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Nonilex<p>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteSupremacist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacist</span></a> gunman who murdered 23 people at an <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElPaso" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElPaso</span></a> Walmart in 2019 believed he was acting on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s orders, his defense lawyers say. "“He thought he had to stop the *invasion* because that’s what his president was telling him."</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StochasticTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StochasticTerrorism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/incitement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>incitement</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ConspiracyTheories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ConspiracyTheories</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpLies</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <br><a href="https://elpasomatters.org/2025/03/30/patrick-crusius-donald-trump-aug-3-2019-walmart-mass-shooting/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">elpasomatters.org/2025/03/30/p</span><span class="invisible">atrick-crusius-donald-trump-aug-3-2019-walmart-mass-shooting/</span></a></p>
Kent Pitman<p>There's a great article up by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sfba.social/@cwarzel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cwarzel</span></a></span> in The Atlantic about The Gleeful Cruelty of the White House X Account. It's a scary but thoughtful analysis of a grim societal trend, focusing specifically on how intensification is implemented via the ex-bird site, lately a cesspool of distilled toxicity from which many still regularly feed.</p><p>ESPECIALLY the part in Warzel's article about ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) made me shudder. The article is worth reading for that part alone.</p><p>(His post at BlueSky, which I've linked below, has what I think may be a gift link.)</p><p><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/cwarzel.bsky.social/post/3llhtsiyzhs2d" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/cwarzel.bsky.</span><span class="invisible">social/post/3llhtsiyzhs2d</span></a></p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/sociopathy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sociopathy</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/evil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evil</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/escalation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>escalation</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/asmr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>asmr</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/radicalizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>radicalizing</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/StochasticTerror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StochasticTerror</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/StochasticTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StochasticTerrorism</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/weaponizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>weaponizing</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a></p>
C.<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>lauren</span></a></span> </p><p>Mango Mussolini's long game of stochastic terrorism really has paid dividends.</p><p>Former Democratic presidents? Absent.</p><p>Retired Democratic senators (and most of the sitting ones...) ? Absent.</p><p>Similar for congresscritters? Absent.</p><p>Seriously, not a peep from Biden, Obama, the Clintons... or from (comparatively) principled Republicans, for that matter.</p><p>The <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/silence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>silence</span></a> is <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/deafening" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deafening</span></a>. We can hear it from Canada.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/MangoMussolini" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MangoMussolini</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/StochasticTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StochasticTerrorism</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> doubling (tripling? quadrupling?…) down on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/illiberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>illiberal</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarian</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StochasticTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StochasticTerrorism</span></a> toward the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/judiciary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>judiciary</span></a> even going after conservative <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> Chief Justice <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JohnRoberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JohnRoberts</span></a> (see pic).</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Boasberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Boasberg</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ConstitutionalCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ConstitutionalCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChecksAndBalances" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChecksAndBalances</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JudicialBranch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JudicialBranch</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Judiciary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Judiciary</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SeparationOfPowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SeparationOfPowers</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseOfPower</span></a></p>
FinchHaven sfba<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://masto.ai/@Nonilex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Nonilex</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/StochasticTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StochasticTerrorism</span></a> </p><p>The assassination of a Federal judge is not too far out ahead of us</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> (or his mouthpieces) will plead <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/PlausibleDeniability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PlausibleDeniability</span></a>, of course, so once again no consequences will accrue to either <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> or <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p><p>This behavior will continue until some sort of physical, real-world consequence is applied to both of these traitors</p>
Nonilex<p>Doubling down on the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/illiberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>illiberal</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StochasticTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StochasticTerrorism</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> continues to broadcast <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/judicial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>judicial</span></a> impeachments all because they have ruled against him &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>.</p><p>BTWs it takes 67 senators to remove a judge w/ <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/impeachment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>impeachment</span></a>, not 60, idiot.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ConstitutionalCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ConstitutionalCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChecksAndBalances" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChecksAndBalances</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JudicialBranch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JudicialBranch</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Judiciary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Judiciary</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SeparationOfPowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SeparationOfPowers</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseOfPower</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> has pulled the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SecretService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SecretService</span></a> details of Hunter &amp; Ashley Biden "effective immediately."</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StochasticTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StochasticTerrorism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StateSponsoredTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StateSponsoredTerrorism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/extremism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>extremism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RevengePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RevengePolitics</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>During his first 6 weeks in power, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> &amp; his appointees have torn down many of the barriers that have long existed between the White House &amp; the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOJ</span></a> to prevent political <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/interference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>interference</span></a> in the impartial application of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>justice</span></a> &amp; ensure the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/independence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>independence</span></a> of federal <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> enforcement agencies.</p><p>But Trump, who was 2X indicted by the DOJ, has long viewed the agency as the center of “deep state” resistance to him.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/projection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>projection</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RevengePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RevengePolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StochasticTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StochasticTerrorism</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>“Unfortunately in recent years, a corrupt group of hacks &amp; radicals within the ranks of the American government obliterated the trust &amp; good will built up over generations,” <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> told an audience made up of supporters &amp; law enforcement ofcls. “They weaponized the vast powers of our intelligence &amp; law enforcement agencies to try &amp; thwart the will of the American people.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/projection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>projection</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>justice</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RevengePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RevengePolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StochasticTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StochasticTerrorism</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>If <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s delivery verged on *free association* [paranoid angry ramblings], his message was unmistakable: Trump intends to bend the vast powers of the federal <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> enforcement establishment to his will — in the pursuit of an *anti-crime* agenda &amp;, perhaps, vengeance.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>justice</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RevengePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RevengePolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StochasticTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StochasticTerrorism</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> also accused the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOJ</span></a>’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a>-era leadership of trying to destroy him, &amp; declared President Joseph R. Biden Jr. the head of a “crime” family.</p><p>“Scum,” Trump called his adversaries — in the same room where Attorney General Robert Jackson delivered a famous 1940 speech urging prosecutors be animated by “fair play” rather than a blind drive to win.