#thoughtpolice — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #thoughtpolice, aggregated by home.social.
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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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#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 -
Trump NSF Backs Down from Dismantling Critical Ocean Monitoring Systems – CNN
After bipartisan backlash Trump admin backs down from unilateral and sudden dismantling of ocean monitoring network to ‘consult’ and ‘study’ ‘path forward’ CNN Regular ::: CNN Text-Only Ad-Free. Some of the kinds of news coverage / content that can be expected to disappear if the Skydance-Paramount / Warner Bros. Discovery merger is able to go through, thus putting Bari Weiss, saboteur and vandal of The Late Show, 60 Minutes, and CBS writ large, in charge of CNN. It has already been approved by Trump’s captive/complicit regulators but faces challenges from international regulators and state anti-trust lawsuits. Anti-democracy and pro-thought-police shareholders of Warner Bros. Discovery approved the merger ‘overwhelmingly’ in April.
#antiTrust #climateChange #democracy #merger #NSF #ocean #Oceanography #ParamountSkydance #politics #science #thoughtPolice #trump #WarnerBrosDiscovery“The Trump administration is U-turning on its controversial decision to dismantle a critical ocean monitoring system that provides vital information on the health of the world’s oceans, after a bipartisan backlash in Congress.
The Ocean Observatories Initiative was established in 2016 and involves around 900 instruments across parts of the Pacific and Atlantic, especially designed to withstand the immense pressure and corrosive saltiness of the ocean depths.
In late May, the National Science Foundation, which funds the $386 million deep-ocean system, announced it would be pulling up buoys and other underwater equipment from arrays off the coasts of Alaska, Washington, Oregon, North Carolina and Greenland in what it called a “descoping” of the network.
But Thursday, NSF announced it will halt these plans and convene an expert panel to “identify a sustainable path” forward. One array off the coasts of Oregon and Washington has already been removed, but the NSF said in a statement that it is “developing plans to redeploy the equipment.” The organization confirmed it would “not proceed with further removal or descoping of equipment from the remaining arrays.” “
Originally posted by me at https://verysmallocean.org/blog.html#nsf-backs-down
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@MAKS23/116381048596457357
I am actually shocked someone has not thought of this in the USA MAGA party yet and put their Dear Leader as Editor in Chief.
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“Uptick in Abductions”: ICE Ramps Up Targeting of #Minneapolis #LegalObservers
In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as #Trump’s #BorderCzar #TomHoman calls on locals to “end the #resistance.”
By Ryan Devereaux, February 9, 2026
https://theintercept.com/2026/02/09/ice-minneapolis-legal-observers-abduction/
#ResistICE #ResistFascism #USPol #Authoritarianism #Fascism #ICEOut #DefundICE #DefundCBD #Disappeared
#DefundDHS #MurderPatrol #ThoughtPolice #Orwellian #IndefiniteDetention #BigBrother #NineteenEightyFour #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity -
https://hellmouthmagazine.substack.com/p/no-scissors-a-story-about-pigs-and-248Do I have to have a Schere im Kopf, scissors in the brain, to self-censor? Do I have to reign in my anger and my creativity because I don’t want to get exhibition organizers into trouble? I am inundated by offensive, denigrating, profane and fascist symbols and language every single day, and I am told “It’s the First Amendment, stupid!” I am told that I need to keep my head down, to be polite, decorous, to not be emotional, to not be angry. Does the First Amendment not apply to me then?
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HT @bob
#DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old #USCitizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.
Hafiz Rashid/ February 3, 2026
"The #Trump administration is targeting #FreeSpeech with a little-known legal tool: #AdministrativeSubpoenas.
"The #WashingtonPost reports that a retired #Philadelphia man, Jon, 67, found himself in the government’s crosshairs after he emailed a lead prosecutor at the Department of Homeland Security, #JosephDernbach, who was handling the deportation case of an #AfghanRefugee, identified as H, asking him to consider that the man’s life was in danger from the #Taliban.
