“I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights,” he said. “I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.”
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The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...
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Apparently there are zero consequences, least of all for the ringleaders.
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It was Fox News who voluntarily paid $787 million to keep from going to trial for malicious lying
Fox agreed to pay that MUCH because they were afraid if going to trial & 1) details of their willful systematic lying going public & 2) a jury would award more $
NYT nothing like this
the US being a “melting pot” for all. Makes me realize how many years ago grade school was.
I was called “a murderer” for eating a burger.
The power of movies.
Let’s just Make America, America Again!
🙏
https://youtu.be/N-K7hcdKueA?si=Y9GAq4rMICGPa8pg
At the time he was pissed because they went"we failed, thanks for the cash"
I asked him how he feels about it nowadays and he's glad it turned that way for him, it's crazy isn't it?
-Timothy Snyder (paraphrased)
"On Freedom"
Bootlicker.
It’s not going to last.
They should learn from the history.
The history is telling us how to be careful about nationalists & right wingers! 🤬
Kick them in the junk as hard you possibly can!
America elected a despot, and are now bewildered by his despotic actions.
Get you panties out of a bunch, and think hard about how far you are willing to go to bring this country back from the brink.
Also when they refused to push voter reform
These detainees are being held unlawfully and unconstitutionality as prisoners in a third-party country without due process.
This is about human rights and illegal foreign imprisonment for a misdemeanor crime.
in a hotel room they had then hosed in
We are a Puppet Banana Republic.
What a wonderful world it would be if karma would release them from their mortal coils.
You’ll be attempting to gaslight people into believing that you didn’t decry that there wouldn’t be elections as you try to get people out to vote for your candidates.
In 2028, you’ll have over used the rhetoric against Trump so much that you’ll have to discuss policies
And if yah don't like getting rid of criminals go to the criminal states of Mexico, Venezuela or Iran!
Do you have any oversight when ICE raids workplaces, schools and homes?
Or are they automatically "illegal" for being arrested?
Like black people deserve being arrested for resisting arrest?
Most expensive time in history to have egg on our face.
Our history is sullied by our actions against all people of color, of other faiths, women, the poor, the disabled, etc. since our founding.
Clearly you've only been watching Hollywood BS movies about Murica, not actual history
Nobody is coming for us. It's just us.
We will need good people stepping up.
AOC is good.
It's incredible that we allow a small group of people to do evil things in our name. WTF 😒
vote socialist.
Well, said!
"The white cracker who wrote the national anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word 'free' to a note so high nobody can reach it. That was deliberate. Nothing on Earth sounds less like freedom to me."