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DrALJONESTrump closes the Dept of Education... and in comes Musk online elitist-AI schools...Analysis: Trump’s New Executive Order: "We’re going to shut it down, and we’re going to shut it down as quickly as possible."Signed Thursday, the order directed head Linda McMahon to “facilitate the closure” of the agency to the “maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law.” <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/trumps-new-executive-order-just-dealt-another-brutal-blow-to-the-department-of-education/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/trumps-new-executive-order-just-dealt-another-brutal-blow-to-the-department-of-education/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/depteducationclosure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#depteducationclosure</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/muskschools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#muskschools</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/genderism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#genderism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autocracy</a> .

DrALJONESReport: "This Week in Democracy - Week 9: Bombs Abroad, Arrests at Home""Zeteo's project to document the ongoing, week-by-week growth of authoritarianism in the Trump second term."From sending migrants to an El Salvador prison without due process to greenlighting Israel’s massacre in Gaza..."here’s what Trump & his allies did this week that harms US democratic & constitutional order, academic freedom, free speech, & our free societies"<a href="https://zeteo.com/p/this-week-in-democracy-week-9-bombs-arrests-trump-judges-attacks" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://zeteo.com/p/this-week-in-democracy-week-9-bombs-arrests-trump-judges-attacks</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autocracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspol</a> .

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> suggests sending <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/citizens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#citizens</a> to a prison in a foreign country known for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HumanRights</a> violations without <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DueProcess</a>.This is no longer a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ConstitutionalCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ConstitutionalCrisis</a>.The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> is an established <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#authoritarian</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MafiaState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MafiaState</a>.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tyranny</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autocracy</a>

Aral BalkanTurkey isn’t a dictatorship.(Is what people who want to stay out of prison say in Turkey.)<a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/turkey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#turkey</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/t%C3%BCrkiye" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#türkiye</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autocracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/erdo%C4%9Fan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#erdoğan</a>

Aral BalkanIn Turkey, one of the prerequisites for running for president is to already be the president.<a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/turkey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#turkey</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/t%C3%BCrkiye" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#türkiye</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autocracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/erdo%C4%9Fan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#erdoğan</a>

Danneau<a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autocracy</a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> RossK over at the Pacific Gazetteer put up this link. Pretty direct and concise:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK6fALsenmw" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK6fALsenmw</a>

DrALJONESInterview Trump's attack on Social SecurityTrump & Musk are cutting Agency Staff & Critical Services.Officials in the Social Security Administration say it is "an effort to break the organization.”<a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/19/judd_legum_musk_doge_social_security" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/19/judd_legum_musk_doge_social_security</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#musk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialSecurity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Autocracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#resist</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/generalstrike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#generalstrike</a> .

Ben Royce 🇺🇦<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/americans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#americans</a> are fucking stupidthey treat <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#voting</a> as a jokeamericans are removed from the consequences of living under <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autocracy</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a>, unlike other places that understand the stakes<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/alienated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alienated</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/entitled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#entitled</a> on a topic that will *personally* harm them, no need for glorious appeals to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#society</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/responsibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#responsibility</a>they need to learn to fucking <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vote</a>or not vote for their own impoverishment and rights removal under <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bigotry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bigotry</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/plutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#plutocracy</a>they will learnthe hard wayfucking morons

