“The reason you should care about this is not that it could happen to you but that it is already happening to others. It is happening to people who, we claim, have rights just because we are human. It is happening to me, personally.” #MashaGessen https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/opinion/trump-trans-denationalizing.html
We’re in the midst of #authoritarian takeover of the US govt. It’s been coming and coming, and not everybody is prepared to read it that way. The characters regarded as people to emulate, like #Orban, #Putin all indicate strategy is to create an illiberal #democracy or an authoritarian democracy or a strongman democracy. You neutralize the branches of #government; you neutralize the media; you neutralize universities, and you’re on your way. #trump #maga https://www.chronicle.com/article/were-in-the-midst-of-an-authoritarian-takeover
National Security reasons my scrawny liberal ass.
This veered into publicity stunt territory as well as noncompliance with a Federal Court order which specifically forbade TFG’s sneaky actions.
He’s like a hungry felonious octopus.
@TonyStark
In my most recent blog post, "Redefining Murder," I ask why anti-abortion politicians aren't charged with murder when pregnant women die without access to them. https://proustsaidthat.blog/2025/03/14/redefining-murder/
...and he was being a lot sarcastic when he said he would make america great again
https://apnews.com/article/trump-russia-ukraine-war-solved-f51b96e4e690341caee65358bcbab1fa
@AlliFlowers @ai6yr @Finitum Not really.
Compared to Nazi Eloonatic Musk, Amazon boss Bezos might look like an exemplary employer (Not).
'They lost lives': Ex-prosecutor blasts Trump cuts to weather agency as storms kill dozens https://www.rawstory.com/trump-noaa-weather-cuts-deaths/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Un électeur #US de #Trump , marié à une #péruvienne (depuis enfermée par l' #ICE ) :
"Je savais que (les autorités) sévissaient, mais j'imagine que je ne savais comment ça allait se passer"
Non : pas d'accord, trop facile.
Vous saviez et vous n'avez pas voulu voir
Ce sont les mêmes excuses injustifiables que tous les #collabos ont donné après la #deuxième #guerre #mondiale #WWII
Lawrence Tribe: "Just as Hitler rose from the ashes and grievances of World War I, it looks like Trump’s dream is to reduce the United States to rubble so that he can turn what’s left of our once great country into his base of aggressively expansionist operations in alliance with Vladimir Putin." #politics #danger
Well, if the president doesn't have a brain to drain, why should anyone else?
Trump's puppeteers' strategy to Make America Dumbest Again causes a brain drain of unknown proportions, chasing career scientists out of the country in droves.
Europe's offering them a safe new home with rich opportunities to research, document & develop.
This is absurdly great, but I haven't read a single blog post or news article about it. A fully open source, offline-first alternative to Notion that's a collab between the French and German governments because they want to host documentation securely and on their own terms. THIS is what Europe should be doing. https://docs.numerique.gouv.fr/ #opensource
"Là, clairement c'est fini" : #Tesla #Swasticar est rejeté par les entreprises #françaises à cause d' #Heilon #Musk
#No #Swasticars in our #companies
"A new survey has found that more than half of Americans do not believe #God exists or that He “affects lives,” prompting one prominent researcher to highlight the need for “sweeping national repentance and spiritual renewal.”
Personally, I think the decline of Christianity is the "spiritual renewal" we need.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/less-than-half-of-americans-believe-god-exists-barna-survey.html
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