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>justice</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RevengePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RevengePolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StochasticTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StochasticTerrorism</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The event, held in the Great Hall of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Justice</span></a> Dept, was billed as a major <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/policy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>policy</span></a> address to reposition <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOJ</span></a> from the purported political “weaponization” of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> era to a renewed focus on crime, punishment &amp; fighting drugs.</p><p>But in an hourlong speech, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> veered from his prepared remarks to launch into a bitter spiel in which he lashed out at lawyers &amp; fmr prosecutors by name in a venue dedicated to the impartial administration of justice.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RevengePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RevengePolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StochasticTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StochasticTerrorism</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> Uses Speech at <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOJ</span></a> to Air Bitter <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Grievances" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Grievances</span></a> Against His Enemies</p><p>Trump veered from his prepared remarks to launch into a bitter spiel in which he lashed out at lawyers &amp; former prosecutors BY NAME in a venue dedicated to the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/impartial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>impartial</span></a> administration of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>justice</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RevengePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RevengePolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StochasticTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StochasticTerrorism</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/us/politics/trump-speech-justice-department.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare&amp;sgrp=p&amp;pvid=72D34028-FDFD-4055-B405-76CB2DC05C6A" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/03/14/us/poli</span><span class="invisible">tics/trump-speech-justice-department.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare&amp;sgrp=p&amp;pvid=72D34028-FDFD-4055-B405-76CB2DC05C6A</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>"A judge's <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a> is dependent in many ways on the Marshals Service who the president appoints to protect the judges, &amp; if a president doesn't like a decision that's coming from a judge, *theoretically* they could pull their security," Rep. Eric Swalwell (S-CA) said at a congressional hearing this month.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> has already yanked protection this year from fmr military &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> ofcls who disagreed w/Trump.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StochasticTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StochasticTerrorism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StateSponsoredTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StateSponsoredTerrorism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DomesticTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DomesticTerrorism</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>"The more that people like <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> are putting on the wall the idea that it's appropriate to attack these judges for nothing more than ruling against the federal government, the more that we're normalizing what really are in the main very serious threats to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JudicialIndependence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JudicialIndependence</span></a>," Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at Georgetown University, said.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StochasticTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StochasticTerrorism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StateSponsoredTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StateSponsoredTerrorism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DomesticTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DomesticTerrorism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PoliticalViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalViolence</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/incitement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>incitement</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/extremism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>extremism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Efforts to undermine the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/judiciary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>judiciary</span></a> come at the same time the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin has moved to fire lawyers inside the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOJ</span></a> &amp; the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Pentagon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pentagon</span></a>, penalize private law firms who represented clients Trump does not like, &amp; to back away from participation in the activities of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ABA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ABA</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StochasticTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StochasticTerrorism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StateSponsoredTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StateSponsoredTerrorism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DomesticTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DomesticTerrorism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PoliticalViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalViolence</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/incitement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>incitement</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/extremism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>extremism</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Congressional <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> close to the president even have proposed <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/impeachment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>impeachment</span></a> proceedings against a few of those judges, who serve for life.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a>, who oversees <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> making cuts to federal agencies, himself has repeatedly posted on social media about impeaching <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/judges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>judges</span></a> who delay or block parts of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>'s agenda.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StochasticTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StochasticTerrorism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StateSponsoredTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StateSponsoredTerrorism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DomesticTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DomesticTerrorism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PoliticalViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalViolence</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/incitement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>incitement</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/extremism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>extremism</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Federal <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/judges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>judges</span></a> who have ruled against the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin this year are confronting a wave of threats, compromising their safety &amp; the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/independence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>independence</span></a> of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/judiciary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>judiciary</span></a>.</p><p>The sister of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a> Justice <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AmyConeyBarrett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmyConeyBarrett</span></a> received a bomb threat earlier this month, &amp; lower court judges who paused some of Trump's efforts to dismantle <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalAgencies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalAgencies</span></a> &amp; programs have been targeted.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StochasticTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StochasticTerrorism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StateSponsoredTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StateSponsoredTerrorism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DomesticTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DomesticTerrorism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PoliticalViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalViolence</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5316340/threats-judges-trump" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-53163</span><span class="invisible">40/threats-judges-trump</span></a></p>
C.<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@kevinrns" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>kevinrns</span></a></span> </p><p>Ah, right. I suspect the Felon-in-Chief's stochastic terrorism is responsible for that. Public figures don't want the abuse-and-threats firehose turned on them.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/FelonInChief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FelonInChief</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/stochastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stochastic</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/terrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>terrorism</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/StochasticTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StochasticTerrorism</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/abuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>abuse</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/threat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>threat</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>&gt;6 weeks into the 2nd <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin, there is a chill spreading over political debate [<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/speech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>speech</span></a>] in Washington &amp; beyond.</p><p>People on both sides of the aisle who would normally be part of the public dialogue about the big issues of the day say they are intimidated by the prospect of online attacks from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a>, concerned about harm to their companies &amp; frightened for the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/safety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>safety</span></a> of their <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/families" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>families</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/sturmabteilung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sturmabteilung</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PoliticalViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalViolence</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StochasticTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StochasticTerrorism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StateSponsoredTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StateSponsoredTerrorism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>