AnarchoNinaAnalyzesAlthough the article I shared above doesn't mention the agency, through that same February 18th executive order, Downmarket Mussolini also claimed absolute control of another independent regulatory body that is of great concern to all the billionaire nazis that own his regime; specifically the Federal Trade Commission or FTC. <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/trump-fires-both-ftc-democrats-in-challenge-to-supreme-court-precedent/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/trump-fires-both-ftc-democrats-in-challenge-to-supreme-court-precedent/</a>Trump fires both FTC Democrats in challenge to Supreme Court precedent"President Trump fired both Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission yesterday, advancing his administration's claim that the president can fire FTC commissioners despite a US law and a 1935 Supreme Court ruling stating that the president cannot do so without good cause.Trump fired Democrats Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, both of whom said the firings are illegal. Trump "tried to illegally fire me. I'll see the president in court," Bedoya wrote. The FTC was created "to fight fraudsters and monopolists," but Trump "wants the FTC to be a lapdog for his golfing buddies," Bedoya said.A statement from Slaughter said, "The President illegally fired me from my position as a Federal Trade Commissioner, violating the plain language of a statute and clear Supreme Court precedent." Slaughter said Trump "fears the accountability that opposition voices would provide if the president orders Chairman [Andrew] Ferguson to treat the most powerful corporations and their executives—like those that flanked the President at his inauguration—with kid gloves."US law says any FTC commissioner "may be removed by the President for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office." The Supreme Court held in a 1935 case, Humphrey's Executor v. United States, that "Congress intended to restrict the power of removal to one or more of those causes."The Trump administration claims the case was wrongly decided, but the ruling is still in effect. Trump's Department of Justice said last month that it would urge the Supreme Court to reverse the Humphrey's Executor ruling, saying it "prevents the President from adequately supervising principal officers in the Executive Branch who execute the laws on the President's behalf."I chose this article because it clearly articulates how long the Trump regime has been working on this, and what their spurious arguments to support it are; but I don't love the hint of both-sidesing here, and that isn't helped by AT changing the original title to no longer center that this is a massive power grab by the executive branch, which is embodied by president Trump. A good example of why I'm not thrilled about the writeup here is printing sub-headers like "FTC Chair: Trump can fire members." The FTC chair is of course some nazi Trump appointed in January, so I'm sure we're all surprised the maggot fascist who owes his job to Trump, thinks Trump can do whatever Trump wants to do, and that is clearly an important detail to highlight in bold, large font text. *Eyeroll*As such, let me state that based on the current law, and existing SCOTUS precedent, Trump does not have the power to fire two Dem appointed FTC commissioners because he openly admits they'll get in the way of his dogshit plans. The caveat here of course being that we've fully descended into a game of fascist Calvinball, the GOP have a 6-3 majority in the current Supreme Court, and those berobed reactionaries have already shown a willingness to throw out precedent and make up the law as they go, so who the fuck knows if it even matters whether or not he's allowed to fire his political enemies from an independent commission. As it stands now however, what Trump is doing is unquestionably a brazen power grab and also flatly illegal.Which then brings us to the question of why? Well, consider for a moment what the FTC has been doing recently; this is from an American Prospect article by David Dayen:"Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya, both of whom served with former chair Lina Khan in the FTC majority under Joe Biden, were told they were terminated today. The three of them made numerous advances over the past three years on antitrust and consumer protection policies, including successful challenges to numerous mergers and new rules cracking down on subscription deception, restrictive noncompete agreements, and other anti-fraud measures."Please keep in mind that this is the agency that took Google to court and won. Alright, now consider all the extremely rich tech nazi CEOs who got Der Leader elected and really own the Trump regime; can you think of any reasons why those guys might prefer a corrupt, toothless FTC stacked full of nazis? Perhaps billions of reasons, as in dollars they can make doing shady shit that should be illegal without FTC interference? In other words, Trump isn't just seizing power for the imperial presidency; he's paying the bills he owes billionaire CEOs by destroying the US regulatory state.<a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/FTC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FTC</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Slaughter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Slaughter</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Bedoya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bedoya</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Autocracy</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a>

DrALJONESInterview Judd Legum on Trump's attack on Social SecurityTrump & Musk are cutting Agency Staff & Critical ServicesOfficials in the Social Security Administration say it is "an effort to break the organization.”<a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/19/judd_legum_musk_doge_social_security" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/19/judd_legum_musk_doge_social_security</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#musk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialSecurity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Autocracy</a> .