" 'Mr. Dernbach, don’t play Russian roulette with H’s life,' Jon wrote from his #GMail account. 'Err on the side of caution. There’s a reason the US government along with many other governments don’t recognise the Taliban. Apply principles of common sense and decency.'
"Later that day, Jon received an email from #Google notifying him that an administrative subpoena had been sent to them from the Department of Homeland Security 'compelling the release of information related to your Google Account.' Federal agencies can issue such subpoenas without an order from a judge or grand jury, and Google gave Jon, who withheld his last name to protect his family from the government, one week to challenge it.
"Laws are supposed to restrict the use of administrative subpoenas, but DHS has used the tool against dissent protected under the #FirstAmendment to the #Constitution. Jon could not find who in the agency issued the #subpoena, let alone a record of it to show an attorney.
"Days later, DHS agents showed up at Jon’s door. A naturalized U.S. citizen originally from the #UK, Jon was worried about potential violence. The agents showed him a copy of the email and asked to see his side of the story. They didn’t know about the administrative subpoena but said they received orders to interview Jon by #DHS headquarters in Washington, D.C.
"Eventually, the agents agreed that Jon had committed no crimes after he told them he found Dernbach’s email address through a simple Google search. Jon secured pro bono representation by #ACLU attorneys, who argue that the government is violating a statute that limits how administrative subpoenas can be used for '#ImmigrationEnforcement' and that the government targeted Jon for #ProtectedSpeech.
" 'It doesn’t take that much to make people look over their shoulder, to think twice before they speak again,' said Nathan Freed Wessler, one of Jon’s attorneys. 'That’s why these kinds of subpoenas and other actions—the visits—are so pernicious. You don’t have to lock somebody up to make them reticent to make their voice heard. It really doesn’t take much, because the power of the federal government is so overwhelming.'
"Both #Google and #Meta received a record number of subpoenas in the United States during the first half of 2025 as Trump’s second term began, with Google receiving 28,622, a 15 percent increase over the previous six months. Jon was fortunate to have his case picked up by the ACLU and later reported on by a national media outlet. How many others in the U.S. haven’t been so lucky and face legal challenges for exercising their right to free speech?"
Source / listen:
https://newrepublic.com/post/206088/homeland-security-67-year-old-us-citizen-criticized-email#USPol #GoogleSucks #BigTech #Fascism #DefundDHS #ThoughtPolice #Orwellian #NineteenEightyFour #Authoritarianism #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity
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Remove barriers to AI innovation including “ideological bias” is short-hand for #ThoughtPolice
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@alterelefant @mattsheffield Indeed. I made a new flag for America Rouge (my sarcastic name for the US regime) based on the style of the actual Khmer Rouge flag.
For the thought police of the Czech🇵🇭*) regime, EU🇪🇺 : this is meant as a criticism of Khmer Rouge and US regime, not their promotion.
I feel
e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t
towards the US regime when it behaves as authoritarian as it does.
I feel
e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t
towards the Khmer Rouge regime when it murdered and killed so many people.
I feel
e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t
towards the Czech🇵🇭*) regime when it IMO behaves like a thought police and makes it a crime to express certain ideas to the point that I am afraid when criticizing authoritarian regimes to the point that I add a disclaimer that this is meant as a criticism . (Maybe the Czech🇵🇭*) regime aims to make criticism of authoritarian regimes illegal by indirect means of chilling effect?)
*) It's actually Philippine flag and not Czech🇵🇭 flag. I use it because the Czech regime has another thoughtcrime regarding the Czech🇵🇭 flag so I use a similar looking flag which is provably not the Czech🇵🇭 flag, so that the Czech🇵🇭 regime cannot retaliate for criticism or dissent via lawfare. I also feel
e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t
towards the Czech🇵🇭 regime for this.
Image © CC0 by Karel 'Clock' K., unedited AI output.
