US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms | US news | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/09/watchlist-decline-civic-freedoms-civicus
"unparalleled attack on the rule of law" not seen "since the days of McCarthyism,"
The United States has been added to the Civicus Monitor Watchlist, which identifies countries experiencing rapid decline in civic freedoms. The US joins the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Italy, Pakistan and Serbia on the first watchlist of 2025.
H/t @adirtyhippie
@oatmeal @adirtyhippie COINTELPRO was pretty bad too