#americanautocracy — Public Fediverse posts
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After a brief rebuttal by D. John Sauer, the lawyer for the #Trump administration, the case is submitted, court adjourned.
Personally, it feels like, once again, #SCOTUS is going to grant Trump even greater authority than they already have done.
Welcome to the new #AmericanAutocracy. We’ve been here a while. 😞
Start of 🧵→ https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/115684607130555625
#law #HumphreysExecutor #ActivistCourt #Autocracy #power #ExecutiveBranch #SeparationOfPowers #Congress 🧵
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After a brief rebuttal by D. John Sauer, the lawyer for the #Trump administration, the case is submitted, court adjourned.
Personally, it feels like, once again, #SCOTUS is going to grant Trump even greater authority than they already have done.
Welcome to the new #AmericanAutocracy. We’ve been here a while. 😞
Start of 🧵→ https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/115684607130555625
#law #HumphreysExecutor #ActivistCourt #Autocracy #power #ExecutiveBranch #SeparationOfPowers #Congress 🧵
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After a brief rebuttal by D. John Sauer, the lawyer for the #Trump administration, the case is submitted, court adjourned.
Personally, it feels like, once again, #SCOTUS is going to grant Trump even greater authority than they already have done.
Welcome to the new #AmericanAutocracy. We’ve been here a while. 😞
Start of 🧵→ https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/115684607130555625
#law #HumphreysExecutor #ActivistCourt #Autocracy #power #ExecutiveBranch #SeparationOfPowers #Congress 🧵
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After a brief rebuttal by D. John Sauer, the lawyer for the #Trump administration, the case is submitted, court adjourned.
Personally, it feels like, once again, #SCOTUS is going to grant Trump even greater authority than they already have done.
Welcome to the new #AmericanAutocracy. We’ve been here a while. 😞
Start of 🧵→ https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/115684607130555625
#law #HumphreysExecutor #ActivistCourt #Autocracy #power #ExecutiveBranch #SeparationOfPowers #Congress 🧵
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After a brief rebuttal by D. John Sauer, the lawyer for the #Trump administration, the case is submitted, court adjourned.
Personally, it feels like, once again, #SCOTUS is going to grant Trump even greater authority than they already have done.
Welcome to the new #AmericanAutocracy. We’ve been here a while. 😞
Start of 🧵→ https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/115684607130555625
#law #HumphreysExecutor #ActivistCourt #Autocracy #power #ExecutiveBranch #SeparationOfPowers #Congress 🧵
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“Like other mayors across the country, I have not asked for -– & do not need -– federal intervention,” #Portland mayor, Keith Wilson, said in a statement after #Trump’s threat. Wilson said his city had protected #FreedomOfExpression while “addressing occasional violence & property destruction.” [cause shit happens]
#law #PosseComitatusAct #democracy #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo #AmericanAutocracy #military #USTroops #immigration #protest #resist
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Earlier in September, #Trump had described living in Portland [like he’d know] as “like living in hell” & said he was considering sending in federal #troops, as he has recently threatened to do to combat crime in other cities, including #Chicago & #Baltimore.
#law #PosseComitatusAct #democracy #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo #AmericanAutocracy #military #USTroops #immigration #protest #resist
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#Trump, in comments Thursday in the Oval Office, suggested some kind of operation was in the works.
“We’re going to get out there & we’re going to do a pretty big number on those people in #Portland,” he said, describing them as “professional agitators & anarchists.”
#law #PosseComitatusAct #democracy #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo #AmericanAutocracy #military #USTroops #immigration #protest #resist
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#Trump said he was “authorizing Full Force, if necessary” of US #troops to handle “domestic terrorists” in #Portland, Oregon as he expands his illegal #military deployments to more American cities.
Note the language: “War ravaged Portland” - he thinks calling #Antifa #terrorists & Portland a #war zone will get him around the #PosseComitatusAct.
#law #democracy #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo #AmericanAutocracy #immigration #protests #resist
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This is the reason why #Trump labeled #Antifa a #terrorist organization. So he could send #military into #BlueCities where there are #protests. Because it is amorphous, he can call whatever he wants “Antifa” it’s not like #SCOTUS will stop him.
