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"It's not too late to stop this train, although it gets more difficult with every day that goes by, every media outlet that rolls...

"It's not too late to stop this train, although it gets more difficult with every day that goes by, every media outlet that rolls over and pays off, every law firm that grovels before Trump. The key — as it has been throughout history — is to mobilize public opinion...

History suggests that mobilizing 3.5% of the populace of a country is enough to produce change"
https://hartmannreport.com/p/she-stepped-onto-a-sidewalk-in-boston-a74

#Resist #Resistance #Trump #GOP #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Politics #USPol #USPolitics #News #US #USA

"The goal of this sort of kidnapping and hellish incarceration isn’t to clear the streets of criminals or promote public safety or...

"The goal of this sort of kidnapping and hellish incarceration isn’t to clear the streets of criminals or promote public safety or even prevent immigration: it’s to create #terror. And it’s working.

This is a playbook as ancient as the world’s first kings...

every #tyrant throughout #history has used the threat of arrest and imprisonment as a way to force public compliance with their regime."
https://hartmannreport.com/p/she-stepped-onto-a-sidewalk-in-boston-a74

#Trump #Fascism #Terrorism #GOP #Politics #USPol #USPolitics #News #USA #US

"Neri Alvarado was working as a baker in Dallas, caring for his 15-year-old brother who has #autism. He even got a #tattoo celebrating...

"Neri Alvarado was working as a baker in Dallas, caring for his 15-year-old brother who has #autism. He even got a #tattoo celebrating “autism awareness month” in support of his younger sibling.

So #Trump — with no legal process whatsoever, in complete defiance of our #Constitution and the Bill of Rights — kidnapped him and deported him to one of the world’s most notorious prisons in #ElSalvador, citing the tattoo as justification."
https://hartmannreport.com/p/she-stepped-onto-a-sidewalk-in-boston-a74

#DonaldTrump #GOP #Fascism #News #US

"Columbia student #MahmoudKhalil remains in the hellhole of a notoriously brutal private prison in #Louisiana for daring to speak out...

"Columbia student #MahmoudKhalil remains in the hellhole of a notoriously brutal private prison in #Louisiana for daring to speak out against the #Israeli slaughter of Gazans.

And #Columbia student #YunseoChung, who’s been a legal permanent resident of the #US since she was 7 years old, is in hiding while her lawyers sue to prevent her arrest for also speaking up about the violence #Netanyahu is inflicting on people in #Gaza."
https://hartmannreport.com/p/she-stepped-onto-a-sidewalk-in-boston-a74

#Trump #GOP #Fascism #USPol #News #USA

"This is how it begins.Tuesday night, Tufts University PhD student #RumeysaOzturk was going out to a restaurant to meet friends when...

"This is how it begins.

Tuesday night, Tufts University PhD student #RumeysaOzturk was going out to a restaurant to meet friends when masked federal #ICE agents dressed in street clothes seized her off a public sidewalk and disappeared her. Her apparent crime was co-authoring an op-ed critical of #Trump & #Netanyahu."
- @ThomHartmann

https://hartmannreport.com/p/she-stepped-onto-a-sidewalk-in-boston-a74

#DonaldTrump #GOP #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Republicans #Politics #USPol #USPolitics #News #US #USA

“It’s a #Vichy moment in American #history,” Michael Roth, the president of Wesleyan University, told me... “Like I have a...

“It’s a #Vichy moment in American #history,” Michael Roth, the president of Wesleyan University, told me... “Like I have a restaurant & if I #collaborate with the Nazis & don’t let any Jews eat here, then the guys who wash dishes will still have jobs. As you know, that slope is very slippery. #Appeasement doesn’t end well.”
...
"when you engage in the #collaboration, you actually encourage them to do even worse stuff.”
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2025-03-24-columbias-capitulation-wesleyans-pushback/

#Trump #GOP #Fascism #Authoritarianism #USPol #USA

"The enforcement freeze effectively halts the #CFPB efforts begun under frmr Pres Joe Biden to police #tech companies, some of which...

"The enforcement freeze effectively halts the #CFPB efforts begun under frmr Pres Joe Biden to police #tech companies, some of which have donated millions to #DonaldTrump ... Among the firms under agency scrutiny are #Meta, the parent company of #Facebook...

