3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.
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I watch Lawrence O'Donnell, Rachel, Chris, and all those on MSNBC every night. We need a unifying slogan like, "We, The People Rule."
This is for all parties and non-partisans.
Say no to deportations to El Salvador. Get on the phone or e-mail and tell your reps in DC. Resist. It only takes a few minutes and best of all..it doesn’t cost any money.
We don’t need money in politics. We just need people to participate. https://www.nationalfinancialplan.com
Republicans don’t want rule of law.
They want law at the whim of a ruler.
Rulers. Worse, they elected the King
of Misrule, whose job it is to turn society upside down.
Whatever they are…and they’ve been the party of racism for fifty years…Republicans are officially Republicans on every ballot everywhere. Adam will have to start a new party.
Victims won’t be limited to immigrants living in America legally or illegally. It will extend to naturalized citizens and eventually to birthright citizens. There’s always got to be a scapegoat to distract and scare the public🤷🏻♂️
I just finished this amazing book last week and was gutted by the similarities between then and now. It’s like I was reading about today and it was sobering.
Avelo Airlines is the company abetting in kidnapping these people. Their Director of Communications, Jim Olsen, is on the board of the PR Museum in NYC. It would be a shame if anyone sent them a message asking why they celebrate this awful person.
This is how they stopped having drugs for death row inmate’s deaths. No drug company wanted to be associated with the murder of humans, so now there are no drugs to kill inmates.
Yep. For. While there were very few executions. And I think the idea was that firing squads were to gruesome for public palatability. But now the powers that be don’t care about that. Killing the most in the least amount of time is their goal.
Major industries were accomplices to Nazi war crimes and profited from concentration camp slave labour. That was pretty much the point of Auschwitz III-Monowitz. IG Farben had a subsidiary that made Zyklone B (hydrogen cyanide), which the Nazi’s used to gas the Jews. 1/2
People should recognize the level of complicity amongst major corporations (and professionals that run them) and their previous or planned involvement in any efforts to “Protect the homeland” or whatever bullshit propaganda is being used as justification. 2/2 https://www.axios.com/2025/02/21/drug-industry-seeks-partnership-trump-rfk
Need Americans to see the very real connection to Gaza and the student deportations here and prevent US support for ethnic cleansing. End Palestinian statelessness, restore campus student free speech and rights, stop racist raids for deportations
Russia’s army is given free rein to commit any crimes in occupied Ukrainian territories, not only war crimes. We understand that war crimes are generally more serious, but the reign of lawlessness is wider.
https://www.embassypages.com/elsalvador This is a list of all the El Salvador consular missions worldwide and all countries with a mission there - addresses, phone numbers, emails
Someone on Twitter (yeah, I know) wrote a deep dive into a German engineering firm that built crematoriums for Buchenwald. There is a museum in Erfurt about their role and it all started with some minor contracts.
Thank you for all you do to keep us informed. I hope your transition to living in Canada is going well. It's so unfortunate, but certainly understandable. Peace 🪷
I read Black Earth last week, incredible book that taught me so much about how to apply lessons from the Holocaust to what’s happening today. Every adult should read it.
Wanted to say thank you for everything you’re doing
Your book was a propaganda piece that weakened, not strengthened civil society against attempts to undermine common norms. Your unapologetic recycling of Nolte-Style, dehumanising stereotyping tainted a whole generation of liberal thinkers, normalising polemics as accepted tools of History.
I’m glad you are expressing this horror in direct terms, no cowardly euphemisms. I’m sick of the word “authoritarian.” We crossed the Rubicon months ago.
The orange overlord, as judge,jury, and possible executioner, condemned this innocent man to a hell PRISON in defiance of our Supreme Court. This felon is testing U.S. to see how far he can go unchecked… Tell U.S. what we CAN do to stop this?
We were all warned about this last year and the time to stop it was in November.
Hundreds of millions either voted for this fascist criminal or decided it didn’t matter and didn’t vote at all. These people have fucked us all over - they own it.
You're right. You're right. You're right.
But those crazies are the ones with bump stocks & 100 shell magazines. Scariest freakin' thing I have ever seen.
There are examples of countries pulling back from the edge even after someone like Trump get in power. We can still do it—it’s just harder now, not impossible
Millions were misled by the nationalist propaganda financed by billionaires.
Many people seek a reduction of competition by the extraction of other groups.
Robbespierre, Stalin, Hitler and Mao were all republican tyrants. They were barbarian and cruel, much worse than the kings before. Trump is one of them, although we still don't, how much evil he is willing to command.
He has to do anything in his power to avoid conviction and sentencing for his crimes. Holding onto POTUS power accomplishes that. Transforming the U.S. into a dictatorship ensures retaining power by ending free and fair elections. The economic collapse keeps Americans unable to afford protesting.
No, they think it was good. They think the victims of the holocaust were subhuman, because anyone not them is subhuman and they totally buy into the ubermench philosophy. Just look at Trump's rhetoric. Miller. Bannon. Musk. They're all some kind of supremacist.