#law #PosseComitatusAct #democracy #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo #AmericanAutocracy #military #USTroops #immigration #protests #resist
https://apnews.com/article/trump-federal-troops-portland-oregon-f8659de72f28289ef22bd924d149a52f?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-09-27-Breaking+News -
For #Trump, the nation is less a #MeltingPot where #different #cultures combine harmoniously than a #crucible where foreign notions are burned off & a #homogeneous mix emerges.
“America has always welcomed those who embrace our values, assimilate into our society, & pledge allegiance to our country,” he writes. “By taking this oath, you have forged a sacred bond with our Nation, her traditions, her history, her culture, & her values.”
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A federal judge’s scathing opinion explains why Trump’s deployment of #troops to #California was more than just an overreach.
The #Trump administration broke the #law. Its officials knew they were breaking the law. And they’ll likely try to do so again.
#MilitaryState #PosseComitatusAct #authoritarianism #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy #LosAngeles #Gestapo #NationalGuard #Marines #USTroops #resist
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/09/trump-national-guard-law-california/684084/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxZRivk8VNFDTyCxMzZBFw8k -
The #Trump admin contended that the #troops were needed in #California for federal agents to do their jobs because protesters were impeding their efforts. CA officials quickly challenged the deployment, & Judge Breyer…temporarily blocked it in June.
A 3-judge panel from the US Court of Appeals for the #9thCircuit, which included 2 appointees of Trump & 1 of President Biden, ruled that Breyer had erred.
#law #MilitaryState #democracy #authoritarianism #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy #resist
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…A 19th-century #law, the #PosseComitatusAct, generally prohibits the use of the US #military for domestic civilian law enforcement, absent an #insurrection. But #Trump did not invoke the #InsurrectionAct. Rather, he argued that an overarching federal law, #Title10 of the US Code, which lays out the role of the #ArmedForces, allowed him to commandeer #NationalGuard units to execute federal law.
#MilitaryState #democracy #authoritarianism #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy #resist
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#Trump also declared #crime in #WashingtonDC *emergency* in order to send federal #troops there in August, although crime rates in the nation’s capital have actually been falling & local officials said the deployment was not needed. Since then, Trump has publicly mused about sending the #NationalGuard into other #Democratic-led #cities.
#law #MilitaryState #PosseComitatusAct #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo #AmericanAutocracy #resist
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…the #DOJ, which defended the #Trump admin in the lawsuit, is expected to #appeal the decision & could receive more favorable consideration from the US Court of Appeals for the #9thCircuit.
#law #MilitaryState #PosseComitatusAct #democracy #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo #AmericanAutocracy #LosAngeles #California #NationalGuard #Marines #USTroops #immigration #protests #resist
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#AmericanAutocracy #indoctrination
#Oklahoma will require applicants for #teacher jobs coming from #California & #NewYork to pass an exam that the #Republican state’s top *#education* ofcl claims will safeguard against “radical leftist ideology,” but which opponents decry as a “MAGA loyalty test.”
#RyanWalters, OK #PublicSchools superintendent, said #teachers coming from the #BlueStates must pass an exam administered by #PragerU, a *conservative* *nonprofit*.
#law
https://apnews.com/article/oklahoma-teacher-test-ideology-california-new-york-1d08d0ef4e6e3dc71d8537601d8455e9 -
Trump…has privately discussed whether to intercede in [the #NYC] …race for mayor to try to stop #ZohranMamdani, the #Democratic nominee, according to 8 people briefed on the discussions.
In recent weeks, Trump has quizzed a Republican congressman & #NY businessmen about who in the crowded field of candidates, which includes Mayor #EricAdams & former Gov #AndrewCuomo, has the best chance of beating #Mamdani, the leftist front-runner.
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AYFKM?!
This is NOT a #democracy.
#Trump Weighs Getting Involved in #NYC Mayoral Race
The possibility that Trump will seek to intercede could inject *an element of unpredictability* [total-complete-utter-undiluted #authoritarianism] into an already fractious contest.
#law #elections #illiberalism #dictatorship #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/nyregion/trump-nyc-mayor-cuomo-adams-mamdani.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare -
#Columbia Agrees to $200 Million *Fine* to *Settle Fight With* [#appease] #Trump
The White House had canceled more than $400 million in #research #funding to the #university, saying it had failed to *protect* Jewish students from *harassment* [quash #FreeSpeech regarding #HumanRights].
