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#tyranny

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Touaregtweet

"Authoritarianism tends to announce itself—loudly, constantly, with flags and slogans and fury. But what makes it work isn’t the spectacle. It’s the silence that follows. The quiet in the room. The heads that nod. The truth that gets swallowed one meeting at a time.

We've seen it before, and we'll see it again.

A paranoid leader surrounded by flatterers. A bunker mentality replacing national strategy."

joanwestenberg.com/why/ #authoritarianism #Trump #tyranny #politics

westenberg. · Why Hitler Slept Through D-DayOn the morning of June 6th, 1944, Hitler was sound asleep. The Allies were landing. Tens of thousands of soldiers were pouring onto the beaches. The tide was turning, the war accelerating toward its violent, inevitable end. And the man leading the Reich was in bed, untouched. His generals knew
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G. Gibson

@susankayequinn John Lithgow --> 20 Lessons on Tyranny:

Now, more than ever, we need the wisdom of our intellects, the patriotism of our citizens, and the passion and talents of those who still believe in the American experiment. I am deeply grateful to Timothy Snyder for his 20 Lessons On Tyranny and for talents of the brilliant John Lithgow for bringing them to life.

Watch --> youtube.com/watch?v=cXR5HLodsT8

YouTube20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John LithgowBy PoliticsGirl
#tyranny#democracy#civilrights
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G. Gibson

John Lithgow --> 20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder

Now, more than ever, we need the wisdom of our intellects, the patriotism of our citizens, and the passion and talents of those who still believe in the American experiment. I am deeply grateful to Timothy Snyder for his 20 Lessons On Tyranny and for talents of the brilliant John Lithgow for bringing them to life.

Watch --> youtube.com/watch?v=cXR5HLodsT8

YouTube20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John LithgowBy PoliticsGirl
#tyranny#democracy#civilrights
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G. Gibson

John Lithgow --> 20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow

Happy Warrior Entertainment is so proud to have produced this incredible project. Now, more than ever, we need the wisdom of our intellects, the patriotism of our citizens, and the passion and talents of those who still believe in the American experiment. I am deeply grateful to Timothy Snyder for his 20 Lessons On Tyranny and for talents of the brilliant John Lithgow for bringing them to life. Great thanks to David Bender for his vision, the support of Abigail Disney, Susan Disney Lord, and Timothy Disney, and the imagination and direction of Sean McGowan, the producer of the PoliticsGirl Project.

Watch --> youtube.com/watch?v=cXR5HLodsT

YouTube20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John LithgowBy PoliticsGirl
#tyranny#democracy#civilrights
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Nonilex

Anybody who gets “in the way” of #Trump’s efforts to deport migrants will be charged “for obstruction, for concealment,” #AlinaHabba, the interim US attorney in #NewJersey, warned.

“I will come after them hard,” she said.

The move is part of a broader effort by Trump to use the #DOJ to punish Democratic state & city officials who refuse to help carry out the admin’s extreme #immigration agenda & to quash so-called #SanctuaryCities.

#law#intimidation#authoritarianism
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Nonilex

In that famously hot, stuffy room in Philadelphia, windows closed for the sake of secrecy, they sweated & argued about how to limit the powers of the American executive. They arrived at the idea of dividing #power between different branches of govt. As James Madison wrote in “Federalist No. 47”: “The accumulation of all powers, #legislative, #executive, & #judiciary in the same hands…may justly be pronounced the very definition of #tyranny.”

#law#Constitution#SeparationOfPowers
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WIST Quotations

A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

The dictators cannot seem to realize that here in America our people can maintain two parties, and at the same time maintain an inviolate and indivisible Nation. The totalitarian mentality is too narrow to comprehend the greatness of a people who can be divided in party allegiance at election time, but remain united in devotion to their country and to the ideals of democracy at all times.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Speech (1941-03-29), Jackson Day Radio Broadcast, U.S.S. Potomac

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

#quote#quotes#quotation
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Nonilex

Last month, #Trump signed an EO calling for the “consolidation” of these segregated records, raising the prospect of creating a kind of #data trove about Americans that the govt has never had before, & that…[#Republicans]…have historically opposed.

The effort is being driven by #ElonMusk, the world’s richest man, & his lieutenants w/ #DOGE, who have sought access to dozens of databases as they have swept through agencies across the federal govt.
#law #InfoSec #NationalSecurity #privacy #tyranny

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Nonilex

Well, this is, terrifying

#GiftArticle

#Trump Wants to Merge Government #Data. Here Are 314 Things It Might Know About You.

The federal govt knows your mother’s maiden name & your bank account number. The student debt you hold. Your disability status. The company that employs you & the wages you earn there. And that’s just a start.

#law #InfoSec #NationalSecurity #privacy #Musk #DOGE #TrumpCoup #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny
nytimes.com/2025/04/09/us/poli

The New York Times · How Musk and Trump Are Working to Consolidate Government Data About YouBy Emily Badger
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