People like Dr Caroline Orr Bueno will be increasingly valuable reference points as we navigate the disinformation decade
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#FF #LincolnProject #democracy
Choose one: #Democracy or #MassSurveillance
#ChatControl and similar proposals are fundamentally incompatible with a democratic #EU.
However, they are perfect for actors who want an authoritarian EU with mandatory age restrictions (ID verification) just to participate in democratic discourse.
The battle against Trump and the evil of the GOP continues worldwide - and we've got victories!
We keep fighting Trump and the GOP's racist birthright attacks. https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/08/08/trump-birthright-citizenship-court-injunctions/
Within 7 months, California has filed 37 lawsuits against Donald Trump’s avalanche of illegal actions. https://bsky.app/profile/governor.ca.gov/post/3lvmcardwo22c
CNN, surprisingly, shows how Trump is entangled with Epstein. https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/12/politics/trump-epstein-relationship-timeline-invs-vis
Californians confront Trump-loving representative Doug LaMalfa at a town hall. https://www.thedailybeast.com/republican-doug-lamalfa-gets-booed-in-furious-town-hall-trainwreck-f-you/
Bluesky user asks, “Well, yeah, but what’s the solution?”
A: Live in truth.
You can have MAGA and Trump, or you can have a free and open society with critical inquiry and principled engagement with the past.
You can't have both.
Trump’s rhetoric “paints a picture that crime is out of control, even when it is not true, then blames the policies of #Democratic lawmakers that are #reform- & #PublicSafety-minded, & then claims that you have to step in & violate people’s rights or demand that reforms be reversed,”Wiley said.
She added that the playbook has special potency in #DC because local law enforcement can be directly placed under #federal #control, a #power #Trump invoked…
#Trump threatened to “take over” & “beautify” #DC on the campaign trail & claimed it was “a nightmare of murder & crime.” He also argued the #city was “horribly run” & said his team intended “to take it away from the mayor.” Trump on Monday repeated old comments about some of the nation’s largest #cities, including #Baltimore, #Chicago, #LosAngeles, #Oakland & his hometown of #NYC. All are currently run by #Black mayors.
Ronald #Reagan similarly won both his presidential elections after campaigning heavily on law & order politics. Politicians, including former NY Mayor #RudyGiuliani & former President #BillClinton have cited the need to tamp down *crime* as a reason to seize #power from #liberal #cities for decades.
#Republicans have called for greater #police crackdowns in #cities since at least the 1965 #WattsRiots in #LosAngeles.
President Richard #Nixon won the White House in 1968 after campaigning on a “law & order” agenda to appeal to #white voters in northern cities alongside overtures to white Southerners as part of his “#SouthernStrategy.”
#Conservatives have for generations used denigrating #language to describe the *conditions* of major #cities & called for greater law enforcement, often in response to changing #demographics in those cities driven by #nonwhite populations relocating in search of #work or #safety from #RacialDiscrimination & #StateViolence.
“The president foreshadowed that if these heavy-handed tactics take root here, they will be rolled out to other majority-#Black & #Brown #cities, like #Chicago, #Oakland & #Baltimore, across the country,” said Monica Hopkins, executive director of the ACLU’s #DC chapter.
“We’ve seen before how #federal #control of the DC #NationalGuard & #police can lead to #abuse, #intimidation & #CivilRights violations —
…According to White House ofcls, #troops will be deployed to protect federal assets & facilitate a safe environment for law enforcement to make arrests. The #Trump admin believes the highly visible presence of law enforcement will deter violent crime. It is unclear how the admin defines providing a safe environment for law enforcement to conduct arrests, raising alarm bells for some advocates.
As #DC the #NationalGuard arrived at their HQ Tuesday, for many residents, the prospect of #federal #troops surging into neighborhoods represented an alarming violation of #local #agency. To some, it echoes uncomfortable historical chapters when politicians used language to paint historically or predominantly #Black #cities & neighborhoods with #racist narratives to shape public opinion & justify aggressive #police action.
Trump's rhetoric about #DC echoes a history of #racist narratives about #urban #crime
#Trump has taken control of DC’s #police & ordered #NationalGuard #troops to deploy onto the streets of the nation’s capital, claiming the extraordinary moves are necessary to curb an urgent public safety crisis.
#WhiteSupremacy #law #MilitaryState #autocracy #democracy #CivilRights #coup #TrumpCoup2
https://apnews.com/article/trump-washington-dc-takeover-race-39388597bad7e70085079888fe7fb57b?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-08-12-Trump%27s+DC+rhetoric
Do You Live in Minnesota or Do You Know Anyone Who Does?
TODAY TUESDAY AUGUST 12 is ELECTION DAY!
#minnesota #democracy #Democrats #vote #voting #elections #news
“I’m going to work every day to make sure it’s not a complete disaster,” #Bowser said at the Monday news conference, as she sought to downplay the impact of the #DC #takeover. “So we are going to work, every day, to get this emergency put to an end.”
She paused briefly & added, “I’ll call it the so-called emergency.”
An influx of arrests could hamstring an already understaffed US attorney’s office in #DC, which has seen dozens of prosecutors leave this admin….
The mayor said Monday that she had one call over the weekend that indicated #Trump might deploy the #NationalGuard but did not have reason to believe that the president would place the DC #police under direct #federal #control.
Still, #DC officials, who had been working for months to coordinate with the White House, were caught by surprise by Trump’s announcement, said #MurielBowser, who at a news conference described pleading her case to #Trump personally. In their first meeting after Trump took office the second time, she said, they spoke about the #city’s improved efforts in combating #crime.
…Last week, days after Coristine’s attack, #Trump ordered #federal law enforcement agents from several agencies to be deployed throughout #DC & called for more juveniles to be charged in the adult justice system. In the days leading up to Monday’s announcement, the #FBI began dispatching agents in overnight shifts to *help* local law enforcement address carjackings & violent crime.