"Chicago has become a model for U.S. President Donald #Trump’s campaign against political opponents in American cities. CBC's Terence McKenna breaks down why Chicago is in the crosshairs of the #ICE crackdown and how the city has tried to resist."
#authoritarianism
"The nation’s top law enforcement official has been referred to behind his back as the “Make-a-Wish Director” for his alleged extravagant trips and activities, which often use the agency’s resources." #KashPatel #fbi #maga #authoritarianism #fascism #kakistocracy
"Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the Maga evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression." #trump #maga #authoritarianism #fascism #ChristianNationalism #christianity #religion #faith
#Northwestern University agrees to pay US government $75m to restore research funding
#capitulation #trump #authoritarianism
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/29/northwestern-university-agreement-us-government
"It reinstates many of the same principles, requiring providers to assess their potential “risk” for child abuse content and to apply “mitigation measures” approved by authorities. In practice, that could mean pressure to install scanning tools that probe both encrypted and unencrypted communications"
https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-council-approves-new-chat-control-mandate-pushing-mass-surveillance
It really worrying that so called democratic governments have suddenly gone right wing #extreme. It isn’t just Farage in the UK, the labour party, that we voted in after 13 or so years of tory misrule, is back to #blairite right wing thatcherism again.
#Authoritarianism here, where #starmer is trying to outdo the nasty things #farage is suggesting.
Those compromised over the years have been given some kind of message from Putin? Seems like.
Vote #green ?
"The German authorities relied on terror, even toward party members, to keep their citizenry in line. But where they erred, as Fallada writes, was in “the assumption that all Germans were cowards.” No German freedom fighters brought down the government, no anti-propaganda mission persuaded the people to rise up en masse against their #tyrants; it took a world war to knock #Hitler from his perch."
Authoritarianism Is Here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn-rkKIMNAs
Things continue to get worse, but maybe not forever.
The #ukpol #ukgovernment is doing unacceptable things.
If we had the ability to IMPEACH #keirstarmer I would be suggesting this is the level we have reached.
#Authoritarianism is not the way for a modern #civilised #democracy.
#starmer must go
“We’ve been here before.
This is not the first end of the world. Many worlds have ended.”
“The question ‘Where was God at Auschwitz?’ marked perhaps the biggest crisis of the Christian faith since the demise of the first Roman Empire. The numbers of the Nazis’ victims and the highly organized manner of their execution are unfathomable.”
~ Ibid., pp. 131, 133
#authoritarianism #fascism #immigrants #marginal #racism #xenophobia #Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #resistance #solidarity
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“We might stop this wave of authoritarianism.
We might rebuild some semblance of democracy and social order. I hope we will.
Even so, the world we are inhabiting is collapsing. Authoritarianism is a symptom of the crisis, not its singular cause.”
~ Ibid., p. 130
#authoritarianism #fascism #immigrants #marginal #racism #xenophobia #Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #resistance #solidarity
/6
"’Never again’ means ‘never again for anyone’.”
~ Ibid., p. 89
#authoritarianism #fascism #immigrants #marginal #racism #xenophobia #Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #resistance #solidarity
/5
"Indifference is consent to what is happening. Inaction is a choice to leave it unchallenged. Under conditions of injustice and violence, there is no neutrality, only active resistance or enablement.”
“More important than being a hero is choosing to not go along."
~ Ibid., pp. 69-70
#authoritarianism #fascism #immigrants #marginal #racism #xenophobia #Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #resistance #solidarity
/4
"Not speaking out does not make you neutral. It makes you a bystander. The main moral difference is not between perpetrators and victims but between those who choose action and those who look on. Bystanders enable cycles of violence and systemic injustice to go unchecked. No system of oppression can succeed at scale without bystanders."
~ Ibid., p. 69
#authoritarianism #fascism #immigrants #marginal #racism #xenophobia #Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #resistance #solidarity
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“The Nazis never were in the majority. Those who simply ‘went along’ were absolutely critical to the regime's success.”
“It is easier for you to speak up and stand out if you see others already doing so. So, find these others. Run with them.
Let their examples strengthen your resolve.
Then, be such an Other for others, in turn.”
~ Ibid., pp. 68-9
#authoritarianism #fascism #immigrants #marginal #racism #xenophobia #Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #resistance #solidarity
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“Oppressive politics target the most vulnerable before they turn to the population as a whole.”
~ Hanna Reichel, For Such a Time as This: An Emergency Devotional (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2025), p. 52
#authoritarianism #fascism #immigrants #marginal #racism #xenophobia #Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #resistance #solidarity
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https://www.eerdmans.com/9781467470575/for-such-a-time-as-this/
#Hegseth gave order on first #Caribbean boat strike, officials say: “Kill them all”
As two men clung to a stricken, burning ship targeted by SEAL Team 6, the Joint Special Operations commander followed the defense secretary’s order to leave no survivors.
#Trump #criminal #law #murder #ExtrajudicialKillings #Venezuela #InternationalLaw #Constitution #Congress #WarPowers #AbuseOfPower #Authoritarianism #Despotism #Dictatorship #fascism #Tyranny #MafiaState
https://wapo.st/49KbUJ1
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