#authorianism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #authorianism, aggregated by home.social.
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The Labour Parties idea of policing is an AI controlled Panopticon. A country where you feel like you are watched 24/7.
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It's funny how the sinister features on this phone from North Korea are pretty much the same as Microsoft Recall, but with less frequent screenshots.
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"Control is the goal, amassing power in the hands of the president and removing or neutering any institution or person that could stand in his way. That is the guiding logic that explains Trump’s every action, large and small, including his wars on the media, the courts, the universities and the civil servants of the federal government."
Step back and take it in: the US is entering full authoritarian mode
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#NationalGuard troops on #DC streets for #Trump’s #crackdown will start carrying guns
President Donald Trump on Thursday visited law enforcement and National Guard troops in Washington Thursday evening, praising them for their role in his crime crackdown and saying he’ll seek congressional funding for his DC intervention and beautification plans.
By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN, MATT BROWN and CHRIS MEGERIAN
Updated 5:21 PM EDT, August 22, 2025WASHINGTON (AP) — "Defense Secretary #PeteHegseth has ordered National Guard troops to start carrying firearms while patrolling the streets of Washington for President Donald Trump’s law enforcement crackdown, the Pentagon said Friday.
"The Defense Department didn’t offer any other details about the new development or why it was needed. Hegseth referred to it as 'common sense' on social media.
"No troops have been spotted yet with firearms around the city in the hours after the announcement. But the decision is an escalation in the Republican administration’s intervention in the nation’s capital and comes as nearly 2,000 National Guard members have been stationed in the heavily Democratic city.
"Some local officials were harshly critical, with D.C. Councilmember Charles Allen saying Trump’s actions are 'not of a president, but of someone on the march to an #authoritarian #takeover.'
"Trump initially called up 800 members of the District of Columbia National Guard to assist federal law enforcement in his bid to crack down on crime, homelessness and illegal immigration. Since then, six Republican-led states have sent troops to the city, growing the military presence."
#USPol #WashingtonDC #Authorianism #FascismInTheUSA #Fascism
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"While reporters and peaceful protesters were accosted on Pentecost by militarized forces, on the other side of the country tanks have been rolling into the nation’s capital so President Donald Trump can enjoy a military parade on his birthday this Saturday."
~ Brian Kaylor
#Trump #LosAngeles #military #violence #fascism #authorianism #ICE #immigrants #deportation
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"I'll say it over and over again; you can't build the mass deportation machine without first building the police state machine."
~ Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
#Trump #LosAngeles #military #violence #fascism #authorianism #ICE #immigrants #deportation
/20https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3lr4wiequbs2e
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"Plans are already in place to construct detention camps at military bases around the country to house hundreds of thousands of people detained by ICE. To pretend this won’t actually happen on U.S. soil is to deny history itself."
#Trump #LosAngeles #military #violence #fascism #authorianism #ICE #immigrants #deportation
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"The plans they have in place aren’t limited to what’s happening in Los Angeles. A closer reading of the memo reveals that they intend to federalize National Guard forces wherever there are anti-ICE protests, saying they will do so 'where protests against [federal] functions are occurring or likely to occur….'”
~ Jay Kuo
#Trump #LosAngeles #military #violence #fascism #authorianism #ICE #immigrants #deportation
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"It is necessary, for the authoritarian, to wield this violence as quickly as humanly possible lest their abusive hold on reality and power be threatened. And that is the crux here: he and his criminal cronies enjoy a very, very fragile hold on power."
#Trump #LosAngeles #military #violence #fascism #authorianism #ICE #immigrants #deportation
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"The fascistic operations of ICE in brutalizing and disappearing people was always leading here. ...
To be an authoritarian is to be weak and insecure, so any pushback and any inconvenience is an excuse for violence."
~ Jared Yates Sexton
#Trump #LosAngeles #military #violence #fascism #authorianism #ICE #immigrants #deportation
/16https://jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/authoritarian-occupation-los-angeles
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"Part of what is driving this latest escalation is an early attempt to have the Pentagon - illegally, unlawfully - take over domestic immigration enforcement, and to use the threat of military force to accelerate 'self-deportation' and extra-judicial compliance."
~ Simon Rosenberg
#Trump #LosAngeles #military #violence #fascism #authorianism #ICE #immigrants #deportation
/15https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/gov-newsom-fights-the-trump-regime
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"Trump has pardoned the ultra-violent January 6th rioters (if you want to call anything a riot or an attack on police, start there), has routinely threatened violence against his rivals, his enemies, and the press, has turned the federal government into his own personal vendetta machine, and arguably is making his second term a revenge tour against America for rejecting him in 2020."
