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Reopening the GDPR is a threat - European Digital Rights (EDRi) We are calling on the EU Commission to protect people’s rights and dignity in a data-driven world by reaffirming the GDPR.

"Open Letter: Reopening the GDPR is a threat to rights, accountability, and the future of EU digital policy"

Stop Waiting for a Formal Declaration of “Crisis” It is here. We are living through it.

"We need every person, every officeholder, and every facet of society to tell Trump: “NO.” No obeying in advance, No bullying, No court defiance, No executive overreach, No betrayal of allies, and No gaslighting."

Members of British punk rock band UK Subs denied entry into the US Three members of the pioneering band were detained and returned to the UK after flying to Los Angeles for a gig

Members of British punk rock band UK Subs denied entry into the US

Military Analyst: Network State Takeover of U.S. Government The United States is currently evolving into a Network State, says a military analyst who writes regularly on the subject.

#ProtectDemocracy #USA #Republicans #Democrats #broligarchy

Opinion | This Is What the Courts Can Do if Trump Defies Them How the escalating measures available to courts would work.

While the courts do not have a standing army, there are actually several escalating measures they can take to counter a defiant executive branch, say Trevor W. Morrison and Richard H. Pildes.

Those of us who work in gender medicine are not going anywhere What’s more, we’re expanding.

“We’re not going anywhere. What’s more: we’re expanding.”

Nearly a dozen of Minnesota’s foremost experts on gender-affirming care collaborated on this beautiful op-ed in today’s Strib. No paywall.

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

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How Musk and Trump could build a techno-autocracy Tech tools could make Trumpism very difficult to dislodge

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Authoritarianism, explained Authoritarianism is a method of rule that suppresses political freedoms, using levers of control to shift power from the people to a ruler.

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Seven tactics that unite authoritarian leaders

'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook In 2022, one of Peter Thiel's favorite thinkers envisioned a second Trump Administration in which the federal government would be run by a “CEO”

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NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

Attack on Science #1 – Communication Restricted at Federal Agencies What happened: The Trump administration is restricting scientific communication at federal agencies.

Attack on Science #1 – Communication Restricted at Federal Agencies

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring Researchers facing “a lot of uncertainty, fear, and panic”

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Trump administration undermines science

La mort de la démocratie, étape finale du capitalisme ? Et si la démocratie et les aléas du suffrage universel commençaient à devenir trop gênants pour les profits et le pouvoir des milliardaires ? Entretien avec Quinn Slobodian, historien du libéralisme, ...

Et si la démocratie et les aléas du suffrage universel commençaient à devenir trop gênants pour les profits et le pouvoir des milliardaires ? Entretien avec Quinn Slobodian, historien du libéralisme, professeur à l’université de Boston qui publie “Le Capitalisme de l’apocalypse” (Seuil).

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