#censorship #thoughtcrime #thoughtpolice #authoritarianism #freedomofspeech #freespeech #dissent #criticism #czech #czechia #czechrepublic #eu #usa #trump #contempt #urza
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The #ICE killing takes #America a step closer to #GeorgeOrwell’s nightmare
The Trump administration’s reaction to the fatal shooting of #ReneeGood is another dark chapter in its rewriting of history – and has disturbing echoes of the dystopian 1984, writes Sean O’Grady
Thursday 08 January 2026
Excerpt: "' #Orwellian' is a word that gets chucked around far too much, but there is surely something quite sinister in the official responses to the shooting of a civilian, Renee Good, in Minneapolis by a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.
"Obviously, there’s always some room for argument about what happened and why in such circumstances, but not about the more obvious facts, backed up by videos and eyewitness accounts.
"The ultimate boss of ICE, the homeland security secretary, #KristiNoem, declared that Good was involved in an act of '#DomesticTerrorism', as if she were an Isis operative – and with zero evidence to back up that extreme claim, and little sign that she was deliberately using her vehicle as a weapon. "
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/hpDlH#USPol #DoublePlusUngood #NineteenEightyFour #Orwellian #ICEOut #ThoughtPolice #Authoritarianism #MuderPatrol #EnemiesOfTheState #Resistance #ResistICE #SilencingDissent #Newspeak
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Surprise, surprise, surprise ....
https://bsky.app/profile/mrsbettybowers.bsky.social/post/3mamn22rtac26=
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#PalestineAction #protesters may have been wrongly arrested
7 page guidance document from Counter #Terrorism #Policing outlines advice to #police offers around showing support for the group
The guidance specifically states acts such as holding #placards stating “Genocide in #Palestine, Time to Take Action” are not be grounds for arrest
#KierStalin #PoliceState #genocide #WarCrimes #DemocracyNOW #justice #freedom #FreeSpeech #UK #authoritarian #Orwellian #ThoughtPolice
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This is 100% the Malicious Practices Act of 1933 aka "Ordinance for the Defense against Malicious Attacks against the Government"
#Trump #fascism #ThoughtPolice #dissent #ViewpointDiscrimination #NaziInformants #law #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfReligion
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The memo also calls on the department's grant-making offices to prioritize awarding #funding to states & municipalities that have programs designed to protect against [thier definition of] “domestic terrorism”, & it instructs the #FBI to update & improve its tip line so that "witnesses & citizen journalists can send media of suspected acts of domestic terrorism."
#Trump #fascism #ThoughtPolice #dissent #ViewpointDiscrimination #NaziInformants #law #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfReligion
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#Trump AG #PamBondi orders law enforcement to investigate #Antifa
"These domestic terrorists use violence or the threat of violence to advance political & social agendas, including opposition to law & immigration enforcement; extreme views in favor of mass migration & open borders; adherence to radical gender ideology, anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, or anti-Christianity," Bondi wrote.
wtf?
#ThoughtPolice #dissent #law #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfReligion
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/bondi-orders-law-enforcement-investigate-us-groups-over-accusations-domestic-2025-12-05/ -
Graham Smith, CEO of Republic, said: "#Thames Valley Police have today decided that #protests are essentially #banned. #FreeSpeech is conditional on arbitrary decisions by police inspectors, denying people even the right to heckle public figures.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25669666.police-banning-protest-king-arrest-threatened-windsor/
#ToxicLabour #PoliceState #ThoughtPolice #oppression #Orwellian #dystopian #England #UK #KeirStalin #terrorism
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"But it was a more innocuous post that would soon send Bushart’s life spiraling out of control. It was an image he had previously posted to his own feed to little response: a photo of Trump alongside a quote, “We have to get over it.” The meme, which had been circulating for more than a year, drew from remarks Trump made after a January 2024 school shooting in Perry, Iowa. Beneath the quote was a line providing context: “Donald Trump, on the Perry High School mass shooting, one day after.” Above the image were the words “Seems relevant today.”
