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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. Steganography 101 by Benn Jordan

    When our government is spying on everything we post, we probably will still need to hide stuff.

    WIth good steganography, hidden messages in plain sight will survive also social media compression, spotify, etc.

    youtube.com/watch?v=fhoJK02oD_E

    #steganography #encryption #survival #fascism #autocracy #surveillance

  7. “Keir Starmer’s bloody legacy”

    by The Canary

    @thecanaryuk
    @uk_politics
    @UKLabour

    “Former UK ambassador and journalist, Craig #Murray, took to X to highlight the main legacy of Starmer’s.

    ‘Keir Starmer should be remembered for his unflinching and pro-active support for Genocide in Gaza and Lebanon. Nothing else matters beside this’”

    thecanary.co/uk/2026/06/22/kei

    #Press #SocialMedia #UK #Labour #Starmer #Resignation #Legacy #Bloodshed #Gaza #PalestinianGenocide #Complicity #Participation #Autocracy #PalestineAction #AbuseOfPower #Filton25 #Lies #Corruption #Mandelson #Epstein #LabourFriendsOfGenocide #LabourFriendsOfIsrael #Zionism #Lebanon

  8. “Keir Starmer's Resignation and The Real 'Moral Bankruptcy' That Brought Him Down”

    by Adam Bienkov in The Byline Times on Substack

    @uk_politics
    @UKLabour

    “As the sixth British Prime Minister to have stood down in the last ten years, Starmer may never feature as a major part of our political history.

    Yet if Downing Street does end up falling into the hands of Nigel Farage and his fellow travellers on the far-right, then the truth is that Starmer and his own moral failures will have played a significant role in that fall”

    open.substack.com/pub/bylineti

    #Press #SocialMedia #UK #Labour #Starmer #Resignation #FarRight #Autocracy #ZionistLobby #Lies #Corruption #Austerity #Genocide #Stürmer #Authoritarian #NATO #Warmonger #Hypocrisy #ToryContinuityParty #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #LabourLies #CaptainUTurn #KidStarver #LabourVoteRigging #LabourCorruption #LabourFriendsOfIsrael #LabourFriendsOfApartheid #LabourFriendsOfGenocide #LabourFiles #LabourRacism #LabourMisogyny #LabourIslamophobia

  9. Once in a while, I am reminded by some demented creature that the United States was created for cars, not people. Yes, I know, just as I know that the U.S. has created slaughter houses, not school houses, for children. Screw you, too!

    #US #America #WarOnCars #Capitalism #Corruption #Greed #Autocracy #Tyranny #DirtyPoliticians #Dictatorship #NoKings #ResetSociety #CrimesAgainstHumanity #SchoolShootings #Socialism #LocalEconomy #TrickleDownEconomy

  10. The proposal takes aim ​at the actions of #bar associations & similar professional organizations, not government entities, that investigate alleged ⁠#unethical conduct by #lawyers & consider actions such as #disbarment, which involves revoking a #license to practice #law [cuz, yeah, sane humans believe Rudolph Giuliani should still have legal authority /s].

    #LegalEthics #judiciary #Constitution #SeparationOfPowers #ABA #Federalism #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny

  11. A quotation from Montesquieu

    Extreme obedience assumes ignorance in the one who obeys; it assumes ignorance even in the one who commands; he does not have to deliberate, to doubt, or to reason; he has only to want.
     
    [L’extrême obéissance suppose de l’ignorance dans celui qui obéit; elle en suppose même dans celui qui commande: il n’a point à délibérer, à douter, ni à raisonner; il n’a qu’à vouloir.]

    Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
    Spirit of Laws [The Spirit of the Laws; De l’esprit des lois], Book 4, ch. 3 (4.3) (1748) [tr. Cohler/Miller/Stone (1989)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/81939/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #autocracy #autocrat #command #consideration #deliberation #despot #dictator #ignorance #obedience #reason #servility #tyranny #tyrant #want #will

  12. His Majesty's Coastguard and all those working there should be ashamed of themselves for allowing poor people running from poverty, war, and persecution to DIE while doing nothing about it. Their deaths are on your conscience.

