Francisca Sinn<p>ICYMI - </p><p>What to expect from a felon tyrant wannabe king who keeps getting stopped by a judiciary enforcing the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/RuleOfLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RuleOfLaw</span></a>? That he continue to break laws and try to silence those who call it out and oppose him. </p><p>It’s also why he’s attacking law firms. </p><p><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/speaker-mike-johnson-floats-eliminating-federal-courts-rcna197986" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nbcnews.com/politics/congress/</span><span class="invisible">speaker-mike-johnson-floats-eliminating-federal-courts-rcna197986</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TrumpRegime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpRegime</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Judiciary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Judiciary</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Law</span></a></p>
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Henrik Sundström<p>WIRED on the Elon Musk Takeover:</p><p>"Since the first days of the Trump administration, Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been everywhere in the federal government, moving fast and breaking things. </p><p>The big takeaway: Many on the DOGE team are from Musk’s world. If Musk is America’s CEO, then DOGE has become his Silicon Valley executive branch."</p><p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-silicon-valley-corporate-connections/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge</span><span class="invisible">-silicon-valley-corporate-connections/</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/elonmusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elonmusk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/doge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>doge</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/wired" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wired</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>musk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/siliconvalley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>siliconvalley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UniversityOfToronto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UniversityOfToronto</span></a> hires three prominent Yale <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/professors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>professors</span></a> worried about Trump </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> scholar <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JasonStanley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JasonStanley</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/historians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>historians</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TimothySnyder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TimothySnyder</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MarciShore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarciShore</span></a> have taken jobs at the University of Toronto amid concerns about the second <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration</p><p>by Allison Smith, Mar 26, 2025</p><p>"U.S. President Donald Trump’s reelection has spurred several high-profile Yale <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/professors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>professors</span></a> to leave New Haven for jobs at the University of Toronto. </p><p>"Bestselling author Timothy Snyder and historian Marci Shore are on leave from Yale and joined UofT earlier this year.</p><p>"Snyder and Shore, who are married, will begin teaching courses at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy this fall. </p><p>"Shore told TorontoToday they plan to stay at UofT 'for the long-term.' </p><p>"Snyder is the New York Times bestselling author of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OnTyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnTyranny</span></a> and The Road to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Unfreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unfreedom</span></a>, and an outspoken critic of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration. </p><p>"UofT began recruiting her and Snyder two years ago, Shore said, 'and we were seriously considering the offers long before the November 2024 presidential elections.'</p><p>"'Both Toronto and the Munk School were and are very attractive places unto themselves, even bracketing the American descent into fascism,' she said in an email.</p><p>"'All that said, yes, of course our <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AmericanCatastrophe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanCatastrophe</span></a> played a role in our final decision.'"</p><p>Rea more:<br><a href="https://www.torontotoday.ca/local/education/university-toronto-hires-three-prominent-yale-professors-worried-about-trump-10433643" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">torontotoday.ca/local/educatio</span><span class="invisible">n/university-toronto-hires-three-prominent-yale-professors-worried-about-trump-10433643</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UofT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UofT</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrainDrain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BrainDrain</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.sciences.re/@cneff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cneff</span></a></span> Yeah, we're in big trouble here in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a>! <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DoublePlusUngood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DoublePlusUngood</span></a>! <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrainDrain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BrainDrain</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>20 Lessons from the 20th Century About How to Defend <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a>, According to Yale <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Historian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Historian</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TimothySnyder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TimothySnyder</span></a></p><p>in History | January 20th, 2017</p><p>"Timothy Snyder, Housum Professor of History at Yale University, is one of the foremost scholars in the U.S. and Europe on the rise and fall of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/totalitarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>totalitarianism</span></a> during the 1930s and 40s. Among his long list of appointments and publications, he has won multiple awards for his recent international bestsellers '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Bloodlands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bloodlands</span></a>: Europe between <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hitler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hitler</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Stalin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Stalin</span></a>' and last year’s 'Black Earth: The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Holocaust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Holocaust</span></a> as History and Warning.' That book in part makes the argument that <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nazism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nazism</span></a> wasn’t only a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/German" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>German</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nationalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nationalist</span></a> movement but had global <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/colonialist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colonialist</span></a> origins—in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Africa</span></a>, and in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a>, the nation that pioneered so many methods of human extermination, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/racist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>racist</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dehumanization</span></a>, and ideologically-justified <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandGrabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LandGrabs</span></a>.