In the midst of a Fascist Takeover our "leaders" are doing this. We are truly fucked.
#immigrants
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*ICE agents kidnap you and throw you into a cell*
You: "You can't do this! I'm a citizen!"
Fascist Thug: "We don't believe you."
You: "I'll prove it!"
Fascist Thug: "Where? And to whom? You think your cellmates in El Salvador will care?"
#Tacoma really turned out at the #NWDC to protest its very evil existence
#ShutDownNWDC #EvergreenResistance
#LaResistencia
#SOLIDARITY with #Immigrants & #Refugees
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"Historians and other scholars of authoritarianism have been attuned to the warning signs for years now. They know what these things mean."
#Trump #fascism #immigrants #ICE #students #universities #TimothySnyder #JasonStanley
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"Having studied the Holocaust and historical memory, it’s haunting to be living through a period where cruelty and dehumanization is being normalized in real time. …
On top of everything, we learned that Timothy Snyder and Jason Stanley, leading scholars of authoritarianism, have left or are leaving the country."
~ Kristin Du Mez
#Trump #fascism #immigrants #ICE #students #universities #TimothySnyder #JasonStanley
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Du Mez CONNECTIONS · Let's be honest
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"The pattern of detentions shows the Trump administration is targeting foreign students for their pro-Palestinian political views. The Department of Homeland Security confirmed Ozturk was detained under the same law used to detain Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist."
~David Kurtz
#Trump #immigrants #ICE #students #universities
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https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/kristi-noem-records-chilling-video
Morning Memo · Kristi Noem Records Chilling Video At Jail Holding Alien Enemies Act Detainees
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"She stepped onto a sidewalk in Boston — and vanished into Trump’s shadow state. Masked ICE agents are now snatching dissidents off the streets like a scene from Stalin’s Russia. This isn’t speculative fiction. It’s happening right now, in America."
~ Thom Hartmann
#Trump #immigrants #ICE #students #universities
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https://hartmannreport.com/p/she-stepped-onto-a-sidewalk-in-boston-a74
The Hartmann Report · She Stepped Onto a Sidewalk in Boston — and Vanished Into Trump’s Shadow State
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"This Is the land of wolves now. Masked agents snatching people off the street. Government officials using caged prisoners for propaganda videos. We are the villains. …
It’s only been eight weeks.
I cannot imagine what this country will look like in a year."
~ Jonathan V. Last
The Bulwark · This Is the Land of Wolves Now
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"The Trump administration is essentially claiming it can detain noncitizens for expressing views it deems problematic, with no specific criminal charges and without providing evidence. If this doesn't concern you because you disagree with the political views of those being detained, then you were never actually concerned about free speech — you were just concerned about protecting certain viewpoints."
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"By the time a federal judge ordered that Ozturk not be moved outside Massachusetts, she had already been transferred to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Louisiana — more than 1,400 miles from where she was seized.
This is the latest in a disturbing pattern."
~ Parker Molloy
#Trump #immigrants #ICE #students #universities
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https://www.readtpa.com/p/the-ice-detention-of-a-turkish-student
The Present Age · The ICE Detention of a Turkish Student Is a Serious Free Speech Test
the official twitter account of the White House decided to get in on the #ghiblification trend currently sweeping the nation
https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1905332049021415862
This is the land of wolves now, snatching immigrants and making propaganda videos of prisoners in inhumane conditions.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-the-land-of-wolves-now?triedRedirect=true
#uspol #immigrants
The Bulwark · This Is the Land of Wolves Now
We are somewhat picky about our TV choices. So, "Mo" it is.
Stuck in a truck full of stolen olive trees, a Nigerian immigrant suggests to Palestine born Mo: I'll scream in Igbo, and you scream in Arabic!
Mo: Since when has screaming in Arabic ever helped a situation?
TheGuardian: "The sidesplittingly funny yet dark return of Mo Amer’s Palestinian refugee comedy sees its lead stuck in Mexico."
The Guardian · Mo season two review – one of the most hilarious, heart-rending shows on TV
“Representatives of Catholic and immigration advocacy organizations, and Washington's new Cardinal Robert McElroy, grappled with the need to send a clear moral message on the dignity of migrants amid the "uncertainty" of the political moment at a recent event in the nation's capital.”
National Catholic ReporterCardinal McElroy, immigration advocates warn US at a moral crossroad with migrantsRepresentatives of Catholic and immigration advocacy organizations, and Washington's new Cardinal Robert McElroy, grappled with the need to send a clear moral message on the dignity of migrants amid the "uncertainty" of the political moment at a recent event in the nation's capital.
Very interesting data, but who cares about facts? #immigrants
https://theconversation.com/politicians-attacks-on-immigrants-lack-solid-evidence-new-data-set-the-record-straight-251853
The ConversationPoliticians’ attacks on immigrants lack solid evidence: New data set the record straightMany political debates about immigration and the welfare of immigrants are not accompanied by facts. A new data set can help with that.
"The Trump admin appears to have sent a married father with NO CRIMINAL RECORD to rot in a El Salvadorian prison
bc of a PAPERWORK ERROR.
This man doesn’t even have tattoos! But his paperwork has 2 diff peoples’ ID#s listed & the wrong last name!"
-AR Melnick
A dedicated father & pet lover -in the US he painted houses for a living.
Trump, Noem... don't care bc their objective is apparently to deport as many undoc #immigrants as possible.
#Deportations #Sadism #USPol https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article302671624.html
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"This is what secret police do in authoritarian regimes in service to dictators. Words like Stasi, Gestapo, and Savak apply. … This regime is cracking down on anyone and everyone they deem a threat. This includes French researchers, Lebanese doctors, Filipinos who have been here for 50 years, and a white Canadian actress who was detained for two weeks."
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"In 2025, America is disappearing and detaining brown-skinned immigrants with tattoos and pro-Palestinian college students because their opinions are deemed threats to foreign policy as the Trump Administration is literally sharing classified information and military strikes openly on an unsecured Signal chat with journalists.
What a time to be alive."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Trump #immigrants #ICE #students #universities
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https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-trump-administration-not-college
thelefthook.substack.comThe Trump Administration, Not College Students, Is The Greatest Threat to Our Foreign Policy and National SecurityIt's not immigrants or students but incompetent cabinet members of an aspiring authoritarian Trump regime who are the most active, dangerous threats to our democracy, freedoms, and foreign policy.
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When meanness — hostility towards targeted minority people — becomes not merely permitted but widely justified (They're criminals! They must have done something wrong! They're Muslims, after all) and celebrated, a society is in rapid decline towards dictatorship.
And no one is safe when that happens. It begins by targeting them.
It ends by targeting you and me.
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Any of us watching these events and NOT thinking of what happened in Nazi Germany as the fascist regime consolidated its power and brought down an iron curtain of terror is missing an important lesson from the history of the 20th century.
The lesson: it can happen here.
