[thread 6/x] Trump2: buckle up
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#USpol #Trump2 #Trumpism #GOP
#fascism #authoritarianism #extremism #disinformation
#antiLGBT #transphobia #ParentalRightsMovement
#HeritageFoundation #Project2025
#capitalism #corporations #billionaires #ElonMusk #AmericaPAC #Progress2028 #libertarianism
#ChristianRight #Christofascism #transgenocide #Gilead #misogyny #sexism #paternalism
Death by a 1000 cuts: Trump taps 19 Fox pundits/personalities/producers for Trump2
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/20/nx-s1-5268791/fox-news-trump-inauguration
#USpol #Trump2 #Trumpism #GOP
#fascism #authoritarianism #extremism #disinformation #FoxNews
#antiLGBT #transphobia #ParentalRightsMovement
#HeritageFoundation #Project2025
#capitalism #corporations #billionaires #ElonMusk #AmericaPAC #Progress2028 #libertarianism
#ChristianRight #Christofascism #transgenocide #Gilead #misogyny #sexism #paternalism
#HegemonicMasculinity #ToxicMasculinity
Trump bans federal DEI, LGBT content
https://apnews.com/article/dei-trump-executive-order-diversity-834a241a60ee92722ef2443b62572540
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/22/nx-s1-5270081/trump-executive-orders-dei
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/01/trump-administration-orders-all-federal-dei-employees-be-placed-on-paid-leave-eventually-laid-off
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/01/marco-rubio-bans-rainbow-flags-at-embassies
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/01/donald-trump-purges-lgbtq-hiv-content-from-federal-websites/
*DEI programs: form of "shameful discrimination"
* Marco Rubio bans rainbow flags at embassies
* Trump purges LGBTQ+ & HIV content f. fed. websites
#USpol #GOP #Trump2 #Project2025
#fascism #authoritarianism #disinformation
#ChristianRight #antiLGBT #homophobia #antiDEI #transphobia
#Christofascism #transgenocide #Gilead #theocracy #hatred
President Donald Trump’s administration is moving to end affirmative action in federal contracting and is directing that all federal diversity, equity and inclusion staff be put on paid leave and eventually be laid off. The moves follow an executive order Trump signed on his first day ordering a sweeping dismantling of the federal government’s diversity and inclusion programs that could touch on everything from anti-bias training to funding for minority farmers and homeowners. Trump has called the programs “discrimination” and insisted on restoring strictly “merit-based” hiring. The executive order on affirmative action revokes an order issued by President Lyndon Johnson, and curtails DEI programs by federal contractors and grant recipients.
[thread] Dorothy Fink
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Fink
* Am. endocrinologist, gov. official
* 2025-Jan-20+ acting U.S. Sec. Health/Human Services
* dir. Office on Women's Health, HHS
#USpol #Trump2 #Trumpism #GOP #DorothyFink #HHS
#fascism #authoritarianism #disinformation #censorship
#HeritageFoundation #Project2025 #antiLGBT
#capitalism #corporations #billionaires #libertarianism
#ChristianRight #Christofascism #transgenocide #Gilead #misogyny #sexism #paternalism
U.S. Federal health agencies told to halt all external communications
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/01/22/nx-s1-5270866/hhs-cdc-health-communications-trump
* U.S. Department of Health & Human Services employees told to halt all public communications
* memo issued by the acting head of HHS, Dorothy Fink
#USpol #Trump2 #Trumpism #GOP #DorothyFink #HHS
#fascism #authoritarianism #disinformation #censorship
#HeritageFoundation #Project2025 #antiLGBT
#capitalism #libertarianism
#ChristianRight #Christofascism #transgenocide #misogyny #sexism #paternalism
Trump2 DoJ orders freeze on civil rights cases
https://apnews.com/article/civil-rights-division-justice-department-trump-2dcb45cca7c9c9cdaea78282d4279c35
* attorneys ordered: no new complaints/amicus briefs/certain other court papers
#USpol #Trump2 #Trumpism #GOP #DoJ
#fascism #authoritarianism #extremism #disinformation
#antiLGBT #transphobia #ParentalRightsMovement
#HeritageFoundation #Project2025
#capitalism #corporations #billionaires #ElonMusk #AmericaPAC #Progress2028 #libertarianism
#ChristianRight #Christofascism #transgenocide #Gilead #misogyny #sexism #paternalism
The new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation, and suggested it may reconsider police reform agreements negotiated by the Biden administration. That's according to two memos obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press. Attorneys in the department’s Civil Rights Division were ordered not to file any new complaints, amicus briefs or other certain court papers “until further notice.” A separate memo directed attorneys to notify leadership of any settlements or consent decrees that were finalized by the Biden administration within the last 90 days.
