#autocracy — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #autocracy, aggregated by home.social.
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The #Pentagon already faces two #FirstAmendment lawsuits over its recent actions at #StarsAndStripes∶ one from the ombudsman, Jacqueline Smith, who sued over her firing & alleged retaliation; the other by two board members, who sued over the March restrictions, alleging illegal #censorship.
#law #Constitution #FreePress #FreeSpeech #military #Trump #Hegseth #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
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In the lawsuit, filed Thursday in federal district court in Washington, publisher Max Lederer, editor in chief Erik Slavin & reporter Lara Korte claimed that their firings last week for “insubordination” were retaliatory in nature & violated federal administrative law.
#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress #FreeSpeech #StarsAndStripes #Pentagon #military #Trump #Hegseth #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
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#StarsAndStripes employees sue #Pentagon over firings at #military #newspaper
The publication’s publisher, its editor in chief & a reporter allege that the government violated their #FirstAmendment rights to #FreeSpeech.#law #Constitution #FreePress #Trump #Hegseth #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/08/27/lawsuit-says-pentagon-breached-1st-amendment-stars-stripes-firings/ -
#Trump Fired the #Watchdogs. Their Replacements Have a Different Mission.
Trump is installing his allies in the offices of #InspectorGeneral, which are meant to provide #independent #government #oversight.
#law #corruption #RevengePolitics #LegalEthics #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/us/politics/trump-inspector-general.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7lA.mZJ-.CdEXIhVgqg4R&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
Slavin said he & Korte were fired for participating in a #CBS #News interview, during which he said #censorship of the #military #newspaper crossed a red line. “#Pentagon public affairs has deemed that insubordination,” Slavin said in an interview.
#StarsAndStripes #Trump #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress #journalism #media #FourthEstate #censorship #RevengePolitics #MafiaState #PrerogativeState #StateMedia #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
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Under #Defense Secy #Hegseth, the publication’s #independence has come under threat during the 2nd #Trump admin as top #Pentagon leaders have derided the newspaper as “woke.”
Erik Slavin, the #editor in chief, said he & #reporter Lara Korte also received separation notices Friday.#StarsAndStripes #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress #journalism #media #FourthEstate #censorship #MafiaState #StateMedia #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
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Taking it even further…
#Pentagon fires #StarsAndStripes leaders who criticized #DOD’s interference
The Defense Dept earlier this year railed against the publication, which has long enjoyed editorial #independence, as “woke.”#Trump #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress #military #journalism #media #FourthEstate #censorship #RevengePolitics #MafiaState #PrerogativeState #StateMedia #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/08/21/pentagon-fires-stars-stripes-leaders-who-criticized-dods-interference/ -
#Trump’s Lust for #Vengeance Is Turning Into a Farce
#GiftArticle by Jamelle Bouie
The principal aim of Trump’s second presidential term is #revenge.
#law #unfit #PrerogativeState #MafiaState #RevengePolitics #retribution #EnemiesList #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #manbaby
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/opinion/trumps-revenge.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6lA.apb_.Y6mnzyhgj2vr&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
#ABC Sues #FCC to Block Threat to Its TV Licenses
The network asked a court to stop the agency from taking steps that could force ABC stations off the air & accused the FCC of violating its #FirstAmendment rights.
#Trump #law #Constitution #FreePress #journalism #media #FourthEstate #censorship #RevengePolitics #MafiaState #PrerogativeState #StateMedia #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/business/media/abc-fcc-lawsuit-broadcast-licenses.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6VA.3Zz_.we73rwHrbps0&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
What do rightwing voters not [want to]see when looking & listening to Alice Weidel?
Vote extreme right = loose human rights
#extremeright #democracy #afd #news #politics #mariankaminski #cartoon #satire #dictators #autocracy #fascism #VoteafdLooseDemocracy #voteExtremeRightLooseHumanRights
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The most immediate effect of Trump’s threat is to make Chandler Hall, the #CAP report’s author, a folk hero among DC’s left-leaning policy analysts. But if the threatened lawsuit actually materializes, #Trump will lose.
#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #ThoughtPolice #dissent #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
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#CAP is led by #NeeraTanden [💕], one of the Democratic Party’s most influential power players & a veteran of the past three Democratic admins. But a less partisan #ThinkTank, the #NiskanenCenter, published its own report in May that also found no effect on violent crime in DC attributable to the #NationalGuard deployment. (It did find a reduction in property crime, which CAP did not analyze.)
#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #Trump #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
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What set #Trump off was a #CAP report that found #NationalGuard deployments in DC have not contributed to the decline of violent crime. Trump said on social media that he’s drawing up a lawsuit against the liberal #ThinkTank & suggested that he might include some of its contributors. Trump named Google, Apple, Visa, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Walmart, Toyota, T-Mobile & NBC Universal.
#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #authoritarianism #autocracy #fascism #tyranny
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#Trump’s attack on a #ThinkTank is an affront to the #FirstAmendment
#Republicans would be rightly irate if a Democratic president threatened to sue a conservative think tank & punish its corporate #donors over #research the White House didn’t like, but Trump’s attack this week on the Center for American Progress [ #CAP ] & its funders has been met with shrugs & silence.
