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Chuck DarwinFor decades, the right has targeted the protections of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, most visibly via court decisions, as well as spurious voter roll <a href="https://c.im/tags/purges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#purges</a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/gerrymandering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gerrymandering</a> efforts, which warp territorial districting law to divide opponents and consolidate supporters.One of the most reliable methods of suppression, though, is to tighten <a href="https://c.im/tags/voter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#voter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/identification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#identification</a> rules. Requiring <a href="https://c.im/tags/citizenship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#citizenship</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/paperwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#paperwork</a>, which many (fully eligible) citizens do not possess, leads to the emergence of a racially inflected pattern of <a href="https://c.im/tags/vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vote</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/suppression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#suppression</a>. 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 <a href="https://c.im/tags/obstruct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#obstruct</a> 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.”<a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-assumes-unheard-of-powers-in-ordering-federal-overhaul-of-elections/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://truthout.org/articles/trump-assumes-unheard-of-powers-in-ordering-federal-overhaul-of-elections/</a>

Larry NeufeldAs Jewish faculty, we stand against Trump’s purge of pro-Palestinian scholars <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Palestine" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Palestine</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23purges" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#purges</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23UnitedStates" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23freedomofspeech" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#freedomofspeech</a> <a href="https://breachmedia.ca/jewish-faculty-stand-against-trumps-purge-pro-palestinian-scholars/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">breachmedia.ca/jewish-facul...</a> <a href="https://breachmedia.ca/jewish-faculty-stand-against-trumps-purge-pro-palestinian-scholars/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">As Jewish faculty, we stand ag...</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"When Trump and his administration push for the Confederacy and try to disappear the diverse past, they are delivering on the political primal scream that the right emitted after Obama won.It’s doubtful that Trump will succeed in erasing the country’s collective memory, but like the men who tried to keep chattel slavery legal, Republicans are willing to give their crusade one last Confederate try."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/purges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#purges</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DEI</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Black</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#women</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LGBTQ</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Confederacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Confederacy</a> /2

William Lindsey :toad:"Photos and histories of people of color, women, and the LGBTQ+ community are being purged, and nearly every day some new erasure is being uncovered. ... But there is one unique period in U.S. history that Trump and his cronies are very interested in preserving and promoting: the Confederacy."~ Oliver Willis<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/purges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#purges</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DEI</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Black</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#women</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LGBTQ</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Confederacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Confederacy</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/MaleEntitlement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MaleEntitlement</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/heterosexism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#heterosexism</a> /1<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/22/2311705/-Why-conservatives-are-obsessed-with-erasing-history-except-the-Confederacy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/22/2311705/-Why-conservatives-are-obsessed-with-erasing-history-except-the-Confederacy</a>

NonilexThe list of measures purpose-built to cleave off a domain in which the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> does not apply grows by the day: the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/pardons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pardons</a> that bless & invite <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/insurrectionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#insurrectionary</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/violence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#violence</a>; the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/purges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#purges</a> of career lawyers at the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOJ</a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SDNY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SDNY</a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/InspectorsGeneral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InspectorsGeneral</a> across the govt, & snr <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FBI</a> agents; the AG’s command that attys obey <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> over their understanding of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Constitution</a>; the appointment of people such as <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/KashPatel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KashPatel</a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DanBongino" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DanBongino</a>, who…view loyalty to Trump as more compelling than their constitutional oath;

William Lindsey :toad:"There is a myth harbored by some that Trump turned the Republican Party into a cynical, unprincipled institution that preyed on the poor, on minorities and on working people. In fact, Trump was elected precisely because those characteristics preceded his rise. He was the perfect vessel for a large sector of the Republican constituency."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#destruction</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chaos</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/purges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#purges</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FederalGovernment</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/firings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#firings</a> /7

William Lindsey :toad:"The toxic brew of irresponsible pseudo-news outlets and the successors of the Tea Party movement radicalized the electorate to a fever pitch. The result was a collective desire to smash the existing order to smithereens and allow Donald Trump to replace it with chaos."~ Mark Mansour<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#destruction</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chaos</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/purges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#purges</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FederalGovernment</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/firings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#firings</a> /6<a href="https://mmansour.substack.com/p/the-demise-of-the-old-republican" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mmansour.substack.com/p/the-demise-of-the-old-republican</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"Along with his colleague Daniel Ziblatt, Levitsky wrote How Democracies Die. 'We look at these comparative cases in the 21st century, like Hungary and Poland and Turkey. And in a lot of respects, this is worse,' Levitsky said. 'These first two months have been much more aggressively authoritarian than almost any other comparable case I know of democratic backsliding.'”<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#destruction</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chaos</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/purges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#purges</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FederalGovernment</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/firings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#firings</a> /5