Trump abruptly cancels NIH meetings, upending scientific research
https://www.salon.com/2025/01/23/uncertainy-fear-and-panic-abruptly-cancels-nih-meetings-upending-scientific-research
* U.S. fed. science agencies directed to cancel all scheduled meetings
* effect. suspends NIH research grants
Science is more than body of knowledge; it's a way of thinking -- Carl Sagan
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113867027412933034
#NIH #USpol #Trump #fascism #disinformation #censorship #antiabortion
#Christofascism #transgenocide
#epistemology #CriticalThinking
#PostTruthism #EchoChambers #ReflectionChambers #dogmaticism
Trump’s Pardons of 23 Antiabortion Extremists Endanger Providers/Patients
https://msmagazine.com/2025/01/23/trump-pardons-abortion-clinic-violence-pro-life-face-act
* antiabortion extremists convicted of clinic invasions/violence
* undermines fed. protections for reproductive healthcare
* paves way for renewed chaos/fear
#USpol #Trump #fascism #Project2025 #authoritarianism #extremism
#ChristianRight #Catholicism #OpusDei #theocracy
#Christofascism #transgenocide
#WomensRights #abortion #ReproductiveRights #SelfDetermination #paternalism #sexism #misogyny
By pardoning antiabortion extremists convicted of clinic invasions and violence, Trump undermines federal protections for reproductive healthcare and paves the way for renewed chaos and fear. Capitol Police prepare to arrest Lauren Handy, third from left, of Anti-Choice Project D.C., and other antiabortion demonstrators, who participated in a 'pray-in' outside the office of then-Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to protest a canceled House vote that would ban abortions after 20 weeks on March 25, 2015. (Tom Williams / CQ Roll Call) Twenty-three antiabortion extremists convicted of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE Act) were pardoned by President
Bertrand Russell: Redefining Public Intellectual an Era of Rising Authoritarianism
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/24/bertrand-russell-redefining-the-public-intellectual-in-an-era-of-rising-authoritarianism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell
Trump’s Executive Orders: Reversing Biden’s Policies; Attacking ‘Deep State’
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/us/politics/trump-executive-orders-list.html
nonpaywalled https://archive.fo/rdywv
#BertrandRussell
#USpol #USlaw #Trump #fascism #Project2025
#authoritarianism #extremism
#TitleIX #antiLGBT #transphobia
#Christofascism #transgenocide #ChristianRight #whiteSupremacism
#WomensRights #ReproductiveRights #abortion
Within days of his return to office, President Donald Trump unleashed a chilling display of authoritarianism, providing a stark reminder of the specter haunting the United States: the specter of fascism. As reported in the New York Times, his actions underscored a vision of governance steeped in cruelty and unchecked power. With the stroke of a pen, Trump pardoned 1,500 individuals involved in the January 6th insurrection, dismantled environmental protections, opened Alaska’s wilderness to expanded oil and gas drilling, terminated Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs across federal agencies, and signed an executive order ending birthright citizenship.
U.S. Office of Personnel Management: All federal agencies ordered to terminate remote work, ideally w/i 30d
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/all-federal-agencies-ordered-to-terminate-remote-work-ideally-within-30-days
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42812513
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Office_of_Personnel_Management
OPM Return to Office Guidance Memorandum 1-22-2025
https://chcoc.gov/sites/default/filesOPM%20Return%20to%20Office%20Guidance%20Memorandum%201-22-25.pdf
#USpol #GOP #Trump2 #libertarianism
#censorship #disinformation #PostTruthism
#extremism #xenophobia #whiteSupremacism
#capitalism #billionaires #libertarianism
#Christofascism #transgenocide
#antiabortion #misogyny #antiLGBT #TitleIX #antiDEI
Mississippi Bill lets Bounty Hunters hunt Immigrants
https://newrepublic.com/post/190684/mississippi-republican-bill-bounty-hunters-immigrants
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5105368-mississippi-bill-would-pay-bounty-hunters-to-catch-undocumented-immigrants
https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1400-1499/HB1484IN.htm
* MS Republicans prepare nightmare state as Trump ramps up crackdown on undoc. immigrants
* pay bounty hunters $1k for ev. undocumented immigrant they help deport
* MS HB1484 of 2025
Vigilante Nation: How State-Sponsored Terror Threatens Our Democracy
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113816826436563790
* state-supported vigilantism
#USpol #USlaw #Trump2 #vigilantism #fascism #hatred #xenophobia
"It's a massacre": Trump fires inspectors general in illegal overnight purge
https://www.salon.com/2025/01/25/its-a-massacre-inspectors-general-in-illegal-overnight-purge
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/25/donald-trump-inspectors-general-firing-00200611
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/24/trump-fire-inspectors-general-federal-agencies
* civil servants tasked w. oversight of federal agencies
* top GOP Senator: firings done outside proper legal avenues, vowed to "defend" purged workers
#USpol #USlaw #GOP #Trump2 #Trumpism #fascism #authoritarianism
#Project2025
#Christofascism #transgenocide
Gustavo Petro responds to Trump: “Overthrow me - Americas & humanity will respond”
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/01/26/gustavo-petro-responds-to-trump-overthrow-methe-americas-and-humanity-will-respond
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavo_Petro
Trump announced retaliatory measures against Colombia after Petro refused to let U.S. military plane full of deported Colombians land.