Unlike Trump Nazis began deportation after years of rule and professional propaganda. But they succeeded to force good Germans like Einstein or Thomas Mann into Exile 1933.
That’s the plan though. Trump, Musk & the Heritage Foundation will be relentless in the hopes that people will eventually just break and give up. Don’t give up, Americans.
But if California, Texas and other important states cooperate, they can build a strong opposition. They must do it, before Trump converts the USA into a centralized state like France.
But here’s the thing: They’re not magic. They’re not gods. Not him nor him. Someone can stop this. It’s a matter of will. America IS demanding it. We are writing/calling/demonstrating/boycotting.
No. Giving up has nothing to do with it. If anything? People's definitions of fighting with accelerate it. Have done so. Because most american's definition of fighting nazis is...to cripple democrats even further. To further ignore and dismiss the opinions of minority groups.
As in. The more active american is. The worse it'll be. Because the very core of what most americans think is fighting? Is handing america over to nazis on a silver platter. The right. Republicans/conservatives have long since been able to redefine what is and isn't logic and morality for most...
There is no way that man has ever engaged in that activity. He's never done any work in his life, and I'm convinced that's how he views pleasing a partner.
Wish I could come too…I am American but half French Canadian. Doubtful any of our former friends and allies even want many Americans around anymore thanks to Trump. 😢
LOL I understand 💙 i just wish we could go back to the way things were before trump. Wasn’t perfect but I always respected our friends and allies. I’m just scared tonight
Can I just mention that we are all paying to fly everyone to El Salvador and we are paying for all of the effort to find everyone and they’re making huge mistakes? If we made that big of a mistake at our jobs we would all be fired
Am I the only one who doesn't believe this was a mistake? I believe in my heart that someone in the chain-of-command knew exactly who they were abduction, putting on those planes, and sending to hell.
I smell Stephen Miller's stench all over this. He's been too happy lately.
Let us be sure we are not assuming they are being more clandestine than they are. Any assumption AT ALL of their capabilities is a form of obeying in advance. Vastly more people understand vastly more than they did 50-60 years ago, even if they may not overtly appear to.
Its always been a republican that has done this crazy crap. My whole life, its been them…now they’redoing the same crap, and pointing to the dems, saying we did this…when the whole world saw it was the republicans who pulled the levers…dumbasses…
The world knows. That's why they begged the dems to put the traitor's ass in prison, crack down on right-wing disinformation media, close down the Guantanamo bay gulag, and abolish ICE when they were in power, instead of playing bipartisanshipwith the republicans. Now everyone is left despondent.
Blud, what kind of law suggests not abolishing oppressive institutions like Gitmo and ICE!?
The president can issue an EO and have the congress vote on it later. Trump is literally doing that!
Law? We all closed our eyes. ALL OF US. Sure we tweeted or posted of whatever about what we all knew would happen. Hell I hate bragging about this but I knew exactly how it would happen because I experienced it in Iran. But we all turned a blind eye.
Try not to read everything that agrees with you…find mire that challenge your thinking. Because the truth lays somewhere in between…I’m speaking about the situation here in America 🇺🇸…
No good for retirees, even self-supporting ones. I looked into it. I paid an immigration lawyer. Canada only wants you if you can work, or if you can get into a school that will lead to work. No old folks need apply, even if you live well and can afford private health insurance. Too bad…!
He did not commit a crime like 75% of our neighbors, friends, and family sent to concentration camps. 100% did not get their constitutional right to due process.
Thank you for being present, Professor Snyder...
I read "Bloodlands" and have since not fully slept... the "mass killing" program, the casual starvation of 3.3 million Ukrainians -ordinary people each with a name- a Venn diagram of evil... It's indelibly etched on my eyelids demanding my vigilance.
The fact that the media is legitimizing Hamas's horrific massacres by gaining sympathy is shameful. Why is no one reporting what Hamas has done to Israeli civilians?
You say you care about civilians and human rights? Does that also include the human rights of civilians in Israel and all other countries? It is a fact that Hamas has kidnapped and killed civilians from dozens of countries.
Correct, but we the people are under attack right here in our country, right now. We have no power to stop Hamas, the Yemen attacks, Putin, Kim Jung Un or any other vicious dictator. But we Must gather together our power here, in America to stop it from taking hold!!
All you're producing is a stream of AI-generated propaganda, not a shred of context. You even throw in a token reference to the plight of Palestinians so you could pretend to recognize there's a debate. Pathetic.
If people in Gaza and the West Bank feel innocent they should stand up against Hamas and provide information about the hostages to Israel to achieve peace.
This all used to matter when we were citizens. We are subjects now. Subject to the arbitrary and capricious whims of anyone that swears allegiance to the new king. That can be anyone. Anyone can be deputized to commit any assault against any other person the regime considers undesirable.
