US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/09/watchlist-decline-civic-freedoms-civicus

17 comments

  2. Can’t say we don’t deserve it.

    Although odd photo. Having that sign a foot away from the president would show we do have freedoms. The guy taking it would have been better.

  4. The right wanted small government and voted for corporate overlords.

  6. I bet the Trump Administration is so proud; it puts us that much closer to being Russia.

  7. I thought Trump is trying to govern the same way Putin is trying to govern.Detain neighboring civilians,lookin at taking land from neighboring allies,fire everybody that doesn’t fit with their schemes,and isn’t looked at well by normal minded folks.

  8. I hate that it got to this but Jesus FINALLY someone actually said it who has some form of power to influence.

    They aren’t going to influence the US, but they can make other nations come together in calling out the bullshit that is happening here.

    I appreciate Canada’s attempts to fight back on tariffs and rightfully point out where the pain is originating from, but the world needs to collectively either assist in saving or abandoned America, and I’m obviously hoping that we are still worth saving.

  9. Let me guess Americans, this is biased because ‘they actually hate all our freedom’…

  10. Horrific. I can’t believe we elected this.

    (I mean I can but I can’t think of another phrase to communicate my feelings at this point.)

  11. If you have never watched Children of Men, now’s the time. Prescient film.

  12. Maybe Republicans will take things seriously now :/

  13. “Currently, the US has a “narrowed” rating, which it also had during the Biden administration, meaning that while citizens can exercise their civic freedom, such as rights to association, peaceful assembly and expression, occasional violations occur.

    For part of Trump’s first term, Tiwana said, the US had been categorized as “obstructed”, due to the administration’s response to the Black Lives Matter protests and restrictive state laws that were enacted limiting the rights of environmental justice protesters, and other actions.”

    I can’t take them seriously.

  14. Kinda silly, the US is still significantly more free and tolerant than 90% of the planet.

  15. The united states of america voted for Trump by popular vote. Hey everyone, the rest of the world hates US now, not just trump. We are all complicit.

  17. The irony is that Trump is doing what the people elected him to do, but according to Civicus, the USA is less free than Romania, a country that invalidated an election cause they didn’t like who won, and has now banned the person who won from running altogether.

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