#Trump #LosAngeles #military #violence #fascism #authorianism #media
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To those who want to cluck tongues at the ostensible "violence" of anti-ICE protestors, Rebecca Solnit has this to say:
"The Trump Administration is a huge surge of almost every kind of violence: Trump is an adjudicated rapist who put a man in charge of the military who himself paid a settlement to a woman who charged him, credibly, with rape;"
#Trump #LosAngeles #military #violence #fascism #authorianism #media
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"What the hell are people supposed to do when jackbooted thugs start kidnapping people? …
And also … the media is perfectly willing to play endless loops of the same 300 people in a city of 10 million scrapping with the cops, bolstering Trump’s wildly inaccurate claim that the city of Los Angeles has been overrun."
~ Liz Dye
#Trump #LosAngeles #military #violence #fascism #authorianism #media
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“We are witnessing the first stages of Trump’s police state. …
History shows that once an authoritarian ruler establishes the infrastructure of a police state, that same infrastructure can be turned on anyone.”
~ Robert Reich
#Trump #LosAngeles #military #violence #fascism #authorianism
/11https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/trumps-police-state
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“The two images make a disturbing portrait of the United States of America under the Donald J. Trump regime as Trump tries to use the issue of immigration to establish a police state. …
There is no doubt that as their other initiatives have stalled and popular opinion is turning against the administration on every issue, the Trump regime is trying to establish a police state.”
#Trump #LosAngeles #military #violence #fascism #authorianism
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“Flatbed train cars carrying thousands of tanks rolled into Washington, D.C., yesterday in preparation for the military parade planned for June 14. On the other side of the country, protesters near Los Angeles filmed officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) throwing flash-bang grenades into a crowd of protesters.”
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#trump #LosAngeles #military #violence #fascism #authorianism
/9https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/june-8-2025
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"This whole situation is a definitional abuse of power. It is a wholly manufactured crisis. … These are illegitimate actions and abuses of presidential power."
~ Josh Marshall
#Trump #LosAngeles #military #violence #fascism #authorianism #Congress #SupremeCourt
/8https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/more-thoughts-on-the-unfolding-crisis-in-ca
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"As President Donald Trump careens further and further into authoritarianism, congressional leadership veers from ambivalence to encouragement and the U.S. Supreme Court has only stepped in on a handful of rare occasions — primarily addressing the process (or lack thereof) employed by the administration, not the substance of its actions."
~ Chris Geidner
#Trump #LosAngeles #military #violence #fascism #authorianism #Congress #SupremeCourt
/7https://www.lawdork.com/p/trump-is-spiraling-we-face-the-consequences
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"They are not taking steps to de-escalate. To the contrary, they continued to dig in on Sunday afternoon. ...
Trump is not serious about keeping the peace. It’s a political provocation, with a 2:41 a.m. tweet this morning designed to fan the flames. If he’s given any excuse for invoking the Insurrection Act, it’s hard to imagine him backing down."
~ Joyce Vance
#Trump #LosAngeles #military #violence #fascism #authorianism
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"The massive and exaggerated deployment of state security personnel and the display of arms and uniforms is designed to frighten people into hiding. There is nothing stronger than solidarity shown publicly, which is why the state responds with outsized threat and violent acts."
#Trump #LosAngeles #military #violence #fascism #authorianism
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"There is no question that Trump is accelerating the creation of a police state in America. To justify the escalation, Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is parroting propaganda that is straight out of the authoritarian playbook in its creation of a fake emergency."
~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat
#Trump #LosAngeles #military #violence #fascism #authorianism
/4https://lucid.substack.com/p/what-trump-and-hegseth-really-fear
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"This isn’t law and order. This is state-sponsored trauma."
~ Michael Cohen
#Trump #LosAngeles #military #violence #fascism #authorianism
/3https://www.meidasplus.com/p/constitution-meets-kevlarwhat-could
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"He really is the master of distraction, isn’t he? Not a single shot was fired and not a single gun was carried by protesters who showed up to demonstrate against overreach by ICE in L.A., and yet Trump cites Title 10 Section 12406 of the federal law to place the California National Guard under the command of himself as President of the United States."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#Trump #LosAngeles #military #violence #fascism #authorianism
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Ron Filipkowski quotes a Los Angeles ABC7 report:
“This Blackhawk moved in from the border patrol—they are unloading dozens of boxes of ammunition, less lethal weaponry. You see these tanks with flammable labels on the side—as if they were getting ready for a major battle.”
