramowitz-interview/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/authoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarian</span></a></p>
Ned Yeung<p>A post by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://masto.ai/@rbreich" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>rbreich</span></a></span> on another platform:</p><p>Friends,</p><p>After a federal judge pressed the Trump administration to provide evidence by 5 pm yesterday about whether the White House had violated the court’s order in deporting migrants with little to no due process, so-called border czar Tom Homan said that the flights would continue regardless. “We’re not stopping,” he said. “I don’t care what the judges think.”</p><p>In our system, judges don’t just “think.” They have the final say, unless their rulings are appealed to the Supreme Court, in which case the high court’s majority has the final final say.</p><p>Yesterday afternoon, it became apparent that Trump’s Justice Department shares Homan’s odd view of our judicial system. DOJ lawyers filed papers telling the judge that the administration would not provide any further information about the deportation flights, and that the court should vacate the hearing.</p><p>Then, speaking on Fox News, Attorney General Pam Bondi criticized the judge, saying “What he’s done is an intrusion on the president’s authority.”</p><p>What’s going on here?<br>A very dangerous game.</p><p>On Sunday night, Trump told reporters that a federal judge in California who ordered the administration to rehire thousands of fired probationary workers was “putting himself in the position of the president of the United States, who was elected by close to 80 million votes.”</p><p>Excuse me? In our system of government, courts pass judgment on actions of a president and the executive branch. Courts don’t put themselves in the “position” of a president. They act as the Constitution empowers them to act — as a co-equal branch of government.</p><p>If the executive branch doesn’t agree with what a lower-court judge decides, it can appeal to a higher court and ultimately to the Supreme Court.</p><p>Trump isn’t the only one to make this unconstitutional claim. In early February, Trump’s vice president, JD Vance, declared that “judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.” It was an odd statement coming from someone who has studied at one of America’s preeminent law schools — and it was logically absurd, since it’s up to judges (and eventually the Supreme Court’s justices) to determine a president’s “legitimate power.”</p><p>Let’s be clear. Trump has openly violated numerous laws and constitutional provisions — such as ending birthright citizenship; giving associates of Elon Musk’s government-slashing effort access to a sensitive Treasury Department system; transferring transgender female inmates to male prisons; placing thousands of U.S. Agency for International Development employees on leave; and effectively dismantling USAID and folding it into the State Department.</p><p>In response, federal judges have temporarily barred a slew of Trump orders from taking effect.</p><p>But not until now has Trump or his regime so blatantly refused to follow a judge’s order.</p><p>What happens when this or another lower-court ruling goes to the Supreme Court, and the high court rules against Trump?</p><p>Vance has said that if this occurs, Trump should “stand before the country like Andrew Jackson did and say, ‘The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.’”</p><p>Never mind that the quote attributed to Jackson is, as one scholar has noted, “probably apocryphal.” It’s heard more and more from Trump appointees these days, as exemplified by Homan’s remark this morning and this afternoon’s Justice Department filing.</p><p>Trump’s appointments in his second term are having the opposite effect of his first-term appointees. In his first term, they restrained him somewhat. Recall that the Justice Department’s top brass threatened to resign en masse if he appointed as attorney general the one assistant attorney general who was prepared to sell his soul to Trump and say the 2020 election was stolen from him.</p><p>This time, his appointees are magnifying his worst instincts. Rather than act as guardrails, they are egging Trump on.</p><p>Many people wonder if we’re in a “constitutional crisis.” Definitions of that phrase vary considerably, as do opinions about whether we’re in one now.</p><p>My worry is that Trump is surrounded by extremist anti-democracy nihilists, including his vice president, who are encouraging him to defy the Supreme Court.</p><p>If and when he does, we’ll be in a constitutional crisis that should cause every American to take to the streets.</p><p>What do you think?</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/authoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarian</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Employees at <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/VoiceOfAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VoiceOfAmerica</span></a> were placed on paid leave on Saturday &amp; funding for 2 US <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> services that broadcast to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarian</span></a> regimes was slashed, one day after <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> signed an <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveOrder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveOrder</span></a> gutting the govt-funded <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> outlets' parent &amp; 6 other <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalAgencies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalAgencies</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/VOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VOA</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FourthEstate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FourthEstate</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreePress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreePress</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>censorship</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>propaganda</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/trumpaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trumpaganda</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/trump-signs-order-gut-voice-america-other-agencies-2025-03-15/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/business/media-tel</span><span class="invisible">ecom/trump-signs-order-gut-voice-america-other-agencies-2025-03-15/</span></a></p>
Zhi Zhu 🕸️<p>Trump &amp; Musk's Power-Sharing Agreement Innovates the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Authoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarian</span></a> Playbook</p><p>The Novel Power-Partition Opens New Horizons of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Corruption</span></a><br><a href="https://lucid.substack.com/p/trump-and-musks-power-sharing-agreement" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lucid.substack.com/p/trump-and</span><span class="invisible">-musks-power-sharing-agreement</span></a></p><p>" <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> has a novel power-sharing arrangement w/an unelected private citizen who is essentially executing a <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/HostileTakeover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HostileTakeover</span></a> of the US <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> to capture <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a>... &amp; use our country as a laboratory for a new form of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/authoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarian</span></a> techno-governance that requires the wrecking of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a>"</p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Coup</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a></p>
Gina Intheburg 🇺🇦 🌻 🥥🌴<p>Familiar to those who have lived under <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/authoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarian</span></a> regimes’: <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAmendment</span></a> experts implore judge to side with <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/AP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AP</span></a> in dispute over White House access</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FreePress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreePress</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/DemocracyNotAutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DemocracyNotAutocracy</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/familiar-to-those-who-have-lived-under-authoritarian-regimes-first-amendment-experts-implore-judge-to-side-with-ap-in-dispute-over-white-house-access/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lawandcrime.com/high-profile/f</span><span class="invisible">amiliar-to-those-who-have-lived-under-authoritarian-regimes-first-amendment-experts-implore-judge-to-side-with-ap-in-dispute-over-white-house-access/</span></a></p>
Ted Johnson<p>"In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it." – Syme to Winston, "1984" by George Orwell</p><p>Screenshot from NYTimes</p><p>via bsky @lizstokoe</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Orwellian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Orwellian</span></a> #1984 <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Authoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarian</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Justice</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/NoMandate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoMandate</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/AntiTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiTrump</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/AntiGOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiGOP</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/AntiMAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiMAGA</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/HalfHeartedFanatic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HalfHeartedFanatic</span></a></p>