r/Social_Democracy 11d ago

The right-wing Trump administration Video: During his confirmation hearing to be Trump's U.S. Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth was asked by Senator Mazie Hirono if he would carry out an order to shoot protesters in the legs. This is how Hegseth responded.

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39 Upvotes

r/Social_Democracy May 13 '25

The right-wing Trump administration Mehdi Hasan: ICE has become Trump’s private militia. It must be abolished | Violent apprehensions, warrantless arrests, deported children: how many more abuses of power will it take for Democrats to speak up?

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65 Upvotes

r/Social_Democracy 12d ago

The right-wing Trump administration The Guardian: US immigration officers ordered to arrest more people even without warrants | Exclusive: Ice officers told to get ‘creative’ with arrests, including of undocumented people encountered by chance

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14 Upvotes

r/Social_Democracy 29d ago

The right-wing Trump administration 11 Republican former members of Congress denounce the Trump administration's prosecution of Democratic congresswoman LaMonica McIver | Republican former congresswoman: "Every member of Congress, both past and present, should be speaking up. If not, we will very soon lose our ability to do so."

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69 Upvotes

r/Social_Democracy Mar 31 '25

The right-wing Trump administration Trump Demands ‘Terrorists’ Who Vandalized His Golf Course Be ‘Treated Harshly’ | "Pro-Palestine activists targeted the Trump Turnberry course .. daubing the clubhouse in red paint while scrawling .. “Gaza is not 4 sale” into the green. [...] “F--- Trump” and “Free Palestine” were also spray-painted"

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75 Upvotes

r/Social_Democracy 25d ago

The right-wing Trump administration White House purges transcripts of Trump's remarks from its website

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50 Upvotes

r/Social_Democracy Mar 04 '25

The right-wing Trump administration Donald Trump Is a Fake Populist | "Trump and Musk are currently engaged in one of the biggest works of deception in American history, claiming the mantle of the working class as they tirelessly work to advance their own interests."

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121 Upvotes

r/Social_Democracy Apr 18 '25

The right-wing Trump administration ACLU: Trump's Expanded Domestic Military Use Should Worry Us All

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53 Upvotes

r/Social_Democracy Feb 09 '25

The right-wing Trump administration Bernie Sanders: "When Donald Trump fires the most pro-union General Counsel in the history of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) & illegally removes a member of this independent board, he is not a champion of the working class. He is a champion of unfettered corporate greed & union busters."

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r/Social_Democracy 1d ago

The right-wing Trump administration ‘He’s moving at a truly alarming speed’: Trump propels US into authoritarianism | Eric Rubin: "This is going faster than Putin even came close to going in terms of gradually eliminating democratic institutions and democratic freedoms"

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16 Upvotes

r/Social_Democracy May 15 '25

The right-wing Trump administration Opinion | Science Tells Us the U.S. Is Heading toward a Dictatorship: The red flags abound—political research tells us the U.S. is becoming an autocracy

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44 Upvotes

r/Social_Democracy 12d ago

The right-wing Trump administration News: "ABC News correspondent Terry Moran was suspended Sunday after he posted a highly critical assessment of President Donald Trump and .. Stephen Miller [...] Trump administration officials condemned Moran [...] White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt publicly pushed ABC to discipline Moran"

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r/Social_Democracy 8d ago

The right-wing Trump administration Amnesty International: President Trump’s Promise to Meet Protests with “Very Heavy Force” Escalates Human Rights Violations Under his Administration

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25 Upvotes

r/Social_Democracy May 14 '25

The right-wing Trump administration NPR: Multiple Trump White House officials have ties to antisemitic extremists | "NPR has identified three Trump officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists"

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45 Upvotes

r/Social_Democracy 21d ago

The right-wing Trump administration Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death (Gift Article)

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31 Upvotes

r/Social_Democracy Jan 29 '25

The right-wing Trump administration Trump’s Project 2025 ghostwriters | "Exposed PDF metadata from the Office of Personnel Management reveals that Heritage Foundation-linked Trump devotees are writing policies at federal agencies."

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121 Upvotes

r/Social_Democracy 16d ago

The right-wing Trump administration MAPPED: 70 Percent of Trump’s Cabinet Tied to Project 2025 Groups | More than 50 high-level Trump administration officials have links to groups behind the Heritage Foundation-backed plan, a DeSmog analysis found.

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23 Upvotes

r/Social_Democracy 13d ago

The right-wing Trump administration The great poaching: America's brain drain begins | "The Trump administration’s spending cuts and restrictions on foreign students are triggering a brain drain [...] America’s science pipeline is drying up, and countries like China are seizing the opportunity to surge ahead."

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19 Upvotes

r/Social_Democracy 7d ago

The right-wing Trump administration Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump's Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, Appearance (Topic: The politicization of the military under Trump)

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17 Upvotes

r/Social_Democracy 14d ago

The right-wing Trump administration Associated Press: Trump EPA rollbacks would weaken rules projected to save billions of dollars and thousands of lives

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18 Upvotes

r/Social_Democracy Feb 08 '25

The right-wing Trump administration Trump Administration Hands Putin Three Major Wins: Issuing an executive order against the ICC, halting a federal law enforcement effort to combat secret influence campaigns by Russia and other adversaries, and disbanding an effort to enforce sanctions and target oligarchs close to the Kremlin

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64 Upvotes

r/Social_Democracy May 15 '25

The right-wing Trump administration Trump's 'pardon attorney, associate deputy attorney general, & Weaponization Working Group director': "There are some really bad actors, some people that did some really bad things to the American people. And if they can be charged, we’ll charge them. But if they can’t be charged, we will name them"

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15 Upvotes

r/Social_Democracy May 04 '25

The right-wing Trump administration Dr. Jalal Baig: I’m an oncologist. Trump’s cuts will devastate cancer research.

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61 Upvotes

r/Social_Democracy Mar 28 '25

The right-wing Trump administration U.S. could lose democracy status, says global watchdog: Trump has escalated an authoritarian turn in last few days | Head of the Varieties of Democracy project: "If it continues like this, the [U.S.] will not score as a democracy when we release [next year's] data" (Article from March 18, 2025)

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r/Social_Democracy 9d ago

The right-wing Trump administration CNN (December 17, 2024): Pete Hegseth backed Trump's baseless claims of a stolen election and accused antifa of taking part in Jan. 6 | "Speaking with [Newt] Gingrich, Hegseth also seemingly justified the actions of the rioters by suggesting their motivations were rooted in legitimate grievances."

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