This likely confirms that the decision to arrest him was made at the highest levels of government, a terrifying return to the policies of ideological exclusion last seen used during the heights of the Cold War. A very, very worrying precedent at the start of this government.
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Justin Baragona
Trump takes credit for Mahmoud Khalil's arrest by ICE:
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This level of lawlessness erodes at a basic level the social contract between Americans and their government. If the President can arrest Americans and permanent residents by fiat, we're no longer a democracy
USA USA USA
At the SOTU Trump bragged that he brought free speech back; & now he’s deporting someone whose political speech he disagrees with.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/13/michael-reinoehl-activist-killed-police-family-lawsuit
"This action by the government is terrible!" followed by you letting me know that its either something that has gone unnoticed or something that we just haven't done for a while.
Keep it up. Its important work.
American exceptionalism is a much easier concept to sell when you block out all the bad stuff.
Even shit like The West Wing and The Newsroom (as entertaining as they are) is part of it.
They cannot conceive it, so do not believe it.
I wonder how that all turned out?
IMPEACH TRUMP
“I know that probably most of you think I’m an S.O.B., but I want you to know that I understand just how you feel,” he said. Nixon spent nearly an hour talking to the students before visiting the U.S. Capitol”
#projection
I'm sure it had nothing to do with Trump's abject change-the-subject desperation following the past week's market crash, thanks of course to his own idiotic tariffs.
Could be a 1A argument.
So, does that mean the Trump administration is going to deport Trump & a great many MAGA-nazis to Russia where their "loyalty" obviously lies, since Trump & MAGA-nazis obviously endorse & enable terrorism??
But there isn't.
“Admitted Antifa member” > anything goes including state murder
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pun from Walt Kelly from a half-century ago, more or less.
May his memory live on.
tr*mp would have hated Walt if he were alive today.
Nothing was off the table when it came to opposing communism.
I spent so much of my young life being warned that we were slipping into socialism and moral relativity only to watch us dive headlong into fascism while treating fact as relative.