#law #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/nyregion/columbia-trump-funding-deal.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare -
That is the expansive plan #Trump’s top #immigration ofcls intend to enact after months of struggling to overcome staffing shortages & logistical hurdles that have stymied his pledge to record the most #deportations in US history.
After weeks of pressuring members of #Congress into supporting his domestic policy #legislation, #Trump has secured an extraordinary injection of funding for his immigration agenda—$170 billion, the vast majority of which will go to #DHS over 4yrs.
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#ICE Set to Vastly Expand Its Reach With New Funds
After the passage of #Trump’s domestic policy #law, #DHS is poised to hire thousands of new #immigration agents & double detention space.
Thousands of new #deportation agents deployed into American #cities. A doubling of #detention space to hold tens of thousands of immigrants before they are expelled. Miles of new border wall, along with #surveillance towers equipped with #ArtificialIntelligence.
#AmericanAutocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/us/politics/ice-expansion-concerns.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare -
The #DOJ since January has been purging employees who worked on matters involving #Trump or his supporters.
Fourteen attorneys who worked on #JackSmith's team were fired on January 27 because of work on cases against Trump, becoming some of the department's earliest casualties in the #purge.
#law #MafiaState #authoritarianism #dictatorship #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy
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#DOJ fires 9 more employees from JackSmith's team
#US AG #PamBondi on Friday fired at least 9 more *#Justice* Dept employees who worked for Special Counsel #JackSmith to investigate #Trump's retention of #ClassifiedDocuments & efforts to overturn the 2020 election, according to 5 people familiar with the matter.
#law #MafiaState #authoritarianism #dictatorship #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-justice-fires-nine-more-employees-jack-smiths-team-sources-say-2025-07-12/ -
“An #FBI employee’s loyalty is to the #Constitution, not to the director or deputy director,” said James Davidson, a former agent who spent 23 years in the bureau. “It says everything about Patel’s weak constitution that this is even on his radar.”
#Trump #KashPatel #law #fascism #authoritarianism #dictatorship #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy
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After the 2020 election, retired Gen. #MikeFlynn & other allies showed up at the Oval Office urging him to order the #military to seize voting machines & rerun elections in states where he lost, an idea he considered but did not follow through on, knowing that General Milley would resist.
#AmericanAutocracy #MilitaryState #authoritarianism #propaganda
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Yet as president, #Trump has used the #military to serve his political goals [feed his ego]. He surrounded himself with “my generals” & purged those he deemed insufficiently #loyal [to him, not the country]. He entertained a recommendation to impose a form of #MartialLaw to overturn the 2020 election that he lost. In recent days, he has given speeches at the US Military Academy at #WestPoint & #FortBragg, NC, that sounded like campaign rallies.
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It gets predictably worse:
#HarveyMilk is just one of several trailblazers whose name has been identified for possible removal from naval vessels. …they include #ThurgoodMarshall, the first #Black #SCOTUS justice; #RuthBaderGinsburg [#RBG], another Supreme Court justice, who became a feminist icon;
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#WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #Heterosexism #bigotry #discrimination #hate #Trump #PeteHegseth #military #Tyranny #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/us/politics/navy-ships-harvey-milk-renamed.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=38D79453-1DC0-4D75-BF31-6387C3AEDEF0 -
#Democratic Leader #HakeemJeffries stmnt:
“#NYC Comptroller #BradLander did not #assault anyone. The #Trump admin & #MAGA #Republicans continue to #lie to the American people in the face of clear #video #evidence that contradicts their #FarRight #propaganda.
#law #immigration #DueProcess #propaganda #censorship #transparency #TargetedArrests #RevengePolitics #ICE #HSI #DHS #Gestapo #NaziState #WhiteSupremacy #authoritarianism #MafiaState #AmericanAutocracy
https://jeffries.house.gov/2025/06/17/leader-jeffries-statement-on-the-arrest-of-comptroller-brad-lander/ -
#Trump admin halts scheduling of ALL new #StudentVisa appointments
Trump ordered US #missions abroad to stop scheduling new appointments for student & #exchange visitor #visa applicants as the #State Dept prepares to expand #socialmedia vetting of all #ForeignStudents, acc/to an internal cable seen by Reuters on Tues.