~ Ron Filipkowski
#Trump #LosAngeles #military #violence #fascism #authorianism
/1https://www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weekend-in-politics-bulletin-3c6
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Team Trump Is Gaming Out How to Ship #USCitizens to #ElSalvador
Trump officials are talking internally about #denaturalizing #AmericanCitizens — and potentially sending some to #ElSalvador
By Nikki McCann Ramirez, Asawin Suebsaeng, Andrew Perez - April 12, 2025
"Donald #Trump and his White House have moved to deport #GreenCard holders for espousing #ProPalestinian views, shipped hundreds of #migrants to a notorious #Salvadoran #MegaPrison without due process (in defiance of a judge’s order), and are now publicly musing about sending United States citizens to prison in El Salvador.
"Trump said last weekend he would 'love' to send American criminals there — and would even be 'honored' to, depending on 'what the law says.' White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed this week that the president has discussed this idea privately, too, adding he would only do this 'if it’s legal.'
"El Salvador’s president, #Nayi Bukele, has for months been offering to hold U.S. citizens in his country’s prison system, which he has turned into 'a judicial black hole' rife with 'systematic #torture,' as one #HumanRights advocate recently told Rolling Stone.
"Legal experts agree that sending American citizens to prison in El Salvador would be flagrantly illegal under both U.S. and international law — and that the idea itself is shockingly #authoritarian, with few parallels in our nation’s history.
"The Trump administration is indeed discussing this idea behind the scenes, two sources familiar with the matter confirmed to Rolling Stone. In their most serious form, these conversations have revolved around attempting to denaturalize American citizens and deport them to other countries, including El Salvador.
" 'You can’t deport U.S. citizens. There’s no emergency exception, there’s no special wartime authority, there’s no secret clause. You just can’t deport citizens,' says Steve Vladeck, a legal commentator and law professor at Georgetown.
" 'Whatever grounds they try to come up with for denaturalization or #expatriation, the one thing that is absolutely undeniable is that people are entitled to individualized processes, before that process can be effectuated.'
"In the United States, the grounds to strip a naturalized individual of their citizenship encompass serious material offenses. They include: committing #treason or #terrorism, enlisting in a foreign military engaged in opposition to the United States, or lying in applications for citizenship or as part of the naturalization process."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/xliRd#Orwellian #Authorianism #Fascism #ICEDetention #Deportations #USPol #SilencingDissent #MemoryHoled #Disappeared
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Great episode of the weekly Jon Stewart show with #Nobel peace prize winner Maria Ressa, a Filippino-American journalist who was incarcerated in the Philippines she brings a lot of knowledge and wisdom about #authorianism, the importance of supporting fact-based #journalism, the tactics employed by #socialmedia and what we can do to resist the rise of the current #cleptocracy brought to us by the #broligarchy. It’s by design and we can reverse engineer it. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-show-with-jon-stewart/id1583132133?i=1000698048626
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"Trump and his allies have issued multitudes of threats against journalists, and anti-media sentiment is reaching a fever pitch across the political spectrum. The United States has already sunk to #55 on the Reporters Without Borders’ press freedom tracker — the lowest it has ever been — and will likely only fall further once Trump takes office.
- Fight back against Trump’s attempts to weaponize the FCC and other government agencies against news organizations, such as by revoking TV stations’ broadcast licenses or accusing publishers of “treason” for factual reporting
- Urge your Senators to back the PRESS Act to protect journalists from surveillance and provide journalist-source confidentiality
Push for a federal anti-SLAPP law to replace piecemeal and easily dodged state-level protections for journalists from the kinds of frivolous but financially ruinous defamation lawsuits popular among people like Donald Trump and Elon Musk.- Support groups working on journalist legal defense initiatives, like the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and others. If you’re a lawyer, consider offering pro bono legal representation.
- For the tech savvy: help journalists, writers, and archivists protect themselves and their work. Those who are looking to go independent are often looking for advice or tech help. Consider contributing to open source projects like the Internet Archive.
- Support and fight for your local libraries. Get a library card and use it. Volunteer.
- Push back at the local level against efforts to ban books in schools, or to remove important topics from school curricula.
- Support data activist groups like DDoSecrets.
- Support and contribute to open knowledge projects like Wikipedia and those stewarded by the Free Law Project (CourtListener and RECAP among them)."
https://www.citationneeded.news/wind-the-clock/
#USA #Trump #Politics #Authorianism #PressFreedom #Journalism #Media #News
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Rowan Atkinson speaks truth to power again. Always a enjoyable experience to see the court jester speak cogently and eloquently on issues that are crucial to the healthy survival of human society.