rüdiger_serinekKeep calm (but delete your nudes): the new rules for travelling to and from Trump’s America
Many people have decided a trip to the US isn’t worth the risk after recent border detentions. But if you are going, what do you need to know? Immigration lawyers explain it all (by Arwa Mahdawi)
(The Guardian, May 2025)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/15/travel-trump-america-us-border-detentions
Censorship, Deletion, and Purging of US Defense and Intelligence Assessments of Environmental Threats to National Security
Beginning immediately up the inauguration of President Trump in Jan 2025, the Trump Administration has purged, deleted, moved, and hidden uncounted numbers of webpages, reports, documents,… Peter H. Gleick provided … a (very partial) list of deleted or broken government URLs …
https://www.gleick.com/blog/censorship-deletion-and-purging-of-us-defense-and-intelligence-assessments
Censorship, Deletion, and Purging of US Defense and Intelligence Assessments of Environmental Threats to National Security
For many decades, US military and intelligence agencies have analyzed the threats to national security from a wide range of non-traditional social and environmental issues, includi
The Brain Rot Cabinet
How right-wing internet claims and muddled conspiracies are an integral part of the second Trump administration. … Rumors, conspiracy theories, memes, jokes, contextless claims and thinly-sourced allegations all now find their way at lightning speed to the White House, … (by Anna Merlan)
(MotherJones, May 2025)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/trump-cabinet-conspiracies-missing-children-epstein/
Embattled Voice of America to use newsfeed from hard-right network
One America News will now provide news and video to government-funded organization. … Kari Lake said. “With a nearly billion-dollar budget, we should be producing news ourselves. (by Adam Gabbatt)
(The Guardian, May 2025)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/07/voice-america-one-america-news
Is that guy with a gun an ICE officer — or just a guy with a gun?
Masked federal agents aren’t exactly Trump’s secret police. But they are hiding from accountability. (by Philip Bump)
(The WaPo, May 2025)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/12/ice-masked-federal-agents-accountability-ozturk/
How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy?
Authoritarianism is harder to recognize than it used to be. Most 21stcentury autocrats are elected. Rather than violently suppress opposition like Castro or Pinochet, today’s autocrats convert public institutions into political weapons, … (by Steven LevitskyLucan Way and Daniel Ziblatt)
(The New York Times +, May 2025)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/opinion/trump-authoritarianism-democracy.html
'Get out': Leading scholars flee Trump's US — cite lesson of Jews escaping Nazi Germany
Three Yale University professors who studied fascism have decided to flee the United States out of concern and fear — and they took their lead from the exodus of Jews as Hitler rose to power in Germany. (by Sarah K. Burris)
(RAWSTORY, May 2025)
https://www.rawstory.com/us-authoritarianism/
'Get out': Leading scholars flee Trump's US — cite lesson of Jews escaping Nazi Germany
Three Yale University professors who studied fascism have decided to flee the United States out of concern and fear — and they took their lead from the exodus of Jews as Hitler rose to power in Germany.Speaking to the New York Times, historian Timothy Snyder, who writes extensively about tyranny and...
EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
While too many American leaders are content to quibble over definitional particularities, experts are (finally) calling a fascist a fascist.
An expanded version of article was originally published in German at “Volksverpetzer”, an independent, … online magazine covering the far-right (by Annika Brockschmidt)
(RELIGION DISPATCHES, May 2025)
https://religiondispatches.org/experts-agree-what-trump-is-doing-is-fascism/
West Point Is Supposed to Educate, Not Indoctrinate
It turned out to be easy to undermine West Point. All it took was an executive order from President Trump and a memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth dictating what could and couldn’t be taught in the military and its educational institutions. (by Graham Parsons)
(The New York Times +, May 2025)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/opinion/west-point-trump-military.html
GonoMobil@georgetakei Even as a #German I wasn‘t aware of many economic details of the #Nazi era of 1933+. Sure, Great Depression - #Machtergreifung - state work-creation - war economy, all was dealt with in school ad nauseam, but to (re-)read those things now with a (grown-up) better understanding of economy and politics is eye-opening! The parallels in #ideology with the #Trump regime is scary as shit, as it is blatantly obvious and doomed to fail (again): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Nazi_Germany