    #HMCoastguard #UK #MigrantsRights #Migrantphobia #PureEvil #War #Poverty #Friday #Corruption #Autocracy #Tyranny #Dictatorship #Eugenics #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Genocide #Nationalism #Extremism

  13. As for the part of the #law that lets people sue #federal agents for violations of the #Illinois #Constitution, the 2 professors wrote, “that provision won’t stand” under the #SupremacyClause.

    Still, Vikram Amar said, such #StateLaws can serve a larger purpose.

    “In the spirit of #federalism. Not only can #states experiment in this way, but doing so would likely lead #Congress to address the problem,” he said.

    #Trump #Constitution #StatesRights #CivilRights #autocracy #ICE #CBP #UseOfForce

  14. His central point for present purposes was that #state #legislatures can authorize lawsuits against #federal officials for violating the #Constitution. If that is right, such #StateLaws would close an odd gap in #FederalLaw that—broadly speaking—allows such suits against state & local officials, like police officers, but not against #federal ones, like #ICE agents.

    #Trump #StateSponsoredTerrorism #law #UseOfForce #Constitution #StatesRights #CivilRights #authoritarianism #autocracy #ICE #CBP

  15. Over his decades in public life, #Trump has never been one for niceties. But even by his standards, the tumult of the past week stood out because it crystallized his determination to erase the #RulesBasedOrder that has governed #US #ForeignPolicy — & by extension most of the Western world — since WWII.

    #MafiaState #imperialism #sovereignty #geopolitics #NewWorldOrder #economy #law #InternationalLaw #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #tyranny #MadKing

  16. “At this preliminary stage, the government has failed to identify a source of #authority that would allow the #military to execute the laws in #Illinois,” the court said in its unsigned order.

    And of course, Conservative Justices Samuel #Alito, #ClarenceThomas & Neil #Gorsuch dissented.

    #Trump #law #immigration #military #NationalGuard #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #PosseComitatusAct #democracy #Constitution #RightToProtest #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy

  17. Justices #ClarenceThomas & Neil #Gorsuch said they were eager to go further. The 1935 precedent, Justice Thomas wrote, “poses a direct threat to our constitutional structure &, as a result, the liberty of the American people.”

    In its recent emergency orders, #SCOTUS has also signaled that it is now poised to give the president more direct #power over the multimember commissions as well.

    #law #HumphreysExecutor #ActivistCourt #Trump #Autocracy #ExecutiveBranch #SeparationOfPowers #Congress 🧵

  18. #Extortion

    #Trump begins #firings of #FederalWorkers to pressure #Democrats in government #shutdown

    The White House budget office said Friday that #MassFirings of federal workers have started to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers in the ongoing govt #shutdown.

    #OMB dir #RussVought, posted on social media that the “RIFs have begun,” referring to reduction-in-force firings.

    #law #labor #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #MafiaState #tyranny
    apnews.com/article/government-

  19. With #Republicans, in contrast, #PamBondi was smooth & solicitous. She expressed her #fealty to #Trump, calling him “the most transparent president in American history” & saying that she’d “loved” seeing a photo of herself having dinner with him. The almost 5hr hearing was a portrait of an AG as the president’s #loyalist rather than as a constitutional officer with the appropriate respect for an equal branch of government.

    #law #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #MafiaState

  20. …Despite the cascade of criticism, #Trump seemed to defend #PamBondi’s remarks in comments to reporters, twisting & personalizing them into a self-serving attack on the #media.

    When #JonathanKarl of #ABCNews asked Trump about Bondi’s hate speech comments, he went after Karl.

    “We’ll probably go after people like you,” Trump said, “because you treat me so unfairly — it’s hate.”

    #law #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #idiocracy #tyranny #autocracy #fascism

  21. #Trump extends federal #takeover of #DC

    #Transportation Secy Sean Duffy announced Wednesday that his department is taking management of #UnionStation, the main transportation hub in #Washington, away from #Amtrak, in another example of how the #FederalGovernment is exerting its #power over the nation’s capital.

