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Nonilex<p>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WestVirginia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WestVirginia</span></a> Citizen Action Group then filed a lawsuit claiming Morrisey exceeded his <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authority</span></a>.</p><p>Under <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/state" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>state</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a>, the group argued, the governor could deploy the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalGuard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalGuard</span></a> out of state only for certain purposes, such as responding to a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NaturalDisaster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NaturalDisaster</span></a> or another state’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/emergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>emergency</span></a> request.</p><p>Morrisey’s office has argued the deployment was authorized under federal law.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MilitaryState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MilitaryState</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MartialLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MartialLaw</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WashingtonDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonDC</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PosseComitatusAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PosseComitatusAct</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Gestapo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gestapo</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>“<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Treasury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Treasury</span></a> has clearly been enacting unlegislated tax cuts,” said Kyle Pomerleau, a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tax</span></a> economist at the American Enterprise Institute, a right-leaning think tank. “<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a> determines <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TaxLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TaxLaw</span></a>. Treasury undermines this constitutional principle when it asserts more <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authority</span></a> over the structure of the tax code than Congress provides it.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SeparationOfPowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SeparationOfPowers</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/aristocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aristocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/plutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plutocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WealthGap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WealthGap</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>With its various <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tax</span></a> relief provisions, the admin is now effectively adding hundreds of billions of dollars in new breaks for big businesses &amp; investors. The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Treasury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Treasury</span></a> is empowered to write rules to help the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/IRS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IRS</span></a> carry out tax laws passed by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a>. But the aggressive actions of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin raise questions about whether it is exceeding its legal <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authority</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/aristocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aristocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/plutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plutocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WealthGap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WealthGap</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>[This motherfucker] <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> overstepped his <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authority</span></a> when he sought to deploy <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalGuard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalGuard</span></a> troops to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Portland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Portland</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Oregon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oregon</span></a>, to protect [his <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Gestapo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gestapo</span></a>] the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> office there, a federal judge ruled on Friday, issuing a permanent block on troop deployments to the city in response to anti-ICE <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/demonstrations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>demonstrations</span></a>.</p><p>Judge Karin J. Immergut of US District Court, who was nominated to the bench by Trump, previously issued a preliminary injunction blocking his order federalizing Guard soldiers in OR….</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
johnbrowntypewriter<p>egocentrism is the cornerstone of authoritarianism </p><p><a href="https://ni.hil.ist/tags/Egocentrism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Egocentrism</span></a> <a href="https://ni.hil.ist/tags/Authority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authority</span></a> <a href="https://ni.hil.ist/tags/Authoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarian</span></a> <a href="https://ni.hil.ist/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a></p>
Sailor Anarres<p>“The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.”<br>― Emma Goldman </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/authority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authority</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>crime</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Senate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Senate</span></a> is expected to vote next week on a bipartisan resolution that would bar the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> from engaging in hostilities inside <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Venezuela" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Venezuela</span></a> without explicit authorization by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a>.<br>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> gives Congress the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authority</span></a> to declare <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>war</span></a>, but formal declarations are rare &amp; have not been issued since WWII. Lawmakers have more often passed authorizations for the use of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> force to grant the president permission to use force against specific targets.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/murder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>murder</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a></p>
United States News Beep<p>Videos obtained by The Times show ICE raid that left deputy U.S. marshal, TikTok streamer shot</p><p>The Times has obtained videos showing the incident Tuesday in South Los Angeles that left a d…<br><a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/NewsBeep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewsBeep</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/UnitedStatesOfAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStatesOfAmerica</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/aftermath" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aftermath</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/agent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>agent</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>America</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/authority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authority</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/BillEssayli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BillEssayli</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/car" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>car</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/deputyu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deputyu</span></a>.s.marshal <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/federalofficer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>federalofficer</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/iceraid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iceraid</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/incidenttuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>incidenttuesday</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/lawenforcementvehicle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lawenforcementvehicle</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/parias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>parias</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/smoke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>smoke</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/tiktokstreamershot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tiktokstreamershot</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/times" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>times</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/UnitedStatesofAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStatesofAmerica</span></a> <a href="https://newsbeep.org/tags/video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>video</span></a><br><a href="https://www.newsbeep.com/us/244742/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">newsbeep.com/us/244742/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
#FreeSchool=Co-Op+Learn+DIY 🔁Fascims - Even Victims Being Part of It (willingly)...
