Trump thinks by farming out its slave trade to other countries, it will be overlooked.
It won't be. Someone is going to follow the money and find out the profit trump is making from selling these slaves.
Trump and his admin are so evil. My heart and blessings go out to those poor young men. Can Congress do anything? Or are those conservatives evil, too?
Hey maga you good with the slave trade up and running??
Because this time around it won’t just be black and brown people, it will be poor people.
Slaves don’t need Medicare, Medicaid or SS!
By the time u realise it not immigrants and trans people it will be too late! Tick tock!!
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – MLK
Democracy is slipping. Will we speak up—or stay silent and watch it fall? The descent isn’t slow anymore. Time to rise. Time to act. Let’s get to work.
𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒖𝒑. 𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒌 𝒐𝒖𝒕.📣Do not wait for the tide of oppression to reach your door. The time to act is 𝒏𝒐𝒘. The fight for justice, for humanity, begins with each of us. ⚖️
Nearly 400k subscribers on Bluesky and you're still managing to help folks out with tech stuff in the replies. Not sure where you find the time in the day to accomplish everything you do, but happy that you're able to make it all happen. Thanks for it all, Seth!
@sethabramson.bsky.social unfortunately when I sign in with the me account and use the code sent to me it says I am not subscribed. I tried with the chatbot to fix it and nothing works.
@sethabramson.bsky.social I am so upset — I have been a subscriber to your Substack for years and reupped last September. I haven’t been able to sign on for two months so can’t read anything. Very upsetting but don’t want to pay again when they have zero customer service to fix this.
You have two accounts, so sadly this appears to be an error on your end. One account is a free account using a Gmail address that has a middle initial added, and the other is a paid account attached to an "[@]me" email address without a middle initial in it. You are signing in via the wrong account.
On the bright side, I can tell you that this is far and away the most common sign-in issue Substack users find themselves with. Many people sign up using multiple email addresses and then forget which one was attached to a paid account.
You are in good company in finding yourself in this situation.
I too think that this is a defining moment in US History. It is truly the descent into something truly evil. I feel such sadness to think this is happening, and in full view of us all, and the world appears almost silent once again.
With no reaction to nor accountability for ongoing genocide in Gaza that the US is participating in, it is clear that there is no depravity that our leaders will be held accountable for. This has been America for a long time - Torture, black sites, assassination, etc.
It's just mask off right now.
I wish you'd make your essays on such important things publicly available rather than only to subscribers. I won't share paywalled articles. And this is important for folks to see.
Notice how they lined the men up with the ones with tattoos in the row closest the camera. No tattoos are visible on the backs of men in the other rows. Propaganda in its worst form meant to generate hostility towards these men!! Remember, none of them have had due process! Just arrested & deported
We can’t be complacent when so called “illegals” are kidnapped and sold to an other country and kept in concentration camps without any legal protection or any hope to ever come out! This has to stop! Calling on human rights lawyers, please do something!!
That’s so noble thank you! I think there have to be International human rights lawyers and international politicians involved. Also El Salvador should be excluded and heavily sanctioned by other countries.
Agree and using the term illegals is a way to dehumanize them. No human being is "illegal" the racists continue to use that instead of Undocumented immigrants or asylum seekers for that reason.
Yes absolutely! Couldn’t agree more. Someone who came to this country, no matter how, just to earn money and support their families, can NOT be sold to an other country and put in concentration camps.
That has got to be one of the most horrifying pictures of this decade!!! These poor men! Even the ones who may be guilty of crimes. They are still human and have rights FFS!!! So sad!
Please, Seth, drop paywalls. Use your influence to encourage dependable journalism to drop paywalls in crucial reporting so that it reaches even the poorest of us seeking the truth.
PLEASE.
Sacrifice for freedom. You have the influence. Use it. Tell them to drop paywalls.
Some free content would be so appreciated. Even a few paragraphs that set the stage, detail the beginning of your findings. I know you need to earn an income, but a bit more (vs pay walling everything) would likely increase subs
Everybody stop panicking and trust the 80-year-old indicted egomaniac who’s team accidentally added a reporter to a secret war-planning group chat, floated invading Canada and Greenland, tanked the economy with incoherent tariffs on penguins, & is now surrounded by sycophants too drunk to say “no.”
Organize with/for people in your state that are doing the work. I’d start with the ACLU and the League of Women Voters - in your state. They will be dialed in to what can be done locally.
They’re disappearing people off of streets and sending them to a foreign country. This is not the same. As horrible as the prison and justice system is they at least get a hearing and are not imprisoned on the whims of ICE agents, Tom Homan or Marco Rubio.
"Back in"?
But hasn't enforced, unpaid labour of your incarcerated population always been a thing?
I'm pretty sure its in one of your amendments.
