Give 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”.

https://aje.io/kb975q?update=3579730

#Trump #Columbia #Autocracy #USPol #Censorship #Racism #Resist .

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Report: Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) shared a video of Mahmoud Khalil's arrest:

“Ideas are not illegal", the group said, "& there is no ‘controversial speech’ exception to the First Amendment.

“Our right to free speech includes advocacy for Palestine. We will not be intimidated. We will not be stopped. We will fight until Mahmoud Khalil is free.

"We will fight until Palestine is free."

https://aje.io/kb975q?update=3579802

#MahmoudKhalil #Trump #Racism #Autocracy #JVP #USPol #FreeSpeech .

“Never Again for Anyone”: 100 Jewish Activists Arrested at Trump Tower

Over 300 protesters with Jewish Voice for Peace demanded the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil.

They held banners reading “opposing fascism is a Jewish tradition.”

“I refuse to allow this administration to use our names as Jews to carry out a fascist agenda." It has far-right white supremacists that do the Nazi salute, & Trump is fine with that.

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/14/jvp_sitin_trump_tower_mahmoud_khalil

#USPol #JewishVoiceforPeace #Autocracy #Khalil .

Email 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."

https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/email-congress-demand-the-release-of-student-activist-mahmoud-khalil/

#MahmoudKhalil #JewishVoiceforPeace #USPol #Autocracy #StudentProtests .

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙞𝙜𝙣 𝙄𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙙𝙪𝙖𝙡: 𝙍𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝘽𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙏𝙚𝙘𝙝'𝙨 '𝘾𝙤𝙜𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙀𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙚'

How a 1997 Book Predicted Tech’s War on Democracy…

https://www.thenerdreich.com/the-sovereign-individual-radical-bible-of-techs-cognitive-elite/

Interview: "Judge Blocks Mahmoud Khalil’s Deportation as Trump Vows More Arrests"

Khalil’s unprecedented arrest is to punish antiwar student activists & is part of Trump’s racist & fascist agenda.

~Murad Awawdeh

If the intent was to silence free speech, it's not working.

And, as the anti-genocide movement is mostly made up of Americans, the administration can't deport its way out of this situation.

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/11/mahmoud_khalil_ice_columbia_university_palestine

#FreeSpeech #Trump #Autocracy #Racism #USPol #Columbia .

Limits of autocratisation: actors and institutions of democratic resistance and opposition https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2025.2462248 #democracy #autocracy

Interview: "How the Media Walked us into Autocracy"

"The American corporate coup d'état is almost complete as the first weeks of the Trump administration exemplify.

“The sign of a decaying democracy is that when the forces of plutocracy, oligarchy, multinational corporations increase their power in all sectors of our society, the resistance gets weaker.

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/how-the-media-walked-us-into-autocracy

#Trump #Autocracy #USPol #ResistFascism #Oligarchy .

Interview: "How the Media Walked us into Autocracy"

"The American corporate coup d'état is almost complete as the first weeks of the Trump administration exemplify.

“The sign of a decaying democracy is that when the forces of plutocracy, oligarchy, multinational corporations increase their power in all sectors of our society, the resistance gets weaker.

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/how-the-media-walked-us-into-autocracy

#Trump #Autocracy #USPol #ResistFascism #Oligarchy .

‘People Are Going Silent’: Fearing #Retribution, #Trump Critics Muzzle Themselves

#law #FreeSpeech #democracy #USpol #NewWorldOrder #autocracy #tyranny #authoritarianism #FreePress #journalism #FourthEstate #dissent #GoodTrouble #protest #resist
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/us/politics/trump-democracy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=8DC43EDF-B11C-44E1-8C72-A910E200F459

Just as important as what Trump is doing externally is the fact that he is internally destroying the rule of law, checks&balances, civil rights and institutionalizing corruption and clientelism. So the USA can not be a reliable partner or ally for the foreseeable future, for anything, security, economics etc.
#usa #geopolitics #trump #autocracy #corruption @geopolitics

Center for Systemic Peace, which published the Polity Index: "The USA dropped below the "democracy threshold" (+6) on the POLITY scale in 2020 and was considered an anocracy (+5) at the end of the year 2020; the USA score for 2021 returned to democracy (+8). Beginning on 1 July 2024, due to the US Supreme Court ruling granting the US Presidency broad, legal immunity, the USA is noted by the Polity Project as experiencing a regime transition through, at least, 20 January 2025. ... The USA is no longer considered a democracy and lies at the cusp of autocracy; it has experienced a Presidental Coup and an Adverse Regime Change event (8-point drop in its POLITY score)."

This is linked from Brian Klaas's blog post titled "Is American Democracy Doomed?" https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/is-american-democracy-doomed
#autocracy #coup #RegimeChange #corruption

Gestern wieder wirklich viel Werbemüll bzw. Autokarten in #Barmbek Nord und #Bramfeld wegesammelt. Hätte noch mehr sein können, 3 Stunden waren aber genug in der Dunkelheit.
Bitte teilen, damit dieser Wahnsinn mehr Aufmerksamkeit bekommt, danke.
#hamburg #umweltschutz #mikroplastik #autokorrektur #autocracy @hhwerbefrei @GermanZeroHH
@P4F_Hamburg

Curtis Yarvin. (See wiki link below, first three paras)
Hes the man behind Peter Thiel, Trump, Vance, Steve Bannon &co and the Trump/MAGA movement. Pure evil.

This is not fascism modelled on 1930s - its called the Dark Enlightenment/neo-feudalism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin

The book summarising/critique-ing Yarvin's "philosophy" makes for very chilling reading. The screen shots below are just one small part.

I would put a Content Warning on this but we must MUST inform ourselves about what their agenda is.

#uspolitics #uspol #ukpolitics #ukpol #auspol #AusPolitics #canpol #canpolitics #eupol #eupolitics
#AustralianElection #AusGov #fascism #neofeudalism #darkenlightenment #maga #autocracy #oligarchy #techbros #racism #lgbtqplus #misogyny

US stops sharing all #intelligence with #Ukraine, source says

Previously the source said the halt in the flow of intelligence had been "selective", only affecting information that could be used for attacks inside #Russia.

#USpol #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #NewWorldOrder #Trump #RevengePolitics #MafiaState #PutinsPuppet
https://news.sky.com/story/us-stops-sharing-all-intelligence-with-ukraine-source-tells-sky-news-13322070