#law #Constitution #ThoughtPolice #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/08/14/trump-legal-threat-against-cap-risks-chilling-think-tank-research/?utm_medium=referral_home&utm_source=webview&no_nav=true&utm_campaign=pb_2607:variant;rct:0:0:2:20260701 -
As part of their inquiry, the documents show, #DHS officials used an array of invasive tactics during the first half of this year to gather information on many groups & individuals who were NEVER even accused of crimes, crossing the line that has traditionally stood between investigating criminal activity & political #dissent.
#law #Constitution #Trump #ThoughtPolice #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
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Instead, it was several #left-leaning #political organizations — #labor #unions, a #ClimateChange group, #socialist collectives — that investigators believed had provided help & money to what they described as the “violent opportunists & agitators” on the street, acc/to newly released government documents.
#law #Constitution #dissent #Trump #ConspiracyTheories #ThoughtPolice #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
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Four days after #AlexPretti was fatally shot while filming officers taking part in the #Trump admin’s #immigration crackdown in #Minnesota, the #DHS quietly opened an investigation at its office in St. Paul.
The target was not the #BorderPatrol agents who had killed Mr. Pretti, a 37-year-old government nurse, in late January.
#law #Constitution #dissent #Trump #ConspiracyTheories #ThoughtPolice #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
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The #Trump Admin Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During #Minnesota #Immigration Crackdown
The government conducted expansive #surveillance, infiltrated group chats & obtained financial records of organizations NEVER accused of any crimes.
#law #Constitution #ThoughtPolice #dissent #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/us/politics/dhs-inquiry-immigration-protests-minnesota.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5VA.i09v.hWC6KV6iZlnt&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
I’m sure it’ll be appealed, but it’s not nothing!
Judge Dismisses Federal #Antisemitism Case Against #Harvard
Judge Richard G. Stearns of the US District Court in Massachusetts granted Harvard’s motion to throw out the case, saying the antisemitic incidents cited in the administration’s March lawsuit were “too isolated and episodic” to show that Harvard is out of compliance with the law.
#law #AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeech #Trump #censorship #dictatorship #autocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08/13/us/trump-news?unlocked_article_code=1.5FA.rsVb.K1h3ORTqfRZX&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
The first frame of the video #CarolinaMolina posted across her social media accounts shows a masked #ICE agent pointing a gun at the camera.
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #immigration #CBP #Sturmabteilung #StateSponsoredTerrorism #law #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #Constitution #CivilRights #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #MafiaState
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AP Exclusive: #ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks
ICE plans to spend up to $20 million to purchase thousands of “conductive distraction & de-escalation devices” for officers & agents by March, according to a notice published Monday by #DHS.
#law #Trump #immigration #RightToProtest #CivilRights #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #Sturmabteilung #MafiaState #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #fascism #tyranny
https://apnews.com/article/ice-electric-shock-gloves-85ff746d3e0ee5f39e7a9a3f1f576252?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=more_org_joinmastodon_app_shareactionextension -
how's mr free speech dealing with this one?
Turkish court orders X to block Imamoglu candidacy account
Ekrem Imamoglu, a member of the main opposition Republican People's Party, is widely seen as the main challenger to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's 23-year rule.
https://www.dw.com/en/turkish-court-orders-x-to-block-imamoglu-candidacy-account/a-78239919 -
In a written ruling Tuesday, Mehta said he was dismissing the #OathKeepers’ charges reluctantly at the request of the #DOJ. He criticized prosecutors for claiming in a court filing that wiping out the most serious convictions from the #Jan6 riot was in the public interest.
#Trump #whitewashing #RevisionistHistory #propaganda #law #ElectionInterference #BigLie #coup #SeditiousConspiracy #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny -
Mehta had sentenced Rhodes to 18 years in prison & imposed lesser prison terms on other top #OathKeepers who were #convicted at #jury trials. #Trump commuted those prison sentences on his first day in office last year, & he pardoned more than 1,500 rioters.
#whitewashing #RevisionistHistory #propaganda #law #ElectionInterference #BigLie #coup #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
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WTF???
Judge dismisses #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy charges against #OathKeepers
While taking the last step in the legal process to wipe out penalties from the #insurrection, the judge also criticized the #DOJ for undoing the most serious convictions.#Trump #whitewashing #RevisionistHistory #propaganda #law #ElectionInterference #BigLie #coup #ConspiracyTheories #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/08/04/judge-dismisses-jan-6-seditious-conspiracy-charges-against-oath-keepers/ -
#Trump claimed he would 'bring free speech back” [but seriously, let’s be real, it was always his version of #FreeSpeech] - yet Judges have ruled in 75 cases that he has stifled the #FirstAmendment .
#law #gaslighting #propaganda #Trumpaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #MafiaState #tyranny
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-vowed-bring-free-speech-back-judges-75-cases-ruled-that-he-has-stifled-it-2026-08-04/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement -
#Trump is considering removing #JeaninePirro, the #USattorney for #DC, over a #DOJ conclusion that problems with the Lincoln Memorial #ReflectingPool stemmed from a flawed renovation rather than vandalism….
Trump is “furious” with Pirro, one of the sources said, telling CNN that he fumed about her all weekend. They added that based on his criticisms of her, they find it “highly likely she’s removed from her job.”
#law #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
