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#RuthBenGhiat is a professor of #history & Italian studies at NYU & the author of Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present. She argues that this effort is part of a larger autocratic project to maintain #power.
#SevenMountainMandate #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #dictatorship #authoritarianism #autocracy #MafiaState #RevengePolitics #Trump
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Joan Brugge has worked for nearly 50 years as a cancer scientist, studying the earliest signs that someone might become sick. Then the #Trump admin canceled her lab’s funding. The admin’s attacks on #medicine, #culture, & #education — which include verbal #threats & #funding cuts—are about more than just budgeting & bravado.
#SevenMountainMandate #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #dictatorship #authoritarianism #autocracy #MafiaState #RevengePolitics
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Defund #Science, Distort #Culture, Mock #Education
It’s not just about cuts to #research.
It’s about #power.By Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum
#SevenMountainMandate #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #dictatorship #authoritarianism #autocracy #MafiaState #RevengePolitics #Trump
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/01/reality-reshaped/685289/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxVCfwC75UsaONz24l2NqAdQ -
This week, the #DOJ took the extraordinary step of obtaining a search warrant for the home of a #WashingtonPost reporter #HannahNatanson. #FBI agents arrived early on Wednesday & seized Natanson’s phone, 2 computers & her Garmin watch.
Inside the WaPo newsroom, the impact was immediate.
#law #Constitution #democracy #FreePress #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #journalism #FourthEstate #censorship #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #SevenMountainMandate
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Early on in her tenure as Trump’s AG, #PamBondi scrapped a #Biden era policy that banned the #DOJ from pursuing #reporters’ phone records & notes while investigating #leaks.
The message was unmistakable: #Trump era investigators would welcome a confrontation. And now they have one.
#law #Constitution #democracy #FreePress #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #journalism #FourthEstate #censorship #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #SevenMountainMandate
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/15/media/fbi-hannah-natanson-washington-post-doj-search?cid=ios_app -
#Pentagon to overhaul #independent #military #newspaper, calling it ‘woke’
Plans for more #Defense Department control surface after job applicants were asked about their commitment to #Trump’s policies.#StarsAndStripes #law #Constitution #democracy #FreePress #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #journalism #FourthEstate #censorship #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #SevenMountainMandate
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/01/15/stars-and-stripes-pentagon-editorial-independence/ -
The Smithsonian’s federal budget is appropriated by #Congress but disbursed by the Office of Management & Budget, which is controlled by the White House. Under #Trump, #OMB has previously withheld congressionally approved funds….
Historically, the #Smithsonian, which is a public-private trust of the US govt and overseen by its board of regents, has operated largely #independently —but Trump has showed a new interest in influencing arts & culture during his 2nd admin.
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The Smithsonian’s federal budget is appropriated by #Congress but disbursed by the Office of Management & Budget, which is controlled by the White House. Under #Trump, #OMB has previously withheld congressionally approved funds….
Historically, the #Smithsonian, which is a public-private trust of the US govt and overseen by its board of regents, has operated largely #independently —but Trump has showed a new interest in influencing arts & culture during his 2nd admin.
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The Smithsonian’s federal budget is appropriated by #Congress but disbursed by the Office of Management & Budget, which is controlled by the White House. Under #Trump, #OMB has previously withheld congressionally approved funds….
Historically, the #Smithsonian, which is a public-private trust of the US govt and overseen by its board of regents, has operated largely #independently —but Trump has showed a new interest in influencing arts & culture during his 2nd admin.
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The Smithsonian’s federal budget is appropriated by #Congress but disbursed by the Office of Management & Budget, which is controlled by the White House. Under #Trump, #OMB has previously withheld congressionally approved funds….
Historically, the #Smithsonian, which is a public-private trust of the US govt and overseen by its board of regents, has operated largely #independently —but Trump has showed a new interest in influencing arts & culture during his 2nd admin.
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The Smithsonian’s federal budget is appropriated by #Congress but disbursed by the Office of Management & Budget, which is controlled by the White House. Under #Trump, #OMB has previously withheld congressionally approved funds….
