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Alt FedNews Subreddit<p>SOURCE: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">reddit.com/r/fednews/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>**I only post the hottest 10 posts in the subreddit.**</p><p>We owe the democrats our votes for the Tesla protests</p><p>I just want to say, thanks to all who went out and supported federal employees who went out and spoke out against Elon Musk. I voted for Trump and now I will forever be a democrat the whole way down the ticket!</p><p>------</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1jmz4ns/we_owe_the_democrats_our_votes_for_the_tesla/?utm_source=ifttt" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/</span><span class="invisible">1jmz4ns/we_owe_the_democrats_our_votes_for_the_tesla/?utm_source=ifttt</span></a></p><p>r/fednews is the main subreddit for US Federal government workers.</p><p>This robot is NOT affiliated with r/fednews. It merely rebroadcasts the top 10 hottest posts. Responses here are only seen in the Fediverse. YOU SHOULD GO TO REDDIT TO PARTICIPATE FULLY!</p><p>High volume posting robot - block me if irritating.<br>-----<br><a href="https://mastodon.clinicians-exchange.org/tags/Coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Coup</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.clinicians-exchange.org/tags/Activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Activism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.clinicians-exchange.org/tags/Reddit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reddit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.clinicians-exchange.org/tags/subreddit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>subreddit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.clinicians-exchange.org/tags/fednews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fednews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.clinicians-exchange.org/tags/FederalWorkforce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkforce</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.clinicians-exchange.org/tags/FederalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalGovernment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.clinicians-exchange.org/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.clinicians-exchange.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.clinicians-exchange.org/tags/Elon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Elon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.clinicians-exchange.org/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.clinicians-exchange.org/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"Trump will orchestrate no military coup. The Republican Congress will probably pass no laws that make Trump president for life. That would be too obvious. What they’ll do is make stealthier moves across the board that discredit and destroy our democratic institutions until he and his billionaire friends can strip them for parts. Chaos fascism is here to stay."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalGovernment</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chaos</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>destruction</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ChaosFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChaosFascism</span></a><br>/9</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"Donald Trump is inventing a new way. Call it chaos fascism. Destroy the institutions of democracy until they’re so disfigured or dysfunctional that a majority no longer cares about them. </p><p>That’s exactly what’s happening with Social Security."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalGovernment</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chaos</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>destruction</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ChaosFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChaosFascism</span></a><br>/8</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"Across human history, fascism has been imposed upon democracy mostly in one of two ways. First, by brute force—a military coup, that sort of thing. Second, a bit more stealthily, and legally—through legislation, executive decrees, and court decisions that hand more power to the leader."</p><p>~ Michael Tomasky</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalGovernment</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chaos</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>destruction</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ChaosFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChaosFascism</span></a><br>/7</p><p><a href="https://newsletter.tnr.com/index.php?action=social&amp;chash=7d2b92b6726c241134dae6cd3fb8c182.1561&amp;s=cdd6377d8462caad2b4695418c877aea" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newsletter.tnr.com/index.php?a</span><span class="invisible">ction=social&amp;chash=7d2b92b6726c241134dae6cd3fb8c182.1561&amp;s=cdd6377d8462caad2b4695418c877aea</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"Today HHS announced it will be cutting 10,000 employees on top of the 10,000 who have already left and the more than 5,000 probationary workers who were fired last month."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Yarvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Yarvin</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalGovernment</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HHS</span></a><br>/6</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"Yesterday, Apoorva Mandavilli, Margot Sanger-Katz, and Jan Hoffman reported in the New York Times that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has suddenly cancelled more than $12 billion in federal grants to states. That money supported mental health services, addiction treatment, and programs to track infectious diseases."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Yarvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Yarvin</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalGovernment</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/HHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HHS</span></a><br>/5</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"In a televised Cabinet meeting on Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she planned to 'eliminate FEMA,' the Federal Emergency Management Agency that responds to national emergencies like hurricanes."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalGovernment</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Yarvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Yarvin</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FEMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FEMA</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/KristiNoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KristiNoem</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NaturalDisasters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NaturalDisasters</span></a><br>/4</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>Ruthlessly gut government so that one can seize control of the carcass and do what one wishes with it:</p><p>"Today, Emily Davies and Jeff Stein of the Washington Post reported that Trump officials are looking for cuts of between 8% and 50% of the employees in federal agencies. ...</p><p>Washington Post reporters Lisa Rein and Hannah Natanson warn that 'Social Security is breaking down.'” </p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalGovernment</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Yarvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Yarvin</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialSecurity</span></a><br>/3</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"Yarvin called for 'giving absolute sovereignty to a single organization,' headed by the equivalent of the rogue chief executive officer of a corporation who would destroy the public institutions of the democratic government. ...</p><p>If the administration is working not to save money but rather to destroy the government, the cuts that threaten the well-being of American citizens make more sense."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalGovernment</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianship</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Yarvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Yarvin</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <br>/2</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>Heather Cox Richardson offers a valuable explanation of why Musk-Trump are dismantling the federal government and how they're accomplishing this:</p><p>"Last month, journalist Gil Duran of The Nerd Reich noted that Curtis Yarvin, a thinker popular with the technological elite currently aligned with the religious extremists at Project 2025, laid out a plan in 2022 to gut the U.S. government and replace it with a dictatorship."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalGovernment</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorship</span></a> <br>/1</p><p><a href="https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-27-2025" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">heathercoxrichardson.substack.</span><span class="invisible">com/p/march-27-2025</span></a></p>
