You are the first person this administration has disappeared for political reasons. The choice is deliberate. Defending you would come at a political cost—one they believe your university, your community, or any opposition party is unwilling to pay.
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That reminds me, the recent Brazilian film "I'm Still Here" movingly depicts the human, family-level experience of a government "disappearing" its foes.
This is how authoritarian regimes test the waters. The first disappearance is a warning. If no one fights back, the next one comes easier. And the one after that. Until fear replaces resistance.
Now, imagine this happening to you. Would anyone fight for you?
We believe that all people—regardless of nationality, immigration status, or political affiliation—deserve equal rights and due process under the law. The Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution guarantees that “No person shall be… deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”
THIS is how authoritarian regimes operate — unmarked agents, no due process, fear at your doorstep. THIS is happening in America? What’s next — secret arrests, forced disappearances? This is NOT freedom — it’s tyranny.
Then there's the German tourist. The day before she was scheduled to fly back home she was arrested by ice who claimed that she was going to outstay her visa so that she could work in the US. She's been there more than 30 days now but you never hear about her.
Yes! I was going to mention this one. How I heard it: A woman artist living in California was planning to meet her sweetheart, a German citizen, in Tijuana, so the could spend a couple of weeks together in CA. But the German gf is mysteriously detained. 1/
The US citizen waits & waits at the border and her gf never emerges. After weeks she finds her in jail in San Diego, given no cot, just a mat on the floor, and meals through a hole in the door, for almost a week while the German embassy tries to find her. 2/
WE NEED A MOTHER FUCKING COUNTER JUNTA GOVT TO ARREST AND JAIL TRUMP MUSK VANCE JOHNSON AND THE WHOLE CABINET AND ALL THE MAGA IN CONGRESS AND THE SENATE. THEY ALL WORK FOR PUTIN AND NOT FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. I WANT THE COUNTER JUNTA TO TAKE EFFECT ASAP. JAIL TRUMP. JAIL MUSK. JAIL VANCE. TODAY.
Look at it from a foreign perspective. Trump incites a riot at the nation's capitol in an attempt to overturn our democracy. We then vote him back into power! Now he's simply picked back up right where he left off. Why on earth would NATO do anything to fight against what we voted for??
The Fourteenth Amendment reinforces this by stating that “nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
It is worth noting that just prior to the part you quote above, the 14th amendment also differentiates between "citizens" and "any person." People often mistakenly use this same paragraph to assert that the rights outlined in the constitution only apply to its citizens: that assertion in incorrect.
I knew from the first two (one!) weeks that this was going to be the result. who will fight for you when your family already hates your political views?
The PROBLEM is that the tRump admin doesn’t care about the Constitution, upholding, protecting nor defending. Be prepared for the real fight to begin when they decide to ignore the court system all the way up to SCOTUS. AND they will eventually.
I would probably end up dead and a headline! Anyone ever pushes in behind me is being taken out! As many as I can as I’m now defending myself and my family from unidentified assailants with no warrant! Don’t think we’re not armed and ready!
Very sad we’re here and I pray everyone is safe!
Speaking up won't change anything. America is in deep deep trouble. I'm a history nerd and I can tell you that Trump is turning the US in a fascist state, quickly. We Europeans recognise fascism, we lived through it. You can't reverse what he's doing right now any time soon.
Perhaps get an Air tag now and keep it on your body. Give the code to someone(s$ and we will bloody well come for the person. Let’s organize our veterans who are getting screwed over. Bring me and you’ll hear/see a scene that makes Jasmine sit down.
Thanks for the post. So many atrocities are happening in our country everywhere, all at once. I'm trying to focus on people like you and the nourishment of hope.
I think the people need to storm this place and take it over from ICE and hold it until Trump backs down. It would be nice if your military and ACTUAL police backed up the good guys here. But that's all far wishes. No one in your country is seemingly doing anything to stop this awful crap.
I know it’s not realistic, but IMO it’s past time for a new modern democratic constitution with more enumerated & robust human rights protections. Amendments were just weak band-aids. Ask BIPOC. The fish rots from the head, e.g. the electoral college ensures human rights will be hobbled ad infinitum
The super weird thing is when I said Trump would try and revoke green cards claiming free Palestine protestors were terrorist the free Palestine protesters just wrote “genocide Joe” and told me to fuck off.
So is this another case of FAFO or do we only reserve that for MAGA?
They jumped him while he was off guard so even if he could make a righteous defense, no time to actually use his tools. America is occupied by Russian assets.
On going prayers. Heart breaking.I wish,someone had a choice to call,state boys in,on them.Why don't they have that right! Federal,Redaral.It's,it's,own state.If that could ever happen.Pull,ones in who have it in their hearts to uphold the laws,not political game.They talk different to,officers
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What I find most terrifying of all is that the detention centres are PRIVATELY owned. Privatizing prisons is FASCIST. People profiting off of rehabilitation only allows corrupt people to create slaves. America is becoming a cesspool of greed.