    #law #US #military #NationalGuard #WashingtonDC #HomeRule #MilitaryState #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #coup #TrumpCoup2
    apnews.com/live/donald-trump-n

  22. #GiftArticle

    100% #Illegal

    Chicagoans will not take this crap

    #Pentagon plans #military deployment in #Chicago as #Trump eyes *crackdown*
    
Military officials are sketching out a plan that could deploy a few thousand #NationalGuard members, officials said. The use of #ActiveDuty forces has also been discussed.

    #law #PosseComitatusAct #MilitaryState #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #tyranny
    wapo.st/4mvKFW3

  23. Shortly before 7:00 am Friday morning, #FBI and #MontgomeryCounty #police were seen at Bethesda home of #John Bolton, who served as #nationalsecurity advisor for part of #DonaldTrump first term. Montgomery County police sealed off the street on which Bolton lives while an unmarked black #SUV parked in front of Bolton’s house. Montgomery County police confirmed that they were on site in support of the FBI. #autocracy #arresting #enemies Using FBI #police as private #army #despot #civilliberties

  24. 'Iran never withdrew from the legal international framework. It remains a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which forbids the development of nuclear weapons. It allows international inspections. It has repeatedly stated its nuclear aims are peaceful: energy production and medical research.'
    Unlike Israel! No inspections. No accountability. No consequences. Just impunity!
    #Israel #IsraelTerroristState #USA #Trump #Corruption #Vance #Thiel #TechBros #TrumpCrimeFamily #Treason #autocracy #BatshitCrazy #MAGA #Obscurantism #ChristoFascism #NewDarkAge #MAGAmorons
    mirala.substack.com/p/the-post

  25. We are witnessing the end of the American Age, the disintegration of a conceited hegemony, the culmination of unfettered capitalism propped up by militarism. And demented Diaper Donnie is just the man for the job! #USA #Trump #Vance #Thiel #TechBros #TrumpCrimeFamily #Treason #autocracy #BatshitCrazy #MAGA #Obscurantism #ChristoFascism #NewDarkAge #MAGAmorons forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2024

  26. Diaper Donnie 'often sounds like someone who needs constant validation, like a child needing applause. Every sentence is laced with “the best,” “nobody knew,” or “a lot of people are saying.” But the substance? Missing in action.' #USA #Trump #Vance #Thiel #TechBros #TrumpCrimeFamily #Treason #autocracy #BatshitCrazy #MAGA #Obscurantism #ChristoFascism #NewDarkAge #MAGAmorons theaimn.net/the-president-who-

  27. Please do not share this shameful and utterly unfair meme of J D Vance as often and as widely as possible across all social media platforms. #USA #Vance #Trump #Thiel #TechBros #TrumpCrimeFamily #Treason #autocracy #BatshitCrazy #MAGA #Obscurantism #ChristoFascism #NewDarkAge #MAGAmorons

  28. "Why is the goose-step not used in England? There are, heaven knows, plenty of army officers who would be only too glad to introduce some such thing. It is not used because the people in the street would laugh. Beyond a certain point, military display is only possible in countries where the common people dare not laugh at the army." ~ George Orwell

    #Totalitarianism #Autocracy #Tyranny #DemocracyIsDead #DirtyPoliticians #US #America #MilitaryParade #Friday #DeposeKingTrump

  29. 'In less than five months into Donald Trump’s second presidency, the country is already facing simultaneous crises on economic, social, and political fronts. What once seemed unthinkable is now routine: the militarisation of domestic dissent, the politicisation of public health, the degradation of truth, and the normalisation of authoritarian tactics.' #LAResistance #LosAngelesProtests #USA #Trump #Vance #Thiel #TechBros #TrumpCrimeFamily #Treason #autocracy #BatshitCrazy #MAGA #Obscurantism #ChristoFascism #NewDarkAge
    theaimn.net/the-decline-of-an-

  30. In 2021,the orange idiot refused to stop a deadly assault by MAGA morons on the Capitol. In 2025, his regime’s overreaction to protests in L.A. aims to stifle dissent and escalate tensions in a broken nation. #LAResistance #LosAngelesProtests #USA #Trump #Vance #Thiel #TechBros #TrumpCrimeFamily #Treason #autocracy #BatshitCrazy #MAGA #Obscurantism #ChristoFascism #NewDarkAge theaimn.net/a-tale-of-two-resp