Where this occurs is irrelevant because anyone working for the king has impunity or can be pardoned. There is no longer any distinction of state versus federal crime. Nor is there a distinction of national or non-national territory. They can do anything they want to anyone anywhere. No consequence.
Keep in mind a huge number of Americans really don't know what's happening... they don't even know they need to stand up. Yes they may be apathetic, but ignorance is what the nazis are counting on to complete this coup. We need to bring protests to ALL parts of the country, not just big cities
Exactly. Fox News - that’s the only information source ⅓ of our country watches.
Fox isn’t telling their viewers this.
They friggin DROPPED THEIR STOCK TICKER during the crash!
There’s a huge population who only see what they want to see.
We must MAKE THEM SEE IT!
Was thinking of this recently regarding some family and friends. Not a new awareness though. Even before ‘The Brainwashing of My Dad’ and other Fox exposés.
Actually thought I was born a Democrat — at the end of her life, my mom was embracing every Fox view.
But as “brainwashing dad” shows, it’s not just that they change their views. Their entire personalities change. They become more negative, bitter & angry. Their empathy drains away.
I’m so sorry. My dad worked in the DOJ for 30 years during Reagan/Clinton and earlier. Republican. Then he got cancer and saw how bad the healthcare system was-even for retired feds. He took a hard dive left, and I’m proud of him for that. We lost him in 2018, and he was livid about Trump, disbelief
You’re surely right about the first part, but the last part strikes me as unfair. Part of the reason for lying to them—and for conditioning them to distrust factual sources—has to be because at least many of them would care, and vote differently, if they knew the actual facts.
@timothysnyder.bsky.social From the Enlightenment until today Western countries have developed in an increasingly democratic and liberal direction. The developments we are now seeing in the US are present in other countries as well. Do you think this is a paradigm shift or an unpleasant parenthesis?
Guantanamo is a problem for the Trump jackboots because there's no way they can pretend their hands are tied getting people back from American property. El Salvador provides them a political smokescreen.
At this point basically everything tRump attempts is illegal.
Only a criminal constantly attempts terrible things, revels in throwing toxic shit at the wall to see what earns a less severe scolding - close enough to approval in his twisted mind. Not in civilized society, Donold.
1/5
But in tRump testing limits is pathological. Far from instructive, every limit is intolerable, any boundary requiring immediate violation. He must have a 3rd term even if it's from the grave, must keep the innocent in prison. He must push to the front of a crowd among European...
3/5
... leaders & violate Hillary's personal space on a debate stage.
Healthy people retain some innocence, some degree of childlike enthusiasm, wonder & affection. tRump feels a void he strives to fill with the trappings of money & power, painting everything gold & demanding protection money.
4/5
I see people writing all around (and rightly so!) about D.Trumps atrocities on many levels. However, I see no one discussing how it is possible at such early stage of this term. Aside from DOGE he hasn't created any new institutions, he just (ab)uses what (and who) he's got already at hand. tbc
My hypothesis is: the state was corrupt already corrupt before. Alas it wasn't (and still isn't) discussed enough.
This looks exactly like what we saw in Poland when in 2015 our local medium-righ (Trump supporters btw) took power from the soft-right (called liberals for the sake of disguise). tbc
So essentially, that's what they're trying to accomplish in El Salvador. Can sanctions against America for human rights abuses by our old allies help to stop this genocide?
Can someone please compile a list of the lawyers enabling this bullshit so we can file mass bar discipline complaints against them? I can't track them all down but have a draft complaint nearly ready to file in Cali on Ensign.
Aaron Zebley, a target of one of Trump's executive orders, being sworn in during Robert Mueller's House Intelligence Committee testimony on July 24, 2019
President Trump signed memorandums
[2] Trump's memorandums and orders also specifically targeted lawyers Marc Elias, Peter Koski, Mark Pomerantz, James Quarles, Jack Smith, Andrew Weissmann, Mark Zaid, and Aaron Zebley.
Thank you. I am trying to identify the government lawyers who are arguing that it's OK to disappear people. Not the lawyers who have been attacked. And I need to know which states have licensed them.
What does that mean? We need the bar admission info on the lawyers lying in court and refusing to uphold the Constitution. Then we can file complaints with state bar associations asking for them to be disbarred or disciplined.
Judge Xinis needs to take the position that the DOJ’s attorneys are taking a knowingly frivolous position in violation of their ethics and oaths and hold them in summary contempt, personally, and refer them to the bar. They should be criminally prosecuted as accomplices.
True, and even private individuals in some instances. A judge just carries a certain weight. By definition, advancing a frivolous argument is unethical and a court’s judgment on that type of issue is immensely credible.
The enablers (mostly lawyers‼️) of this kakistocracy of a 🇺🇸 administration need to remember the “…. commitment to set the legal and ethical foundation…” and “…committed to its mission of defending liberty and pursuing justice” of their professional association
#MakeItMakeSense
NB: Law students compiled this list of law firms' responses to the Trump administration's attacks on them. It will be helpful as 2Ls start bidding on OCI slots-2nd year law students apply for on-campus interviews for law firm internships, a critical point in the process to land a job at graduation.)
