@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialKagan warnt: Trumps Iran-Politik bedroht nicht nur Teheran, sondern auch die US-Demokratie – Illiberale profitieren, Demokratie bleibt außen vor
American Democracy Might Not Survive a War With Iran - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/international/
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.socialMore news from the extermination camp of Gaza.
https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot/114908465532225924
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social"Israel and America’s war with Iran is not just a strategic throw of the dice. It is a fundamental shift in how power operates in a multipolar world. Though a transition toward new models of collective security remains theoretically possible, as the foundations of US global hegemony wither under Donald Trump the current trajectory favours entropy over order. The danger is not merely in acts of war, it is also in the chaos they leave behind."
@GroupNebula563@mastodon.socialhttps://www.impeachtrumpagain.org/ reminder to please sign this if you haven’t already
@servelan@newsie.social'[D]efending free and ethical journalism is ... a duty of all those who yearn for a solid and participatory democracy. Wherever a journalist is silenced, the democratic soul of a country is weakened. Freedom of the press is an inalienable common good. Those who conscientiously exercise this vocation cannot see their voices silenced by petty interests or fear of the truth.'
Pope Leo made a 'pointed remark' apparently aimed at Trump's big grudge: reports - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/pope-leo-shot-trump-journalist/
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaThis guy makes me laugh!
#Capitalism #AntiCapitalism
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social
@elduvelle@neuromatch.socialIf you're not against the Trump administration and its full-blown destruction of science and democracy.. Then you are for it. So sad to see that this is apparently the path chosen by #DartmouthCollege, so easily contributing to the "divide and conquer" Trump strategy.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialQ&A with Pavel Durov on his arrest in France, Macron, Russia, the FBI, the fight for Telegram, leaving his wealth to the 100 children he fathered, and more (Guillaume Grallet/Le Point)
https://www.
@rasterweb@mastodon.social
@pixelcode@social.tchncs.deHamburg police have understood what “defensive #democracy” means:
“Does flying the 🏳️🌈 flag violate the neutrality requirement? No! Our neutrality means political impartiality – but not neutrality in value. The flag represents values like diversity, tolerance & equality of rights, which are deeply embedded in our constitution.
Positioning ourselves against hate & discrimi…
@jpanzer@mastodon.socialI’ll be at 3 No Kings events tomorrow — they’re all in Mointain View & Palo Alto, CA. The last one is a democracy fair. Joan Baez will be there & there will be songs. And cake.
https://bsky.app/profile/indivisiblepaplus.bsky.social/post/3lrjvqzruyc23
@shriramk@mastodon.social1/ I know very little about the Balkans, and I discovered this excellent book, Modern Albania by Fred Abrahams, in an unusual way. I was at the Albania exhibit at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, and this happened to be placed with the exhibit. ↵
#BookReview
@david_colquhoun@mstdn.socialGood electoral reforms. But it's VERY disappointing that Labour clings to first-past-the-post. Not only does FPTP make no sense when there are more than 2 parties, but, most importantly, change to PR could be the only way to prevent a far-right majority in 2029. Wake up!
https:…
@UP8@mastodon.social😎 How do politicians view democracy? It depends on whether they win or lose
#politics
@servelan@newsie.socialde Tocqueville’s forgotten solution to America’s democratic crisis
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5360902-civic-infrastructure-democracy/
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialWorth a read...
"What Exactly Is Required to Preserve Our Democracy?"
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/07/what-exactly-is-required-to-preserve-our-democracy/683492/
@bryanculbertson@mastodon.socialTake back our economy from the oligarchs by democratizing it
Privatization of public services has proven to be a massive failure for housing, healthcare, transportation, energy, etc.
Publicly funded and operated services are how we will save our democracy!
https://youtu.be/sWHxKD27XKk
@kurtsh@mastodon.social"Trump has to rig everything, from his birthday to political speeches at military bases. He’s a loser who has to fake support.
Go to a #NoKings protest. Show this Administration what democracy looks like and why we refuse to honor a king.