Historically, the #Smithsonian, which is a public-private trust of the US govt and overseen by its board of regents, has operated largely #independently —but Trump has showed a new interest in influencing arts & culture during his 2nd admin.
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“The American people will have no patience” for any museum that is “uncomfortable conveying a *positive view of American history*,” wrote Domestic Policy Council director Vince Haley & White House budget director [#Project2025 architect] #RussVought.
#Trump #extortion #law #art #history #Smithsonian #museums #Constitution #FirstAmendment #democracy #censorship #Revisionism #whitewashing #dictatorship #SevenMountainMandate
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“The American people will have no patience” for any museum that is “uncomfortable conveying a *positive view of American history*,” wrote Domestic Policy Council director Vince Haley & White House budget director [#Project2025 architect] #RussVought.
#Trump #extortion #law #art #history #Smithsonian #museums #Constitution #FirstAmendment #democracy #censorship #Revisionism #whitewashing #dictatorship #SevenMountainMandate
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“The American people will have no patience” for any museum that is “uncomfortable conveying a *positive view of American history*,” wrote Domestic Policy Council director Vince Haley & White House budget director [#Project2025 architect] #RussVought.
#Trump #extortion #law #art #history #Smithsonian #museums #Constitution #FirstAmendment #democracy #censorship #Revisionism #whitewashing #dictatorship #SevenMountainMandate
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“The American people will have no patience” for any museum that is “uncomfortable conveying a *positive view of American history*,” wrote Domestic Policy Council director Vince Haley & White House budget director [#Project2025 architect] #RussVought.
#Trump #extortion #law #art #history #Smithsonian #museums #Constitution #FirstAmendment #democracy #censorship #Revisionism #whitewashing #dictatorship #SevenMountainMandate
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“The American people will have no patience” for any museum that is “uncomfortable conveying a *positive view of American history*,” wrote Domestic Policy Council director Vince Haley & White House budget director [#Project2025 architect] #RussVought.
#Trump #extortion #law #art #history #Smithsonian #museums #Constitution #FirstAmendment #democracy #censorship #Revisionism #whitewashing #dictatorship #SevenMountainMandate
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…After months of relative quiet on the issue, the #Trump admin threatened in a Dec 18 letter addressed to Bunch to withhold federal funds for the #Smithsonian if it did not comply with a request to submit extensive documentation of its current & upcoming exhibits, wall labels, programming plans for America’s 250th birthday, & other aspects of its operations.
#extortion #law #art #history #museums #Constitution #FirstAmendment #democracy #censorship #dictatorship #SevenMountainMandate
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The #Smithsonian Institution on Tuesday submitted documents to the #Trump administration including digital photographs of labels, placards & other texts on display in its #museums in response to a request from the White House, Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III said in a staff email that was obtained by The Washington Post.
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#Smithsonian submits files to White House after #funding #threat
The #Trump White House had threatened to withhold the Smithsonian’s funding if it did not send more documentation on its exhibits & operations.#extortion #law #art #museums #Constitution #FirstAmendment #democracy #SevenMountainMandate
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“No board vote nor social media post has the legal authority to change the name without an act of #Congress,” the members wrote.
“We’ll be working to block this disgraceful renaming effort at every possible opportunity & restore the Kennedy Center’s rightful place as our nation’s #cultural center without the burden of #vanity projects or #political influence,” they wrote.#KennedyCenter #Trump #law #history #landmark #preservation #memorial #JFK #SevenMountainMandate
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Last week, Rep. April McClain Delaney (D-Maryland) introduced legislation to remove Trump’s name.
Rep. Chellie Pingree (Maine), the top Democrat on the Appropriations subcommittee that oversees the #KennedyCenter, along with >70 lawmakers in #Congress, called for #Trump to reverse the renaming effort & remove his name from the building immediately [as if he’d ever].#law #history #landmark #preservation #memorial #JFK #SevenMountainMandate
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Beatty’s lawsuit…claimed the vote exceeded its statutory authority & requested that a judge declare it to be void.