</p><p>"The hyper-<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> portrayed in the U.S.—even during the Depression—Snyder writes, fueled Hitler’s imagination, such that he promised Germans 'a life comparable to that of the American people,' whose 'racially pure and uncorrupted' German population he described as 'world class.' Snyder describes Hitler’s ideology as a myth of racialist struggle in which 'there are really no values in the world except for the stark reality that we are born in order to take things from other people.' Or as we often hear these days, that acting in accordance with this principle is the 'smart' thing to do. Like many far right figures before and after, Hitler aimed to restore a state of nature that for him was a perpetual state of race war for imperial dominance." </p><p><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2017/01/20-lessons-from-the-20th-century-about-how-to-defend-democracies-from-authoritarianism.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">openculture.com/2017/01/20-les</span><span class="invisible">sons-from-the-20th-century-about-how-to-defend-democracies-from-authoritarianism.html</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Histodon</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hitler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hitler</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HyperCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HyperCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a></p>
GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ<p>Saturday 5 April. Nonviolent action. Host an event or find an event to participate in. most important: BE THERE FOR ALL OF US.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>protest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RESIST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RESIST</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HandsOff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HandsOff</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FascistAmeriKKKa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FascistAmeriKKKa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nazis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://handsoff2025.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">handsoff2025.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ<p>Saturday 5 April. Nonviolent action.</p><p>Host an event or find an event to participate in.</p><p>most important: BE THERE FOR ALL OF US.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>protest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RESIST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RESIST</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HandsOff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HandsOff</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FascistAmeriKKKa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FascistAmeriKKKa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nazis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> handsoff2025.com</p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>DICTATORSHIP:</p><p>"The video of Ozturk’s arrest reveals a violation of basic civil rights and decency that should sicken every American and frighten legal immigrants to their core. For the Trump administration, it’s another leverage point to bring universities into line while also throttling another avenue of legal immigration.</p><p>The scene itself resembles one out of a small paramilitary country. An unmarked vehicle pulls up. Masked agents in plainclothes emerge. They accost Ozturk, who utters a small scream. One agent wrests her cellphone out of her hand. With stunning swiftness, she is handcuffed and escorted away.</p><p>Ozturk, a former Fulbright scholar, has been charged with no crime so far, according to her lawyer. Her only infraction appears to be a fairly mild op-ed piece she co-wrote with several other students for the Tufts Daily, in which they urged the university to take seriously a student government resolution calling on the school to divest from companies dealing with Israel and recognize genocide of Palestinians.</p><p>In other words, a classic non-violent exercise of free speech.</p><p>Tufts President Sunil Kumar said in a statement that Ozturk’s student visa status had been terminated “and we seek to confirm whether that information is true.”"</p><p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-03-28/rumeysa-ozturk-s-detention-by-ice-is-a-wake-up-call" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bloomberg.com/opinion/articles</span><span class="invisible">/2025-03-28/rumeysa-ozturk-s-detention-by-ice-is-a-wake-up-call</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a></p>
GryphonSK<p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> knows he can't win a fair <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>election</span></a>. <br>Apparently, he never has. <br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/votersuppression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>votersuppression</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/cheaters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cheaters</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>republicans</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/nDvhKp54W6I?si=bzSXzL6dIdPj3EOq" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/nDvhKp54W6I?si=bzSXzL</span><span class="invisible">6dIdPj3EOq</span></a></p>