...Demand accountability."
Original post from Katie Phang:
@peterhoneyman@a2mi.socialMaking a Gil Scott-Heron mix tape for some friends. "Winter in America" really hits hard.
The Constitution, a noble piece of paper
Would free society. It struggled but then died in vain
And now Democracy is ragtime on the corner
Hoping for some rain
It's winter in America
And all of the healers have been killed or betrayed
It's winter in America
Ain't nobody fighting
‘Cause nobody knows what to save
Save your soul
@gracion@social.linux.pizzaOregon’s mail-in voting system produces some of the higher voter turnouts in the nation. I live here and it works great. That Trump wants to end it is anti-democratic and unconstitutional—states run elections. #voting #elections
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“Move fast and break things.”
The things:
- Human rights
- Our habitat
- Democracy
#BigTech #SiliconValley #ventureCapital
@rmdes@mstdn.socialProject 2025 isn’t a blueprint, it’s already 40% enacted or completed.
Surviving Trump: With Democracy On Life Support: EPISODE 29: Project 2025 Overview — Dismantling Democracy and Women’s Rights
Episode webpage: https://survivingtrump.buzzsprout.com
Listen
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaThe protestors chanting 'this is what democracy looks like' really missed a chance to drop a classic banger instead
@primonatura@mstdn.social"France’s top court strikes down pesticide clause in farming law"
#France #Pesticides
ht…
@stevefoerster@social.fossdle.orgIt's not hyperbole to say that what we in the Fediverse are doing to build decentralized social media is important for the future of liberal democracy.
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/05/take-back-our-digital-infrastructure-to-save-democracy/
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialHow the US democracy is designed to avoid representation
Right now in the US, a system which proclaims to give each citizen representation, my interests are not represented very well by most of my so-called representatives at any level of government. This is true for a majority of Americans across the political spectrum, and it happens by design. The "founding fathers" were explicit about wanting a system of government that would appear Democratic but which would keep power in the hands of rich white landowners, and they successfully designed exactly that. But how does disenfranchisement work in this system?
First, a two-party system locked in by first-post-the-post winner-takes-all elections immediately destroys representation for everyone who didn't vote for the winner, including those who didn't vote or weren't eligible to vote. Single-day non-holiday elections and prisoner disenfranchisement go a long way towards ensuring working-class people get no say, but much larger is the winner-takes all system. In fact, even people who vote for the winning candidate don't get effective representation if they're really just voting against the opponent as the greater of two evils. In a 51/49 election with 50% turnout, you've immediately ensured that ~75% of eligible voters don't get represented, and with lesser-of-two-evils voting, you create an even wider gap to wedge corporate interests into. Politicians need money to saturate their lesser-of-two-evils message far more than they need to convince any individual voter to support their policies. It's even okay if they get caught lying, cheating, or worse (cough Epstein cough) as long as the other side is also doing those things and you can freeze out new parties.
Second, by design the Senate ensures uneven representation, allowing control of the least-populous half of states to control or at least shut down the legislative process. A rough count suggests 284.6 million live in the 25 most-populous states, while only 54.8 million live in the rest. Currently, counting states with divided representation as two half-states with half as much population, 157.8 million people are represented by 53 Republican sensors, while 180.5 million people get only 45 seats of Democratic representation. This isn't an anti-Democrat bias, it's a bias towards less-populous states, whose residents get more than their share it political power.
I haven't even talked about gerrymandering yet, or family/faith-based "party loyalty," etc. Overall, the effect is that the number of people whose elected representatives meaningfully represent their interests on any given issue is vanishingly small (like, 10% of people tops), unless you happen to be rich enough to purchase lobbying power or direct access.
If we look at polls, we can see how lack of representation lets congress & the president enact many policies that go against what a majority of the population wants. Things like abortion restrictions, the current ICE raids, and Medicare cuts are deeply unpopular, but they benefit the political class and those who can buy access. These are possible because the system ensures at every step of the way that ordinary people do NOT get the one thing the system promises them: representation in the halls of power.