The inquiry into Meta was being watched closely as a test case for the agency’s expansion into regulating tech companies whose businesses intersect with financial services."
- @ProPublica

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cfpb-investigation-capital-one-rocket-meta-carvana-greenlight

#Corruption #News #USA

[NYT headline is misleading]https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/us/politics/elon-musk-tesla-wisconsin.html" #ElonMusk is far and away...

[NYT headline is misleading]
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/us/politics/elon-musk-tesla-wisconsin.html

" #ElonMusk is far and away the biggest spender in this year’s race for the Wisconsin #SupremeCourt...

$20 million and counting... comes as his electric car company, #Tesla, is suing #Wisconsin over its #law prohibiting vehicle manufacturers from selling cars directly to consumers... requires a franchisee to act as a middleman.

Tesla filed the #lawsuit ... days before #Musk began spending on the race."

#Corruption #USPol #News #USA #US

Inside DOGE’s Plan to Invade the Treasury—and Throttle USAIDCourt filings show that from the earliest days of the 2nd #Trump...

Inside DOGE’s Plan to Invade the Treasury—and Throttle USAID

Court filings show that from the earliest days of the 2nd #Trump administration, Elon Musk’s DOGE had a plan to infiltrate US Treasury payment systems—and turn them against USAID.
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-plan-treasury-usaid/

"reveal the extent of #DOGE penetration into the most sensitive systems at the #Treasury...

this access was in service of the admn’s plans to target #USAID."

#ElonMusk #Musk #Coup #Corruption #GOP #Politics #USPol #News #US #USA

"Democrat James Andrew Malone narrowly won a special election for a Pennsylvania state Senate seat in Republican-leaning suburbs and...

"Democrat James Andrew Malone narrowly won a special election for a Pennsylvania state Senate seat in Republican-leaning suburbs and farming communities, scoring an upset in a district that a Democrat hasn’t represented in the chamber for 136 years."
https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-democratic-party-donald-trump-election-094e907bd9af0d55a3ac76bb5e22d17c

#Resist #Resistance #Vote #Elections #Democrats #Republicans #Trump #GOP #Politics #USPol #News #US #USA

How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From...

How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China
https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-spacex-allows-china-investment-cayman-islands-secrecy

"As a US #military contractor, #SpaceX sees allowing #Chinese ownership as fraught. But it will allow the investment if it comes through secrecy hubs like the Cayman Islands... “It is certainly a policy of obfuscation,” an expert said...

troubled by the possibility that a #defense contractor would take active steps to conceal foreign ownership interests"

#Musk #China #Corruption #Politics #Security #News #US

DOGE staffer 'Big Balls' provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records...

DOGE staffer 'Big Balls' provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/doge-staffer-big-balls-provided-tech-support-cybercrime-ring-records-show-2025-03-26/

"The best-known member of Elon Musk's US #DOGE Service team of technologists once provided support to a #cybercrime gang that bragged about trafficking in stolen #data and cyberstalking an #FBI agent...

#EdwardCoristine is among the... DOGE effort that has been given sweeping access to official #networks"

#ElonMusk #Musk #Coup #Crime #Tech #Technology #Trump #GOP #USPol #News #US #USA

Trump Is Changing the Rural Broadband Rules. Guess Who May Benefit?Biden threw billions at rural broadband, but the process was slow as...

Trump Is Changing the Rural Broadband Rules. Guess Who May Benefit?

Biden threw billions at rural broadband, but the process was slow as molasses. Trump may speed it up—while lining the pockets of his co-president.
https://newrepublic.com/article/193127/trump-rural-broadband-rules-musk

"the #Broadband Equity, Access, & Deployment Program, or BEAD...$42.5 billion... Now that the #Trump admn has its hands on BEAD, it may take a lot of that #money —as much as half of it, or even more—and give it to #ElonMusk"

#Musk #Corruption #USPol #News

How the Social Security Admn is dodging a federal court orderhttps://www.muskwatch.com/p/how-the-social-security-administration"The...