Face it, your country has always been this way.
The rest of the world knows it.
Exactly! The administration keeps saying they're evil gang members who deserve it & if a few innocent ones slip by, "oopsie." Even if they were all convicted gang members, no one deserves that treatment. He's destroying this country's soul along with their lives. The ICJ should be investigating.
Prisons are bad, and the scales of justice are rigged, agreed, but these people were snatched up with no due process whatsoever, no legal reps, no court case. That is horrifically new, you have to admit.
Read up on the US for profit prison system and if you have Netflix there's an important documentary you might want to watch. I forgot the name because it's been a long time since I watched it , but I am sure I saw someone post it in the thread, believe me this is nothing new. Nothing new at all.
And the whole thing has gotten started with Obama. Let's remember caged children. Of course, republicans would bring it to a new level. #democratsRnotdemocrat
I was blind to what was going on with immigrants when he was president. Thought he was helping them. Found out a couple of years ago he was known as the deporter in Chief 😲
Extinguishing the slave trade in this country required one of the darkest, bloodiest chapters in its history. Brother killed brother. Father killed son. To reconstitute, to even CONSIDER that, should result in the immediate removal from power, imprisonment, and capital crime trial for all involved.
We must give ourselves a mandate to save them. We need a massive independent well organized well armed and completely stealth militia and we have to save them.
@sethabramson.bsky.social I think you've under-sold the situation. IMO, your argument suggests not a slave trade, but an off-shore, for-profit Nazi death camp. To me, slave suggests that Bukele is buying ppl from trump's regime to exploit their lives for some value, such as labor.
Instead, the Trump regime is paying Bukele to warehouse until death the ppl the regime deems undesirable, as the nazis deemed the jews and other “dissidents”. And bukele will resort to the eventuality the nazis did when they ran out of room and resources for the prisoners.
That is an interesting observation. My thinking was that the dictator of El Salvador benefits materially and geopolitically from this arrangement and therefore he is indeed squeezing value from these enslaved persons.
But I am certainly open to the notion that these are instead concentration camps.
I kept saying this over and over during the campaign I said he would sell Americans off as slaves to his dictator buddies and people laughed but it’s true. And people still won’t believe it even though it’s happening now. He’s gonna eventually come after all of us anyone who doesn’t worship him
Project 2025 calls for the elimination of the Civil War Amendments. The 13th abolished slavery. The 15th gave Black men the right to vote. They want to make slavery and segregation legal again. These mediocre white men are the most despicable beings. We have to stop them!
I’d like to read this Seth, and have subscribed to Substack. But I baulked at allowing Substack to access my contacts with NO option to refuse. I guess I just wasted my money🙄
Absolutely horrifying. I will call and write Republican senators again tomorrow. It was nice to see so many banners yesterday decrying the kidnapping, torture and imprisonment being perpetrated on innocent people by ice.
Not only the father of the autistic boy, but every one of the men should be returned. The ICE people who did this need to be arrested and put in an American prison. ICE violated their rights and should be held accountable.
and if the US survives as a Democracy, every person who has been profiting - the trump family, musk, miller, all of them need to be stripped of their assets and thrown in jail. The money could be used to help the people or institutions they’re harming.
I think all assets stripped away & living out their lives in normal security jails (not „cushy“ ones) with no access to social media, fox news, conservative radio etc, scrubbing toilets for the rest of their lives would do it for me. Yearly photos of them in their prison jumpsuits doing so a plus.
Humanity rise up for Humanity, Step into your Power, Keep Loving, Keep Connecting, Keep Defending The Vulnerable, Keep Unified 'Hands off... the people rise' ❤️https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6HS_sk3iz0
They now have a black site to send problematic citizens they deem terrorists by stripping citizens of their rights and sending them to a foreign prison nary to be seen again.
This is what the protest yesterday should have been about. 5 million people chanting "Free them all" would have gotten action. But I didn't see one sign about this. Not one.
How many of these prisoners even had tattoos before the arrived in El Salvador?
Serious question? Or were they branded upon arrive to justify incarceration?
We did too last year!
But I haven’t watched TV in years.
I’ve been on YouTube. Also I used to watch a lot of art and craft shows before getting into politics two years ago!
Is this something that’s always been there but we (the rest of the globe/non-nazi Americans) have just not been listening?
Surely this, on this scale, can’t come from nowhere?
Watching the 60 Minutes episode I was sickened. I had the same feelings I felt when as a child I watched my 1st Holocaust documentary. The only difference is the Germans issued striped prison clothing & the layered barracks were wooden not stainless steel. The same empty eyes & shaved heads
This makes me sick. I lay awake at night thinking of the innocent. Inhuman pieces of shit. Put Trump and his cronies in there. Then I will sleep like a baby.
