#suppression

2025-05-27

and are the trademarks of this headed by the . The only way to deal with the is to stand up to them. Keep the pressure on.

npr.org/2025/05/27/nx-s1-54130

The lawsuit says the administration is usurping Congress' power to direct how federal money will be spent and to pass laws. It names President Trump, White House budget director Russell Vought, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Maria Rosario Jackson, the chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, as defendants.

A team that includes noted free speech lawyer Theodore J. Boutrous filed the lawsuit for NPR and the Colorado stations jointly in the District of Columbia. The suit calls Trump's early May executive order "textbook retaliation" and an existential threat to the public radio system "that millions of Americans across the country rely on for vital news and information."

"The Executive Order is a clear violation of the Constitution and the First Amendment's protections for freedom of speech and association, and freedom of the press," NPR President and CEO Katherine Maher said in a statement.
2025-05-26

@LevZadov @_Dreugan_ @nerb @msb @randahl
#Capitalism is the worker who doesn't own their own method of production. Their boss, the #capitalist, owns the machine or tool which the #worker uses to make products or deliver services.

This is true in free-market capitalism, #socialism and #communism.

What makes socialism different to communism, is that communists want to achieve their goals with #dictatorship and #suppression, and socialists with #democracy, #representation and personal freedom

2025-05-24

Ex-Somali Leader Condemns Government's Media Suppression  
tinyurl.com/2a4jlks9

2025-05-19

USA was the story of the underdog. The grit of persevering and overcoming circumstances. Where your colleagues and mentors encouraged you knowing we all come from some place, however diverse. Now, it's erasing all diversity, all signs of non-homogenity. How we've fallen.

yahoo.com/news/nasa-celebrated

2025-05-17

Somalia Launches Campaign Against 41 Journalists in Media Suppression  
tinyurl.com/ymx2ylku

Civil Discourse – Trying To Suppress the Vote, Again – Joyce Vance – Substack

On Tuesday, in Atlanta, a three-judge panel of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments in Fair Fight v.

Source Links: Trying To Suppress the Vote, Again

#Justice #Suppression #Trump #USCourtOfAppeals #Voting #VotingRights

2025-05-14

Favourable winds, suppression efforts keep large forest fire away from northwestern Ontario First Nation
Favourable winds and provincial firefighting efforts have led to the cancellation of a stage one evacuation for Wabaseemoong Independent Nations as a large forest fire burns nearby.
#weather #fire #evacuation #suppression #northwesternOntario #WabaseemoongIndependentNations
cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay

trndgtr.comtrndgtr
2025-05-14

Forget On Command? - Charan Ranganath on Modern Wisdom

Catherine Schmidtlillyfinch@mstdn.social
2025-05-13

#politics #law #voters #votersrights #suppression #alt
Joyce Vance Civil Discourse 5/12/25

One Reason Trump Won in 2016 and likely 2024 Voter Suppression

“.. TTV orchestrated massive eligibility challenges It was the classic gambit of conservatives—disguise voter suppression by raising concerns about “election integrity.” This ruse of crying voter fraud i to prevent qualified citizens from registering to vote, voting, & having their votes counted was widely used,..”

open.substack.com/pub/joycevan

2025-05-13

"The peril of the #dualstate lies precisely in this capacity for targeted #suppression. Most people can ignore the construction of the prerogative state simply because it does not touch their lives."

theatlantic.com/magazine/archi

#constitutionalcrisis
#USpol
#authoritarianism
#history
#nazigermany

2025-05-04

Somalia: Media Report Unveils Ongoing Suppression, Highlights Call for Immediate Action on World Press Freedom Day  
tinyurl.com/2xkw4ao5

The effect of #voters #suppression on the 2024 #USelections It was all documented. #GregPalast figured out #KamalaHarris would have won #dumptrump youtu.be/t3PM15wCVn0?...

EXCLUSIVE: DID TRUMP STEAL THE...

WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-05-01

A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

In our country, disagreements among us are expressed in the polling place. In the dictatorships, disagreements are suppressed in the concentration camp.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Speech (1941-03-29), Jackson Day Radio Broadcast, U.S.S. Potomac

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklinroosevelt #franklindroosevelt #fdr #America #authoritarianism #concentrationcamp #democracy #dictatorship #disagreements #dissent #government #oppression #policestate #politicalprocess #prison #suppression #voting

uuidsynchiuuidshi
2025-04-25

Trolling and harassment of conservatives continues on this server, driven by their hatred of right wing.
Shameless on mastodon.social
Real by clout hungry leftist moderators.
Folks voice your opinion loud enough so that there's a change. Silence means being complacent in censorship and
Stop their agenda of of
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Catherine Schmidtlillyfinch@mstdn.social
2025-04-25

#politics #alt #trump #boting #votingrights #suppression #democrcy

Joyce Vance The Executive Order to End Voting 4/ 24/25

The executive order would have required people to present a passport, a Real ID, a military identification card, or another government-issued ID that indicates U.S. citizenship when registering to vote. But..
At least 21 million Americans don’t have that kind of proof readily available. Only 51 percent of Americans have passports,

open.substack.com/pub/joycevan

libramoonlibramoon
2025-04-10

teenvogue.com/story/save-act-p

Could the .
would young and .
Barbara Rodriguez

..."The Republican-controlled House on Thursday voted for the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act. The legislation purportedly aims to block non-citizens from voting, which is already illegal and is very rare.

The bill would require an individual to present in person a passport, birth certificate or other citizenship document"...

Chuck Darwincdarwin@c.im
2025-04-08

For decades, the right has targeted the protections of the 1965 Voting Rights Act,

most visibly via court decisions,
as well as spurious voter roll #purges and #gerrymandering efforts,
which warp territorial districting law to divide opponents and consolidate supporters.

One of the most reliable methods of suppression, though,
is to tighten #voter #identification rules.

Requiring #citizenship #paperwork, which many (fully eligible) citizens do not possess,
leads to the emergence of a racially inflected pattern of #vote #suppression.

If you make voting as inconvenient and costly as possible,
by default, some percentage of those who are short on money and time
— people of color, students, low-income workers and others who juggle lots of obligations with few resources
— will decide that getting to the polls just isn’t worth it.

Maximizing this effect is the primary motive driving the rampant right-wing infringements on democratic participation,
Trump’s latest order included.

To justify these measures, the executive order
👉purports to combat large-scale voter fraud:
⚠️the familiar right-wing myth that millions of illicit votes are cast in the U.S., in numbers that could throw a presidential election.

(The real nationwide illegal vote count is a few hundred, at most

-- of those, quite a few were Trump voters.)

The type of voter fraud claimed by the right is so vanishingly rare as to be an utterly negligible force in U.S. politics.

If anything can be said to constitute actual substantive electoral fraud,
it is the right’s systematic and wildly successful campaign to #obstruct voting rights.

Trump’s order,
while perhaps the most aggressive foray into voter suppression of late,
is far from the only effort to impair democracy.

🔥Right now the SAVE Act is making its way through Congress;

the Republican-sponsored legislation would alter registration procedures
and demand proof of citizenship documents like
a passport, birth certificate or naturalization certification.

(As NPR reported, researchers have found that
👉 1 in 10 voting-eligible Americans don’t possess these documents.)❗️

There’s notable overlap between the two efforts
— the administration seems to be hedging its bets.

“A lot of [the executive order] tracks pretty closely with what’s in the SAVE Act,”
said Diaz.

Should the SAVE Act fail, the executive order may
allow “the White House to get around the congressional lawmaking process
-- and do whatever they want.”

truthout.org/articles/trump-as

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