Comment: v. fiery response to fascist Trump👍️ 🥳
#Colombia #GustavoPetro
#USpol #USlaw #Trump2 #fascism #MassDeportations #hatred
#authoritarianism #extremism #disinformation
#ChristianRight #theocracy
#Christofascism #transgenocide
Trump2 Appointees: FTC Leadership Positions
https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/trump-admin-announces-appointees-for-key-leadership-positions-at-the-ftc
* Daniel Guarnera to lead Bureau of Competition: anti-trust laws
* Christopher Mufarrige to lead Bureau of Consumer Protection: unfair/fraudulent bus. practices
Billionaire Donor Reid Hoffman Wants Harris to Fire FTC Chair
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112855249218357671
FTC Chair Lina Khan Isn’t Scared Billionaires
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112865197657478356
#FTC #LinaKhan
#capitalism #billionaires #libertarianism #ReidHoffman #Musk
#NLRB #WorkersRights #UnionBusting
Last week, the Trump administration announced two new picks for leading divisions within the Federal Trade Commission, chosen by Chairman Andrew Ferguson. Daniel Guarnera to lead the Bureau of Competition. The Bureau of Competition leads the FTC’s work to enforce antitrust laws, encompassing the divisions that investigate mergers and acquisitions across many different industries. It […]
Trump Justice Department says it has fired employees involved in prosecutions of the president
https://apnews.com/article/justice-department-special-counsel-trump-046ce32dbad712e72e500c32ecc20f2f
* Trump2 DoJ fired 12+ employees who worked on criminal prosecutions of Trump
*targeted career prosecutors who worked on special counsel Jack Smith’s team
#USpol #USlaw #GOP #Trump2 #fascism #authoritarianism #DoJ #Project2025
#Christofascism #transgenocide #WomensRights #misogyny
The Trump Justice Department says it has fired more than a dozen employees who worked on criminal investigations into President Donald Trump. The abrupt action targeting career prosecutors who worked on special counsel Jack Smith’s team is the latest sign of upheaval inside the Justice Department. It reflects the administration’s determination to purge the government of workers it perceives as disloyal to the president. The move, which follows the reassignment of multiple senior career officials across divisions, was made even though rank-and-file prosecutors by tradition remain in their positions across presidential administrations and are not punished because of their involvement in sensitive investigations.
Trump fires National Labor Relations Board officials
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/28/nx-s1-5277103/nlrb-trump-wilcox-abruzzo-democrats-labor
* Jennifer Abruzzo, gen. counsel for NLRB under Biden, fired
Musk’s War On Workers Aided By Courts
Billionaires/right-wing judges attacking NLRB because it protects workers
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112855131507578787
[NLRB] Unions Bracing as Trump Prepares to Defang Labor Board
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112865197657478356
#NLRB #WorkersRights
#USpol #USlaw #GOP #Trump2 #fascism
#capitalism #libertarianism #billionaires #Koch #Musk #antiUnion #UnionBusting
Right-wing activists writing Trump2 White House memos
https://www.salon.com/2025/01/28/right-wing-activists-appear-to-be-writing-memos-for-the/
* Office of Personnel Management memos
* ostensibly f. acting director Charles Ezell
* init. listed right-wing activists as authors
* attorney Noah Peters
* James Sherk: Heritage Foundation; America First Policy Institute
James Sherk
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113851131431049983
#USpol #USlaw #CharlesEzell #NoahPeters #JamesSherk #JamesSherk
#Trump2 #fascism #Project2025
#Christofascism #theocracy #transgenocide
#WomensRights #misogyny
New Trump memo claims authority to ignore Congress
https://popular.info/p/new-trump-memo-claims-authority-to
https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/deb7af80-48b6-4b8a-8bfa-3d84fd7c3ec8.pdf
* extraord. memo
* orders U.S. fed. agencies to indefinitely freeze "disbursement of all Fed. financial assistance"
* "until OMB has reviewed & provided guidance to your agency w.r.t information submitted"
* illegal: once Congress passes law & president signs it, executive branch must execute the law
...