“Because #Congress named the center by statute, changing the Kennedy Center’s name requires an act of Congress,” the lawsuit says, adding that “Congress intended the Center to be a living #memorial to President #Kennedy — & a crown jewel of the #arts for all Americans, irrespective of party.”
#KennedyCenter #Trump #law #history #landmark #preservation #JFK #SevenMountainMandate
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During a rally outside the #KennedyCenter on Dec. 20, Sen Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) said he and his colleagues would work to “reverse” the move when #Congress returns to session in January. “The day we get back, we can put an amendment on the … Interior appropriations bill to reverse this outrage,” he told the crowd.
#Trump #law #history #landmark #preservation #memorial #JFK #SevenMountainMandate
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The vote by the #KennedyCenter board to add #Trump’s name to the institution marked the most overt effort to date by the president & his allies to remold the storied #PerformingArts center in his image.
In the days since his name was added to the building, several lawmakers have vowed to fight the change.
#SevenMountainMandate #law #history #landmark #preservation #memorial #JFK
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…Sen. #SheldonWhitehouse (D-Rhode Island) told The Post that he became an ex officio member this year after he became the lead #Democrat on the #Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works — another ex officio seat designated by #Congress — but was not ever invited to board meetings until his committee began investigating the #KennedyCenter last month.
#Trump #law #history #landmark #preservation #memorial #JFK #SevenMountainMandate
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The center’s original bylaws didn’t distinguish voting powers, either. But its most recent tax filings list 59 “voting members” of its governing body — a total that includes both general & ex officio members.
[The #KennedyCenter currently lists 34 presidentially appointed board members, including #Trump himself as chair, & 23 ex officio seats. The center’s president, Richard Grenell, is also an officer of the board.]
#law #history #landmark #preservation #memorial #JFK #SevenMountainMandate
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The #law identifies them as part of the board of trustees, which it directs to maintain & administer the facility as a living #memorial. But it does NOT distinguish between voting & nonvoting members, which has been a point of ambiguity in the days following the vote to rename the #KennedyCenter.
At least one ex officio member, Rep Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), was muted when she attempted to speak out during the Dec 18 vote.
#Trump #history #landmark #preservation #JFK #SevenMountainMandate
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And it raised new questions about whether some of were more interested in preserving the #power of the government’s threat against #Harvard as a message to other #universities than in reaching a settlement….
While the interactions between Dr. Garber & McMahon plunged the sensitive talks into deeper turmoil, they also highlighted the unpredictability of the #Trump admin.
#law #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #education #SevenMountainMandate
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Whatever the case, it was the latest twist in the long-running dispute between #Harvard & the #Trump admin, which has shaped up to be the marquee battle in the admin’s effort to exert more influence over #colleges & #universities it views as too liberal.
The episode also underscored the emerging role played by people inside the admin who want to extract more concessions from Harvard.
#Trump #law #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #education #SevenMountainMandate
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Dr. Garber wrote back to clarify #Harvard’s position. But, in response, the admin doubled down, introducing terms that were so far-reaching that #university officials saw them as nonstarters.
It was unclear whether McMahon’s interpretation of Harvard’s proposal resulted from a miscommunication or from a deliberate effort to force the university into a year-end deal after months of faltering negotiations.
#Trump #law #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #education #SevenMountainMandate
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Dr. Garber felt he had made clear in recent negotiations that the university would not agree to pay the federal government to settle a monthslong battle with the #Trump admin over its perceived antisemitism on campus & other matters.
But Ms. McMahon’s Saturday message said the opposite. In it, she thanked Dr. Garber for what she portrayed as his commitment to sending $200 million to the government as part of a deal.
#law #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #education #SevenMountainMandate
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The letter landed like a thud on Saturday in the inbox of #Harvard University’s president, Alan M. Garber.