#law #AbuseOfPower #immigration #surveillance #Constitution #AcademicFreedom #dictatorship #tyranny #authoritarianism #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-halts-scheduling-new-student-visa-appointments-2025-05-27/ -
#Trump's sweeping tax-cut #bill includes provision to weaken #court powers
The tax-&-spending bill that would enact Trump's policy agenda includes a provision that would weaken the #power of US #judges to enforce #contempt when the #government defies court orders.
The 1-sentence provision in the 1,100-pg bill prevents #FederalCourts, including #SCOTUS, from enforcing contempt orders unless the plaintiffs have posted a monetary bond….
#law #Felon47
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-sweeping-tax-cut-bill-includes-provision-weaken-court-powers-2025-05-30/ -
After the 2020 election, retired Gen. #MikeFlynn & other allies showed up at the Oval Office urging him to order the #military to seize voting machines & rerun elections in states where he lost, an idea he considered but did not follow through on, knowing that General Milley would resist.
#AmericanAutocracy #MilitaryState #authoritarianism #propaganda
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After the 2020 election, retired Gen. #MikeFlynn & other allies showed up at the Oval Office urging him to order the #military to seize voting machines & rerun elections in states where he lost, an idea he considered but did not follow through on, knowing that General Milley would resist.
#AmericanAutocracy #MilitaryState #authoritarianism #propaganda
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After the 2020 election, retired Gen. #MikeFlynn & other allies showed up at the Oval Office urging him to order the #military to seize voting machines & rerun elections in states where he lost, an idea he considered but did not follow through on, knowing that General Milley would resist.
#AmericanAutocracy #MilitaryState #authoritarianism #propaganda
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After the 2020 election, retired Gen. #MikeFlynn & other allies showed up at the Oval Office urging him to order the #military to seize voting machines & rerun elections in states where he lost, an idea he considered but did not follow through on, knowing that General Milley would resist.
#AmericanAutocracy #MilitaryState #authoritarianism #propaganda
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#Trump enjoys strong support among many active-duty service members & #veterans who appreciate his vocal backing [outwardly if not actual] & admire his unvarnished #bravado, according to polls & analysts. Yet some career officers said the president clearly does not understand the ethos of service or the #nonpartisan tradition of the American #ArmedForces.
#AmericanAutocracy #MilitaryState #ForeignPolicy #authoritarianism #propaganda
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American #diplomats have begun leaving #Israel amid the escalating #war between Israel & #Iran, the #US embassy in Jerusalem said in a statement, without saying how many remained. The statement said the diplomats were departing Israel “through a variety of means,” without clarifying.
#Trump #law #geopolitics #MiddleEast #USpol #Congress #Constitution #ExecutiveOverreach #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #AmericanAutocracy
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Senator #BernieSanders, the Vermont independent, said in an interview w/ NYT that any #military action being considered by #Trump must be voted on by #Congress. “The #Constitution of the #UnitedStates is quite clear,” he said. “It is Congress that determines whether or not this country goes to #war, not a president unilaterally.”
#law #geopolitics #MiddleEast #Israel #Iran #USpol #ExecutiveOverreach #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #AmericanAutocracy
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#Trump Urges #Congress to ‘Kill’ #VoiceOfAmerica as Its *Leader* Defends Gutting It
In a heated hearing, #KariLake, the Trump [crackpot] ally in charge of the federally funded international broadcasting network, called the #media agency “a rotten piece of fish” that should be defunded.
#law #democracy #FreePress #SoftPower #journalism #independence #censorship #authoritarianism #dictatorship #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/us/politics/trump-lake-voice-of-america.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare -
In the meantime, however, #KariLake has plunged back into slashing the ranks of the workforce, w/hundreds of contract employees let go for a second time over the past weekend. The #VoiceOfAmerica website hasn't posted new stories in >2 months.
On Thurs, the full appellate court made clear it would not intervene, at least for now.
#Trump #VOA #law #SeparationOfPowers #journalism #FirstAmendment #censorship #dictatorship #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy
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#Trump's plans to gut #VOA get boost from appeals court
A federal appeals court on Thurs dashed the hopes of #journalists & #FreePress advocacy groups seeking to stave off the near-total dismantlement of #VoiceOfAmerica by the Trump admin.