This might make you a target.
Be cautious. Do it anyway. It’s for the chroniclers, the war crimes, & any bit of resistance can be sticky enough to slow them down. If there’s ever been a time in your life to dig your heels in, it’s now. Make them come for us all.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that ALL men (and women) are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
While I understand why you make this point, the history of the area of Auschwitz was:
- till 1742 part of Bohemia
- till 1871 part of Prussia
- till 1921 part of Germany
- till 1939 part of Poland
- till 1945 part of Germany
- since then Poland
But yes, it is usually easier to 'outsource' concentration camps, build them abroad, like Gitmo. So you can torture people and pretend your country's laws don't apply.
It's entirely possible to build CCs on US soil and label them 'special prisons' though. Keep vigilant.
lol. The war starts shortly. There are two aircraft carriers in the Middle East and 6 B-2 o. Diego Garcia. We’re gonna light em up. Someone uses nukes. And it’s on
Every action Trump wants to take is precipitated by the announcement of a new "National Emergency", especially the ones he was talking about eight years ago and during his election campaigning.
GOP re-defined the meaning of "day" so that the National Emergency Declaration he signed on Day 1 is in force/effect for far longer than 90 days. It's why they are hardly in session. "Day" = day Congress is in session. All of the shit going in flows from his Day 1 Declaration.
dude he wrote the book. find a program to autosummarize if you can't bring yourself to read the whole thing, don't make the author do MORE WORK because you can't bother, that's bad form, no? Or just skim like most ppl do unless it's not your first language, kinda no excuse
He just said he was going to summarize it. I was weighing in on the type of summary that I think would be cool. And, to be honest, AI summaries sometimes lose the plot, which means I don't trust any of them. So, yeah, not sure why you're coming at me.
agreed abt AI summaries. I dunno, it comes across as demanding to me but you do you. if i was an author and someone asked me to summarize my book i'd point ppl to the abstract or ask them to read the book? like if i found time to write it ppl can read. but i shouldn't attack you either, you're right
Eh, they weren't nice. They took on Trump policy and didnt deliver what they ran on. You got more US empire bombs and genocide in the world while Biden ate ice cream instead. They waffled 4 yrs, had 3 months of the supreme court empowering Pres to be a king and protected no part of Democracy w it.
Yes, and the Trump administration seemingly has no qualms about this. While I doubt they'd come right out and say "Yes, we're acting like Nazis" they are insisting that their "policy" is above the law and the constitution. They don't hide it.
A fundamental problem in the USA: Too many Americans simply cannot be bothered to THINK CRITICALLY which allows them to be manipulated by the grifters!
Well. All of the Muslims I know did. I spoke to many in Sept and Oct. I went to prayers. They were very clear that many others did the same. So how am I “wrong”
Yep. Lotta ppl seem to believe voting's for personal expression, instead of every citizen's duty to do yr part to elect the best betwn the given candidates, one of whom WILL be elected. Geez Louise, nobody's stopping us from writing an editorial, or protesting, or speaking up at a Town Hall. 🤷♀️
Biden did not have a genocide policy last year, or the year before, or ever. To the extent that you are suggesting Biden authorized arrests, this is incorrect.
If you are implying that Biden directed local police to brutalize people, the POTUS has no state jurisdiction.
It’s Israeli policy. Words have actual meanings. When you say that you make it seem (to those without critical thinking skills) like Joe Biden sat down and wrote a policy specifically designed to eradicate Palestinians. He did not. And that’s why nobody takes your argument seriously.
Stateless Zones- similar to “Diesel Therapy” when prisoners are put on no man’s land planes & shuttled around the country for weeks at a time to break them down. Like waterboarding with altitude. Locations “unknown” other than “in custody”
Scene from the film “Winner” on Hulu about Reality Winner.
Refreshingly enough, Dems are working at politics as usual. But Trump and the GOP are stealing records, data, probably even voter records. They are not "playing politics." They will steal next election in advance by powerful criminal means. It is why they are quiet and united. Who will stop them?
The only difference between Hitler and Trump in the treatment of political opponents and people inconvenient to the regime is that Trump outsourced the concentration camps to another tyrant.
States need to form Community Protection Task Forces in large numbers to act as Response Teams, to interfere with ICE kidnappings in real time, as they are happening.
Protect our immigrant neighbors!
Stop the abductions!
And also endorsing the practice of the European immigrants who came to the lands now known as the USA in relation to all those tribal nations, and their practice in relation to slavery and their misguided sense of being a part of a superior race.
It is definitely the end of democracy. What does it say about a country whose leader would rather build prisons in another country for its citizens, rather than help to house and feed struggling families? I am physically sick over this despot.
