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Trump’s ‘bald power grab’ could set US on path to dictatorship, critics fear (www.theguardian.com)

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Trump’s executive order stripped agencies of their independence by making them directly accountable to a part of the presidency: the office of management and budget (OMB). The OMB is led by Russell Vought, founder of the rightwing Center for Renewing America (CRA) thinktank and one of the primary authors of the Project 2025 plan for an authoritarian takeover of government.

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[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 49 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

It's time for the media to say the quiet part out loud. Stop warning us about things that have already happened and start helping us change it.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 18 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

you assume the media isn't in favor of this

[–] naught@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Who is "the media"? This sounds just as ridiculous to me as when conservatives say it. Reuters? AP? NPR? New Republic? The Atlantic?

Or are you talking only about Fox, OANN, etc?

There's a wide swath of takes in the mainstream, and yes they skew wildly sometimes, but there is categorically no "The Media" monolith conspiring to do anything

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

Took the words out of my mouth.

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