#USpol #USlaw #Trump #fascism #Project2025 #antiLGBT
#Christofascism #transgenocide #misogyny
On Monday, the Trump administration issued an extraordinary memo ordering federal agencies to indefinitely freeze the "disbursement of all Federal financial assistance." The freeze was scheduled to take effect at 5 PM on Tuesday, according to the memo, authored by the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, Matthew J.
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* no exception to this rule for programs that allegedly support "transgenderism" ...
* "gender ideology; transgenderism:" conservative-speak denying existence of trans persons
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/01/karoline-leavitt-says-donald-trump-froze-federal-spending-to-weed-out-programs-for-trans-people/
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113912675151303088
#TransRights #TransLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter #TitleIX
#USpol #USlaw #Trump #fascism #extremism #Project2025
#ChristianRight #theocracy #antiLGBT #antiabortion #antiDEI
#Christofascism #transgenocide
#misogyny #WomensRights #ReproductiveRights #SelfDetermination
/2 Complete chaos: Trump already accelerating reproductive rights crisis
https://www.salon.com/2025/01/29/complete-chaos-how-is-already-accelerating-the-reproductive-rights
* strengthening barriers to those in need
Trump expands power, sparking chaos/possible constitutional crisis
https://apnews.com/article/trump-presidential-power-executive-congress-grants-freeze-60fa3a9fabf6328f9aa3c45ed34e2cc3
Trump Replacing Democracy w. Autocracy
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/01/29/trump-is-replacing-democracy-with-autocracy/
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-first-week-the-real-story
In Musk, Libertarianism/Authoritarianism Combine
https://jacobin.com/2025/01/musk-authoritarianism-libertarianism-afd-trump
We saw this coming: State attorneys general ready for Trump 2.0
https://19thnews.org/2025/01/state-attorneys-general-lawsuits-trump-second-term
/3 White House response adds to confusion on federal funding freeze
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/29/g-s1-45313/trump-federal-funding-freeze-reversed
#TransRights #TransLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter #TitleIX
#USpol #USlaw #Trump #fascism #extremism #Project2025
#ChristianRight #theocracy #antiLGBT #antiabortion #antiDEI
#Christofascism #transgenocide
#misogyny #WomensRights #ReproductiveRights #SelfDetermination
Trump Preps to Detain Migrants at Guantánamo, Cuba
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/29/trump-migrants-guantanamo-bay-immigration-executive-order-gitmo
https://newrepublic.com/post/190909/trump-guantanamo-bay-detention-camp-immigrants
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113913577216923166
* camp opened 2002; 15 people still detained there
* infamous for rampant torture/abuse U.S. interrogators inflicted on prisoners there
* human rights groups are already criticizing the proposed move
* will sign EO to make immigrant detention camp a reality
#Guantánamo #Gitmo #GOP #Trump2 #fascism #authoritarianism #Project2025 #MassDeportations #xenophobia #PrisonCamps
Guantanamo Bay: Base where Trump will send ‘criminal aliens’
https://apnews.com/article/guantanamo-bay-detention-migrants-what-to-know-trump-d027c5c24b523f31a62271dcbe7c010e
“We’re going to send them out to Guantanamo” - Trump, at signing of Laken Riley Act
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113913550797199471
* countries refusing to accept U.S.-deported immigrants
* nowhere near capacity to imprison 30k people
* current ICE budget only has $ to detain 41k people
#Guantánamo #Gitmo #GOP #Trump2 #fascism #authoritarianism #Project2025 #MassDeportations #xenophobia #PrisonCamps
Whole lotta white people ✝️ ⛪️ 😯 🤔
President Donald Trump says he will use a detention center at Guantánamo Bay to hold tens of thousands of criminal immigrants in the U.S. illegally. While the U.S. naval base is best known for the suspects brought in after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, it also has a separate facility used for decades to hold detained immigrants. The U.S. has leased Guantánamo from Cuba for more than a century. Cuba opposes the lease and typically rejects the nominal U.S. rent payments. Trump signed a presidential memorandum and said he'd direct federal officials to get facilities ready. Border czar Tom Homan said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would run the facility. Still, details of the plan weren’t immediately clear.
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