There is absolutely no bottom.
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More Americans have died in the illegal undeclared Iran War than died during the Afghanistan withdrawal that was portrayed to the American public as a presidency-annulling catastrophe for Joe Biden.
“Section 14 of the Press Law ordered editors ‘to keep out of the newspapers anything which…tends to weaken the strength of the German Reich, outwardly or inwardly.’”
- William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 405
The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled.
A truly extraordinary moment.
We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.
Act like it.
screenshot of a dictionary definition of kakistocracy: government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state. "the danger is that this will reduce us to kakistocracy" • a state or society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens. plural noun: kakistocracies "the modern regime is at once a plutocracy and a kakistocracy"
this word takes up so much space in my head that i'd rather be using for other things
“‘We’ve started to use 100 days as a benchmark for prioritizing cases because so many children are exceeding 20 days,’ said Leecia Welch … who visits Dilley regularly to ensure compliance. In a visit this month, Welch said she counted more than 30 children who had been held for over 100 days.”
In plain English, this means they want to deport abused children
In case you missed it, for @theguardian.com I spoke to people in their 20s, 30s, and 40s who had a parent who was deported. They talked to me about the impact this trauma had on their families, and other long-term consequences that are still shaping their lives.
Just returning to this post to note the premise of Sleepwalkers is "what if really smart and sophisticated statesmen made a series of mistakes that led to disaster" and the premise of our current situation is "what if a heaving pile of numpties blundered into disaster for no reason."
Markwayne Mullin is the same dude already under scrutiny for suspicious stock trades.
And he’s supposed to run America’s national security.
• No government security experience
• No law enforcement background
• No intelligence work
• No military service
• Not even a bachelor’s degree
ICE ONLY LIES!
All it does is abuse and lie. Lie and abuse. Oh and murder. Also rape.
Lies, abuse, murder and rape.
way beside the point but i am kind of slack jawed about boats this big (four them!) carried on yet another even bigger big boat
The Trump administration built Camp East Montana in 2 months, handed a $1.2B contract to a company operating out of a single-family home in Virginia, and called it the model for its new national detention system. Here's how that's going. 🧵
Aerial photo of a protest by families detained at Dilley Family Detention Center, overlayed with the words "End Family Detention" and the logo for Families Belong Together.
Conditions at the Dilley Family Detention Center are abhorrent: parents and children face neglect and cruelty. Over a decade of research and experience show that family detention is inherently inhumane. Taxpayer dollars should not be used to jail children and families.
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This is just astonishingly great reporting.
All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them.
And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.
I have watched this approximately 47 times and laughed out loud 47 times
A recap of DHS-related events from the past 48 hours or so:
1️⃣ A U.S. citizen was temporarily disappeared by CBP along with several friends after they arrived at O'Hare on an international flight (the rest of the group w/ valid visas).
Moskowitz: "Let me congratulate the former Homeland Security Secretary on her appointment to be the Shield of Americas, which I'm pretty sure the president came up with when he watched the last Avengers movie"
The New MAGA NAZI ICE leader 🥴
U.S. Representative Markwayne Mullin HIDES behind a chair in the House chambers as rioters enter the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6, 2021 PROVIDED/C-SPAN
The MAGA PEDOPHILE PROTECTOR was there TO OBJECT to Joe Biden being the duly elected President of the United States
Somehow they always find a worse person. I don’t know how they do it. A clown car of antichrists.
A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best
Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best
Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!
The majority of America’s teachers — a whopping 71% — have at least one side job because they’re so underpaid.
Meanwhile, the country is about to be launched into a long, drawn-out war that has already cost an estimated $2 billion.
Priorities.
This case is horrifying. The man had deferred action, was on a full path to a green card, is a college grad magna cum laude, and ICE arrested him randomly while looking for someone else:
“What do we do?” said one ICE officer, to which another replied “We’re going to take him with us anyway.”
Electing Trump the first time could have been seen as an aberration, a quirk of US politics that would not be repeated. But electing him a second time sent a clear signal to the rest of the world that it is imperative to reduce military and economic dependence on the US because it is unstable.
One large study found that when a major daily newspaper covering a federal judicial district disappears, corruption cases there—bribery, embezzlement, fraud—rise by more than 7%.
The researchers suggest officials feel emboldened when no one's looking.
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If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.
"Refugee released by Border Patrol found dead, sparking outrage," "ICE Car Chase Leads to Crash Involving Children, Newark Mayor Says," "DHS admits it deported more than 80 DACA recipients," and more must-read #immigration news.
Family friend Khaleda Shah said "Shah Alam has three sons left in Burma, while his oldest son in Buffalo holding only has a part-time job. The family is struggling to pay bills, she said …”
“’They were refugees,’ Shah said. 'They came here seeking home, and home killed them.’”
peace & blessings to the spirit of Nurul Amin Shah Alam.
and we should feel this way about the victims of ignorance & imperialism.
im saddened about illegally deported immigrants. by teen children paraded for amusement before wealthy men. for the innocents that in slave ships to the americas.