If Bushart shared the posts to taunt those mourning Kirk, the reactions on the forum remained relatively mild. “Jeez Larry, take a stress pill or something,” one man commented. “Mow the lawn, get off the computer. A simple, concise statement like ‘I HATE Charlie’ would be sufficient.” Some of Bushart’s posts were received more positively; a meme arguing that “Billionaires fund the class war. Charlie Kirk sold it as a race war” got several likes. The Trump meme, meanwhile, was ignored.
By Sunday evening, however, the posts had gotten the attention of Perry County Sheriff Nick Weems. An avid Facebook user himself, Weems had shared the information about the Kirk vigil on his own page a few days earlier. He had also posted his own emotional response to the news of Kirk’s murder in September, warning ominously about the “evil” in our midst. “Evil could be your neighbor,” he wrote. “Evil could be standing right beside you in the grocery store. It could be your own family member and you never even know it.”"
https://theintercept.com/2025/10/23/charlie-kirk-meme-arrest-tennessee-larry-bushart/
#USA #Trump #CharlieKirk #FreeSpeech #ThoughtPolice #Censorship #PoliceState #Surveillance #SocialMedia #Facebook
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Ring cameras are about to get increasingly chummy with law enforcement
Amazon’s Ring partners with company whose tech has reportedly been used by ICE.
Scharon Harding – Oct 17, 2025
"Law enforcement agencies will soon have easier access to footage captured by Amazon’s Ring smart cameras. In a partnership announced this week, Amazon will allow approximately 5,000 local law enforcement agencies to request access to Ring camera footage via surveillance platforms from Flock Safety. Ring’s cooperation with law enforcement and the reported use of Flock technologies by federal agencies, including US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), has resurfaced privacy concerns that have followed the devices for years.
"According to Flock’s announcement, its Ring partnership allows local law enforcement members to use Flock software 'to send a direct post in the Ring Neighbors app with details about the investigation and request voluntary assistance.' Requests must include 'specific location and timeframe of the incident, a unique investigation code, and details about what is being investigated,' and users can look at the requests anonymously, Flock said.
" 'Any footage a Ring customer chooses to submit will be securely packaged by Flock and shared directly with the requesting local public safety agency through the FlockOS or Flock Nova platform,' the announcement reads.
"Flock said its local law enforcement users will gain access to Ring Community Requests in 'the coming months.' "
#BigBrother #BigBrotherIsWatching #USPol #ACAB #TrumpIsABully #SecretPolice #ICESucks #Disappeared
#Orwellian #ThoughtPolice #ICEOfficers #BigGuns #SilencingDissent #CharacteristicsOfFascism #authoritarianism -
#Chicago judge questions Trump official over #ICE agents' use of force
By Diana Novak Jones and Joseph Ax
Mon, October 20, 2025Excerpt: "A federal judge in Chicago on Monday grilled U.S. immigration officials about federal agents' use of tear gas and other forceful tactics against protesters as part of President Donald Trump's crackdown in the city.
"U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis has repeatedly expressed concern that federal agents were violating her October 9 order requiring them to wear visible #identification and limiting their use of anti-riot weapons such as #PepperBalls and #TearGas. On Friday, Ellis ordered federal officers who have body cameras to turn them on while conducting immigration enforcement activity and during interactions with the public.
"At Monday's hearing, Ellis also said she would allow the plaintiffs in the case - protesters, journalists and clergy members who sued the Trump administration alleging they were deliberately brutalized during peaceful demonstrations - to question several officials under oath, including Gregory Bovino, a top U.S. Border Patrol official.
"In granting the plaintiffs' request, Ellis made it clear the litigation is limited to the tactics used by field agents, not the president's stated rationale.
" 'I don't think that it matters what the administration's objectives are or what goals they have or what ideology is pushing this enforcement action,' she said. 'This lawsuit...is all about how our ICE officials and #CBP officials are enforcing the laws.'
"Clashes between protesters and federal agents, particularly #BorderPatrol agents and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, have increased since Trump launched the crackdown in early September.