Okay, but is this a feature of all democracies, inherent in the nature of a majority-decides system? Not exactly...
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#uspol #democracy
@ingo@social.stuetzle.ccAt the moment I often have to think of Eley's book, that it was not the bourgeoisie that realized what is currently held up as abstract principles, but a left that had to organize itself against the impositions of capitalist society.
https://archive.org/details/forgingdem…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaDo you enjoy working? Sure, as long as the shop floor runs on real democracy and it’s the workers themselves making the calls through good old-fashioned worker self-management, without bosses or rigid hierarchies.
#RevolutionarySyndicalism #Syndicalism
@PaulWermer@sfba.social @paulwermer@sfba.social @jpanzer@mastodon.socialThis is a great summary of the Democracy Parade and Fair in Palo Alto this past weekend.
https://youtu.be/sZ5s1b7NYsw?si=kmTu_GCG_NAWhdji
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialArticle well worth reading
https://euobserver.com/EU & the World/ar0ec480cc
It's funny how all the countries touted as "Christian" and "civilised" feature powerful, hierarchical (and illegal) mafias.
Mafias are the epitome …
@roelgrif@mstdn.socialMaybe Musk saw how easily democracy can be destroyed in a federation of 50 states?
@thijs_lucas@norden.socialDer Thread von @… über die Zerstörung des US-Amerikanischen Rechtsstaats.
Vorbereitet wurde das mit einer gezielten Besetzung des US-Verfassungsgerichts mit Trumps Handlangern in seiner ersten Amtszeit.
Ein Spiel das CDU und CSU derzeit auch spielen: sie versuchen die Besetzung des deutschen Verfassungsgerichts mit Richter*innen, die nicht auf Partei- son…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnalysis of 1.76M Community Notes received by X from January 2021 to March 2025: 90% of submitted notes are never published, with many notes "stuck in limbo" (DDIA)
https://ddia.org/en/a-deep-dive-into-xs-community-notes-report
@markhburton@mstdn.social"Appointed by Starmer as his undersecretary of state for homelessness and democracy she could have been a trailblazer for reform in the housing sector. She could have championed the return of sold-off council houses to the public sector. She might have persuaded the Cabinet to introduce rent controls to drive private-sector rents down to affordable levels."
The Rushanara Ali case is a spotlight on a broken housing sector | Morning Star
@drgeraint@glasgow.socialPatrick Harvie added: "There is no way that Donald Trump should be welcomed to Scotland. He is a convicted felon and political extremist who has shown a complete lack of respect for human rights and democracy in America and around the world."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm20xv
@stefan@gardenstate.socialI had not heard of multimember districts before, as an idea.
How to Rebuild American Democracy in 20 Minutes by PoliticalZane
#uspol
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialLet's conclude the "checks&balances" of US democracy are truly gone, nobody can or will stop Trump in militarizing Washington DC. The rest of the world is watching the fascist dictator Trump in action.
Apparently city government is no longer relevant or in charge...Democrats in Congress don't lift a finger, they should walk out and obstruct everything in government they can....
#trump
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsThe best proof of how the modern #democracy works is how often people support initiatives going against their own interest. In particular, whenever they vote for politicians that openly claim that these people should not have the right to vote.
#politics
@servelan@newsie.socialGOV GAVIN NEWSOM: Our democracy is threatened by Donald Trump | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/gov-gavin-newsom-trump-trying-destroy-democracy-him
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaDemocracy is the worst form of government except all those other
forms that have been tried from time to time.
