The United States' descent into fascism
The United States' descent into fascism
Quote:The reason for the decision appears linked to a March 2025 federal directive under the Trump administration aimed at reshaping how American history and commentary are presented on federal lands. That directive instructs agencies to remove or revise “negative” content about Americans, and to emphasize the “beauty, grandeur, and abundance” of landscapes and features, potentially displacing works that critically examine environmental degradation or corporate interests. Kaufmann’s book, which examines California’s water crisis and critiques the unlimited‐growth paradigm in a finite ecosystem, seems to have triggered this flagging.
U.S.A. Government Effectively Bans Book About Water from Yosemite
https://archive.ph/UIEy8
Quote:The reason for the decision appears linked to a March 2025 federal directive under the Trump administration aimed at reshaping how American history and commentary are presented on federal lands. That directive instructs agencies to remove or revise “negative” content about Americans, and to emphasize the “beauty, grandeur, and abundance” of landscapes and features, potentially displacing works that critically examine environmental degradation or corporate interests. Kaufmann’s book, which examines California’s water crisis and critiques the unlimited‐growth paradigm in a finite ecosystem, seems to have triggered this flagging.
Quote: SummaryPresident Donald Trump's administration is close to implementing a rule that would end long-standing legal protections for whistleblowers among senior federal employees, according to documents reviewed by Reuters, prompting backlash from lawyers representing government workers.
- Law prohibits US agencies from retaliating against whistleblowers
- Trump team wants to exclude senior employees from those safeguards
The rule, if finalized, would follow Trump's April proposal to change employment standards for federal workers and build on a series of actions by the administration to minimize dissent across the government.
Specifically, the documents showed the rule would exclude senior employees from legal protections that prohibit U.S. government agencies from retaliating against whistleblowers who accuse them of wrongdoing, such as violating the law or wasting funds.
Whistleblowers help to uncover fraud, abuse and misconduct inside government agencies that might otherwise remain hidden from Congress and the public.
"This administration is making good on its determination to silence dissent in all forms, creating a culture of fear, silence and intimidation," said Andrew Bakaj, chief legal counsel of Whistleblower Aid, a non-partisan group that represents government whistleblowers, in a statement.
November 18, 2025
US federal workers would lose whistleblower safeguards under Trump rule
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-federal-employees-would-lose-whistleblower-safeguards-under-trump-rule-2025-11-18/
Quote: SummaryPresident Donald Trump's administration is close to implementing a rule that would end long-standing legal protections for whistleblowers among senior federal employees, according to documents reviewed by Reuters, prompting backlash from lawyers representing government workers.
- Law prohibits US agencies from retaliating against whistleblowers
- Trump team wants to exclude senior employees from those safeguards
The rule, if finalized, would follow Trump's April proposal to change employment standards for federal workers and build on a series of actions by the administration to minimize dissent across the government.
Specifically, the documents showed the rule would exclude senior employees from legal protections that prohibit U.S. government agencies from retaliating against whistleblowers who accuse them of wrongdoing, such as violating the law or wasting funds.
Whistleblowers help to uncover fraud, abuse and misconduct inside government agencies that might otherwise remain hidden from Congress and the public.
"This administration is making good on its determination to silence dissent in all forms, creating a culture of fear, silence and intimidation," said Andrew Bakaj, chief legal counsel of Whistleblower Aid, a non-partisan group that represents government whistleblowers, in a statement.
(Nov 16 2025, 9:14 AM)Elsacat No criticizing the fatherland, or motherland, or whichever parent is parenting the US lately.
(Nov 16 2025, 9:14 AM)Elsacat No criticizing the fatherland, or motherland, or whichever parent is parenting the US lately.
Quote:On Tuesday, multiple congressional Democrats made a video reminding the members of the military and intelligence community of their duty to the Constitution, not to President Trump. On Thursday, Trump called them “TRAITORS” and shared a post calling for them to be executed.video on twitter
November 20, 2025
Trump Suggests Executing Democrats Over Message to Troops
https://newrepublic.com/post/203438/trump-suggests-executing-democrats-told
Quote:On Tuesday, multiple congressional Democrats made a video reminding the members of the military and intelligence community of their duty to the Constitution, not to President Trump. On Thursday, Trump called them “TRAITORS” and shared a post calling for them to be executed.video on twitter
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Wtf... Love how that P78 user has an iron cross avatar, surely he's just a big fan of Prussian military history and totally not a dogwhistling neo Nazi. 🙄
Another source: “Trump calls for arrest of ‘seditious’ Democrats who told troops their duty is to uphold the Constitution” https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-arrest-democrats-troops-illegal-orders-b2869176.html
And when it rains, it pours — the US' torrent of political diarrhea doesn't end there today: “Coast Guard says swastika is no longer a hate symbol” https://www.juneauindependent.com/post/coast-guard-says-swastika-is-no-longer-a-hate-symbol
I went running to this thread to post about the Coast Guard saying the swastika is no longer a hate symbol. What the fuck. Is this to increase their recruitment pool or something? A first step toward opening national law enforcement to neo-Nazis and/or trying to normalize that mindset?
