“Last month, #PaulWeiss removed a web page that had highlighted its ‘leadership in a court-ordered effort to find parents deported by the #Trump administration & to reunify families.’ Visitors to the page now get an error message, as do users looking for any mention of Paul Weiss's pro bono work on behalf of #LGBTQ people.”

#law #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #immigration #CivilRights #FreeSpeech
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/business/trump-law-firms-skadden-paul-weiss.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=34A166BD-CC07-49F3-8F2B-BF0B1A9687EE

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

You see, tyranny has been discovered very early, and very early really as an enemy. Still, it has never in any way prevented any tyrant from becoming a tyrant. It has not prevented Nero, and has not prevented Caligula. And Nero and Caligula have not prevented a more closer example of what the massive intrusion of criminality can mean for the political process.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Interview (1973-10) with Roger Errera, Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (ORTF)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/arendt-hannah/76008/

It’s no coincidence that Russia is ”anti-woke”
#tyranny #russia

You need to hear this: 20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXR5HLodsT8
#tyranny #MAGA #Democracy

There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy.

Remember this, #freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause.

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
And remember this: the Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. #Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle.

Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empires's authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege.

Remember this: Try.

- Karis Nemik (#Andor)

“they’re acting like this is part of some legal framework, when it’s not. It’s an extra legal attack. And so when you do not call it out as an extra legal attack, you are actively contributing to destruction of the rule of law.” - Prof. Jason Stanley

This entire interview is a #MustRead .

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/the-fascism-expert-at-yale-whos-fleeing-america

HT @dmacphee

Hail Spartacus!

Fighting tyranny begins with a first step.

'the act of defiance, the show of opposition to tyranny. Despite the fact that it wouldn’t stop anything in the end, it did slow them down. It prevented them, temporarily.."-https://www.mind-war.com/subscribe
A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
#resist #tyranny #trump #musk #booker #filibuster #newjersey #senate

U.S. Senator #CoryBooker addresses the #Senate floor. Booker, a #Democrat from New Jersey, has promised to speak "as long" as he's physically able on the Senate floor Monday night into Tuesday morning, criticizing the #Trump admin.

Hell yeah.

#resist #AbuseOfPower #autocracy #tyranny #TrumpCoup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCUK2VbdLS4

A quotation from Jefferson

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves; nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) American political philosopher, polymath, statesman, US President (1801-09)
Letter (1816-01-06) to Charles Yancey

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/jefferson-thomas/759…

Republicans and collaborators should think about this.

80 years ago WWII ended and there remain about 10 Nazi war criminals not yet found but still the search continues.

Memories and their associated emotions are passed from one generation to another

In the end, those who profit from human suffering are never allowed to rest

Never.

#USA #Tyranny #Nazi #Politics

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

https://youtu.be/cXR5HLodsT8?si=KLBCgy4JUG2pubiw

https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/twenty-lessons-read-by-john-lithgow?r=lqo3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
#tyranny #usa

“If Putin wanted to kill America, how would he best do it? Exactly like this” - @ThomHartmann

Exactly like this.

https://hartmannreport.com/p/if-putin-designed-a-plan-to-collapse-2ce?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Just going to pin this here for the foreseeable future...

https://snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-lessons-read-by-john-lithgow