Of course, they want everything in this country privately owned. They even want the police to be privatized, the courts to be privatized.That is how sick the ultra rich have become.
This admin is not going to follow the rule of law.
Scared now to even write anything. I just hope there is a group of superhero's out there. Cuz that is what it will take to bring these pieces of $%6& down.
The chips veterinarians implant are not tracking devices, the pet can be scanned to find the info on them only when you scan the actual pet. It doesn't work over distances.
Yo! ICE! Maybe you better come arrest me, too. Even though I am a USC from birth, with family going back to 17th Century Massachusetts (far longer than the corrupt idiot my fellow citizens have ignorantly chosen to lead this once-great country). I, too, support Palestinian freedom, justice.
I'm a Ukrainian Canadian that also has British and Scottish ancestry. I can probably trace my family that moved from England and Scotland to the US further back than Trump can trace his.
His family made their money off the gold rush in Canada. His grandfather ran a whorehouse.
I, too, reject ethnic cleansing, genocide, the wanton destruction of Gaza and the deaths of 40,000+ innocent children, women and men by armaments supplied by and the financial support of my country. I oppose the war crimes, the illegal occupation. That DOES NOT make me anti-Semitic or pro-Hamas
or pro-terrorist. And thousands of other US Citizens think and feel the way I do, demanding a safe homeland for the Semitic Palestinian people. Maybe you should arrest and deport us all. Maybe to someplace reasonable and just. SHAME on YOU!!! I stand with Mahmoud Kahlil!!
Start by calling the ACLU? Do everything you can to find where they are being held. I think this type of thing is happening more than once and not everybody is gonna be covered in media. Just like not many native American or Black people who get kidnapped or reported on.
Now is a good time to operate under a Nomme de Geurre (name of war). Don't make it easy for them. It harder to find out where you live if they don't know who to actually look for. Not impossible, just harder.
He will try to declare martial law. He’s testing those waters now with Mahmoud declaring protests are “terrorism”. It will give him a reason to declare martial law. We need pull a John Lewis and cause Good Trouble. Relentless Good Trouble.
And pretty much all of the Americas for decades. They’ve got a a full “how to” binder with cliff notes and a “how to disappear someone - for dummies”. Fool proof instructions.
Please, everyone protest this Fri. & Sat. at all state capitals + DC + other cities! Peaceful protests need to grow fast!
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Wonderfully written and so frightening there has been so little coverage and outrage over the kidnapping of a legal resident the President wants to use as his show of power over every resident, legal or not, in the United States of America. How is this not fascism?
I didn't realize the reputation of that facility. That is where a severely disabled man who has had multiple strokes is being held. He has a traumatic brain injury and heart disease. The DR embassy had said he was scheduled for deportation a week ago, but he is still showing in that facility.
Presumably bc the for-profit facility only gets money for people while they're kept in the facility. The minute the person is deported, they've lost that income. It's vile, immoral, unethical & inhumane, same as the school to prison pipeline. Oh, & the cruelty is the point, as is creating fear.
The prison he has been allegedly brought too in Jena Louisiana has a horrible history of abusive treatment even prior to being used by ICE. This is horrible to witness in our country
Join 2 nation-wide protests this weekend at all state capitals + DC + other cities! Peaceful protests need to grow fast!
Due process!
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As a multigenerational American of Mexican descent, I now carry a copy of my birth certificate on me at all times. During the Mexican Repatriation Act, 1.2 million ‘Americans’ of Mexican descent were illegally deported, some never able to return to their American birthplace again. See photo.
It is getting me worried. I don’t want to leave the country but I am considering it. I don’t want my daughter to live here if it doesn’t get better. She fortunately has dual US/German citizenship.
I find myself wondering how you've lasted this long. I mean, post covid, i would have got out if i could. (Am Australian, so Trump still dangerous, but less so personally.)
Get to Germany while you can. For your daughter. I have a dual citizen son and am so grateful he is in UK. He’s an adult. We saw this coming a long time ago and made sure he was culturally accustomed to UK as a kid. It’s probably the best thing we could’ve done to give him a path out of here.
Thanks for jumping in and bring awareness to how corrupt our federal government is AND HAS BEEN!
If you want to talk about the constitution, explain how the scotus gutted the 4th amended with their terry v Ohio ruling!
Also, federal employees are exempt from prosecution, like our emperor is!
Got it and agree BUT how are we expected to pick up arms against our neighbors, family and other uninformed folks that are intertwined amongst us. I know something has to be done now or never but HOW?
I’m only talking about self-defense in response to an imminent threat. Any shady-ass folks threatening me or my family’s freedom with no identification or proper warrants will be assumed to be imposters and dealt with accordingly.
As for MAGA I may know IRL, they are simply dead to me💀
Because money and power, Emma. Money and power. They did this kind of thing under Bush, Jr., too. Hundreds of people taken and held indefinitely because they spoke out against the Afghan invasion and the 2nd Iraq War.
