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Nonilex

The #Trump admin Wednesday asked #SCOTUS to allow the president to remove a pair of #independent #regulators whose cases have broad implications for at least two dozen other agencies, including the #FederalReserve Board, & for how the federal govt operates.

Trump has moved aggressively to seize greater control of the bureaucracy, ousting independent #watchdogs & removing the two #Democrats on the #FTC, which protects #consumers from deceptive practices & monopoly #power.

#ActivistCourt
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John :au: :hb:

As #Trump accelerates his #authoritarianism, #USPol could lose #democracy status, says global watchdog.

It refers to ongoing events in the U.S. as unprecedented, mentioning Trump #pardoning 1,500 #criminals who supported him; #firing independent agency #watchdogs without process; #purging apolitical #police and #military brass; #ignoring #laws; and his unilaterally deleting federal programs, and even a whole organization, created by U.S. Congress

#auspol #RussianAsset

cbc.ca/news/world/trump-democr

CBCANALYSIS | U.S. could lose democracy status, says global watchdog | CBC NewsPossibly defying a court order. Urging his Justice Department to prosecute nemeses. Repeatedly calling the media 'illegal.' Declaring a predecessor's pardon null and void. U.S. President Donald Trump has done these things in the past few days.
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Nonilex

#Trump’s attempt to fire Dellinger is part of his broader push to remove government #watchdogs who investigate wrongdoing & protect #FederalWorkers. Trump also has tried to fire the head of the Merit Systems Protection Board [#MSPB], an #independent agency that hears appeals of terminations & other adverse actions against #CivilServants. A federal judge reinstated her temporarily. Dellinger’s office refers certain cases to the merit board, which issues its own decisions.

#law#authoritarianism
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Nonilex

Government #watchdogs w/ jurisdiction over the #State Dept & #Pentagon are preparing to publish the results of multiple investigations scrutinizing the #Biden admin’s provision of #US weapons to #Israel for its #military campaign in #Gaza, & “several” related inquiries are either underway or planned.

#law #HumanRights #humanitarian #geopolitics
washingtonpost.com/national-se

The Washington Post · Internal investigations of Biden’s arms transfers to Israel near completionBy John Hudson
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@GrapheneOS @thomas @wonka OFC #Google abuses it to enforce their #monopoly and choke alternative ROMs to death with this anti-feature #DRM.

  • Granted @EUCommission & other #Watchdogs propably neither understand nor care about the seriousness of this issue...

It's obvious #GrapheneOS' devs rather refuse to support hardware than to do concessions in terms of #Security...

As @uint8_t said: it's #SecurityTheater and has nothing to do woth either #security nor #integrity!

chaos.socialZ̈oé (@uint8_t@chaos.social)@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social @kkarhan@infosec.space play integrity api is security theater pure and simple it’s almost funny how it flags GrapheneOS as insecure while it can easily be bypassed with Magisk 🫢
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Chuck Darwin

Republicans who control the Wisconsin state Senate 💥fired eight more of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ appointees 💥Tuesday, including two Universities of Wisconsin #regents who voted against a deal that limited campus #diversity and four judicial #watchdogs who wouldn’t commit to punishing liberal state Supreme Court Justice Janet #Protasiewicz.
The Senate also fired a member of the governor’s #domestic #abuse #council after Republicans accused the body of violating open records laws and taking what the GOP considered a stance against #white people, as well as a member of the deferred compensation board, which administers a state retirement program.
The Senate has now fired 21 Evers appointees since the governor took office in 2019.
The governor said in a statement Tuesday that he was “apoplectic” that Republican senators keep firing his appointees for no good reason.

apnews.com/article/senate-repu

AP News · Wisconsin Republicans fire 8 more Evers appointees, including regents and judicial watchdogsBy TODD RICHMOND
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DoomsdaysCW

#SLAPPs In Europe: How The #EU Can Protect Watchdogs From #AbusiveLawsuits

In their new policy paper, #Liberties and other rights and #pressfreedom groups explain why abusive lawsuits (SLAPPs) against watchdogs and journalists threaten #democracies in Europe and what governments and the EU should do tackle it.

by Linda Ravo
January 13, 2022

"The European Commission is set to shortly unveil its proposal for EU-wide measures against SLAPPs. In a new policy paper published today, Liberties and other rights and press freedom groups which form the Coalition Against SLAPPs in Europe (#CASE), explain what SLAPPs are, how big of a threat they are to watchdogs in Europe, and propose what governments and the EU should do tackle the problem.

Censorship by litigation

"Citizens are supposed to be in charge of their democracies. #Watchdogs like #journalists, #rights #defenders and #activist groups are key to enable citizens to get informed, shape their opinions, and keep an eye on people in power to make sure they do what is best for all of us.

"As we explain here, SLAPPs (an acronym which stands for 'strategic lawsuit against public participation'), are a form of abuse of law and justice that #corrupt politicians and powerful #businesses across Europe increasingly make use of to #harass, #bankrupt and intimidate #journalists, activists and other watchdogs into silence. Helped by expensive and unscrupulous law firms, they sue them on grounds of meritless and abusive claims with the purpose of shutting down acts of public participation, including public interest journalism, #PeacefulProtest or #boycotts, #advocacy, #whistleblowing, or simply speaking out against abuse of power."

liberties.eu/en/stories/slapp-

Liberties.eu​SLAPPs In Europe: How The EU Can Protect Watchdogs From Abusive LawsuitsIn their new policy paper, Liberties and other rights and press freedom groups explain why abusive lawsuits (SLAPPs) against watchdogs and journalists threaten democracies in Europe and what governments and the EU should do tackle it.
#DigitalFreeSpeech#DirectAction#Fascism
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The Video Game Library 📚

Over the past year, Aconyte Books has been one of the most viewed publishers in the entire library📚

It's easy to see why! These are fantastic expansions to @ubisoft universes!

Check them out here 👇
thevideogamelibrary.org/blog/h

#AssassinsCreed #SplinterCell #TomClancy #TheDivision #WatchDogs #WatchDogsLegion #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #VideoGames #VideoGame #Gaming #Gamer #FPS #Ubisoft #Valhalla #Xbox #PlayStation

A collection of 16 books from Aconyte Books in the library, all based off of Ubisoft properties.
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Jennifer Ebeling

...The #Gray #Geese & the #White #Pilgrim #Ganders #Gathered silently.

During #Winter... they #Sleep in the #Tool #Shed & think of new expressions of scorn:
"We are #Watchdogs, we Geese. We saved #Rome."

That #Peaceful #Morning they walked on the #Snow & were #Still.

They looked #Thoughtful as if contemplating ...#Peace.

If... Peace ever #Befell the Whole #World...
Nobody would be able to #Believe it, or, perhaps, #Survive it.

- Rachel Peden, #Naturalist & Writer, The #Land, The #People

Canadian Goose sits on the snow with light snow coming down.
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