"Trump also ordered the deployment of National Guard troops to the Chicago area, part of the Republican president's extraordinary campaign to send military personnel to Democratic-run cities purportedly to fight crime. A federal judge has temporarily blocked the deployment, but the Justice Department has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow the troops to proceed.
"Separately, a federal appeals court on Monday cleared the way for hundreds of Guard soldiers to deploy to Portland, Oregon, despite the objections of the Democratic mayor and governor there."
Read more:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/chicago-judge-questions-trump-official-211559155.html#USPol #ACAB #TrumpIsABully
#SecretPolice #ICESucks #Disappeared
#Orwellian #ThoughtPolice #ICEOfficers #BigGuns #SilencingDissent #CharacteristicsOfFascism #authoritarianism #ICE #MurderPatrol -
#ICE boosts weapons spending 700%
A Popular Information investigation reveals tens of millions in new ICE spending on #guns, #ChemicalWeapons, and explosives.
Judd Legum
Oct 20, 2025Excerpt: "U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has sharply increased its spending on weapons in 2025, according to an analysis of federal government contracting data by Popular Information. Records from the Federal Procurement Data System reveal that ICE has increased spending on 'small arms, ordnance, and ordnance accessories manufacturing' by 700% compared to 2024 levels.
"New spending in the small arms category from January 20, 2025, the day Trump was inaugurated, through October 18, totaled $71,515,762. Most of the spending was on guns and armor, but there have also been significant purchases of chemical weapons and 'guided missile warheads and explosive components.'
"On September 29, 2025, ICE made a $9,098,590 purchase from #GeisseleAutomatics, which sells #SemiAutomatic and #AutomaticRifles. The total spending by ICE in the small arms category between January 20 and October 18, 2024, was $9,715,843."
https://popular.info/p/ice-boosts-weapons-spending-700
#USPol #ACAB #TrumpIsABully
#SecretPolice #ICESucks #Disappeared
#Orwellian #ThoughtPolice #ICEOfficers #BigGuns #SilencingDissent #CharacteristicsOfFascism #authoritarianism -
I guess Trump didn't need the biker gangs after all... He found another way to terrorize people living in the #US!
Unfettered and Unaccountable: How #Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
by J. David McSwane and Hannah Allam
Oct. 18, 2025
Reporting Highlights
- Aggression: Under President Donald Trump’s deportation mission, ICE officers are using force to detain and jail immigrants.
- Impunity: The administration gutted guardrails and offices meant to rein in abusive actions.
- Disappeared: Some families say they have no idea where their loved ones were jailed after immigration raids.#USPol #ACAB #TrumpIsABully #SecretPolice #ICESucks #Disappeared #Orwellian #ThoughtPolice #ICEOfficers
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The #FBI Agents Association confirmed in a statement late Friday that more than a dozen agents had been fired, including #military #veterans with additional statutory protections, & condemned the move as #unlawful. It called on #Congress to investigate & said the firings were another indication of FBI Director #KashPatel’s disregard for the #legal rights of bureau employees.
#law #FirstAmendment #FreedomOfExpression #Trump #ThoughtPolice #WhiteSupremacy
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“This is the first time in American history that there is an all of government effort to dismantle left-wing terrorism," said White House Deputy Chief of Staff #StephenMiller.
#law #RevengePolitics #Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #dictatorship #autocracy #tyranny #dissent #ThoughtPolice #Nazis #democracy #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreedomOfAssociation
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/enforcing-the-death-penalty-laws-in-the-district-of-columbia-to-deter-and-punish-the-most-heinous-crimes/ -
#Trump signs memorandum aimed at investigating #liberal groups, cites Soros as target
"We are properly going to chase them down like the domestic #terrorists that they are," #FBI Director #KashPatel said.
#law #RevengePolitics #fascism #authoritarianism #dictatorship #autocracy #tyranny #dissent #ThoughtPolice #Nazis #democracy #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreedomOfAssociation
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/09/25/donald-trump-executive-order-liberal-groups-investigation/86355076007/