-- Winston Churchill
@fremandolasse@mastodon.social"‘I don’t expect to live a normal life’: how a Leeds teenager woke up with a Chinese bounty on her head"
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/aug/11/leeds-teenager-china-chloe-cheung-democracy-p…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialSpeculative politics
As an anarchist (okay, maybe not in practice), I'm tired of hearing why we have to suffer X and Y indignity to "preserve the rule of law" or "maintain Democratic norms." So here's an example of what representative democracy (a form of government that I believe is inherently flawed) could look like if its proponents had even an ounce of imagination, and/or weren't actively trying to rig it to favor a rich donor class:
1. Unicameral legislature, where representatives pass laws directly. Each state elects 3 statewide representatives: the three most-popular candidates in a statewide race where each person votes for one candidate (ranked preference voting would be even better but might not be necessary, and is not a solution by itself). Instead of each representative getting one vote in the chamber, they get N votes, where N is the number of people who voted for them. This means that in a close race, instead of the winner getting all the power, the power is split. Having 3 representatives trades off between leisure size and ensuring that two parties can't dominate together.
2. Any individual citizen can contact their local election office to switch or withdraw their vote at any time (maybe with a 3-day delay or something). Voting power of representatives can thus shift even without an election. They are limited to choosing one of the three elected representatives, or "none of the above." If the "none of the above" fraction exceeds 20% of eligible voters, a new election is triggered for that state. If turnout is less than 80%, a second election happens immediately, with results being final even at lower turnout until 6 months later (some better mechanism for turnout management might be needed).
3. All elections allow mail-in ballots, and in-person voting happens Sunday-Tuesday with the Monday being a mandatory holiday. (Yes, election integrity is not better in this system and that's a big weakness.)
4. Separate nationwide elections elect three positions for head-of-state: one with diplomatic/administrative powers, another with military powers, and a third with veto power. For each position, the top three candidates serve together, with only the first-place winner having actual power until vote switches or withdrawals change who that is. Once one of these heads loses their first-place status, they cannot get it again until another election, even if voters switch preferences back (to avoid dithering). An election for one of these positions is triggered when 20% have withdrawn their votes, or if all three people initially elected have been disqualified by losing their lead in the vote count.
5. Laws that involve spending money are packaged with specific taxes to pay for them, and may only be paid for by those specific revenues. Each tax may be opted into or out of by each taxpayer; where possible opting out of the tax also opts you out of the service. (I'm well aware of a lot of the drawbacks of this, but also feel like they'd not necessarily be worse than the drawbacks of our current system.) A small mandatory tax would cover election expenses.
6. I'm running out of attention, but similar multi-winner elections could elect panels of judges from which a subset is chosen randomly to preside in each case.
Now I'll point out once again that this system, in not directly confronting capitalism, racism, patriarchy, etc., is probably doomed to the same failures as our current system. But if you profess to want a "representative democracy" as opposed to something more libratory, I hope you'll at least advocate for something like this that actually includes meaningful representation as opposed to the current US system that's engineered to quash it.
Key questions: "Why should we have winner-take-all elections when winners-take-proportionately-to-votes is right there?" and "Why should elected officials get to ignore their constituents' approval except during elections, when vote-withdrawal or -switching is possible?"
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#Democracy
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialFrom The Guardian at 15.22 EDT
"Lauren Gambino
Border patrol has showed up outside Gavin Newsom’s event at the democracy center in Los Angeles.
Local news reported that at least one man was arrested, as the governor vowed on X that Democrats would “not be intimidated”.
Inside, speakers referenced the enforcement activity. Ann Burroughs, president of the Japanese American National Museum, said the center was built on the site because it was where, in 1942, Japanes…
@Europablog@mastodon.socialDie Welt kehrt zu den Gesetzen des Dschungels zurück. Essay von Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer.
https://europa.blog/de/die-welt-kehrt-zu-den-gesetzen-des-dschungels-zurueck/
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaIf there’s one thing I keep coming back to, it’s this: I truly believe work could be so much more rewarding if we collectively tore down the rigid hierarchies and completely did away with bosses. In their place, we’d practice genuine worker self-management. Every decision that shapes our daily lives would be made directly by us, the workers on the shop floor.