The admin, led by snr adviser [& crackpot] #KariLake, has iced almost the entire workforce.
#law #SeparationOfPowers #journalism #FirstAmendment #censorship #dictatorship #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/22/nx-s1-5407923/voa-voice-of-america-appeals-court-kari-lake-trump -
The #Senate on Friday rejected a #Democratic measure that would have forced #Trump to go to #Congress for approval of another #military strike against #Iran [he was supposed to for the first]. The resolution had little chance of succeeding in a #Republican-controlled & Trump lick-spittle Congress.
#Constitution #law #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #ExecutiveAuthority #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #dictatorship #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/us/politics/trump-war-powers-iran-strike.html?smid=url-share -
"In #LosAngeles, where #ICE has launched a dragnet, the LA Unified School District [#LAUSD] put in place new protective measures. Many families have nevertheless still opted to skip #graduation & #schools are streaming ceremonies for those who feel safer at home."
#Trump #immigration #terrorism #MassDeportations #law #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo #AmericanAutocracy #California #NationalGuard #Marines #troops
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Early in the standoff, some #protesters hurled chunks of broken concrete toward officers, & #LAPD responded by firing volleys of #TearGas & #PepperSpray. Police also fired "flash-bang" #concussion rounds. It was not clear whether there were any immediate arrests.
An LAPD spox, Drake Madison, told Reuters that police on the scene had declared an unlawful assembly, meaning that those who failed to leave the area were subject to arrest.
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The former #ColumbiaUniversity graduate #student left a federal facility in Louisiana on Friday. He is expected to head to New York to reunite with his #UScitizen wife & infant son, born while #MahmoudKhalil was detained.
“Justice prevailed, but it’s very long overdue,”he said outside the facility in a remote part of Louisiana. “This shouldn’t have taken 3 months.”
#Trump #immigration #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #dissent #AmericanAutocracy
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#Democrats pointed to a surge in Iranians tuning into #RadioFarda, the Persian-language news service funded by the #USAGM. Amid the recent #war between #Israel & #Iran, they argued, the #US should continue to fund #media orgs countering the #misinformation disseminated by Iran & other countries, such as #NorthKorea.#Trump #VOA #VoiceOfAmerica #USAGM #law #democracy #FreePress #SoftPower #journalism #independence #censorship #authoritarianism #dictatorship #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy
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#Democrats pointed to a surge in Iranians tuning into #RadioFarda, the Persian-language news service funded by the #USAGM. Amid the recent #war between #Israel & #Iran, they argued, the #US should continue to fund #media orgs countering the #misinformation disseminated by Iran & other countries, such as #NorthKorea.#Trump #VOA #VoiceOfAmerica #USAGM #law #democracy #FreePress #SoftPower #journalism #independence #censorship #authoritarianism #dictatorship #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy
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#Democrats pointed to a surge in Iranians tuning into #RadioFarda, the Persian-language news service funded by the #USAGM. Amid the recent #war between #Israel & #Iran, they argued, the #US should continue to fund #media orgs countering the #misinformation disseminated by Iran & other countries, such as #NorthKorea.#Trump #VOA #VoiceOfAmerica #USAGM #law #democracy #FreePress #SoftPower #journalism #independence #censorship #authoritarianism #dictatorship #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy
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#Democrats pointed to a surge in Iranians tuning into #RadioFarda, the Persian-language news service funded by the #USAGM. Amid the recent #war between #Israel & #Iran, they argued, the #US should continue to fund #media orgs countering the #misinformation disseminated by Iran & other countries, such as #NorthKorea.#Trump #VOA #VoiceOfAmerica #USAGM #law #democracy #FreePress #SoftPower #journalism #independence #censorship #authoritarianism #dictatorship #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy
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#Democrats pointed to a surge in Iranians tuning into #RadioFarda, the Persian-language news service funded by the #USAGM. Amid the recent #war between #Israel & #Iran, they argued, the #US should continue to fund #media orgs countering the #misinformation disseminated by Iran & other countries, such as #NorthKorea.#Trump #VOA #VoiceOfAmerica #USAGM #law #democracy #FreePress #SoftPower #journalism #independence #censorship #authoritarianism #dictatorship #tyranny #AmericanAutocracy