Since then, #Trump & his advisers have prepared an attack on limits on presidential spending authority. On his campaign site, Trump said he will push #Congress to repeal parts of the 1974 #law restricting the president’s #authority to spend federal $ w/o congressional approval. Trump also said he will unilaterally challenge the law by cutting #funding for certain programs, promising on his 1st day to order every agency to ID “large chunks” of #budgets that would be halted by presidential #edict
That pledge could provoke a dramatic #constitutional showdown, w/vast consequences for how the govt operates. If #Trump returns to office, these efforts are likely to turn typically arcane debates over “#impoundment” #authority — or the president’s right to stop certain spending programs— into a major political flash point, as he seeks to accomplish via #edict what he cannot pass through #Congress.
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I really don't get why some people get so upset that they have to DM me about some of us regularly using hashtags here. In the absence of search, it's the only viable means to organize my own content here, but HTs also help others to discover & filter (ir)relevant posts. They also allow me to share project specific links like these below to non-followers or non-fediverse people:
I've been using hashtags very consciously and usually not an excessive amount. I'm also writing them in CamelCase to be more accessible. Putting a bunch of keywords at the end of my posts shouldn't cause issues to anyone. If their presence really does offend you, please share what (better) alternatives exist...
"When we look at contemporary civil rights movements, we see the #police describe these actions as violent for damaging property or resisting arrest. The injuries suffered by businesses or police are registered and punished as losses, while the loss of life suffered by the Black folks the police murder and the loss of freedom and safety of protestors are treated as not mattering."
By defending the squats, we defend the movement AGAINST THE ROTTEN #WORLD OF #AUTHORITY
From the ashes of Evros, central #Greece and #Rhodes to the mud of the valley.
"The general antagonistic movement and the self-organized spaces build defences against the destruction, the inexistence and the neglectfulness of the state. Solidarity networks are established, and they dive into the fires and floods. Squats and self-organized spaces coordinate, setting up cooking places and organising the fulfilment of needs of the afflicted. #Resistance against barbarity. The state mechanism blames the afflicted while hitting the #squats to disorient. Uprising now and always. While we drown in mud and fight the fires, the state does not waste any opportunity to attack self-organised structures. Self-organisation is the society we desire, of the elimination of oppression and the exploitation of humans on other humans, animals and the environment. Our lives are constantly in danger of being lost in the fires and floods, in the trains and ships, at the borders and by the uniformed murderers and the useless government funded people within our villages and cities."
via @Freedom_Presshttps://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/10/25/by-defending-the-squats-we-defend-the-movement-against-the-rotten-world-of-authority/
The products we build at @scidsg have deep, personal meaning for me. Hush Line, our lightweight, anonymous tip line, is partially inspired by events I'm sharing here.
This story is about abuse of authority and how I came to blow the whistle as a US Marine.
> The '60s and early '70s were a fertile time for #computerscience ideas, reminds Victor, but even more importantly, it was a time of unfettered thinking, unconstrained by programming #dogma, #authority, and #tradition. 'The most dangerous thought that you can have as a #creative person is to think that you know what you're doing,' explains Victor. 'Because once you think you know what you're doing you stop looking around for other ways of doing things and you stop being able to see other ways of doing things. You become blind.' He concludes, 'I think you have to say: "We don't know what programming is. We don't know what computing is. We don't even know what a computer is." And once you truly understand that, and once you truly believe that, then you're free, and you can think anything.'"
I'm an #anarchist 🏴 because #systems of coercive #authority have never been anything more than protection rackets. People with #power have always violently robbed us while claiming that what they steal is payment for protecting us, but they've always been the ones who hurt us the most.
Smadar #Lavie: "The refusal of elite #military reservists to attend to their periodic training […] is conceived as another Ashkenazi privilege. In general, being pro-Palestinian in #israel often requires contacts and funds to pay bail rather than rot in prison in case one is arrested during a solidarity visit to West Bank villages."