William Lindsey :toad:"The attack of Trump and his MAGA supporters on the courts and the rule of law has illustrated how quickly the United States is sliding from democracy to authoritarianism. “'Honest to god, I’ve never seen anything like it,' Harvard political scientist Steven Levitsky told Amanda Taub of the New York Times."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#destruction</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chaos</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#education</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#libraries</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/museums" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#museums</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/purges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#purges</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FederalGovernment</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/firings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#firings</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/grants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#grants</a> /3

William Lindsey :toad:"It seems as if the Trump administration is rushing to tear apart as much as it can as opponents of its wholesale destruction of the United States government organize to stop them."~ Heather Cox Richardson<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#destruction</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chaos</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#education</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#libraries</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/museums" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#museums</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/purges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#purges</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FederalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FederalGovernment</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/firings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#firings</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/grants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#grants</a> /1<a href="https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-20-2025" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-20-2025</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"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<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/purges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#purges</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/diversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#diversity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DEI</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/CodeTalkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CodeTalkers</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Navajo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Navajo</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#military</a> /7<a href="https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2025/03/17/navajo-code-talkers-trump-dei-military-websites-wwii" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2025/03/17/navajo-code-talkers-trump-dei-military-websites-wwii</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"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<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/purges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#purges</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/diversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#diversity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DEI</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USAGM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USAGM</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/VoiceofAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VoiceofAmerica</a> /6<a href="https://steady.substack.com/p/the-truth-dies-with-him" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://steady.substack.com/p/the-truth-dies-with-him</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"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."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/purges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#purges</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/diversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#diversity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DEI</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USIP</a> /5

William Lindsey :toad:"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<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/purges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#purges</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/diversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#diversity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DEI</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USIP</a> /4<a href="https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/yes-we-still-have-a-constitutional" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/yes-we-still-have-a-constitutional</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"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<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/purges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#purges</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/diversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#diversity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DEI</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USIP</a> /3<a href="https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/independent-agency-ceo-doge-has-broken-into-our-building-234654789971" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/independent-agency-ceo-doge-has-broken-into-our-building-234654789971</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"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<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/purges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#purges</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/diversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#diversity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DEI</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USIP</a> /2<a href="https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/showdown-between-trump-and-the-courts" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/showdown-between-trump-and-the-courts</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"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<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/purges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#purges</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/diversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#diversity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DEI</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USIP</a> /1<a href="https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/independent-agency-ceo-doge-has-broken-into-our-building-234654789971" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/independent-agency-ceo-doge-has-broken-into-our-building-234654789971</a>

William Lindsey :toad:It would be silly to think, in this time of spectacular fools, that the Donald Trump administration mandate to kill diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs was simply a workplace issue. What’s happening is bigger than that, says Vernā Myers, and it will have implications for years to come. The US government has declared war on American culture."~ Jason Parham<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/purges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#purges</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#black</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Hispanic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hispanic</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#women</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LGBTQ</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DEI</a> /9<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/anti-dei-agenda-reprogramming-america/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.wired.com/story/anti-dei-agenda-reprogramming-america/</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"The US defense department webpage celebrating an army general who served in the Vietnam war and was awarded the country’s highest military decoration has been removed and the letters “DEI” added to the site’s address.On Saturday, US army Maj Gen Charles Calvin Rogers’s Medal of Honor webpage led to a '404' error message. The URL was also changed, with the word 'medal' changed to 'deimedal'."~ Maya Yang<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/purges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#purges</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#black</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DEI</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#military</a> /8<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/16/defense-department-black-medal-of-honor-veteran" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/16/defense-department-black-medal-of-honor-veteran</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"It's unbelievable how something that has been the voice of American democracy and has endured 83 years of broadcasting — through WW2, the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and a new imperialist war in Europe — can be silenced on a regular Saturday."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/purges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#purges</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/RadioFreeEurope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RadioFreeEurope</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USAGM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USAGM</a> /7Ostap Yarysh, quoted by Brian Stelter

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