“They believe, and have long believed, that the Democratic Party progressives are an existential threat to the country, and thus any means justifies the end—which is making sure that a Democrat never again wins a national election.”
#Autocracy
https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/senator-chris-murphy-this-is-how-democracy-dies-everybody-just-gets-scared
Report: "Sen. Cory Booker Holds All-Night Filibuster Against Trump Agenda"
"New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker is continuing a marathon speech from the Senate floor warning the U.S. faces a crisis over President Trump’s disregard for the rule of law and his efforts to dismantle entire government programs and agencies."
#corybooker #trump #filibuster #uspol #resistance #autocracy .
Interview: "Blueprint for Resisting Trump Education Cuts"
Chicago Teachers Union reached a tentative agreement with Chicago Public Schools that reaffirms sanctuary school protections, protects the ability to teach Black history, gives veteran teachers a raise, & more.
“The collective bargaining agreement is a very powerful tool... to ensure that people are protected."
~Stacy Davis Gates
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/1/stacy_davis_gates
#teacherunions #education #collectivebargaining #uspol #dei #trump #autocracy .
Interview: "We Are Killing the Essence of What the University Is”
A former head of Doctors Without Borders speaks out after NYU canceled her Gaza presentation.
Some of her slides mentioned Trump's cuts to foreign aid & the deaths of humanitarian workers in Gaza, slides which NYU said could be viewed as “anti-governmental” & “antisemitic”.
Interview: "Workers vs. Musk"
"Trump has pushed to end collective bargaining rights for nearly half the federal workforce in a new executive order that calls them “hostile” to his agenda."
"Unions say the order is the biggest attack on the labor movement in U.S. history...designed to silence workers"
~Everett Kelley, American Federation of Government Employees,
Check out mass rallies on April 5
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/1/everett_kelley_trump_unions
#trump #musk #uspol #laborrights #usunions #april5rally #autocracy .
“Kill all the lawyers!”
Lawyers can be thorns in the side of tyrants or they can be handmaidens.
My op-ed for the @CanadianBarAssociation asks #Canadian lawyers to support their brave US counterparts who chose the thorny path of resisting #autocracy.
Panel: "How dangerous are the tensions between the US & Iran?"
"Trump threatens to bomb Iran, while Tehran says it would respond."
Panel
Hassan Ahmadian, University of Tehran
Ali Vaez, International Crisis Group
Ellie Geranmayeh, Middle East and North Africa Programme
#iran #us #uspol #trump #us-iranrelations #usimperialism #autocracy #islamophobia .
"This executive order is how Trump plans to get what Congress and the courts haven’t yet handed him: control over who gets to vote"
#Trump #Autocracy #Corruption #VoterSuppression #UKPolitics
The MAGA and Musk Fever Dream to End Democracy
https://zeteo.com/p/maga-musk-trump-demmocracy-voter-suppression
Whenever I feel hard done by, I remind myself things could be a lot worse. I could be a young Palestinian amputee watching my home demolished and my entire family slaughtered by Israel in the plain view of a seemingly indifferent world. #Netanyahu #JewishHitler #Israel #Zionazis #Jewishterrorists #hasbara #Gaza #Palestine #genocide #USA #Trump #Fascist #Autocracy https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/04/01/another-heinous-war-crime-israeli-army-kills-15-first-responders-in-gaza/
Analysis: Trump’s New Executive Order Is an "Unprecedented Voter Suppression Effort"
The order includes:
* allowing Elon Musk to subpoena voting records;
* giving Trump king-like power to make it harder to vote;
* preventing millions from registering to vote;
* severely limiting voting by mail.
Trump is "trying to stop American voters from participating in elections" ~Eliza Sweren-Becker
Interview: "The US Is Certainly Not the Greatest Democracy on Earth"
Legal expert Elie Mystal on how "US laws are designed to be ‘racist, sexist, and anti-democratic’ and how Trump is weaponizing them.
"The US Constitution was written nearly 240 years ago, laying the foundations for an independent, successful, democratic country. But, like most of the nation’s laws, it was written by and for wealthy white men."
This sort of hand-holding between the Zionist movement and actual Nazis is not new. #Netanyahu #JewishHitler #Israel #Zionazis #Jewishterrorists #hasbara #Gaza #Palestine #genocide #USA #Trump #Fascist #Autocracy
“America is spinning quickly in the direction of Hungarian populism, Hungarian politics, and Hungarian justice. But that means Hungarian stagnation, Hungarian corruption, and Hungarian poverty lie in our future too.”
#Autocracy #Fascism #USA
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/viktor-orban-hungary-maga-corruption/682111/
#DOGE also announced drastic cuts at depts that provide critical #SocialServices including #VeteransAffairs [#VA], which administers #healthcare for #veterans, & the #SocialSecurity Administration, which sends out checks to #retired, #disabled & #widowed Americans [money Americans put into the #SSA out of their own paychecks].
#OPM …has laid off >200 of its own employees & allowed >400 to *opt in* to *voluntary* exit programs since #Trump took office…
…One of #Trump's first acts…was to create #DOGE, [supposedly] to root out waste, fraud & abuse, slash govt spending & purge the federal workforce of low-performing, *disloyal* & unnecessary workers.
…In practice,…DOGE has mostly pursued long-time #Republican #policy objectives, shuttering agencies such as #USAID & the #CFPB, which provide a lifeline to the world's needy & protect Americans from unscrupulous lenders respectively.
"Authorizing a #Musk-controlled agency like #OPM to hire a driver while slashing essential #FederalWorkers who actually help Americans in need is a good example."
The #Trump admin, #DOGE, Musk & Ezell did not respond to requests for comment. An OPM spox said in a statement that the agency "has ongoing security concerns" requiring a driver, w/o providing further detail.
Interview: "The US Is Certainly Not the Greatest Democracy on Earth"
Legal expert Elie Mystal on how "US laws are designed to be ‘racist, sexist, and anti-democratic’ and how Trump is weaponizing them.
"The US Constitution was written nearly 240 years ago, laying the foundations for an independent, successful, democratic country. But, like most of the nation’s laws, it was written by and for wealthy white men."
“Peace-loving Quakers under state attack”
by Another Angry Voice on Substack
“The [London Metropolitan] police raid on #Westminster Quaker Meeting House violated the principle of religious sanctuary and evoked the brutal state persecution of Quakerism in the past”