GryphonSK<p>Don't believe <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>propaganda</span></a>.<br>Believe the evidence of your eyes and ears. </p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jews</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>palestine</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/Jqof0Zl_0rs?si=DjQRm2_rOIFocnec" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/Jqof0Zl_0rs?si=DjQRm2</span><span class="invisible">_rOIFocnec</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>When <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DietrichBonhoeffer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DietrichBonhoeffer</span></a>, a German Pastor, Theorized How <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Stupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Stupidity</span></a> Enabled the Rise of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nazis</span></a> (1942)</p><p>in History, Politics | March 26th, 2025</p><p>"Two days after Adolf <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hitler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hitler</span></a> became Chancellor of Germany, the Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer took to the airwaves. Before his radio broadcast was cut off, he warned his countrymen that their führer could well be a verführer, or misleader. Bonhoeffer’s anti-Nazism lasted until the end of his life in 1945, when he was executed by the regime for association with the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler. Even while imprisoned, he kept thinking about the origins of the political mania that had overtaken Germany. The force of central importance to Hitler’s rise was not evil, he concluded, but stupidity.</p><p>"'Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice,' Bonhoeffer wrote in a letter to his co-conspirators on the tenth anniversary of Hitler’s accession to the chancellorship. 'One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless.' When provoked, 'the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self-satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack.'</p><p>"Fighting stupidity, to Bonhoeffer’s mind, first necessitates understanding it. 'In essence not an intellectual defect but a human one,' stupidity can descend upon practically anyone: 'under certain circumstances, people are made stupid or that they allow this to happen to them.' And it happens most noticeably when a particular figure or movement seizes the attention of the public. 'Every strong upsurge of power in the public sphere, be it of a political or of a religious nature, infects a large part of humankind with stupidity,' he writes. Since such phenomena could hardly arise without blindly obedient masses, it seems that 'the power of the one needs the stupidity of the other.'</p><p>"You can see Bonhoeffer’s theory of stupidity explained in the illustrated Sprouts video above, and you can learn more about the man himself from the documentary Bonhoeffer. Or, better yet, read his collection, Letters and Papers from Prison. Though rooted in his time, culture, and religion, his thought remains relevant wherever humans follow the crowd. 'The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent,' he writes, which held as true in the public squares of wartime Europe as it does on the social-media platforms of today. 'In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with a person, but with slogans, catchwords and the like, that have taken possession of him.' Whatever would surprise Bonhoeffer about our time, he would know exactly what we mean when we call stupid people 'tools.'"</p><p><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2025/03/when-dietrich-bonhoeffer-a-german-pastor-theorized-how-stupidity-enabled-the-rise-of-the-nazis-1942.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">openculture.com/2025/03/when-d</span><span class="invisible">ietrich-bonhoeffer-a-german-pastor-theorized-how-stupidity-enabled-the-rise-of-the-nazis-1942.html</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Histodon</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WorldPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorldPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BalladOfTheLittleMan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BalladOfTheLittleMan</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PineAndRoses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PineAndRoses</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewEngland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewEngland</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DSA</span></a> protests <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICEDetentions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICEDetentions</span></a></p><p>Posted by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineDSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaineDSA</span></a> and Wes Pelletier | Mar 27, 2025 </p><p>"Last week, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineCoalitionForPalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaineCoalitionForPalestine</span></a> organized a protest of ICE detention of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColumbiaUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColumbiaUniversity</span></a> student leader <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MahmoudKhalil</span></a>. Since then, ICE has operated as the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> Administration’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SecretPolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SecretPolice</span></a>, abducting a growing number of immigrant organizers for exercising their right to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> and protesting the U.S.-sponsored <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a>. The list includes <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RumeysaOzturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RumeysaOzturk</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YunseoChung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YunseoChung</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BadarKhunSuri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BadarKhunSuri</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MomodouTaal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MomodouTaal</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RanjaniSrinivasan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RanjaniSrinivasan</span></a>, as well as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/farmworker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>farmworker</span></a> organizer <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AlfredoJuarezZerefino" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlfredoJuarezZerefino</span></a>. Maine DSA member and Portland District 2 City Councilmember <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WesPelletier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WesPelletier</span></a> spoke at the Portland Mahmoud Khalil protest and DSA chapters around New England issued a joint declaration reprinted below against the ICE abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk.</p><p>New England DSA chapters demand freedom for Rumeysa Ozturk</p><p>"Yesterday, ICE agents abducted Rumeysa Ozturk, a graduate student and pro-Palestine activist at Tufts. </p><p>"The kidnapping comes after almost 400 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICEArrests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICEArrests</span></a> in Massachusetts, as well as the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/doxxing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>doxxing</span></a> of Ozturk by the pro-Isreal website <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CanaryMission" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CanaryMission</span></a>. </p><p>"ICE’s abductions—of Ozturk, Khalil, and many others—is an unprecedented attack on basic <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> in the name of U.S. Empire, whether those detained are peaceful <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliticalActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalActivists</span></a> or undocumented <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/migrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>migrants</span></a> seeking safety, jobs, and a better life. </p><p>"We must stand up against this brazen attack on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a>, and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RightToProtest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RightToProtest</span></a>.