DrALJONESEmail Congress: Demand the release of student activist Mahmoud Khalil"These are the actions of a fascist government, & we must fiercely resist & speak out, & generate overwhelming public outrage & pressure to ensure Mahmoud's release..."and to demand that elected officials & universities start protecting students from the reach of the Trump regime."<a href="https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/email-congress-demand-the-release-of-student-activist-mahmoud-khalil/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/email-congress-demand-the-release-of-student-activist-mahmoud-khalil/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MahmoudKhalil</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JewishVoiceforPeace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JewishVoiceforPeace</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Autocracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StudentProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StudentProtests</a> .

AnarchoNinaAnalyzesWhen this story broke a few days ago, I decided to skip covering Trump's shocking DoJ speech because I only have so much time to write each day, and applying a power dynamic analysis to the news at the time lead me to believe focusing on Trump's anti-trans policies, attacks on protest rights, and direct violation of judge's orders designed to protect marginalized targets of the Trump regime from state oppression, was more important than raising awareness about Downmarket Mussolini's so-called "airing of grievances" towards government lawyers who prosecuted him for very real crimes he absolutely committed. If nothing else I assumed the media would swiftly jump to the defense of DoJ lawyers, but they'd be less inclined to do so for incarcerated ppl, deported migrants, student protestors, and trans Americans. Unfortunately in the time since, corporate media coverage of Trump's threats during his DoJ speech has become extremely squishy, actively working to minimize the gravity of what Trump said, while simultaneously Dowmarket Mussolini has revealed that said speech was simply an early salvo in what is almost certainly going to be an ongoing quest to root out and punish anyone who dared to bring court cases (criminal or civil) against him. Given that this is *not* going away, we're gonna have to back up a few days here and talk about Trump's DoJ speech and why its implications are far more serious than the "airing of grievances" many larger media outlets reported it as.<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-trump-justice-department-speech_n_67d4a1ace4b08455bb0719ee" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-trump-justice-department-speech_n_67d4a1ace4b08455bb0719ee</a>Trump Pledges To 'Expel Rogue Actors' In Political Speech At Justice Department"Though other presidents have spoken from the Justice Department’s ceremonial Great Hall, Trump’s address amounted to an extraordinary display of partisan politics and personal grievance inside an institution that is meant to be blind to both. Casting himself as the country’s “chief law enforcement officer,” a title ordinarily reserved for the attorney general, he promised to target his perceived enemies even as he claimed to be ending what he called the weaponization of the department.The speech marked the latest manifestation of Trump’s unparalleled takeover of the department and came amid a brazen campaign of retribution already undertaken under his watch, including the firing of prosecutors who investigated him during the Biden administration and the scrutiny of thousands of FBI agents who investigated the president’s supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.“Our predecessors turned this Department of Justice into the Department of Injustice. But I stand before you today to declare that those days are over, and they are never going to come back and never coming back,” Trump said to cheers from a crowd that included local law enforcement officials, political allies and FBI Director Kash Patel. “So now, as the chief law enforcement officer in our country, I will insist upon and demand full and complete accountability for the wrongs and abuses that have occurred.”There's a lot to unpack here; including Trump's effective termination of the official independence of the Department of Justice, his direct identification of individuals in the DoJ he intends to target for reprisals, and the transformation of the department into his de facto private legal team by way of placing people who acted in his legal defense in positions of power throughout the DoJ. While this article still doesn't seem to grasp the full scope of Trump's fascist intentions here, I recommend reading it in its entirety anyway because it does a good job of not minimizing what he said and demonstrating a pattern of persecution in how Trump uses the law and the DoJ to target his enemies. Additionally however, I think it's important to acknowledge how this story now fits into a larger, identifiable pattern in how Trump rules and how he's prosecuting his fascist agenda, in light of recent attempts to declare Biden's pardons invalid based on a longstanding right wing conspiracy about autopens and what "signing" a presidential order actually means. Whether we're talking about annexing Canada, mass deportations, kidnapping student protestors, or illegally handing over the power of the purse to Elon Musk, Trump appears to always preview his fascist activities by bringing them up, often casually, in his rambling public appearances first. This then establishes his personal antipathies as state antipathies, and his personal definition of reality as officially recognized reality. Once that is accomplished, the fascist administration will increasingly operate as if Trump's public utterances have always been known reality, and prosecute the regime's agenda based on that; "Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia" indeed. As such, it's no longer reasonable to question which of Trump's fascist ravings are "serious," but rather we must question when they will become "reality" and what fascist agendas they will ultimately support.<a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/DoJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DoJ</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Autocracy</a>

