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NonilexTrump’s war on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/facts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#facts</a> reached new heights on Friday when he angrily fired the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Labor</a> Dept official in charge of compiling <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/statistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#statistics</a> on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/employment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#employment</a> in America because he did not like the latest <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/jobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#jobs</a> report showing that the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#economy</a> isn’t doing as well as he claims it is. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> declared that her numbers were “phony.” His proof? It was “my opinion.” And the story he told supposedly proving she was politically biased? It had no basis in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/fact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fact</a> itself.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#democracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#autocracy</a>

NonilexTrump’s Efforts to Control <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Information" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Information</a> Echo an <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Authoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Authoritarian</a> PlaybookIn firing the head of the agency that collects <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/employment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#employment</a> statistics, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> underscored his tendency to suppress <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/facts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#facts</a> he doesn’t like & promote his own version of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/reality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reality</a>.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#democracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#censorship</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#propaganda</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dictatorship</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#autocracy</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/us/politics/trump-bls-jobs-facts.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/us/politics/trump-bls-jobs-facts.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare</a>

Erik L. Midtsveen 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈I’ll have you know, I called it first, “Social norms” are just softcore authoritarianism in a fancy hat!<a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/SocialNorms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialNorms</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Anarchism</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Anarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Anarchy</a>

Zhi Zhu 🕸️"The president’s decision to fire Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Labor</a> Statistics, came just hours after her office issued its monthly report showing that job growth in July was just half as much as last year’s average. The bureau also revised downward the estimated job creation of the two previous months.Trump erupted at the news and ordered her dismissed" <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/us/politics/trump-bls-jobs-facts.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/us/politics/trump-bls-jobs-facts.html</a><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Jobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Jobs</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Business</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Press</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#US</a>

Zhi Zhu 🕸️"Trump has never been especially wedded to facts, routinely making up his own numbers, repeating falsehoods... But his efforts since reclaiming the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/WhiteHouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WhiteHouse</a> to make the rest of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#government</a> adopt his versions of the truth have gone further than in his first term and increasingly remind scholars of the way <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/authoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#authoritarian</a> leaders in other countries have sought to control <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/information" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#information</a>." <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/us/politics/trump-bls-jobs-facts.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/us/politics/trump-bls-jobs-facts.html</a><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Lies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lies</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GOP</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Press</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#US</a>

Zhi Zhu 🕸️"Trump’s war on <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/facts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#facts</a> reached new heights on Friday when he angrily fired the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Labor</a> Department official in charge of compiling <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/statistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#statistics</a> on employment in <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#America</a> because he did not like the latest <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/jobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#jobs</a> report showing that the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#economy</a> isn’t doing as well as he claims it is. Trump declared that her numbers were “phony.” His proof? It was “my opinion.”" <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/us/politics/trump-bls-jobs-facts.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/us/politics/trump-bls-jobs-facts.html</a><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GOP</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Economics</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Business</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Press</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/BLS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BLS</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#US</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USA</a>

Kim Perales🚨”Senate Republicans tried to bully Democrats into expediting nominations to fill out positions in their increasingly authoritarian state. They failed.” -Sen MurphyTrump posted on social media: Chuck Schumer can “Go To Hell.”He must know that his time in the WH is coming to a close, soon. <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Senate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Senate</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Corruption</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://apnews.com/article/senate-confirmations-nominations-trump-schumer-thune-905a63d0046319eeb7c266d5e24e70b6" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://apnews.com/article/senate-confirmations-nominations-trump-schumer-thune-905a63d0046319eeb7c266d5e24e70b6</a>

OUR COMMON GROUNDHe who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past" -Orwell<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#authoritarianism</a> regimes depend upon mistrust, lies, and altering the facts. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Trump</a>

William Lindsey :toad:the Catholic church, Southern Baptists, and Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints are all intensely patriarchal, male-dominated religious groups that subordinate women to men.And in each, it turns out, abuse has long been tolerated and covered up. Go figure.<a href="https://toad.social/tags/SexualAbuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SexualAbuse</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/patriarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#patriarchy</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#religion</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Catholic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Catholic</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Mormon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mormon</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/SouthernBaptist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SouthernBaptist</a> /6

