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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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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

you assume the media isn't in favor of this

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The six companies and their stockholders who own the vast majority of those organizations.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

You're telling me the sources I mentioned are all owned by the same companies and push the same agenda?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Took the words out of my mouth.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Not all of them. Choose wisely.