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"The U.S. Institute for Peace announced Monday that despite being independent of the executive branch and controlling its own building and the land it sits on, their objections to members of Elon Musk's DOGE team trespassing in their building were overridden by D.C. police. That came after an earlier confrontation in which DOGE was accompanied by the FBI."
~ Rachel Maddow
#Musk #Trump #DOGE #purges #fascism #authoritarianism #diversity #DEI #USIP
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"With apparent help from the FBI and DC police, DOGE took over the independent U.S. Institute of Peace on Monday in a surreal scene that spilled out onto city sidewalks."
~ David Kurtz
#Musk #Trump #DOGE #purges #fascism #authoritarianism #diversity #DEI #USIP
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https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/showdown-between-trump-and-the-courts
"The U.S. Institute for Peace announced Monday that despite being independent of the executive branch and controlling its own building and the land it sits on, their objections to members of Elon Musk's DOGE team trespassing in their building were overridden by D.C. police. That came after an earlier confrontation in which DOGE was accompanied by the FBI."
~ Maddow
#Musk #Trump #DOGE #purges #fascism #authoritarianism #diversity #DEI #USIP
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"Rachel Maddow reported on Monday evening about two disturbing instances in which DOGE hackers effectively forced their way into government agencies with the help of armed escorts. In the latest instance, the US Institute for Peace—an independent agency created by Congress—resisted the efforts of DOGE staff to enter the building."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Musk #Trump #DOGE #purges #fascism #authoritarianism #diversity #DEI #USIP
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/yes-we-still-have-a-constitutional
@wdlindsy@toad.social"On their first attempt to enter the Institute for Peace, the DOGE staff were accompanied by FBI agents. On the second attempt, DOGE was reportedly accompanied by US Marshals and—after a call to the DC police—were assisted by the DC Metropolitan police."
#Musk #Trump #DOGE #purges #fascism #authoritarianism #diversity #DEI #USIP
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"By Monday, 1,000 [USAGM] journalists were placed on indefinite leave for not being MAGA cheerleaders. Others were locked out of their Washington, D.C., headquarters."
~ Dan Rather
#Musk #Trump #DOGE #purges #fascism #authoritarianism #diversity #DEI #USAGM #VoiceofAmerica
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"Articles about the renowned Native American Code Talkers have disappeared from some military websites, with several broken URLs now labeled 'DEI.'
From 1942 to 1945, the Navajo Code Talkers were instrumental in every major Marine Corps operation in the Pacific Theater of World War II."
~ Erin Alberty
#Musk #Trump #DOGE #purges #fascism #authoritarianism #diversity #DEI #CodeTalkers #Navajo #military
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"The government has not even given an official count for how many people were on those planes, much less who they are or what evidence exists that they are gang members and criminals. They could be 14-year-old American citizens who were out selling Girl Scout cookies, for all anybody knows. And disappearances are already happening faster than courts can stop them (by design)."
~ Marcie Jones
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #immigrants #ICE #deportations #RuleofLaw
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"It’s the age of authoritarians and strongmen just because a plurality of American voters couldn’t stand some women and people of color sharing the stage and having some power. They succumbed to hateful fearmongering amplified by 24-7 right-wing media and hundreds of millions of dollars to scapegoat trans people and immigrants of color."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Musk #Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #racism #misogyny #immigrants
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https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/time-to-wake-up-and-confront-the
"They voluntarily chose to forfeit their freedoms, their Medicaid, and their livelihoods just to temporarily feel great again. Well, here’s the Find Out moment."
#Musk #Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #racism #misogyny #immigrants
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"Every cruel and destructive action by the Trump Administration is a recruiting opportunity for the opposition."
~ Rebecca Solnit
See the screenshot for the entire passage from which this sentence is taken — a powerful passage from Solnit explaining how every cruel action taken by the Trump administration allows resistance and solidarity to build by uniting people across many dividing lines.
#Musk #Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #resistance
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https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/stand-your-ground-plant-some-flowers-on-it-too/
"No expansion of democracy in American history has been freely given; every step forward has required decades of struggle, sacrifice, and bloodshed."
~ Michael Podhorzer
“Three decades ago in America, we were richer, safer, more powerful, better defended, better fed, more entertained than any civilization had ever been in the history of the world.
And we were willing to burn it all down so we could be mean to people again.”
-Heidi Cuda
https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/hot-type-complying-in-advance-to
Time to wake up and stop the demise of American Democracy from happening.
@wdlindsy And how many hundreds of others who aren't *quite* as famous are disappeared?
Assholism wins again…
@wdlindsy How is this any different than Communist China or the Soviet Union?
I’m sure it has nothing at all to do with the work USIP has done on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
All of that USIP material on Russia's invasion of Ukraine -- raw notes, footage, drafts, published materials, and names of witnesses -- Musk and Trump presumably now have, and will send to Putin, as a house warming gift.
Nicely illustrates how Musk and Trump consider DOGE a shopping spree, not a cost-cutting exercise.
@wdlindsy So much for the promise to stop weaponization of the DOJ.