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NonilexFor that reason, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>’s lawyers—despite running roughshod over <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Congress</a>, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/states" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#states</a>, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#press</a>, & the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CivilService</a>—were somewhat slower to defy the federal courts, & have fast-tracked cases to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a>, seeking a judicial imprimatur for novel <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PresidentialPowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PresidentialPowers</a>. The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/courts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#courts</a>, unlike the legislature, remain useful to an <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocrat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autocrat</a> in a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DualState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DualState</a>.

libramoon<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/trumps-press-freedom-hungary-orban/682060/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/trumps-press-freedom-hungary-orban/682060/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>’s Attempts to Muzzle the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Press</a> Look Familiar Much of what the U.S. president has done to curb independent <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#media</a> echoes the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hungarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hungarian</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/autocrat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autocrat</a> Viktor Orbán’s playbook. By András Pethő..."As a Hungarian investigative journalist, I have had a firsthand view of how Orbán has built his own media universe while simultaneously placing a stranglehold on the independent press. As I watch from afar what’s happening to the free p"...

GG"Justice, Defense, Intelligence are the 'power ministries.' They are the levers an aspiring <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/autocrat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autocrat</a> must control to place himself above the rule of law. With Gaetz at Justice, Hegseth at Defense, and Gabbard as DNI: Trump will own this trifecta. Over the next two years there are only two institutions with the power to obstruct Trump: The Republican majority in the Senate and the Supreme Court."👉 "Trump is making plans to break each of them." <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cdnpoli</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#canada</a> <a href="https://www.thebulwark.com/p/its-time-to-consider-the-worst-case?r=1emko&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.thebulwark.com/p/its-time-to-consider-the-worst-case?r=1emko&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web</a>

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Inside Brazil’s X Ban: How Musk Started/lost Fight w. Brazil’s Judiciary <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/09/04/inside-brazils-x-ban-how-elon-musk-started-and-lost-a-fight-with-brazils-judiciary" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/09/04/inside-brazils-x-ban-how-elon-musk-started-and-lost-a-fight-with-brazils-judiciary</a>* Brazilians woke up 2024-Aug-31 w.o. X/Twitter * Supreme Court (Brazil) ordered national telecommunications agency to block X * X refused to follow Brazil’s telecommunications laws<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElonMusk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#capitalism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#billionaires</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Xcorp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Xcorp</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Twitter</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Starlink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Starlink</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oligarchy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/plutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#plutocracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/meritocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#meritocracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/autocrat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autocrat</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trumpism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trumpism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EnablingFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnablingFascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#censorship</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FarRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FarRight</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TAXtheRich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TAXtheRich</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WealthConcentration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WealthConcentration</a>

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElonMusk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#capitalism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#billionaires</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Xcorp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Xcorp</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Twitter</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tesla</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Starlink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Starlink</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaceX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpaceX</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oligarchy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/plutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#plutocracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/meritocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#meritocracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/autocrat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autocrat</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GOP</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trumpism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trumpism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AmericaPAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmericaPAC</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EnablingFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnablingFascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#censorship</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FarRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FarRight</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antiLGBT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antiLGBT</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transphobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transphobia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TAXtheRich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TAXtheRich</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WealthConcentration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WealthConcentration</a>

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Elon Musk: oligarch plutocrat autocratStarlink U-turns, will block X in Brazil after all Musk fought the law and the law won... for now <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/04/starlink_performs_a_180_and" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/04/starlink_performs_a_180_and</a> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41444961" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41444961</a>* fight in Brazil over Musk's X/Twitter<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElonMusk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#capitalism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#billionaires</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Xcorp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Xcorp</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Twitter</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tesla</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Starlink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Starlink</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaceX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpaceX</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oligarchy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/plutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#plutocracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/meritocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#meritocracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/autocrat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autocrat</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GOP</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trumpism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trumpism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AmericaPAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmericaPAC</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EnablingFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnablingFascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#censorship</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FarRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FarRight</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antiLGBT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antiLGBT</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transphobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transphobia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TAXtheRich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TAXtheRich</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WealthConcentration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WealthConcentration</a>

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