With direct democracy at the core, and our union standing not just beside us but as a true expression of our collective will, th…
@islamoyankee@mastodon.socialEvent: Religion and Democratic Ideals: Reproductive Healthcare Access and White Nationalism
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2024, 6 – 7:30PM This event is free and open to the public. A liberal democracy should produce societies that are inclusive, equitable, dynamic, and responsive to the needs of citizens. This series will focus on where religion intersects with democratic ideals and institutions. We will discuss the outcomes we want from a democratic system and how such an…
@scott@social.linux.pizza"As anyone who travels abroad can testify, American racial categories are deeply strange to outsiders and straight-up nonsensical for someone like Mamdani."
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-07-09-what-we-learned-from-new-york-times…
@rmdes@mstdn.social
@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social"Pendant des décennies, beaucoup Š gauche ont renoncé Š parler de planification économique en raison de son association avec la bureaucratie soviétique. Mais la crise climatique et la réalité de l'intervention massive de l'État dans les économies capitalistes ont rendu la planification démocratique incontournable."
@trezzer@social.linux.pizzaAnother shot across the bow against freedom and fairness in the US: https://www.theverge.com/news/713587/paramount-skydance-merger-approved-fcc-speech-dei-bias
@erk709@social.linux.pizza
@cdarwin@c.imIf by American democracy we mean a pluralistic, multiracial society of political and social equals, then American democracy as we know it began with the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 60 years ago today.
Under the current Supreme Court’s vision of a rigidly colorblind Constitution
— indifferent to either racial inequality or the mechanisms of color caste
— the Voting Rights Act is very likely toast.
There is also the matter of Chief Justice John Roberts, wh…
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialWe lost.
We lost because this is what our elected Representatives & Senators voted for.
We lost because we voted for this #Congress.
We said forget morality & democracy. We like dictatorship & Authoritarianism.
This is who we are now. This is our failure.
We'll see who we vote for 2026.
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social«The whole thing is a mess and yet another embarrassment for the UK. And they were all warned about it, while insisting these concerns were exaggerations. But this isn’t just about the UK—it’s a cautionary tale for every democracy grappling with how to regulate the internet»
Go UK, "yet another embarrassment" is just too fitting 😅
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/04/didnt-take-long-to-reveal-the-uks-online-safety-act-is-exactly-the-privacy-crushing-failure-everyone-warned-about/
@UP8@mastodon.social⚖️ Inequality, pollution, and democracy levels shape how quickly populations age: Study
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07-inequality-pollution-democracy-quickly-populations.html
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social
@lapizistik@social.tchncs.deA democracy is – how Pratchett puts it in Small Gods – a system where everyone distrusts the government, so everyone is somehow (un-)happy about it. And this is how it is meant to be and where checks and balances comes in.
And now there is a Trump administration where a alarming number of people just trust everything done by them regardless of what it is.¹ If we needed another sign² of Trumpism being far from being democratic: here it is.
I really hope people in Germany continue …
@davidaugust@mastodon.online“…across social media, extraordinary scenes keep surfacing - unarmed men & women staring down heavily armed masked men. People getting out of their cars or running out of restaurants to confront ICE agents.
…not lone individuals who suddenly snap. This is grassroots non-violent resistance. When the rule of law has failed in the courts and in democracy, ordinary people have stepped up to defend their neighbours.”
@darkrat@chaosfurs.socialAnyone else planning for some Helldivers related fursuit upgrades for #eurofurence ?
Let's make some Felldivers photoshoots. For Democracy
@juer@juergenklute@digitalcourage.socialDie Welt kehrt zu den Gesetzen des Dschungels zurück. Essay von Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer.
https://europa.blog/de/die-welt-kehrt-zu-den-gesetzen-des-dschungels-zurueck/
@shoppingtonz@mastodon.socialLike put Wikibase in the fediverse already, come on!
What?
Are you waiting for the downfall of democracy first?
GET ON IT!
#fediverse #Wikibase #GetOnIt
@jpanzer@mastodon.socialNo Kings Day next weekend!