We know we are now in trouble when we are having to fear our own government never in American history have we ever had to fear our own government this is not America. This is Russia. This is North Korea. This is not America and these are not patriots these are people that want the US gone
This is Trumps point. He's lawless, can do anything he wants and blame it on someone else. This is the world we live in now. Until the Republicans hold him accountable nothing is going to happen until we make a concentrated effort to elect all Democrats in 2026. It's up to us!
With respect…you, like many Americans seem to be in serious denial. You’re not a functioning democracy right NOW. He is ignoring a 9/0 ruling from the Supreme Court and Congress refuses to do anything to stop him…you actually believe there are going to be free and fair elections, if any at all?
With respect, I am 100% NOT in denial. I know we are not a functioning democracy!! I have voted in every single election I could, never once voted for a Republican or any of these policies. My point is he's ignoring a SC order & no one is holding them accountable. I'm terrified for my country.
It wasn’t my intention to discourage you from voting. My point was that you can’t count on that alone to save you. Congress just passed the Save Act. THEY are making sure you don’t have free and fair elections. Right now! I support you 100%. If I could cross the border and march with you I would.
And we're going to keep trying to vote, while we do whatever else we have to do to take back our country. I'll never understand why ppl think voting should be tossed as soon as there's a problem. It shows they don't know what we're fighting for
Right? So sick of people not in this country telling us we’re in denial. We are WELL AWARE that we are in hell and standing on the other side of the fence, reminding us is not helpful.
Exactly. I NEVER voted a single Republican vote & have protested against all of this madness! I'm so beyond sickened by how they are destroying our country, so angry at the establishment Republicans who have sold their soul, given up their pride & allowed this buffoon to sell us out.
You all need to pull your heads out of the sand. You need to realize that you no longer live in a democracy. Court cases and mass protests are not work. He ignores the law and no one holds him accountable for breaking it. You are a hair's width away from becoming a police state.
I disagree about the protests. I think they need to do them even bigger! Like South Korea style! The institutions aren’t going to save them. It’s going to take an all out revolt against the government. I know they have it in them.
This post doesn't give "pulling for my USA friends" at all. This kind of crap take actually demoralizes voters. We get enough of that shit here. We don't need it from our northern brothers and sisters.
It does. They don't need to come to our defense at all but they do. I'm proud of our Canadian friends and thankful they still consider many of us friends.
Of course not!!! I’m just saying you don’t have until 2026. Look what’s happening in SC with the Supreme Court race! Congress just passed the Save act. In fact I believe it was voter suppression that cost Kamala the election. I’m not trying to be hurtful, I’m saying you need to act now.
It's even simpler and dumber than that, and why they're so eager to send DOJ lawyers out to perjure themselves and commit crimes.
They're going to ignore every court that rules against them, and hold up every ruling in their favor as proof that it's all legal and cannot be questioned.
Yes, first the Nazis closed the schools and the Jewish businesses. Then moved them and fenced them into the gettos, then shipped them to the camps and gassed them. Most of these camps were not in Germany.
That's what people voted for. They didn't care that he RAPED MULTIPLE PEOPLE, stole from veterans, swindled charities, or ran multiple businesses into the ground. They only cared that he allowed them to be as racist as they wanted to be. They were screaming for the blood of immigrants.
It boggles my mind how people can’t seem to grasp that if the government can do these things to others, it can do the same to them. So even if you have no empathy at all, how can you lack self preservation?
Intentional contempt of court is a violation of their oath.Their leaked and coded talking points,for about a year, have indicated that this was their likely course of action.They plan to remove people from the US then ignore the courts.Now they will go after judges and others who cause them problems
Ugh, I can not ❤️that because my options for allies in this struggle is too limited. For now my money is being invested in effective Substack content producers and zero $ to Dem or Blue $ requests. @democracymichelle.bsky.social What talking points and actions warrent support:4me it’s Democracy 1st
And what do you suggest is done to stop or change it? The Supreme Court is no longer supreme...if they aren't respected and have zero effect on the dictator-wannabe, it's over. The Hitler-wannabe and Putin's puppet has won!
I was just reading, in Team of Rivals, how Chase would argue that when slaves crossed a border into a free state, the slave state laws no longer held. Used to a different end. But similar concept.
Timothy Snyder- In the meanwhile the rest of society is trying to protect their own mental health by tuning out because they feel helpless do stop it all.
What Trump is doing is absolutely evil.
But it's simply wrong to paint the USA as some bastion of civilization and justice in the past. It serves nobody to lie about that.
Truth is important, even when it's inconvenient.
w/o even expanding the implications, I am sickened that even one human being has to suffer so unjustly. This is not what I have spent my life believing the US was or could ever become.
To be frank, by ruling the President immune from criminal prosecution, the Supreme Court has already laid the groundwork for detaching people from the law. Sending people to Salvadorian prisons is just another alternative route to the same destination. That there are now several is dismaying.
So when the "president" leaves the country next. We just botcott his return. He has no power outside the states. So no preaidential funding to fly him back.
