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#dictatorship

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salix sericea (@Ripple13216)<p>Checked our two satellite phones the other day before reactivating the account and had, let's say, "a moment".</p><p>What kind of communication would a dictatorship want?</p><p>As in internet without cables, telephone without towers...</p><p>Who is building one with, say, a few thousand satellites?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/satellites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>satellites</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorship</span></a></p>
JanKusanagi<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://romancelandia.club/@Eve" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Eve</span></a></span> but the <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorship</span></a> is already there. Are you sure you'll be able to have elections in a year and a half?</p>
Nonilex<p>“This administration has systematically attacked every aspect of civil society, from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LawFirms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LawFirms</span></a> &amp; the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a>, &amp; is now coming after the nonprofit sector,” Nick Turner, president of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Vera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vera</span></a> Institute, said in a statement. “We can only surmise that these tactics seek to silence us. It will not happen. We will not back down.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tyranny</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MafiaState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MafiaState</span></a> <br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Resist</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>A <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Vera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vera</span></a> Institute attorney then asked on the call what <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>legal</span></a> authority <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> had to demand involvement with an independent, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/nonprofit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nonprofit</span></a> org, acc/to the transcript. The DOGE employees reportedly responded that there was no point in getting into details since the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOJ</span></a> already terminated Vera’s grants.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tyranny</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MafiaState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MafiaState</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>At the meeting Tues, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Vera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vera</span></a> Institute leaders said the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOJ</span></a> this month revoked $5M in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalGrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalGrants</span></a> that the institute was receiving to develop programs related to reducing recidivism rates &amp; supporting victims of violent crimes, acc/to Nick Turner, head of the Vera Institute.
<br>When <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> members learned that the institute was no longer receiving federal funds, they started to wrap up the meeting, realizing it was no longer necessary.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tyranny</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MafiaState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MafiaState</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>It was unclear how many groups <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> aims to be involved in, but working w/more groups could represent a dramatic expansion of DOGE’s influence in the admin’s operations.…<br>
Based on a transcript of the meeting prepared by the institute, DOGE reps seemed unaware that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Vera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vera</span></a> Institute recently lost its <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalGrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalGrants</span></a> &amp; of how <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/nonprofit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nonprofit</span></a> groups that receive grants operate differently from govt entities that have independence from the executive branch.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MafiaState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MafiaState</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>A member of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> last week emailed the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Vera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vera</span></a> Institute of Justice — an independent <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/nonprofit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nonprofit</span></a> organization that advocates for lower incarceration rates — to schedule a meeting about “getting a DOGE team assigned to the organization,” acc/to a copy of the email that was reviewed by WaPo.<br>
“If I do not hear from you, I will assume you do not plan to comply with the President’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveOrder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveOrder</span></a>,” said the email from DOGE rep Nate Cavanaugh….</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tyranny</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MafiaState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MafiaState</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Umm, no.</p><p>DOGE reps told leaders of a [nongovernmental] <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/nonprofit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nonprofit</span></a> group Tues that it wants to assign members of its team to work at all institutes or agencies that receive federal funds….<br>
A 20-min phone call involved 2 members of DOGE &amp; attorneys for the Vera Institute of Justice, w/DOGE reps revealing plans to potentially attach its team members to more organizations &amp; institutes that receive govt funding….</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tyranny</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MafiaState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MafiaState</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/15/doge-musk-nonprofit-vera-institute/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/national-se</span><span class="invisible">curity/2025/04/15/doge-musk-nonprofit-vera-institute/</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>As a fellow white man who, in contrast to Stewart and Maher, has never enjoyed all the perks and privileges heterosexuality affords, I can only say that I long since began turning a deaf ear to Stewart and Maher and men like them.</p><p>Privilege blinds. Unexamined privilege — and the colossal privilege afforded striaght white men is too seldom examined by said men — spectacularly blinds.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/JonStewart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JonStewart</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cruelty</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/BothSideism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BothSideism</span></a> <br>/3</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>As Doktor Zoom writes, "He sure seems reluctant to see that the problem isn’t that we’re 'polarized,' but that we’re under assault and maybe the problem isn’t that in the face of gathering fascism, some people are going overboard by burning some Teslas…."</p><p>I'm reading similar commentary about another icon of many US liberals, Bill "But Trump's So Charming and Nice" Maher.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/JonStewart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JonStewart</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cruelty</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/BothSideism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BothSideism</span></a> <br>/2</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>Wonkette's Doktor Zoom has good, zingy commentary on Jon Stewart's "who could have imagined" admission that his anodyne, misleading both-sideism about Biden-Trump and Democrats-Republicans didn't see what a lot of the rest of us saw coming: savagery, looming dictatorship, real horrors.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/JonStewart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JonStewart</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cruelty</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/BothSideism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BothSideism</span></a> <br>/1</p><p><a href="https://www.wonkette.com/p/jon-stewart-very-sorry-he-believed" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wonkette.com/p/jon-stewart-ver</span><span class="invisible">y-sorry-he-believed</span></a></p>
Katykayay<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://channels.im/@usluck" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>usluck</span></a></span> Remember that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/OuterLimits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OuterLimits</span></a> episode (or was it the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TwilightZone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TwilightZone</span></a>?) about the small town where there was a boy who could <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/disappear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disappear</span></a> anyone who displeased him? It creeped me out when I was a kid, and it creeps me out even more now!<br>86_47!!</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HabeasCorpus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HabeasCorpus</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RuleOfLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RuleOfLaw</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SpoiledBrat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpoiledBrat</span></a></p>
JanKusanagi<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://cosocial.ca/@kgw" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kgw</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorship</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>If that does not hold, then nothing else does. If we have the law, then violence may not be committed by one person against another on the basis of namecalling or strong feelings. This applies to everyone, above all to the president, whose constitutional function is to enforce the laws.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tyranny</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TimothySnyder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimothySnyder</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The second part is deterring the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a>, or anyone else, from challenging the perversion by associating anyone who objects with crime &amp; terror. This was the role <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StephenMiller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StephenMiller</span></a> played when he said yesterday in the White House that reporters "want foreign terrorists in the country who kidnap women &amp; children."</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tyranny</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TimothySnyder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimothySnyder</span></a></p>
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Nonilex

Yesterday in the White House, the Salvadoran president showed the way, referring to #KilmarAbregoGarcia as a "terrorist" without any basis whatsoever. The Americans treated him as a criminal, even though he was charged with no crime.

The first part of controlling the #language is inverting the meaning: whatever the government does is good, because by definition…its victims are the "criminals" & the "terrorists."

#law#Trump#tyranny
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Nonilex

#StateTerror
A brief guide for Americans

by #TimothySnyder

Yesterday the president defied a #SCOTUS ruling to return a man who was mistakenly sent to a gulag in another country, celebrated the suffering of this innocent person, & spoke of sending Americans to foreign #ConcentrationCamps.

This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, & it has to be identified as such to be stopped.

#law #Trump #tyranny #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship
snyder.substack.com/p/state-te

Thinking about... · State TerrorBy Timothy Snyder
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Martha Stewart went to prison for insider trading. Why not Trump and his inner circle? Bloomberg News reported: “The world’s richest people added $304 billion to their combined net worth, the largest one-day gain in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, after Trump pledged to pause tariffs for some countries”

Listen to this week’s episode here: gaslitnation.libsyn.com/can-th.

#oligarchy#dictatorship#dictatortrump
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