Two events in Palo Alto -- We the People Parade at 2, Democracy Fair at 3.
indivisiblepaloaltoplus.org/no-kings-day
& https://bsky.app/profile/indivisiblepaplus.bsky.social
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaI'm #ActuallyAutistic, and I want to see a worker-controlled community where the labor process isn’t dictated by rigid hierarchies or managers running some Taylorist algorithm. Imagine abolishing those antiquated top-down structures and running things through federated councils, real participatory democracy, not just a suggestion box theater.
My ideal workday would be one w…
@tml@urbanists.social
@memeorandum@universeodon.comStop Looking for Red Lines. You no Longer Live in a Full Democracy (Ryan Enos/Social Notes)
https://ryandenos.substack.com/p/stop-looking-for-red-lines-you-no
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p136#a250613p136
@gfriend@mas.toWe're live in 60 minutes. And yes, we still have room for you.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gfriend_next-wednesday-tactics-s…
@rberger@hachyderm.ioAmerican Democracy Might Not Survive a War With Iran
The United States is well down the road to dictatorship. Imagine what Trump would do with a state of war.
#GiftArticle #USPolitics
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/06/democracy-iran-israel-war-trump/683269/?gift=E9o0y7Rlfcfv2OQ1sSVCEglNGkNaOm3ulZvY2L-kUho&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
@bryanculbertson@mastodon.socialWe are a country of immigrants of course we fly flags from all around the world here!
Multicultural democracy is fucking rad ✊
@jonippolito@digipres.clubAnthropic CEO Dario Amodei saying the quiet part out loud in a CNN interview about impending job losses due to AI:
"There's an inherent social contract in democracy where ultimately the ordinary person has a certain amount of leverage because they're contributing to the economy.
"If that leverage goes away, then it's harder to make democracies work, and it's harder to prevent concentration of power."
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialUnless you want Trump & MAGA to continue their onslaught of Democracy, the Senate must flip Blue in 2026.
Donate below:
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/senateblue26?refcode=masto
@jpanzer@mastodon.socialPalo Alro. July 17. Good Trouble Lives On.
@servelan@newsie.social"Justice Jackson on writing dissents: "I'm not afraid to use my voice""
Justice Jackson says state of US democracy keeps her up at night
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/11/justice-ketanji-brown-jackson-democracy-dissents
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialBy-the-way, it is clear that we are experiencing the end of Democracy and rise of Dictatorship in the US.
We have long observed the rise of large corporations as a class of privileged nobility.
And now we are watching the onset of governance by artificial "intelligence".
Perhaps we will resume democracy, but unless we change our ground rules - such as our Constitution - the power of corporations and, now, AI's will remain a serious problem.
So I will men…
@rmdes@mstdn.socialTwo Parasites and a Corpse: Trump, Musk, and the Maggot Feud Inside America's Rotting Democracy: https://blog.rmendes.net/2025/06/06/two-parasites-and-a-corpse.html
@markhburton@mstdn.social"They misguidedly thought disabled people would again be an easy target, but this time they totally miscalculated the deep-seated adherence of Labour members to the principle and tradition of standing up for the poorest in our society."
Poorly led, strategically inept and shorn of democracy. Now I truly fear for this Labour government | John McDonnell | The Guardian
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaBasically, someone I know in real life, is blatantly pretending and lying, attempting to trick my mind into believing that anarcho-syndicalism is the same thing as authoritarianism. The absurdity of this conflation is laughable.
Anarcho-syndicalism fundamentally opposes authoritarian structures by advocating for decentralized, worker-controlled organizations and direct democracy, whereas authoritarianism centers on concentrated, top-down control and coercive power.
The attempt to…
@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social"Pendant des décennies, beaucoup Š gauche ont renoncé Š parler de planification économique en raison de son association avec la bureaucratie soviétique. Mais la crise climatique et la réalité de l'intervention massive de l'État dans les économies capitalistes ont rendu la planification démocratique incontournable."