</p><p>"We must stand in solidarity with our neighbors and communities under attack from Trump, ICE, and all agents of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>imperialism</span></a>. </p><p>"Governor Healey, the courts, and the Democratic Party establishment are not coming to save us—we must mobilize, agitate, and organize in our workplaces and campuses to defend working-class rights. </p><p>In Solidarity,</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BerkshiresDSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BerkshiresDSA</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BostonDSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BostonDSA</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BostonUniversityYDSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BostonUniversityYDSA</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CapeCodDSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CapeCodDSA</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ConnecticutDSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ConnecticutDSA</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineDSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaineDSA</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NortheasternYDSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NortheasternYDSA</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RiverValleyDSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RiverValleyDSA</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SimmonsYDSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SimmonsYDSA</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SouthernNewHampshireDSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SouthernNewHampshireDSA</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UpperValleyDSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UpperValleyDSA</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WorcesterDSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorcesterDSA</span></a>"</p><p>Source:<br><a href="https://pineandroses.org/news/new-england-dsa-protests-ice-detentions/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pineandroses.org/news/new-engl</span><span class="invisible">and-dsa-protests-ice-detentions/</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResistICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResistICE</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResistFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResistFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Resistance</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/District13" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>District13</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/District13Resists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>District13Resists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TurReich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TurReich</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a></p>
OccuWorld<p>very proud of this concentration camp, disappearing peace activists, and violating the constitution for Israeli war criminals.</p><p><a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/ThirdWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThirdWorld</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Criminal</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Pride" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pride</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/LongHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LongHistory</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>...</p><p>"Portugal said it has updated its travel advice for the U.S. to reflect tighter entry conditions and changes around gender recognition. The Portuguese foreign ministry confirmed the changes in a statement to Newsweek.</p><p>Portugal is now one of a growing number of European countries that have updated travel advice for the U.S. as America's stricter immigration and enforcement practices under President Donald Trump have caused global concern.</p><p>It comes following a number of U.S. border-entry incidents that have happened in recent weeks, including a French scientist being denied entry after border officials searched his phone and found messages that were critical of Trump, and U.K. tourist Becky Burke also being detained at border control."</p><p><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/portugal-issues-travel-warning-us-2051891" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newsweek.com/portugal-issues-t</span><span class="invisible">ravel-warning-us-2051891</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Portugal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Portugal</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LawrenceBritt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LawrenceBritt</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a> Numbers 1 and 11...</p><p>1. Powerful and Continuing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nationalism</span></a><br> Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/patriotic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>patriotic</span></a> mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Flags" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Flags</span></a> are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.</p><p>11. Disdain for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Intellectuals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Intellectuals</span></a> and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arts</span></a><br> Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HigherEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEducation</span></a> and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/academics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academics</span></a> to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.</p><p>Trump targets 'anti-American ideology' at Smithsonian museums</p><p>by Max Matza, 3/27/2025</p><p>"US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institution, which operates more than 20 museums and research centres visited by millions yearly in Washington DC and New York City.</p><p>"The order directs the vice-president to 'eliminate improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology' from the institute's museums, centres and the National Zoo in Washington.</p><p>"It also directs the interior secretary to restore federal properties, including parks, memorials and statues, which 'have been improperly removed or changed in the last five years to perpetuate a false revision of history'.</p><p>"The move is part of Trump's effort to shape American culture, in addition to politics."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdjy1jmvvwzo" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/cdjy1jmv</span><span class="invisible">vwzo</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChristoFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChristoFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChristianRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChristianRight</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TurdReich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TurdReich</span></a></p>