Alt FedNews Subreddit<p>SOURCE: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">reddit.com/r/fednews/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>**I only post the hottest 10 posts in the subreddit.**</p><p>No surprise: FHFA Director Pulte teleworking today from Palm Beach after declaring end of remote work at Fannie/Freddie 🤡</p><p>FHFA Director Bill Pulte is big on in-office work and in-person collaboration. While his employees at FHFA reported to work today, where badge swipes and comings and goings are being tracked and scrutinized to the extreme, Director Pulte chose to telework from Florida. This is less than two weeks after he declared the end of remote work at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the entities that FHFA regulates. Is anyone surprised? 🤡 </p><p>------</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1jlc5ve/no_surprise_fhfa_director_pulte_teleworking_today/?utm_source=ifttt" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/</span><span class="invisible">1jlc5ve/no_surprise_fhfa_director_pulte_teleworking_today/?utm_source=ifttt</span></a></p><p>r/fednews is the main subreddit for US Federal government workers.</p><p>This robot is NOT affiliated with r/fednews. It merely rebroadcasts the top 10 hottest posts. Responses here are only seen in the Fediverse. YOU SHOULD GO TO REDDIT TO PARTICIPATE FULLY!</p><p>High volume posting robot - block me if irritating.<br>-----<br><a href="https://mastodon.clinicians-exchange.org/tags/Coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Coup</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.clinicians-exchange.org/tags/Activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Activism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.clinicians-exchange.org/tags/Reddit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reddit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.clinicians-exchange.org/tags/subreddit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>subreddit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.clinicians-exchange.org/tags/fednews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fednews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.clinicians-exchange.org/tags/FederalWorkforce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkforce</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.clinicians-exchange.org/tags/FederalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalGovernment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.clinicians-exchange.org/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.clinicians-exchange.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.clinicians-exchange.org/tags/Elon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Elon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.clinicians-exchange.org/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.clinicians-exchange.org/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"They are gutting medical research in 'colleges and hospitals in every state.' And they are aiming to kick millions—as many as 36 million of the hardest-working Americans—off of Medicaid.</p><p>And that's just the beginning…."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chaos</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>destruction</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalGovernment</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>healthcare</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cancer</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Medicaid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Medicaid</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a><br>/2</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"The war the Musk/Trump regime is waging against America's health care has not been contained to a single organ of our government. It is already metastasizing into every aspect of our lives.</p><p>They are working to 'simultaneously increase toxins in our air, food, and water.'" </p><p>~ Jason Sattler</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chaos</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>destruction</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalGovernment</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>healthcare</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cancer</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Medicaid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Medicaid</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a><br>/1</p><p><a href="https://thecause.substack.com/p/trump-and-musk-want-you-sicker-so" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thecause.substack.com/p/trump-</span><span class="invisible">and-musk-want-you-sicker-so</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>There's a direct line to this selfish, hateful, destructive behavior in response to civil rights advances brought to us by Democrats, and what Trump is doing today. We can choose to pretend that line is not there, and that this history did not happen.</p><p>But I'm old enough to remember it. I lived through it. And as long as I'm alive, I'll keep telling you that it happened and needs to be faced.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalGovernment</span></a><br>/7</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>They boycotted integrated public schools, defunded schools, attacked federal involvement in promoting public education, opened separate whites-only church-run academies, shut down public institutions like swimming pools rather than see Black and white citizens share them.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalGovernment</span></a><br>/6</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>When the federal government pushed desegregation and integration of public schools, white Southerners responded by tearing everything up rather than share with people of color. </p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalGovernment</span></a><br>/5</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>Many of us want to sanewash our own recent history, which some of us remember and refuse to forget. The reason the federal government is in Musk-Trump's sights as a target, the reason they're attacking and demolishing it, is that the word "federal" has stuck in the craw of white Southern voters since the Democrats enacted federal legislation to advance civil rights for people of color in the 1960s.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalGovernment</span></a><br>/4</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>Yesterday, in a thread I pointed to David Pepper stating that the problem is not just Trump, but that Trump is enacting authoritarian fantasies Republicans have cherished for over half a century. </p><p>Trump did not invent the authoritarian dreams of the Republican voter base. They have been there all along. The Republican voter base is every bit as much of the problem as Trump is.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalGovernment</span></a><br>/3</p><p><a href="https://thecause.substack.com/p/the-trump-regime-had-a-54-year-and" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thecause.substack.com/p/the-tr</span><span class="invisible">ump-regime-had-a-54-year-and</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"Public schools have always been the epicenter of the right-wing culture war since the Supreme Court ruled segregation was unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education. Abortion, feminism, and LGBTQ+ rights were eventually added to the never-ending list of right-wing grievances."</p><p>~ Wajahat Ali</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DepartmentofEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DepartmentofEducation</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/PublicEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicEducation</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/PublicSchools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicSchools</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalGovernment</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/integration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>integration</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/race" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>race</span></a></p><p><a href="https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/make-american-kids-dumb-and-segregated" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thelefthook.substack.com/p/mak</span><span class="invisible">e-american-kids-dumb-and-segregated</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"Musk, who serves as a senior adviser to Donald Trump, posted about judges who ruled in opposition to the administration more than 20 times within 48 hours this week on X, the social network he owns, repeatedly framing them as radical leftist activists and seeking to undermine their authority."</p><p>~ Nick Robins-Early</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalGovernment</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>destruction</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chaos</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/courts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>courts</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/judges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>judges</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/LawandOrder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LawandOrder</span></a><br>/8</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/22/elon-musk-doge-judges-usaid" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/technology/202</span><span class="invisible">5/mar/22/elon-musk-doge-judges-usaid</span></a></p>