This is what was done in several South American countries during the 70s and 80s. I worked with people in Brazil who said that one day a classmate was in their college class and the next day they were never seen again. Dictatorships and military rule.
The best part of having my country crawling with infinite Mexicans is that now, everywhere I go, I feel like a towering specimen of masculine vitality and superiority, surrounded by bowlegged goblins.
Sometimes I pretend I'm their king & an evil wizard in my court bred them for my amusement.
No they are not bc they don't want to listen. I remember as a child in Ecuador waking up to a nation with hundreds of Chileans that literally ran for their life with the clothes on their back. No money bc pinochet froze the banks. No proof of their education as doctors, lawyers, teachers, 1/
This is why I only speak Spanish (thank you US Army Language School) in public. Hoping. Praying. That they will come for me next. They will receive a rude surprise.
That's a cool way to resist. My Spanish is weak and I've taken lots of classes and studied Duolingo. But I'm also from the Yeehaw part of Florida, not the Mr Worldwide part of Florida
The thing is, though, there is no Law anymore! And if there is, the Felon, the Repugs, and even the Courts are not following it!
So the Constitution is just a piece of paper like it has always been... that old male crackers run to when they think it fits their narrative and ignores when it doesn't!
He had a green card, he did not have a visa, tho the agents claimed he did when they confronted him. The green card was not expired. He is a legal permanent resident.
They keep arresting people who have a legal right to be here then try to cover it up, in his case, b saying his visa expired. They must imagine we are all fools.
The famous quote, "First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out..." is a powerful reminder of the dangers of apathy and the importance of speaking out against injustice.
It's counter-intuitive, but our best hope is for pranksters to take the lead in #nonviolent #civilresistance. It's a matter of using the right #techniques.
Ivana Trump fell to her death at the exact moment Trump needed a pause in prosecution. Coincidence? Probably not.
Trump wants to be able to disappear people. Republicans will allow him to remove anyone.
I don’t understand this comment? Like, there definitely hasn’t been silence, there have been marches about it and there’s like a big petition and lawyers have filed things trying to block the deportation.
Who is it in your mind that should be speaking out about this who isn’t already?
Surely this is about some new case I've never heard of. You can't be talking about the guy who has the ACLU defending him, who has had massive protests in NYC in his name, and has had nonstop press coverage of the issue for two days
There have actually been headlines, statements by political leaders from Senate Judiciary Dems down, loud big street protests, and a rapid lawsuit. I don't count that as "no one is coming."
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And then, you’re gone.
Now, imagine this happening to you. Would anyone fight for you?
🚨 WAKE UP — THIS IS A POLICE STATE!
We uphold the Constitution. That is why we speak up.
Very sad we’re here and I pray everyone is safe!
So is this another case of FAFO or do we only reserve that for MAGA?
https://bsky.app/profile/dogmacatma.bsky.social/post/3lk35ycd7fs26
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I fear for the future of America and her cherished democracy.
Thank you for all you do.
RANGERS LEAD THE WAY!
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Scared now to even write anything. I just hope there is a group of superhero's out there. Cuz that is what it will take to bring these pieces of $%6& down.
But I won't go quietly. And hope I won't be alone…
His family made their money off the gold rush in Canada. His grandfather ran a whorehouse.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/wife-arrested-columbia-student-says-she-was-naive-believe-he-was-secure-2025-03-12/
Shit.
You ain’t seen nothing yet
They still haven't charged him with a crime but the protests are growing.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/13/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-british-government-work
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The louder the cruel
trump-borg shouts, the more deeply we all need to look.
Follow the money.
Infuriating thread.
We just have to stay together and fight with every single tool we have.
#fuckdemguys
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If you want to talk about the constitution, explain how the scotus gutted the 4th amended with their terry v Ohio ruling!
Also, federal employees are exempt from prosecution, like our emperor is!
As for MAGA I may know IRL, they are simply dead to me💀
And why tf is this place still open if all of this abuse has taken place
If anyone has ever watched "The Pianist" this post of the detail of events reminds me of that movie.
Sometimes I pretend I'm their king & an evil wizard in my court bred them for my amusement.
Is that what we are now?
https://icmp.int/the-missing/where-are-the-missing/brazil/
We used to call this crimes against humanity when they did it ...
https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/44248565-id-rather-die-trying-to-take-them-down-than-die-gi
So the Constitution is just a piece of paper like it has always been... that old male crackers run to when they think it fits their narrative and ignores when it doesn't!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrajudicial_killings_and_enforced_disappearances_in_Bangladesh
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Democracy?
Humanism?
Muslims against muslims?
Who's next to line up to support fascism?
This is what fascism looks like. Obey or else
Fascism is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition
#effective #resistance
Trump wants to be able to disappear people. Republicans will allow him to remove anyone.
Who is it in your mind that should be speaking out about this who isn’t already?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacht_und_Nebel