We are paying El Salvador millions of dollars to send them people who they use as slave labor in unimaginable conditions. People who had no due process, and no chance to defend themselves. Steven Miller, Pam Bondi, Marco Rubio, Donald Trump are soulless.
100% agree. Our prison system is grossly corrupt and enslaves incarcerated people, who are, of course, disproportionately Black. I know that we have been complacent and complicit in this. In my wildest dreams, our current prison-industrial complex and this new slave trade can both be abolished.
well people definitely do mind, and it’s not quite the same since we dont yet send people to US prisons without trial, and being convicted of a crime is the thing that makes slavery legal under the 13th amendment.
It does help. It was a beginning. The next one will be bigger. When enough people feel the call you'll have real, demonstrable strength and change will come.
Yes. I commented re: whether SCOTUS would approve of human trafficking/selling people (I thought about mentioning this as well - of course they will…) but thought it could be an additional post. Glad you highlighted it.
Amend: The Fight for America and 13th are two excellent docuseries to watch should anyone need further explanation as to 400 years of continuous slavery in America.
My teen offspring’s said “watch the 13th” and it has opened the floodgates for our family. Since then I have read “white fragility”, “the sum of us” and now “caste”
And thankfully was introduced to the prison yoga project which also was a great eye opener
Thanks. I am about to read 'A Promised Land' so hope to become better informed about this. I hear Obama describes how difficult it was for him to get laws passed.
Yeah, I still Remember Republicans helping Tim Cotton block an appointment of nominated ambassador Cassandra Butts till she died. Cotton didn’t have an issue with her qualifications. He did it to hurt Obama and he succeeded.
You’re the second person to reply to me with a source.
I’m going need White folks to Google me, because these may be revelatory for you but they are not obscure sources for a university full professor who is Black, from Georgia & an elected member of the American Antiquarian Society. Thanks. 🙏🏾
Thank you!!! Our jail system terrifies me. It is the most disgusting corruption, and it is ripe for transformation into the most vile Concentration Camps in the history of earth. Everyone should be afraid.
America has been exporting its international slave trade via serco ( vanguard, blackrock)for many years. They own private prisons and have expanded on them in recent times as the ATLAS war on marginalised ppl and eco warriors heats up.
Related. "The Religion of Whiteness" Amazon book, shows with stats how 75% of white churches, even some liberal ones, worship or support worship of Whiteness, not Jesus. I was shocked by what I read. Ashamed white person here.
Rich White people terrified of the fact that they will be the minority SOON —and won’t be calling the shots anymore. Only way to fix that is oppression by oligarchy. Bring on the KKKing 👀🤬
Aren’t we failing to realize that these people NEVER received due process? Would THAT be okay for you then? No due process, AND you get shipped out of the country to places WORSE than the US prison system???!!!
The energies need to be focused on GOP Senate and House members!
We are wasting energies on immovable, though loathsome, objects.
GO GET ON THE GOP CONGRESS NON-STOP!!
This seems like a really important article, but I do not have the cash on hand for another subscription. Any way you could post a free-to-read version of this somewhere?
Thanks for this, Seth! One thing, though: is your statement that CECOT will give each prisoner only 2 cubic feet of space once it’s at maximum capacity a misprint? An adult body takes up more space than that. Wiki says its cell space will average 0.6 square metres (6.5 sq ft) of space per prisoner
Together, as decent people, we should be beyond outrage. If I were young and had the facilities, I would hide them in a secret room. That is where we are.
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." - The Declaration of Independence
The ICE Gestapo and everyone who approved this toruture and confinement without Due Process, or any evidence of wrongdoing or non-citizenship at all, need to be imprisoned. ASAP.
I just Can’t love #Respect
THIS America who has
#ChosenDarknessOverLight #Trump
An #Antichrist if not #TheAntichrist in place of a qualified #Decent #AmericanPresident
It’s a #CrapShoot to expect #We 🌏 will #Survive
THIS is #OnYouAmerica
The #ReligiousRight mistaken in #AllYourWays
Putin slaves are invited to Russia with a one way flight and a job, say with the Olympics! Russians take their passports, never pay them, force them into a factory or sex job and keep them until they die.
Not sure what you are referring to, but it is a fact that Russians, especially women, are frequently kidnapped or deceived into slavery and sex trafficking and funneled into Europe, Israel, and the US.
I find this hard to see this. It makes me deeply sad and angry. It's wrong in every way possible. None of these human beings had a hearing or a trial. They may be criminals but nobody knows. If they are they still must be treated like human beings or we have lost our own humanity.
Unless we rise up in revolt against this: this IS who we are as a nation.
We must put an end to this.
It’s not ok to protest only when our retirement is at stake.
