During the Trump era I often thought about how there’s no mulligan in some of the most important aspects of our society. Trump was a traitor to the country and yet still got to appoint three SCOTUS justices. We had no mechanism to nullify those. Some normal person’s citizenship, on the other hand… - ThreadSky

paleofuture.bsky.social • 472 days ago

During the Trump era I often thought about how there’s no mulligan in some of the most important aspects of our society. Trump was a traitor to the country and yet still got to appoint three SCOTUS justices. We had no mechanism to nullify those. Some normal person’s citizenship, on the other hand…

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Nightmare story of a 61-year old who’s been a US citizen since he was an infant, but was just told he was made a citizen by error, lost citizenship, & is now stateless after living in US his whole life https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/11/25/virginia-doctor-passport-citizenship-nightmare/

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nslayton.bsky.social•472 days ago

Remember during the Jan 2017 Muslim ban there were multiple reports of ice/cbp going beyond trumps orders to outright deport people?

paleofuture.bsky.social•472 days ago

Yes. This next round is going to be even worse I'm sure.

nslayton.bsky.social•472 days ago

Undoubtedly. Just feel like that incident was widely ignored.

An already evil order that the agents of the system then went beyond to do cruelty.

starshine.bsky.social•471 days ago

ice and cbp (and dea for dif reasons) should be viewed as rogue agencies that are, to a degree, loyal to the republican party but much more to their own institution n goals. praetorian guard ass institution

should be abolished n military handle border security until it’s rebuilt from the ground up

silkscreenfiend.bsky.social•471 days ago

DHS was one of the worst creations of the Bush admin, but it got overshadowed by so much other egregious evil that we sort of forgot that it wasn't there all along.

starshine.bsky.social•471 days ago

yeag. we used to do interagency reshuffles a lot gotta retvrn and break it up but tbh i really don’t think you can reform it it’s so rotten. spin off the dhs cyber and kidnapping people or whatever but the rest is so terrible. like the stabbing water bottles in the desert is them to the core

cannon4nh.bsky.social•471 days ago

Even using the term "homeland" in the name is a right wing supremacist dog-whistle

silkscreenfiend.bsky.social•472 days ago

We're already getting the Jill Stein brigade On Here claiming that because this happened during the Biden administration, a second Trump admin couldn't be meaningfully worse.

guywithsongs.bsky.social•472 days ago

These people have learned nothing. Or they're just MAGA shills in disguise.

silkscreenfiend.bsky.social•472 days ago

They can't bear the thought that they might have to work within a frustrating and disappointing framework to achieve incremental positive change, so they do the magical thinking that if they blow it all up, the pieces will fall into something better. It's incredibly dangerous.

russellsilva.bsky.social•472 days ago

We could (hypothetically) impeach justices and/or expand the court.

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