this is excellent, informed & informative on Trump-1’s grotesquely barbaric “child separation” policy & the prospect of Trump-2 exceeding its grotesquery & barbarism by many orders of magnitude — and also on the difficulty of saying any of these things effectively: www.nybooks.com/articles/202... - ThreadSky

pgourevitch.bsky.social • 89 days ago

this is excellent, informed & informative on Trump-1’s grotesquely barbaric “child separation” policy & the prospect of Trump-2 exceeding its grotesquery & barbarism by many orders of magnitude — and also on the difficulty of saying any of these things effectively:

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/12/05/torn-apart-separated-errol-morris/?srsltid=AfmBOorYoIJ7vDX0YZIYreRQumE3kFS2UkVDbuK3JB6-pRIxa85RQYN7

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bakerblue.bsky.social•89 days ago

📌

xiruxi.bsky.social•89 days ago

Sadly, American voters (and almost all US news media) looked at these human rights abuses and said, cool, let's do a lot more.

karesf.bsky.social•89 days ago

I remember that amazing John Moore photo. It was evocative of the below 2005 Chris Hondros photo. Same feel of helplessness and oppression

johnnyapplememes.bsky.social•89 days ago

One of the tools autocrats use to force compliance is to target your kids. Trump-1 demonstrated that they are more than willing to go after kids. Combine that with threats of military use against American citizens and you have to assume that they will target the children of American citizens, also.

beeyoutifulmom.bsky.social•89 days ago

I only wish this had come out before the election rather than after.
Sort of like the recent 'mules' mea culpa - far too many people thought the child separation didn't happen or wasn't that bad, and the mules thing was successful in radicalizing otherwise normal ppl. sigh.

maggie76.bsky.social•89 days ago

USA voted a traitorous convicted felon into office. Just watch him destroy our country.

zygie24.bsky.social•86 days ago

I just want to hug and comfort that child in the picture. If we can’t care for or be empathetic to the young and old among us, what are we even doing.

pcunited.bsky.social•89 days ago

And their heartless answer is always the same: "well, don't come here." Have they heard of or visited the 🗽?
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, ..." Are we a beacon of or not?

acoffey.bsky.social•89 days ago

This is the number one reason I can't fathom anyone wanting this monster back in power. Nor can I forgive or understand anyone knowing this and still voting for him. You can't explain this away as anything less than evil.

maestraoogway.bsky.social•89 days ago

Sometimes I wake up at night at 3 am and her little crying face comes to my mind.

chrismihm.bsky.social•89 days ago

Exactly. I have seen this photo several times over the years, each time is a fresh punch in the gut. “I’ll just calmly pat you down while your baby screams in terror”

not-bot.bsky.social•89 days ago

Screened in October for Academy consideration - shame it couldn’t have been released before the election.

thinkingamerican.bsky.social•89 days ago

And @nbcnews.bsky.social refused to show it before the election. Who knows how much more they’ll been the knee to that convicted felon and adjudicated rapist, Fuhrer Trump…

tltkid70.bsky.social•89 days ago

What's horrible is their own voted for more of that b s to happen

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