Nonilex<p>When there is a vacancy in the position of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USattorney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USattorney</span></a>, the AG is able install someone as an “interim” US attorney for 120 days, but after that, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> says a federal <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/court" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>court</span></a> decides who next serves as interim.</p><p>Erik Siebert, who was removed for refusing to bring a case against <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Comey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Comey</span></a> based on the lack of evidence, had already served a 120-day term as an AG appointment. The question is whether the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin had the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authority</span></a> to make a 2nd interim appointment.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LegalEthics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LegalEthics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/judiciary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>judiciary</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>What the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin laid out at the classified briefing was perceived by several senators as pursuing a new legal framework raising questions regarding the role of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a> in authorizing such action….</p><p>As the admin takes aim at vessels in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Caribbean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Caribbean</span></a>, senators &amp; lawmakers of both parties have raised stark objections. Some had previously called on Congress to exert its <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authority</span></a> under the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WarPowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WarPowers</span></a> act that would prohibit the admin’s strikes unless they were authorized by Congress.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>But <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RussVought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RussVought</span></a> had something <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> did not: He had done his homework.<br>In the months since Musk fell out with <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>, Vought has at last begun to put his plans into action—remaking the presidency, block by block, by restoring powers weakened after the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Nixon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nixon</span></a> admin. His efforts are helping Trump exert <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authority</span></a> more aggressively than any modern president, &amp; are threatening an erosion of the longstanding <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChecksAndBalances" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChecksAndBalances</span></a> in America’s constitutional system.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RussVought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RussVought</span></a> had carefully analyzed mistakes from the first term. And he had laid out steps to achieve the long-sought conservative goal of a president with dramatically expanded <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authority</span></a> over the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveBranch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveBranch</span></a>, including the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> to cut off <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/spending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spending</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/fire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fire</span></a> employees, control <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/independent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>independent</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalAgencies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalAgencies</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/deregulate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deregulate</span></a> the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a>, who spent &gt;$250M to help elect <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>, had celebrity, access to the president &amp; political capital that the budget director could never hope for.</p>
Nando161<p><a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/authority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authority</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/classwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>classwar</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/rightwing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rightwing</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/farright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>farright</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nazis</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/neonazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neonazis</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/neofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neofascism</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/ausgov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ausgov</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/politas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politas</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/oppression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oppression</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/repression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>repression</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>But the admin has insisted that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> has legal <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authority</span></a>, under his constitutional <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> as commander in chief, to direct Special Operations forces to instead summarily kill those suspected of drug running as if they are combatants on a *battlefield*. Citing the roughly 100,000 overdose deaths of Americans each year, the admin has invoked *self-defense* &amp; the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ArmedConflict" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArmedConflict</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WarPowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WarPowers</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MilitaryState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MilitaryState</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>It was not clear who wrote the draft congressional authorization or whether it could pass the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republican</span></a>-led <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a>, but the White House has been passing it around the executive branch.</p><p>The broadly worded proposal, which would grant sprawling <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authority</span></a> to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> for FIVE YEARS to use <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> force in a drug trafficking *war*, has set off alarm bells in some quarters of the executive branch &amp; on Capitol Hill….</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Silver Huang<p>Pondering this yesterday: When “objectivity” is held as the *only way* of evaluating the world, devaluing our inner compass of subjective discernment, we are rendered blindly trusting on external sources as <a href="https://social.coop/tags/authority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authority</span></a>, because we are unable to:</p><p>- Trust inner, subjective signs of dissonance or warning<br>- Attune to and choose from deeper sources of <a href="https://social.coop/tags/autonomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>autonomy</span></a></p><p>This makes us vulnerable to external sources of abuse-masquerading-as-authority and, frankly, I think, sets us up for <a href="https://social.coop/tags/cult" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cult</span></a>-like situations.</p>
WordofTheHour<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/authority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authority</span></a> : influence of character, office, or station, or mental or moral superiority, and the like</p><p>- French: autorité</p><p>- German: die Autorität</p><p>- Italian: autorità</p><p>- Portuguese: autoridade</p><p>- Spanish: autoridad</p><p>------------</p><p>Join our new subreddit for language learners @ <a href="https://reddit.com/r/LearnANewLanguage" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">reddit.com/r/LearnANewLanguage</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>A federal judge Friday ruled against the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin from ending temporary <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>legal</span></a> protections that have granted more than 1 million people from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Haiti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Haiti</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Venezuela" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Venezuela</span></a> the right to live &amp; work in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a>.</p><p>Chen said <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DHS</span></a> Secy [puppy dog killer] <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/KristiNoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KristiNoem</span></a>’s actions in terminating &amp; vacating 3 extensions granted by the previous admin exceeded her statutory <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authority</span></a> &amp; were <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/arbitrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>arbitrary</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/capricious" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capricious</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseOfPower</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TheCrueltyIsThePoint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheCrueltyIsThePoint</span></a> <br><a href="https://apnews.com/article/immigration-haiti-venezuela-judge-trump-administration-8519e669dada7e678531f21180cf8def?utm_source=onesignal&amp;utm_medium=push&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-05-Breaking+News" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/immigration</span><span class="invisible">-haiti-venezuela-judge-trump-administration-8519e669dada7e678531f21180cf8def?utm_source=onesignal&amp;utm_medium=push&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-05-Breaking+News</span></a></p>
Proletarian Rage<p>At the Hague Group Summit, Colombian President Gustavo Petro delivered a searing indictment of global inaction on <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a>, calling it an “experiment by the ultra-rich” to test how far humanity can be pushed into submission.</p><p>Petro warned that the same powers bombing Gaza may soon turn their weapons on the Global South, crushing multilateralism and silencing collective <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>resistance</span></a> through fear and fragmentation. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aTclpJ1gjvA" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/shorts/aTclpJ1gjvA</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://todon.nl/tags/AlAqsaFlood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlAqsaFlood</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/nakba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nakba</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/authority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authority</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/oppression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oppression</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/fightback" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fightback</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/ClassWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClassWar</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a></p>