You’re assuming there will be a fair and honest 2026 election if there is one at all. Given all drumpf has done so far and his republican fealty I don’t think we can wait that long but I don’t know what we can do until then.
Everything he does is for revenge
He will assume that if he loses the presidency -the Democrats and opposition will want revenge too .
I can’t see Trump allowing a fair election under those circumstances .
Keep an eye on the North Carolina supreme court race
Canary in a coal mine
Gonna be rough
🎯🎯🎯 Watch "The Zone of Interest" I can't recommend it enough in this alarming time. We can't let this happen again. Don't let what is happening become part of normal life.
Initially the Klansman-in-chief’s idea was to send tens of thousands of immigrant detainees to Guantanamo - but it’s still subject to US and military law; too fraught with guardrails for this murderous crew. Hence, El Salvador.
The lesson from Fascism in Europe was the establishment of the ECHR and the ICC. There was the recognition that there had to be super-national bodies over rogue states and protecting individuals from Governments.
In US instead President is all powerful - a major flaw.
Remember when American service-member, Benjamin Ferencz, was the youngest prosecutor, and had to set up the Nuremberg trials to lead the prosecutions of the Nazi commanders? The U.S. set the stage and standards of justice for the world. The US created the UN and the Law Castle (Carnegie), subdue war
My mother was 3 in Kishinev during the progrom. Escaped to US at 7. Had my first fistfight at 6 in Boston for being a “dirty Jew”. Thought I would be ok now that I’m 90. But the expectation of impending Kristallnacht has awakened.
We are also losing our own right to due process in the bargain. If they can make up a story to cover their mistake; if Trump says “I have no authority to ask for him back” and El Salvador says “we have no authority to give him back;” they can make up a story about any of us and we cannot counter it.
We all become Edmond Dantés or Jean Valjean. Lost in darkness and despair. We can all be disappeared to never see our families again. All it takes is to be declared a national security threat.
How ironic that this administration aggressively channels Nazism as it simultaneously professes to be an aggressive opponent of antisemitism (eg, punishing universities for what it perceives as insufficient opposition to antisemitism).
Ironic, yes. But they are purposefully misrepresenting Zionism and Judaism as the same. Many Jewish people are against Israel's actions in Gaza, and they are NOT antisemitic.
Yes. Opposing Israel's devastation in Gaza, and calling it terrorism or genocide, is not antisemitic. It is a criticism of a country, not a criticism of Jews. When non-Jews oppose the actions of the nation of Israel in Gaza, that's not antisemitism.
1. Christian Nationalists love Israel not Jews. 2. Israel is vital to their theology's end times. Conflating serves their goals. 3. Sad fact: Some Jews see "never again" applicable only to Jews vs any race among humanity. 4. Trump AND Netanyahu and their followers are making it happen again.
You know who took their family of sociopaths to Germany to c these torture camps “three” X’s ⁉️Huckabee..what power has DJT given him? Sarah got Alabama..the impression it must of left on his young children. 1 son hung dogs at day camp from trees..sliced neck..Sociopathic children usually by age 10
My understanding is that psychopaths are devoid of all empathy, have no remorse, and are generally considered more dangerous. Perhaps Sadist is the best label though as taking pleasure from torturing and murdering dogs would fall into that camp. They usually start with animals...
That depends .. Ted Bundy was a clinical Sociopath..this behavior usually is created by 10..they would be the child who tortures animals later narcissistic behavior kicks in along with a pathology to lie they’re pathological liars so personally in my opinion, psychopath less dangerous, Equal?
It's time for the military to make good on their oath to the constitution and the rights it affords We the People.
47 and his enablers must be impeached and removed.
It was tamed lawyers that helped give the veneer, the cover, all along, just as at the Wannsee conference. By the way Bloodlands and Black Earth are essential reading.
Even more fundamentally, with these deportations we are endorsing the idea that the government can, for purely partisan reasons, selectively and at will violate basic constitutional rights. That idea essentially guts the 1st Amendment, but the Republican Party seems to be fine with that.
Miller, Homan and their staff and advisers must have been studying the tactics and methods used by the Nazi extermination effort (as much as Miller for years has parroted Goebbels). It's the amoral conclusion in an assessment of curtailing immigration. Still their relish at cruelty is shocking.
His administration condones this as they do not speak against it but rather support it while his clueless bobblehead followers have little understanding of consequences.
That’s what they did to my friends Walter and Werner. They were dragged from their homes when they were 14 and deported to Poland. They were tattooed 10 numbers apart in Auschwitz #NeverAgainIsNow
😥😥😥 🙏🙏🙏
And the Greatest Generation fought and died to keep it from making it to America.
They are weeping angry tears in heaven that their sacrifices were all in vain. Every person who is complicit in the kidnapping and deportation of people now are disrespecting veterans in the worst way.
Trump giving prisoners fewer rights than they had in World War II internment camps: an
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran migrant who lived in the U.S. legally, with a work permit and was erroneously deported to El Salvador, he is seen wearing a Chicago Bulls hat. https://www.alternet.org/trump-prisoners/
The current administration's legal awarness is like that of an Argentinian or Chilean junta. But the roots are deeper, I think - in this regard, the United States reap the fruits of Guantánamo...