Nov 24 2025: White House Declares All of Trump’s Orders to Military Are Legal
https://newrepublic.com/post/203628/white-house-declares-trump-orders-military-legal
Nov 25 2025: FBI Interviewing Democrats Trump Has Called ‘Seditious’
https://www.newsweek.com/fbi-interviewing-democrats-trump-has-called-seditious-11106602
Quote:Donald Trump has said he will grand a pardon to Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras who is serving a 45-year prison sentence in the US on drug trafficking and weapons charges.Trump has been launching boat strikes and killing people claiming he's waging a war on drugs but pardons this guy because he's his ally.
“I will be granting a Full and Complete Pardon to Former President Juan Orlando Hernandez who has been, according to many people that I greatly respect, treated very harshly and unfairly,” Trump said Friday in a post on Truth Social.
In March of last year, Hernández was convicted in US courts of accepting millions of dollars in bribes to protect US-bound cocaine shipments belonging to traffickers he once publicly proclaimed to combat. Speaking during closing arguments at the trial, assistant US attorney Jacob Gutwillig said Hernández had “paved a cocaine superhighway to the United States”.
Hernández was sentenced last June and called his conviction wrongful. He had served served two terms as the leader of the Central American nation of roughly 10 million people, and was considered a top US ally in Central America, particularly by the Trump administration.
Quote:The U.S. military has killed more than 80 people since the campaign began in early September. But it does not know who specifically is being killed, and the strikes were not designed to take out high-ranking cartel leaders.
Instead, the military has killed, at best, low-level people, whose role in the drug trade may have been taking a payment for moving cocaine from one spot to another. (At worst, some of the people killed could have been fishermen, migrants or others who had nothing to do with the drug trade.)
“Traditionally, our counternarcotics efforts have always been targeted at the head of the snake,” said Representative Jim Himes of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. “This is obviously the opposite of that. Now we’re going after the tail of the snake. We’re going after some, you know, poor ex-fishermen who took 300 bucks to run a load of cocaine to Trinidad.”
The strikes are also at odds with any effort to understand the cartels moving the drugs. Taking apart a network, experts said, requires capturing people and interrogating them to find out the financiers and leaders. By blowing up the boats, the United States is also destroying the intelligence and evidence.
November 28, 2025
Trump to pardon ex-Honduras leader serving drug trafficking sentence in US
https://archive.ph/CpTpQ
Quote:Donald Trump has said he will grand a pardon to Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras who is serving a 45-year prison sentence in the US on drug trafficking and weapons charges.Trump has been launching boat strikes and killing people claiming he's waging a war on drugs but pardons this guy because he's his ally.
“I will be granting a Full and Complete Pardon to Former President Juan Orlando Hernandez who has been, according to many people that I greatly respect, treated very harshly and unfairly,” Trump said Friday in a post on Truth Social.
In March of last year, Hernández was convicted in US courts of accepting millions of dollars in bribes to protect US-bound cocaine shipments belonging to traffickers he once publicly proclaimed to combat. Speaking during closing arguments at the trial, assistant US attorney Jacob Gutwillig said Hernández had “paved a cocaine superhighway to the United States”.
Hernández was sentenced last June and called his conviction wrongful. He had served served two terms as the leader of the Central American nation of roughly 10 million people, and was considered a top US ally in Central America, particularly by the Trump administration.
Quote:The U.S. military has killed more than 80 people since the campaign began in early September. But it does not know who specifically is being killed, and the strikes were not designed to take out high-ranking cartel leaders.
Instead, the military has killed, at best, low-level people, whose role in the drug trade may have been taking a payment for moving cocaine from one spot to another. (At worst, some of the people killed could have been fishermen, migrants or others who had nothing to do with the drug trade.)
“Traditionally, our counternarcotics efforts have always been targeted at the head of the snake,” said Representative Jim Himes of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. “This is obviously the opposite of that. Now we’re going after the tail of the snake. We’re going after some, you know, poor ex-fishermen who took 300 bucks to run a load of cocaine to Trinidad.”
The strikes are also at odds with any effort to understand the cartels moving the drugs. Taking apart a network, experts said, requires capturing people and interrogating them to find out the financiers and leaders. By blowing up the boats, the United States is also destroying the intelligence and evidence.
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December 1st 2025: Outlets that reach millions denied access to rare Pentagon news briefings this week
https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-press-corps-access-hegseth-defense-13d99be0dd906bcda714abffa3e020f8
Additionally, there are discussions that the United States has committed war crimes with their "double tap" of survivors from a shipwreck that the US originally bombed.
In more pathetic clownass administration news: Nazi dogwhistles or "innocent mistakes" of an incompetent administration? “There is a typo on Pete Hegseth’s name card, which sits on the table in front of him during the cabinet meeting. “Secretary of War” starts with a double “s.”” — New York Times White House reporter Zolan Kanno-Youngs https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12/02/us/trump-ukraine-putin-news/d8216a11-35c4-54f9-8869-642ec4ae2b65