DrALJONES"Email Congress: Demand the release of student activist Mahmoud Khalil""These are the actions of a fascist government, & we must fiercely resist & speak out, & generate overwhelming public outrage & pressure to ensure Mahmoud's release..."and to demand that elected officials & universities start protecting students from the reach of the Trump regime."<a href="https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/email-congress-demand-the-release-of-student-activist-mahmoud-khalil/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/email-congress-demand-the-release-of-student-activist-mahmoud-khalil/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MahmoudKhalil</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JewishVoiceforPeace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JewishVoiceforPeace</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Autocracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StudentProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StudentProtests</a> .

DrALJONESReport: Three Cornell University scholars have filed a lawsuit seeking a nationwide injunction to block Trump orders to deport or jail advocates for Palestinian rights.“We’ve been here before", said one, "McCarthyism to Civil Rights to Vietnam, times when this country has deviated from its stated commitments to free speech."This is another generational moment, another hour of reckoning. Why is there a Palestine exception?"<a href="https://aje.io/b9a7n9?update=3584127" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://aje.io/b9a7n9?update=3584127</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StudentProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StudentProtests</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Autocracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> .

DrALJONESInterview: Trump’s policies are about "getting rid of institutions where our obligations to one another are worked out."Musk summed it up as empathy being "the bane of Western civilization." And really, they do think that."Their going after things like Medicaid or Social Security is not... an unintended effect. It’s very much what they want to destroy."<a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/14/m_gessen" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/14/m_gessen</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Autocracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LGBTQ</a>+Rights <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Project2025</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Racism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Censorship</a> .

DrALJONESGive a bully what he demands & he'll demand more.Report: "White House tells Columbia to sack academic staff over Israel criticism"Trump is threatening to pull government funding from Columbia & demanding it sack the leadership of the Middle Eastern, South Asian & African Studies Department & place it under “academic receivership for a minimum of five years”.<a href="https://aje.io/kb975q?update=3579730" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://aje.io/kb975q?update=3579730</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Columbia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Autocracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Censorship</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Racism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Resist</a> ....2

DrALJONESEmail campaign Jewish Voice for Peace"Email Congress: Demand the release of student activist Mahmoud Khalil""These are the actions of a fascist government, & we must fiercely resist & speak out, & generate overwhelming public outrage & pressure to ensure Mahmoud's release..."and to demand that elected officials & universities start protecting students from the reach of the Trump regime."<a href="https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/email-congress-demand-the-release-of-student-activist-mahmoud-khalil/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/email-congress-demand-the-release-of-student-activist-mahmoud-khalil/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MahmoudKhalil</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JewishVoiceforPeace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JewishVoiceforPeace</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Autocracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StudentProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StudentProtests</a> .

DrALJONESInterview: Mahmoud Khalil's lawyer on Khalil's arrest & its wider impactThe arrest has sent shockwaves throughout the US, with critics raising the alarm on the erosion of constitutional rights & how far Trump’s crackdown on free speech will go.Trump has said "This the first [arrest] of many to come.”Khalil was arrested by ICE for helping lead protests at Columbia against the genocide in Gaza. <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/program/upfront/2025/3/14/mahmoud-khalil-arrest-a-step-towards-the-end-of-free-speech-in-the-us" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.aljazeera.com/program/upfront/2025/3/14/mahmoud-khalil-arrest-a-step-towards-the-end-of-free-speech-in-the-us</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StudentProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StudentProtests</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Autocracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Racism</a> .

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