FinchHaven sfba<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://masto.ai/@Nonilex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Nonilex</span></a></span> </p><p>Is it too soon to say <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/BrainDrain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BrainDrain</span></a>?</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tyranny</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ThoughtPolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThoughtPolice</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Dissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dissent</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/FreedomOfAssembly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreedomOfAssembly</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>As the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin escalates its attack on universities, three <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> scholars & vocal Trump critics are leaving Yale University for the University of Toronto. But their given reasons for crossing the border vary.</p><p><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/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ThoughtPolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThoughtPolice</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/dissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dissent</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreedomOfAssembly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreedomOfAssembly</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2025/03/26/fascism-scholars-trump-critics-leave-yale-canada" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">insidehighered.com/news/facult</span><span class="invisible">y-issues/academic-freedom/2025/03/26/fascism-scholars-trump-critics-leave-yale-canada</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>OMG</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TimothySnyder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TimothySnyder</span></a> left the country for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a></p><p>Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley, along with Yale history professors Marci Shore & her husband Timothy Snyder, are taking their teaching to the University of Toronto to advocate for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a>, speak out against <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> & teach without fear of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academic</span></a> capitulation to the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> White House, they say.</p><p><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/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ThoughtPolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThoughtPolice</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/dissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dissent</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreedomOfAssembly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreedomOfAssembly</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/28/us/yale-university-scholars-toronto-trump/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cnn.com/2025/03/28/us/yale-uni</span><span class="invisible">versity-scholars-toronto-trump/index.html</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>Yep, this is a dictatorship... I sincerely hope there will be more democratic elections in the USA... </p><p>"The tattoo on Suárez’s neck is of a colibrí, a hummingbird. His wife said it is meant to symbolize “harmony and good energy.” She said his other tattoos, like a palm tree on his hand—an homage to Suárez’s late mother’s use of a Venezuelan expression about God being greater than a coconut tree—were similarly innocuous. Nevertheless, they may be why Suárez has been effectively disappeared by the US government into a Salvadoran mega-prison.</p><p>Mother Jones has spoken with friends, family members, and lawyers of ten men sent to El Salvador by the Trump administration based on allegations that they are members of the Venezuelan organized crime group Tren de Aragua. All of them say their relatives have tattoos and believe that is why their loved ones were targeted. But they vigorously reject the idea that their sons, brothers, and husbands have anything to do with Tren de Aragua, which the Trump administration recently labeled a foreign terrorist organization. The families have substantiated those assertions to Mother Jones, including—in many cases—by providing official documents attesting to their relatives’ lack of criminal histories in Venezuela. Such evidence might have persuaded US judges that the men were not part of any criminal organization had the Trump administration not deliberately deprived them of due process.</p><p>On March 14, President Donald Trump quietly signed a proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act—a 1798 law last used during World War II. The order declared that the United States is under invasion by Tren de Aragua. It is the first time in US history that the 18th-century statute, which gives the president extraordinary powers to detain and deport noncitizens, has been used absent a Congressional declaration of war."</p><p><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/trump-el-salvador-venezulea-deportation-prison-cecot-bukele/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">motherjones.com/politics/2025/</span><span class="invisible">03/trump-el-salvador-venezulea-deportation-prison-cecot-bukele/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Venezuela" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Venezuela</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ElSalvador" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElSalvador</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"In the case that concerns us here, the request to the IMF for a loan violates not only the National Constitution but also Law 27,612, passed in 2021, whose second article states that “any financing program or public credit operation carried out with the IMF, as well as any extension of the amounts – in addition to terms and conditions – of such programs or operations, shall require a law of the Honorable Congress of the Nation that expressly approves it.” In short, Javier Milei’s government is acting in open violation of the Constitution and the laws of this country, something that prima facie would violate the IMF’s own regulations, whose Board, if it did not take this situation into account, would become an accomplice in a violation of the Constitution and the laws of Argentina.</p><p>In view of this accumulation of irregularities, the debt that Argentina may contract becomes an “odious debt” not enforceable by the eventual creditors, in this case the IMF. This is something that has been sustained by US jurisprudence since the end of the 19th century up to the present day. "</p><p><a href="https://socialistproject.ca/2025/03/open-letter-to-kristalina-georgieva-imf/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">socialistproject.ca/2025/03/op</span><span class="invisible">en-letter-to-kristalina-georgieva-imf/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/IMF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IMF</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Argentina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Argentina</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Milei" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Milei</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PublicDebt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicDebt</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/OdiousDebt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OdiousDebt</span></a></p>
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