#despotism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #despotism, aggregated by home.social.
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The #youth of #Russia shrieks out, but the old man of Russia grumbles. He solely wants their bodies to bear fruit, or litter the floor of the battlefield.
We see Russian refugees all over #Europe, except they're not really called that. In diaspora, some may say. But they are coming.
They sing once more songs of tzars and boyars, for they have seen with their own eyes what #despotism and #fascism does to a country.
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Judge strikes down #Trump restrictions on #StudentLoan forgiveness for #PublicServants
The #Education Department wants to exclude employers that engage in #DEI or “activities” that the Trump admin “disapproves” of. The rule was set to take effect Wednesday.#law #indoctrination #propaganda #trumpaganda #WhiteSupremacy #heterosexism #misogyny #MaleSupremacy #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #fascism #tyranny #MafiaState #Nazis
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2026/06/30/court-strikes-down-trumps-limits-loan-forgiveness-public-servants/ -
Judge blocks #Trump order to end #funding for #NPR & #PBS
A federal judge on Tuesday agreed to permanently block the Trump admin from implementing a presidential directive to end federal funding for National #PublicRadio & the #PublicBroadcasting Service.
#law #MafiaState #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://apnews.com/article/trump-npr-pbs-funding-executive-order-fbd9500e5f7400deab84ead188c35694 -
“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
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Holy shit & hell yeah
#SCOTUS on Tuesday barred #Trump from deploying the #NationalGuard to #Chicago to “protect” #ICE agents, handing the White House a rare loss at the court as Trump has sought to send #military troops to multiple US #cities.
#law #immigration #PosseComitatusAct #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #despotism #fascism #Tyranny #MafiaState #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-national-guard-97192a48f01dd4954f1ba505628b5f21?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-12-23-Breaking+News -
No person is so foolish that they don’t understand that if we remain asleep at this moment we will have to live through a rule that is not only cruel and arrogant but ignoble and disgraceful too. You know this man’s arrogance, his friends, and his whole household. To serve shameful lusts, bullies, disgusting and irreverent thieves, those drunkards — well, that is the worst suffering married to the greatest dishonor.
[Nemo est tam stultus qui non intellegat, si indormierimus huic tempori, non modo crudelem superbamque dominationem nobis sed ignominiosam etiam et flagitiosam ferendam. Nostis insolentiam Antoni, nostis amicos, nostis totam domum. Libidinosis, petulantibus, impuris, impudicis, aleatoribus, ebriis servire, ea summa miseria est summo dedecore coniuncta.]Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 3, ch. 14 / sec. 34-35 (3.14/3.34-35) (44-12-20 BC) [tr. @sentantiq (2021)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #alertness #arrogance #attention #crisis #danger #despotism #dictatorship #disgrace #dishonor #misery #payattention #politics #regime #tyranny #warning #regime
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The fundamental Article of my political Creed is, that Despotism, or unlimited Sovereignty, or absolute Power is the Same in a Majority of a popular Assembly, an Aristocratical Counsel, an Oligarchical Junto and a Single Emperor. Equally arbitrary cruel bloody and in every respect, diabolical.
John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1815-11-13) to Thomas JeffersonSourcing, notes: wist.info/adams-john/1455/
#quote #quotes #quotation #absolutepower #aristocracy #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #evil #government #monarchy #oligarchy #tyranny #tyrannyofthemajority