William Lindsey :toad:As the commentators go on to point out, Christian religious bodies in which it's now clear there have been shocking levels of abuse of minors and vulnerable people have nothing in common in their doctrines or polities — except for one important thing: <a href="https://toad.social/tags/SexualAbuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SexualAbuse</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/patriarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#patriarchy</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#religion</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Catholic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Catholic</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Mormon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mormon</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/SouthernBaptist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SouthernBaptist</a> /5

William Lindsey :toad:"When we see the homeschooling movement gaining strength, gaining power, isolating children from mandatory reporters, sort of entrapping them in a home environment, that renders them more or less the property of their parents with very little regulation or almost none, that is a system that enables and primes abuse."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/SexualAbuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SexualAbuse</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/patriarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#patriarchy</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#religion</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> /4

William Lindsey :toad:"And what we're seeing across the country where educating kids about what sex is and should be and their own desires and their own boundaries is being so firmly squashed, that is a system that enables abuse."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/SexualAbuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SexualAbuse</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/patriarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#patriarchy</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#religion</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> /3

William Lindsey :toad:Talia Levin responds (I've edited out ums and verbal "fillers:): "When you have a situation in which absolute unquestioning male authority over women and children is the only acceptable model, that is also a model of abuse. When obedience is considered the chief virtue in a child, that's a model of abuse."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/SexualAbuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SexualAbuse</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/patriarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#patriarchy</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#religion</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> /2

William Lindsey :toad:Samantha Hancox-Li and Talia Levin discuss the well-documented link between authoritarian patriarchal religion (and the Republican party) and sexual abuse of minors.As Hancox-Li says, despite the overwhelming evidence for this link between sexual abuse of minors (and women) and authoritarian patriarchal religion (and the Republican party), people shy away from talking about this link. <a href="https://toad.social/tags/SexualAbuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SexualAbuse</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/patriarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#patriarchy</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#religion</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> /1<a href="https://www.liberalcurrents.com/neon-liberalism-37-the-authoritarian-logic-of-child-abuse/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.liberalcurrents.com/neon-liberalism-37-the-authoritarian-logic-of-child-abuse/</a>

Tadonic the Flautulent"Call me naive, but even after the mass pardons, I didn’t expect to see January 6 rioters WORKING IN THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT. Yet here we are. Our tax dollars are paying the salary of Jared Wise, who called for violence against police. He’s now an adviser to Ed Martin (the “no MAGA left behind” guy)!" <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLnNzaosgvo/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLnNzaosgvo/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#news</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/January6th" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#January6th</a>

Dr Susi ArnottWhat is the meaning of 'support'? <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/freespeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#freespeech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Palestine</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/UKLabour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UKLabour</a> <a href="https://archive.ph/srKEf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.ph/srKEf</a>