The message, from Linda McMahon, Trump’s “education” secretary, conveyed an understanding of an emerging deal between Harvard & the White House that flew in the face of the terms the #university had been insisting on.
#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #education #SevenMountainMandate #dictatorship #authoritarianism #autocracy #MafiaState #RevengePolitics #Trump
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In Private Letters, #Harvard & #Trump Admin Escalate Duel
It is the latest twist in the marquee battle of the administration’s campaign to rein in #colleges & #universities it views as too liberal.
#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #education #SevenMountainMandate #dictatorship #authoritarianism #autocracy #MafiaState #RevengePolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/us/trump-harvard-letters-deal.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
Good ol #Christofascism. AKA:
The #SevenMountainMandate, also Seven Mountains Mandate, #7M, #7MM, or Seven Mountains #Dominionism, is a #dominionist #conservative #Christian movement within #evangelical #Christianity, particularly independent Charismatic groups. It holds that there are seven aspects of society that believers seek to dominate: #family, #religion, #education, #media, #arts and #entertainment, #business, and #government.
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Good ol #Christofascism. AKA:
The #SevenMountainMandate, also Seven Mountains Mandate, #7M, #7MM, or Seven Mountains #Dominionism, is a #dominionist #conservative #Christian movement within #evangelical #Christianity, particularly independent Charismatic groups. It holds that there are seven aspects of society that believers seek to dominate: #family, #religion, #education, #media, #arts and #entertainment, #business, and #government.
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Good ol #Christofascism. AKA:
The #SevenMountainMandate, also Seven Mountains Mandate, #7M, #7MM, or Seven Mountains #Dominionism, is a #dominionist #conservative #Christian movement within #evangelical #Christianity, particularly independent Charismatic groups. It holds that there are seven aspects of society that believers seek to dominate: #family, #religion, #education, #media, #arts and #entertainment, #business, and #government.
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Good ol #Christofascism. AKA:
The #SevenMountainMandate, also Seven Mountains Mandate, #7M, #7MM, or Seven Mountains #Dominionism, is a #dominionist #conservative #Christian movement within #evangelical #Christianity, particularly independent Charismatic groups. It holds that there are seven aspects of society that believers seek to dominate: #family, #religion, #education, #media, #arts and #entertainment, #business, and #government.
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Separation of church and state under threat: Over 2 in 5 of American Christians now believe in the #SevenMountainMandate that Christians should dominate public life
#Denison University #poll, found via #MotherJones reporting
#ChristianNationalism
#FirstAmendment
#Secularism
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Ban #Abortion. End #GayMarriage. Outlaw #BirthControl.
A powerful #Christian #conservative #legal group is quietly reshaping America through the courts. Here’s what it’s after.
#law #radicalization #extremism #NewApostolicReformation #Republicans #Evangelicals #SevenMountainMandate #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/10/abortion-supreme-court-alliance-defending-freedom-agenda.html -
The #MotherJones November+December issue investigates the #ChristianNationalist movement that aspires to take over #government at all levels, from #school boards & state #legislatures to #Congress & #SCOTUS. Its prominent influencers, ties to #militias, & pervasiveness across civil society reveal a #radical movement hiding in plain sight. Read the whole package here:
#NewApostolicReformation #Republicans #Evangelicals #SevenMountainMandate #Project2025
#HarrisWalz2024
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/new-apostolic-reformation-christian-nationalism/ -
The #MotherJones November+December issue investigates the #ChristianNationalist movement that aspires to take over #government at all levels, from #school boards & state #legislatures to #Congress & #SCOTUS. Its prominent influencers, ties to #militias, & pervasiveness across civil society reveal a #radical movement hiding in plain sight. Read the whole package here:
#NewApostolicReformation #Republicans #Evangelicals #SevenMountainMandate #Project2025
#HarrisWalz2024
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/new-apostolic-reformation-christian-nationalism/ -
