#intimidate β Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #intimidate, aggregated by home.social.
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Donald Trump is borrowing a strategy from authoritarian regimes to #intimidate potential critics and #discourage them from speaking out, according to a senator under investigation by his administration.
#Elissa #Slotkin, a Democrat from Michigan, faces questioning after she organised and appeared in a #video with other Democrats imploring military service members to #refuse β#illegal #ordersβ.
Fellow senator #Mark #Kelly and three Democrats from the House of Representatives are also being investigated.
To Slotkin, a former analyst with the Central Intelligence Agency ( #CIA ), it is a deliberate effort to chill free speech that rhymes with her experience of #dictatorships around the world.
βTheyβre now using a well-worn playbook that employs #physical intimidation and #legal intimidation to get,
A, you to shut up, and
B, for other people thinking of criticising the president on such issues to be dissuaded from doing so,β
she told the Guardian in a phone interview.βItβs absolutely a strategy well used in other countries and other authoritarian governments.
As a CIA officer Iβve served in places like this,
Iβve studied places like this my entire life,
and Trump is sadly using that #playbook in the United States right now.βNow 49, Slotkin completed three tours in Iraq with the US military before moving into national security roles at the Pentagon and White House under presidents George W Bush and Barack Obama.
In 2018 she turned to electoral politics, winning a long-held Republican seat in #Michigan and helping Democrats reclaim control of the House.
She secured re-election in 2020 and 2022, campaigning on issues such as access to affordable healthcare and efforts to bring manufacturing back to her home state.
Her ascent continued in 2024 when she won an open Senate seat despite Trump carrying Michigan in the presidential election.
Last year she delivered the Democratsβ rebuttal to Trumpβs joint congressional address.
Then in November she was among six congressional Democrats,
all with military or intelligence backgrounds,
who in a 90-second video cited the "Uniform Code of Military Justice"
and said no one has to carry out orders that violate the law or constitution.#Trump branded the video message βtreasonousβ and amplified a social media post suggesting that the six Democrats be #hanged.
Defence secretary Pete #Hegseth is attempting to #retroactively #demote Kelly,
a former navy pilot and astronaut,
from his retired rank of captain.πThe Arizona senator is suing Hegseth to block those proceedings,
calling them an unconstitutional act of retribution.Meanwhile US attorney #Jeanine #Pirro, the justice departmentβs chief prosecutor in Washington, has requested an interview with Slotkin.
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#GOP #republican House, Senate and Executive Branch routinely #intimidate witnesses, #suborn #perjury, and present outright #falsehoods to create #falseNarratives intended to whip up the public into #fear #hysteria and #hate.
The #republicans systematic strategic #weaponization of the government against public #freedom, ability to #vote, #speak, and participate in #public life are a #direct #threat to #democracy.
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#GOP #republican House, Senate and Executive Branch routinely #intimidate witnesses, #suborn #perjury, and present outright #falsehoods to create #falseNarratives intended to whip up the public into #fear #hysteria and #hate.
The #republicans systematic strategic #weaponization of the government against public #freedom, ability to #vote, #speak, and participate in #public life are a #direct #threat to #democracy.
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#GOP #republican House, Senate and Executive Branch routinely #intimidate witnesses, #suborn #perjury, and present outright #falsehoods to create #falseNarratives intended to whip up the public into #fear #hysteria and #hate.
The #republicans systematic strategic #weaponization of the government against public #freedom, ability to #vote, #speak, and participate in #public life are a #direct #threat to #democracy.
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#Florida #voters who #oppose the state's 6-week #abortionban say they are being #visited by #police
#Critics accuse #Fascist #Florida #Governor #RonDeSantis of seeking to #intimidate #supporters of a #prochoice #referendum
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#Florida #voters who #oppose the state's 6-week #abortionban say they are being #visited by #police
#Critics accuse #Fascist #Florida #Governor #RonDeSantis of seeking to #intimidate #supporters of a #prochoice #referendum
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#Florida #voters who #oppose the state's 6-week #abortionban say they are being #visited by #police
#Critics accuse #Fascist #Florida #Governor #RonDeSantis of seeking to #intimidate #supporters of a #prochoice #referendum
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#Florida #voters who #oppose the state's 6-week #abortionban say they are being #visited by #police
#Critics accuse #Fascist #Florida #Governor #RonDeSantis of seeking to #intimidate #supporters of a #prochoice #referendum
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#DonaldTrump #decries #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith and #federal #officials as β#fascist #thugsβ despite #judgeβs #warnings doing so would compel her to speed up his trial.
#US #DistrictCourt #Judge #TanyaChutkan, who is #presiding over the #case, #warned both sides in the case to refrain from making any #statements that could #intimidate #witnesses or #prejudice the #jurypool.
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We cannot #conflate #worship #murder and #slaughter - #GunIdolatry Is Destroying the Case for Guns. #GunRights carry with them grave #responsibilities. They do not #liberate you to #intimidate. They must not #empower your #hate. They are certainly not objects of #love or #reverence. Every #hairtrigger use, every #angry or #fearful or #foolish #decision, likely #spills #Innocent #Blood. Are we past the point of no return? 380 million guns! America embraces #GunViolence is there a path to change?
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CW: Today's top news on BBC World Service - Russia Yashin war 2
by discussing #evidence of #atrocities carried out by #Russian #troops in #Ukraine (on his YouTube channel). In a post on social media, Ilya #Yashin called the #verdict #hysterical, saying Russia's government was only showing its weakness, by attempting to #intimidate people into silence.