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A human abyss.
https://de.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/03/13/wurde-donald-trump-unter-dem-namen-krasnow-vom-kgb-rekrutiert
It won't be. Someone is going to follow the money and find out the profit trump is making from selling these slaves.
If I were in the El Salvador prison unjustly, I most certainly would be in the process of becoming a terrorist.
The bible condones slavery so it must be true. (Sarcasm)
Because this time around it won’t just be black and brown people, it will be poor people.
Slaves don’t need Medicare, Medicaid or SS!
By the time u realise it not immigrants and trans people it will be too late! Tick tock!!
Democracy is slipping. Will we speak up—or stay silent and watch it fall? The descent isn’t slow anymore. Time to rise. Time to act. Let’s get to work.
This is the story of this moment in American history—as the coming second PROOF report on it will establish.
It is considerably bigger in scope and impact than even the current Tariff War news.
You are in good company in finding yourself in this situation.
It's just mask off right now.
This is happening.
This is a prison run by people with Jonathan Haidt's "Dark Personality Triad".
They think that they have found God.
Absolute Incompetent Administration.
Absolutely No Accountability.
Absolute Worthless Twats.
Fight Fascism with everything you have.
Freedom, Liberty,
and Democracy will Prevail.
#Fight #Fascism
#Freedom #Liberty #Democracy
M I L L E R
PLEASE.
Sacrifice for freedom. You have the influence. Use it. Tell them to drop paywalls.
#SharpieFascism
My UT Senators & Representatives are as red as red as can be.
There should be no slavery
Once the rule of law is abolished, very few people are truly safe.
But hasn't enforced, unpaid labour of your incarcerated population always been a thing?
I'm pretty sure its in one of your amendments.
Face it, your country has always been this way.
The rest of the world knows it.
Maybe to many white Americans it's new.
But I am certainly open to the notion that these are instead concentration camps.
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, ***except as a punishment for crime*** whereof the party shall have been duly convicted ..."
Prison labor is often legal slavery.
Human trafficking.
Serious question? Or were they branded upon arrive to justify incarceration?
The Trump regime is sending a message to everyone.
"We can do this to anyone and no-one will stop us."
https://youtu.be/krfcq5pF8u8?si=525igsCCmByYFwnb
I can only pay for so many subscriptions. I feel bad but I just don’t have any extra money. I’m disabled and can’t work.
But I haven’t watched TV in years.
I’ve been on YouTube. Also I used to watch a lot of art and craft shows before getting into politics two years ago!
Just a information about substack:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/jan/03/substack-user-revolt-anti-censorship-stance-neo-nazis
Surely this, on this scale, can’t come from nowhere?
Can ICC intervene on the prisoner's behalf & also prosecute the American nazis responible?
#SCOTUS
#SCOTUSIMPOTUS
What are you doing to put pressure on the administration to reverse this?!
My brother, I know you mean well, but what do you think the US prison system has been since the end of the Civil War?
That’s why many prison reform activists call themselves abolitionists.
And thankfully was introduced to the prison yoga project which also was a great eye opener
Joe Biden signed an executive order in 2022 that had several significant police reforms. He pardoned low-level cannabis offenders. He encouraged Congress to enact a prison oversight bill, which he signed before he left. He tried to do more.
https://mcbath.house.gov/2024/7/news-president-biden-signs-mcbath-prison-oversight-bill-into-law
https://youtu.be/krfcq5pF8u8?si=525igsCCmByYFwnb
I’m going need White folks to Google me, because these may be revelatory for you but they are not obscure sources for a university full professor who is Black, from Georgia & an elected member of the American Antiquarian Society. Thanks. 🙏🏾
I'm not white. I'm West Indian from St.Kitts. Black father, white mother.
👍💪
And somewhat ironic that Trump tries to impose tariffs on other countries for "unfair" trade when the US has a slave-labour economy.
#ImpeachmentNumber3
We are wasting energies on immovable, though loathsome, objects.
GO GET ON THE GOP CONGRESS NON-STOP!!
Are you great yet?
For-profit detention.
Follow the money 💰
I was right and you were wrong.
And they laughed at me.
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/11/25/18871016.php
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTfxPnIepXM
You know? Like we hunted the Nazis after the Second World War.
https://youtu.be/wTjMqda19wk?si=qqC5LkRb0zLAu7jP
THIS America who has
#ChosenDarknessOverLight #Trump
An #Antichrist if not #TheAntichrist in place of a qualified #Decent #AmericanPresident
It’s a #CrapShoot to expect #We 🌏 will #Survive
THIS is #OnYouAmerica
The #ReligiousRight mistaken in #AllYourWays
To me that would indicate The SCOTUS willingly and knowingly anticipated the Frankenstein monster that is currently the potus.
We must put an end to this.
It’s not ok to protest only when our retirement is at stake.