The #MotherJones November+December issue investigates the #ChristianNationalist movement that aspires to take over #government at all levels, from #school boards & state #legislatures to #Congress & #SCOTUS. Its prominent influencers, ties to #militias, & pervasiveness across civil society reveal a #radical movement hiding in plain sight. Read the whole package here:
#NewApostolicReformation #Republicans #Evangelicals #SevenMountainMandate #Project2025
#HarrisWalz2024
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/new-apostolic-reformation-christian-nationalism/ -
The #MotherJones November+December issue investigates the #ChristianNationalist movement that aspires to take over #government at all levels, from #school boards & state #legislatures to #Congress & #SCOTUS. Its prominent influencers, ties to #militias, & pervasiveness across civil society reveal a #radical movement hiding in plain sight. Read the whole package here:
#NewApostolicReformation #Republicans #Evangelicals #SevenMountainMandate #Project2025
#HarrisWalz2024
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/new-apostolic-reformation-christian-nationalism/ -
The #MotherJones November+December issue investigates the #ChristianNationalist movement that aspires to take over #government at all levels, from #school boards & state #legislatures to #Congress & #SCOTUS. Its prominent influencers, ties to #militias, & pervasiveness across civil society reveal a #radical movement hiding in plain sight. Read the whole package here:
#NewApostolicReformation #Republicans #Evangelicals #SevenMountainMandate #Project2025
#HarrisWalz2024
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/new-apostolic-reformation-christian-nationalism/ -
The #ChristianNationalist plan to take over #America.
The role of #religion in American #politics has changed profoundly since fundamentalist preacher Jerry Falwell & #conservative direct-mail mogul Paul Weyrich co-founded the Moral Majority in 1979.
#NewApostolicReformation #Republicans #Evangelicals #SevenMountainMandate #SCOTUS #Project2025
#VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/under-god-christian-nationalism-package/ -
It would #criminalize #pornography. There would be #MassDeportations & curtailments of LEGAL #immigration programs, including #DACA. It would DISMANTLE the Dept of #Education.
Throughout the #Project2025 manifesto, authors also recommend ways to increase funding for #religious orgs by giving them more access to #government programs–largely through increased use of #school vouchers that could go to religious schools
#authoritarianism #autocracy #NewApostolicReformation #SevenMountainMandate
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#TomParker added in the #QAnon interview that the country’s original form of govt was based on the #Bible, a common view of supporters of the #SevenMountainMandate, & that its #laws should reflect that. Scholars criticize that interpretation….
Still, Parker’s support for the movement is not new.
“The very God of Holy Scriptures, the Creator, is the source of #law, life, & liberty,” he said in 2005 on his FIRST DAY as an #Alabama *justice*. -
The day the #Alabama SC released its #embryo decision & Parker’s concurrent ruling, the chief justice said in an online broadcast that “God created government” & that #Christians should take it back from the “possession” of *others*.
The comments came during an interview w/ #QAnon supporter #JohnnyEnlow, author of “The Seven Mountain Prophecy.” Enlow describes #TomParker as a “true pioneer” of the movement, while Parker thanked Enlow for promoting the #SevenMountainMandate. -
#TomParker has often expressed support for the #SevenMountainMandate, a theory that #conservative #Christians in #America should use #fundamentalist beliefs to influence & run #government, #education & #media, among 7 key areas of life. Its supporters have sought to restrict #ReproductiveCare while allowing #discrimination of #LGBTQ+ people for #religious beliefs.
#Alabama #IVF #law #evangelism #ChristianNationalism #MaleSupremacy #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianMaleSupremacy #ReproductiveRights
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#Alabama #justice who quoted #Bible in #IVF case
…in nearly 20 yrs on the bench…[Chief Justice #TomParker] has repeatedly invoked religion…laying groundwork to overturn #RoeVWade.
Parker has also openly criticized other judges for not sufficiently considering #religion in rulings & has expressed support for the theory known as the #SevenMountainMandate which calls for #conservative #Christians to run the #government & broadly influence #American life.
#law
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/02/24/alabama-chief-justice-tom-parker-ivf/