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social @servelan@newsie.socialMotion to dismiss DENIED
Court Cases - New Hampshire Citizenship Requirement Challenge - Democracy Docket
https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/new-hampshire-citizenship-requirement-challenge/
@erk709@social.linux.pizzaThe #US got #democracy wrong. It's not one vote per dollar, it's one vote per person.
http://talkwards.c…
@servelan@newsie.social🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 **Illinois Judge Rules Against Arresting Quorum-Breaking Texas Lawmakers** - Democracy Docket
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/illinois-judge-rules-against-arresting-quorum-breaking-texas-lawmakers/
@cdarwin@c.im"The immigration detention system has become a testing ground for authoritarianism." - @silkys13.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/democracynow.org/post/3lqpltpcg522i
@servelan@newsie.socialDHS Said to Brief Cleta Mitchell's Group on Citizenship Checks for Voting - Democracy Docket
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/dhs-said-to-brief-cleta-mitchells-anti-voting-group-on-checking-citizenship-for-voters/
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social @servelan@newsie.social#GiftLink
Newsom Says Trump Is Destroying U.S. Democracy in Speech on L.A. Protests - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/us/newsom-speech-trump-la-protests.html?unlocked_article_code=1.OE8.NjQu.DDVE62i_gRXe&smid=url-share
@cdarwin@c.im @servelan@newsie.socialBREAKING: Democracy Forward Sues DOJ and FBI to Enforce FOIA Compliance Over Withheld Records Relating to Epstein
https://michaelpopok.substack.com/p/breaking-democracy-forward-sues-doj
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaTrump is a fascist scumbag whose regime, backed by a complicit Roberts Court, is dismantling democracy, enforcing ethnic cleansing, and crowning himself dictator while trampling the Constitution and human rights.
https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/07/01
@servelan@newsie.social"The question of whether we’re in a constitutional crisis or whether authoritarianism has arrived is kind of an academic one. It’s either here or it’s going to be here very soon. **We’re still short of them openly defying a supreme court ruling or intentionally deporting US citizens or attempting to shut down a news media operation. But we’re not very far short.**"
Trump promised to be a dictator on day one. We’re now past day 200 | Donald Trump | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/10/donald-trump-authoritarian-democracy
@servelan@newsie.socialJudge Denies California’s Request for Immediate Block on Trump’s Use of Military in Los Angeles - Democracy Docket
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/newsom-emergency-block-court-trump-military-los-angeles/
@cdarwin@c.im31 Days of Action – All August!
Funding cuts. Banned words. Fired public servants.
Trump & his cronies are dismantling America’s greatest experiment - our democracy - & with it, science.
Between now & Sept 30th we decide: Are we a democracy… or an oligarchy?
https://
@servelan@newsie.socialTrump’s Stunning Streak of Losses in Lower Courts - Democracy Docket
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-lower-court-streak-legal-losses/
@servelan@newsie.socialUNDERNEWS: Why Cultural Decline in the U.S. Is a Threat to Democracy
https://prorevnews.blogspot.com/2025/06/why-cultural-decline-in-us-is-threat-to.html
@servelan@newsie.socialTop GOP Map-Drawer and Right-Wing Law Firm Team Up to Target Texas Minority Voters - Democracy Docket
https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/top-gop-map-drawer-and-right-wing-law-firm-team-up-to-target-minority-voters-in-texas/
@servelan@newsie.socialSenator Ron Wyden: "Paramount just paid Trump a bribe for merger approval. When Democrats retake power, I’ll be first in line calling for federal charges. In the meantime, state prosecutors should make the corporate execs who sold out our democracy answer in court, today." — Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/wyden.senate.gov/post/3lsyea6d6hc2t
@servelan@newsie.socialYes, well, your son and Trump at Deutsche Bank. And that sudden retirement that ushered in Kavanaugh.
'Democracy Is At Risk': Retired SCOTUS Justice Anthony Kennedy Expresses Grave Concerns Over 'Tone Of Our Political Discourse' - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/06/democracy-is-at-risk-retired-scotus-justice-anthony-kennedy-expresses-grave-concerns-over-tone-of-our-political-discourse/
