Right now, convicted felon Donald Trump and his fascist-saluting side-kick Musk are prioritizing self-interest and retribution over the collective good. They’re dismantling the government, threatening journalists, removing necessary checks-and-balances on the executive branch, spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories, and opening private citizen’s sensitive data to people who should not be trusted with that.
Their actions spill beyond America and expose the world to significant risk. Speak up and take action now! Not sure how? You have the power to stop helping them spread their propaganda: quit X, sell your Tesla and don’t use Starlink.
Fighting fascism is not radical, it’s necessary.
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I’ll stop updating this list, because by now the flood of news should give you a very clear picture. They’re going after universities, courts, journalists, libraries and museums. If you take a look at history you’ll see this is what dictators do to gain power. It’s what Orban did. It’s what Putin did. It’s what Stalin did. It’s what Hitler did. As Robert Reich often says in his speeches and podcasts: “It’s not just the bad people and their actions, it’s the silence of good people that allows tyrants to take over.”
Take action now and protect our democracies!
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data.
Trump & Bukele Plot US Citizen Detention In Salvadoran Torture Camps, While Defying Supreme Court Via Gibberish Responses To Reporters. “A foreign dictator stood in the White House and openly suggested that the path to “liberating” 350 million Americans requires imprisoning those deemed problematic — with the obvious implication (given how things have gone so far) being that this should happen without charges, without trials, without due process. And the President of the United States not only agreed, but was enthusiastic about adopting this framework of authoritarian repression.”
“A republic, if you can keep it” - but can the US keep it? How Trump is dismantling democracy.
Trump administration fires senior Navy female officer at NATO. She appeared on a ‘woke’ list.
Trump Administration Freezes $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern, Officials Say.
Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say. Gmail 🤣
No One Is Safe From America’s Abusive Immigration Authorities Anymore.
An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison.
Trump’s New Executive Order Is an “Astonishing and Unprecedented Voter Suppression” Effort. “We are at an astonishing moment where the president of the United States is issuing policy directives with the unmistakable intent of stopping Americans from participating in our democracy,”
Speaker Mike Johnson floats eliminating federal courts as GOP ramps up attacks on judges. Let’s eliminate the courts that halt our agenda.
Trump’s assault on the rule of law: ‘the speed and intent is remarkable’. “He who saves his country does not violate any law”
‘This Is Worse’: Trump’s Judicial Defiance Veers Beyond the Autocrat Playbook. “Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power,” Vice President JD Vance declared last month. “I don’t care what the judges think — I don’t care what the left thinks,”
We will deport you if we have evidence against you, and deport you if we do not. “In fact, based upon their association with TdA, the lack of specific information about each individual actually highlights the risk they pose. It demonstrates that they are terrorists with regard to whom we lack a complete profile.” Read that sentence a few times.
A French researcher repressed for expressing "a personal opinion on the policy conducted by the Trump administration. In French. A French scientist traveling to the US for an official scientific conference has been denied entry with the sole reason that he has tweeted criticism of Trump and musks cuts to science.
US ‘deletes evidence’ of Russia’s kidnap of thousands of Ukrainian children. A Yale source said the US state department deleted the evidence which would have been used as part of rescue efforts to get the children home to Ukraine. It would also have been used to prosecute those behind their abductions – including Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Elon Musk’s DOGE Uses Police to Seize Independent Nonprofit. The U.S. Institute of Peace is not a federal agency or located in a federal building. That didn’t stop DOGE from illegally taking over.
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow. This is amazing. As the fascists do their best to hide public records from the public, Wired is stepping up and doing their civic duty.
How Trump and Musk built their own reality. A tech media outlet going full throttle at it as well now. So much for the tech should be “non-political” nonsense.EPA head says he’ll roll back dozens of environmental regulations, including rules on climate change. “We are driving a dagger through the heart of
climate-change religionSCIENCE and ushering in America’s Golden Age”.House Republican Ends Meeting After Getting Called Out For Misgendering Trans Colleague. Aren’t they loving and liberal? A democrat standing up for human decency brought tears to my eyes. This is hopeful.
What’s going on between the US and Canada. A horrifying post on Mastodon with a timeline of events since the Trump regime was installed.
Is Donald Trump a fascist? Video by Robert Reich. Spoiler: yes.
What does Elon Musk really want? Video by Robert Reich. Spoiler: more power, more money, no consequences.
The truth about Trump tariffs. Video by Robert Reich. All economists agree: trade deficits aren’t a bad thing and tariffs are stupid.
How Trump killed every business he touched. Video essay by Robert Reich. “He’s such a great businessman, right?!”
Despite nice words, the Trump government is still undermining vaccinations. In Dutch. Illustrates the dangers of appointing an idiot as your Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Thrust into unemployment, axed federal workers face relatives who celebrate their firing. Examples of the effects of the ruthless, unsupported cutbacks.
Realtime Fascism. Monthly threat: severe.
TeslaTakedown. See FAQ on how boycotts are beneficial.
Timeline: Politicization and Weaponization of Justice Department in Second Trump Administration.
The free speech will continue until Trump’s morale improves. “Can’t you just shoot them, just shoot them in the legs or something?” Especially take note of the fact that Trump has surrounded himself with only yes-men this time around. And we already know about the Musk civil servants "alignment offers".