How the Social Security Admn is dodging a federal court order
https://www.muskwatch.com/p/how-the-social-security-administration

"The #Trump admn has installed a #DOGE operative as the new Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the #SocialSecurity Admn (SSA) in an apparent effort to evade a federal court order blocking DOGE affiliates from accessing databases containing the sensitive personal #information of millions of #Americans."

#ElonMusk #Musk #Coup #Corruption #Trump #GOP #Politics #USPol #SSA #News #USA #US

Bondi demands Crockett apologize for aggravated mean to ElonHurting Musk's feefees is not a crime no matter how many Fox hits the AG...

Bondi demands Crockett apologize for aggravated mean to Elon

Hurting Musk's feefees is not a crime no matter how many Fox hits the AG does.
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/bondi-crockett-musk-tesla

"Attorney General #PamBondi is threatening #Texas Democratic Rep. #JasmineCrockett for participating in protests of Elon Musk’s efforts to burn down the federal #government.

The #TeslaTakedown movement is an attempt to grab the world’s most famous ketamine user by the wallet & make #fascism rude again."

#Resist #Resistance #USA

Elon Musk’s Hostile Takeover of Wisconsinhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBICTkaeGUM"Elon Musk's PACs have spent millions backing...

Elon Musk’s Hostile Takeover of Wisconsin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBICTkaeGUM

"Elon Musk's PACs have spent millions backing #Trump loyalist Brad Schimel in Wisconsin's #SupremeCourt race.

If Schimel wins, the court could uphold a total #abortion ban, attacks on #unions, and gerrymandered maps — and change state law to benefit #Tesla."

#ElonMusk #Musk #Corruption #Wisconsin #Politics #USPol #News #Video #US #USA

Shakedown #Politics, Sabotage, Self-Enrichment: How to Talk About #Trump & Musk's Authoritarian...

Shakedown #Politics, Sabotage, Self-Enrichment: How to Talk About #Trump & Musk's Authoritarian Activities
https://lucid.substack.com/p/shakedown-politics-sabotage-self

" #Trump & #Musk are not merely creating another #autocracy along the lines of #Hungary or #Turkey, with inspiration from South African #apartheid and the #JimCrow South. They are innovating the #authoritarian playbook with their power-sharing agreement and their chainsaw & wrecking-ball tactics."

#ElonMusk #Coup #Corruption #GOP #Politics #USPol #News #USA #US

Musk Slashes Social Security as Republicans Debate What a “Cut”...

Musk Slashes Social Security as Republicans Debate What a “Cut” Is
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/musk-slashes-social-security-as-republicans

" DonaldTrump has long insisted that he would not cut #SocialSecurity benefits... which has forced the [GOP] to argue that the cuts #DOGE is making to the programs aren’t actually cuts, because they aren’t reducing the size of the Social Security checks... They’re just affecting many other things related to the delivery of those checks."

#ElonMusk #Musk #GOP #Politics #USPol #SSA #Lies #News #US #USA

Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts Are Crashing Social SecurityDOGE cuts are making the #SocialSecurity Admn fall...

Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts Are Crashing Social Security

DOGE cuts are making the #SocialSecurity Admn fall apart.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193134/social-security-falling-apart-elon-musk-doge-cuts

"Dudek and DOGE’s actions have caused #chaos within the agency, pushing out experienced officials who were running the SSA’s complicated information #technology & benefit systems. As a result, an agency that has been underfunded for years now is on the brink of being shut down"

#ElonMusk #Musk #Doge #Coup #Corruption #Trump #GOP #Politics #USPol #SSA #News #USA

"A list circulating inside the #Energy Dept suggests cutting funding for the development of 4 hydrogen production hubs in mostly...

"A list circulating inside the #Energy Dept suggests cutting funding for the development of 4 hydrogen production hubs in mostly Dem-leaning states while maintaining funding for 3 hubs spread across mostly red states...

The cuts, if carried through, would politicize the federal funds that #Congress and the #Biden administration awarded to 7 regional applicants as part of the bipartisan #infrastructure law."
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/26/energy-department-hydrogen-projects-blue-states-00249589

#Trump #GOP #Corruption #Coup #Politics #USPol #News #USA #US