More young Americans should have gotten up off their asses and voted for Harris rather than boycotting the 2024 election because of Gaza. The epitome of cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Tell us you enabled this by voting third party (or leaving your ballot blank) without telling us you enabled this by voting third party (or leaving your ballot blank).
I’m curious about how you decided that I cannot even oppose genocide. I’m even more curious about how you decided that you’re the arbiter of what constitutes a liberal.
If not getting your rights violated depends entirely on an authoritarian force deciding not to simply take you somewhere where they CAN violate your rights, you don’t have any rights
Sadism: the tendency to derive pleasure from the pain or suffering of others. Some people with sadistic personalities may inflict pain on others, while other sadists merely witness and enjoy it vicariously.
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This is for all parties and non-partisans.
We don’t need money in politics. We just need people to participate. https://www.nationalfinancialplan.com
#DefendRuleOfLaw
They want law at the whim of a ruler.
Rulers. Worse, they elected the King
of Misrule, whose job it is to turn society upside down.
These thugs are a crime syndicate who’ll do whatever it takes to hold onto power.
They are the threat. They are the terrorists. Real Republicans like @adamkinzinger.bsky.social know the assignment.
#DefendDueProcess
@anneapplebaum.bsky.social
Andrew is purported to espouse the mantra "doing the right thing is always the right thing."
He should reflect on that a little deeper.
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#BoycottX
#DestroyX
#GetOffTheXitter
Contracted to move humans to illegal incarceration in El Salvador🤬
https://www.prmuseum.org/requests
https://www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-concentration-camp-expulsion/
Putin has instructed that his army not be prosecuted for crimes that they commit in the occupied territories of Ukraine.
Russia’s army is given free rein to commit any crimes in occupied Ukrainian territories, not only war crimes. We understand that war crimes are generally more serious, but the reign of lawlessness is wider.
Professor Snyder’s example wasn’t of a war crime.
https://x.com/ShriramKMurthi/status/1550589729854341123
Wanted to say thank you for everything you’re doing
Hundreds of millions either voted for this fascist criminal or decided it didn’t matter and didn’t vote at all. These people have fucked us all over - they own it.
He won’t leave without force.
Find safe places now.
But those crazies are the ones with bump stocks & 100 shell magazines. Scariest freakin' thing I have ever seen.
Is that a thing?
Many people seek a reduction of competition by the extraction of other groups.
Not on of them was afforded due process. Not one of them was convicted of d a crime for which this is the known penalty.
Deportations of Jews/political opposition/gay people/Jehovah's Witnesses etc... was EXACTLY the same in Nazi Germany.
Between 13-15 million were slaughtered. 6-7 million were Jews.
They are not safe.
He is building on that.
The people "following orders" are dangerous.
Nobody is safe now.
But here’s the thing: They’re not magic. They’re not gods. Not him nor him. Someone can stop this. It’s a matter of will. America IS demanding it. We are writing/calling/demonstrating/boycotting.
Congress seems to be ignoring us. For now.
#ContextIsImportant
#AssumedIWasMaleBecauseOfAWordIUsed
#IgnorantEnoughToThinkANYUseOfTheWordCuntIsMisogyny
#CallsAStrangerABigotInDefenceOfARapist
#OverlySensitiveCancelCultureBoresAreWhyFascismCameBack
#WhoTheHellStillDoesThePassiveAggressiveHashtagThingAnyway
But we are very very very short of housing supply for even the current population.
I smell Stephen Miller's stench all over this. He's been too happy lately.
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Blame who you want…hell look in the mirror…EVERYONE…look in the mirror…
The president can issue an EO and have the congress vote on it later. Trump is literally doing that!
We are indebted.
Thank you.
I read "Bloodlands" and have since not fully slept... the "mass killing" program, the casual starvation of 3.3 million Ukrainians -ordinary people each with a name- a Venn diagram of evil... It's indelibly etched on my eyelids demanding my vigilance.
Explains why we can take cases to the court but we don't have a seat at the table. Our choice.
Good God. This idea you just expressed has been in the back of my mind for a couplr weeks now.
Keep it up. 👍
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Fox isn’t telling their viewers this.
They friggin DROPPED THEIR STOCK TICKER during the crash!
There’s a huge population who only see what they want to see.
We must MAKE THEM SEE IT!
Actually thought I was born a Democrat — at the end of her life, my mom was embracing every Fox view.
People often don’t see they’ve changed.
Again.
Only a criminal constantly attempts terrible things, revels in throwing toxic shit at the wall to see what earns a less severe scolding - close enough to approval in his twisted mind. Not in civilized society, Donold.
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Growing up we all test limits, with results both favorable & frustrating. It's a natural process of exploration.