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Maine</a> rejects <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JusticeDepartment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JusticeDepartment</a>’s request for all <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/voters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#voters</a>’ personal info, list of election officialsSecretary of State <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ShennaBellows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ShennaBellows</a>' responded to the request by telling the DOJ to "go jump in the Gulf of Maine." by Dylan Tusinski, July 29, 2025AUGUSTA — "Maine is denying the U.S. Department of Justice access to its voter registration records, state officials said Tuesday, rejecting an unprecedented request for sensitive voter data that the Trump administration has now delivered to all 50 states."A letter late last week to Secretary of State Shenna Bellows and signed by Deputy Assistant U.S. Attorney General Michael Gates claims Maine had roughly 11,000 voters with duplicate registration. It requested the state’s entire voter registration list dating back to November 2022 'to ensure that ineligible voters are being removed.'"The state has 14 days to respond to the letter dated July 24."Bellows, who is also a Democratic candidate for governor, said in a press conference Tuesday the Trump administration is overstepping its bounds, empowering false narratives and 'trying to change the topic away from the Epstein files.'" 'Article 1 of the Constitution places the states — not President Trump, not the federal government — in charge of federal elections,' she said. 'The DOJ doesn’t get to know everything about you just because they want to.'"Bellows’ office is coordinating with Maine’s Office of Attorney General to draft a formal response, she said. The Maine Republican Party has previously claimed widespread voter fraud across the state, but a subsequent investigation by Bellows’ office concluded this month and found those claims were baseless. Just because someone is registered to vote in two different towns doesn’t mean they intended to vote twice. Often, it simply means that they moved between elections."A spokesman for Maine Senate Republicans declined to comment on the DOJ’s request or Bellows’ response. Other Maine GOP officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment Tuesday."In addition to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VoterRegistration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VoterRegistration</a> information, the DOJ also has requested the names of local election officials as well as information about noncitizens, felons, and deceased people’s alleged participation in Maine elections following President Donald Trump’s repeated false claims that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen from him. " 'Please provide a description of the steps that Maine has taken, and when those steps were taken, to identify registered voters who are ineligible to vote as well as the procedures it used to remove those ineligible voters from the registration list,' the DOJ’s letter reads."The DOJ has not publicly said why they are seeking voter records across the country. Asked about the request to Maine and other states, spokesperson Pierson Furnish replied in an email 'No comment.'"The first Trump administration similarly made requests to view all Americans’ voter information in 2017. Then-Secretary of State Matt Dunlap said at the time he would release voters’ names, ages, residences and districts with the government, as allowed by Maine law. "The American Civil Liberties Union [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACLU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ACLU</a>] of Maine said the DOJ’s actions both now and then are part of 'a clear pattern of intimidation' and applauded Bellows’ refusal to share voters’ information." 'This letter also fuels <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FalseNarratives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FalseNarratives</a> that sow distrust in our elections. Maine elections are safe, secure, and accessible, and that’s why Maine consistently has some of the highest voter turnout,' said Samuel Crankshaw, the group’s communications director. 'Our government should focus on helping more people exercise their fundamental rights.'Maine’s voter turnout is reliably high compared to other states and more Mainers voted in 2024 than in any election before, according to state voting data."The Justice Department initially reached out to swing states like <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Michigan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Michigan</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arizona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Arizona</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wisconsin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Wisconsin</a>, where local election clerks have reported federal agents requesting broad access to the states’ <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RegistrationRolls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RegistrationRolls</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VotingMachines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VotingMachines</a>. Now, Bellows said all 50 states have received similar letters. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Maine</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Minnesota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Minnesota</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewHampshire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NewHampshire</a> are the only states to have rejected the requests so far."Read more: <a href="https://www.pressherald.com/2025/07/29/maine-rejects-justice-departments-request-for-lists-of-all-voters-election-officials/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.pressherald.com/2025/07/29/maine-rejects-justice-departments-request-for-lists-of-all-voters-election-officials/</a>Archived version: <a href="https://archive.md/K91De" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.md/K91De</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/District13" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#District13</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineResists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MaineResists</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MinnesotaResists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MinnesotaResists</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewHampshireResists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NewHampshireResists</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GovernmentOverreach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GovernmentOverreach</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigBrother" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BigBrother</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CharacteristicsOfFascism</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"He's under the delusion that his employees are supposed to lie for him to make him look good at all times.Like the way he uses his caddy to cheat at golf."~ Greg Dworkin<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/dementia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dementia</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/confabulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#confabulation</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/lies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lies</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/numbers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#numbers</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> /6<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/2/2336303/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-No-one-saw-the-jobs-news-and-Trump-reaction-coming-except-everyone" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/2/2336303/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-No-one-saw-the-jobs-news-and-Trump-reaction-coming-except-everyone</a>

William Lindsey :toad:“It’s more evidence he’s not fit to be president."~ John R. Bolton quoted by Zolan Kanno-Youngs, who writes,"When faced with facts and foes that wouldn’t bend to his will, he responded with impatience and disproportionate intensity."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/dementia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dementia</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/confabulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#confabulation</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/lies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lies</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/numbers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#numbers</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> /5<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/us/politics/trump-russia-jobs.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/us/politics/trump-russia-jobs.html</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"In older people, confabulation is one of the clearest early signs of dementia. ...Difficulty with mathematical concepts is another early warning sign of dementia."~ Chris Truax<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/dementia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dementia</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/confabulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#confabulation</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/lies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lies</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/numbers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#numbers</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> /4<a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5429516-trump-confabulation-dementia-signs/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5429516-trump-confabulation-dementia-signs/</a>

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