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Healthy people retain some innocence, some degree of childlike enthusiasm, wonder & affection. tRump feels a void he strives to fill with the trappings of money & power, painting everything gold & demanding protection money.
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This looks exactly like what we saw in Poland when in 2015 our local medium-righ (Trump supporters btw) took power from the soft-right (called liberals for the sake of disguise). tbc
It's from Wikipedia.
"Targeting of law firms and lawyers under the second Trump administration"
President Trump signed memorandums
Somebody with a fully functioning brain, please help here. 🩵
John Yoo is currently serving as a Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture_Memos
#MakeItMakeSense
Diligence is vigilance! (I just made that up)
They definitely need public shaming
Be cautious. Do it anyway. It’s for the chroniclers, the war crimes, & any bit of resistance can be sticky enough to slow them down. If there’s ever been a time in your life to dig your heels in, it’s now. Make them come for us all.
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
- till 1742 part of Bohemia
- till 1871 part of Prussia
- till 1921 part of Germany
- till 1939 part of Poland
- till 1945 part of Germany
- since then Poland
I'd argue the Nazis considered this area Germany.
My comment is trying to bring the focus back on the fact that location isn’t key here - they are being paid by trump to do this.
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For 123 years Poland ceased to exist as a nation because it’s territory was repeatedly partitioned between Germany, Russia & Austria.
It was only restored in 1918.
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Hitler had planned to make all of Central and Eastern Europe part of “Greater Germany” with the Reich’s eastern border along the Ural Mountains.
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It's entirely possible to build CCs on US soil and label them 'special prisons' though. Keep vigilant.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/finding-argentina-death-plane-60-minutes-transcript/
#FuckTrump
But that's wishful thinking...
Tyranny for them is like, universal healthcare and access to gender transition.
My best friend and I are reading about measles right now. And I'm probably looking for something on the FDA soon.
Also, I really appreciated "On Tyranny".
Time for all of us to become scholars of this stuff.
Sadly the Democrats are committed to nice.
You can’t deal with fascism using nice.
Something less extreme than SEAL Team Six would have done it.
And may the Force with you and all of us. 🌻
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#USDEMOCRACY
If you are implying that Biden directed local police to brutalize people, the POTUS has no state jurisdiction.
This is the kind of stink that never washes off. These firms/companies/CEOs need to be forever tainted.
Scene from the film “Winner” on Hulu about Reality Winner.
Protect our immigrant neighbors!
Stop the abductions!
#3E #USProtests
They're going to ignore every court that rules against them, and hold up every ruling in their favor as proof that it's all legal and cannot be questioned.
#ExtraordinaryRendition.
That's not an excuse for the old program, but the scale and nature of this is all on the Trump administration.
But it's simply wrong to paint the USA as some bastion of civilization and justice in the past. It serves nobody to lie about that.
Truth is important, even when it's inconvenient.
Presidential*
Sorry for spelling errors, i need to upgrade my phone but not in this economy.
https://adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/emergency-video-april-14-2025
He will assume that if he loses the presidency -the Democrats and opposition will want revenge too .
I can’t see Trump allowing a fair election under those circumstances .
Keep an eye on the North Carolina supreme court race
Canary in a coal mine
Gonna be rough
Then they can treat them inhumanely - no due process, foreign hell hole jails, gas chambers
How does a citizen stand up to them? Look to Europe now.
In US instead President is all powerful - a major flaw.
But he is doing it.
How can we stop him?
Look how long it took to stop Hitler. And what it took to stop Hitler.
We best get started NOW!
So?
That doesn't mean we in the USA can't stop Trump.
And it doesn't mean we won't have outside help, either.
Good to have this!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition
Does this apply to Palestinians too?
https://demodirge.substack.com/p/salvadoran-war-criminals-likely-jailers?r=9gmmo&utm_medium=ios
if it is at all possible, can you advise what we can do (if anything) to stop it or at least slow it way down until we are able to stop it
47 and his enablers must be impeached and removed.
We the People need to save our Democratic Republic from Republicans who want to make the United States into a Theocratic Dictatorship
It's happened before. Never again indeed. 🙄
And the Greatest Generation fought and died to keep it from making it to America.
They are weeping angry tears in heaven that their sacrifices were all in vain. Every person who is complicit in the kidnapping and deportation of people now are disrespecting veterans in the worst way.
We're not going back 💙
#NeverAgainIsNow #resist
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran migrant who lived in the U.S. legally, with a work permit and was erroneously deported to El Salvador, he is seen wearing a Chicago Bulls hat.
https://www.alternet.org/trump-prisoners/
https://bsky.app/profile/saneplanet.bsky.social/post/3lmt5srxs6225
Why is there this denial and disconnect with Libs?
Tell us you are a fake when it comes to "liberals" basics values of human decency -- when you can not even oppose genocide.
My guess is that you just made that stuff up.
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Call your reps Everyday and Republican leaders
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Tell them to remove Trump by impeachment or treason charges.
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Also submit a complaint
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