denisedwheeler.bsky.social
Writing the technological history of how America really got to space, while trying to keep my sanity in this fascist takeover of what used to be called the United States of America. Officially a Twitter refugee.
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The White House sent a letter to Warner Bros telling them to get back in line with Trump by giving Don Jr. some shitty new Discovery channel fishing show.
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Capitulating sets the precedent that if Trump wants to do something, no matter what the federal and state laws say, he can just threaten to withhold federal funding and get his way.
Next it's "comply with my detention centers or I'll withhold funding"
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The AP just took Trump to court and lost.
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Yes @sdonziger.bsky.social posted it on Instagram.
He's a lawyer and renowned human rights speaker and another great one to follow.
Emaciated & dehumanized. It's difficult to look at all the photos. But we must.
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Think of it this way. Motel 6 builds a 20 room facility and opens it for business. Every person that stays there pays their fee and the motel business profits.
We are paying a per person fee to that government to house these people. They are packing them in like rats.
Funded by US citizens.
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You can easily google it.
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Bukele ordered the prison built. 3 companies built it at a cost of $100 million.
But Bukele doesn't have the money to keep it running. You think little 3rd world El Salvador can afford that?
But the US can, which is why Trump is paying Bukele to take people.
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Any communication with the outside is prohibited.
No visits from family members or lawyers are allowed.
It’s a Stalinist high-tech death camp designed to instill fear in the entire society, while most inside did not commit a crime.
Including now over 200 US residents.
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There are no rules. They have 18 prisoners per room. They torture people.
Prisoners have an average of just 6.5 sq ft.
That's comparable to the crowding aboard a transatlantic slave ship (about 6 sq ft per person)
The minimum established by ICRC is 37 sq ft.
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Let any bullshit pushing member of Congress try to come up with a reasonable Constitutional argument as to why the Judicial branch has no power to rule on foreign policy actions.
They can't.
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If military pilots, they are in violation of their oaths to uphold and defend the constitution.
There are far more parts to these heinous acts by Trump and the media and Dems need to put a glaring spotlight on all of it.
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It means El Salvador (or another place) could become a Concentration Country, and it would all be totally legal - even the mass murder of US citizens.
It also makes every pilot transporting these people culpable.
Are all of these pilots feds or private citizens “just doing their job"?
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This whisking of detainees from one state to another to avoid jurisdiction of the courts is a slap in the face of the rule of law.
The SCOTUS know it. Republicans know it. Trump and his thugs know it.
None of them care.
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This whisking of detainees from one state to another to avoid jurisdiction of the courts is a slap in the face of the rule of law.
The SCOTUS know it. Republicans know it. Trump and his thugs know it.
None of them care.
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Props to Mahdawi's attorneys for having his habeas petition ready to go and filing the same day of the arrest.
Because of that the court was able to enter an injunction immediately prohibiting his transfer to any other jurisdiction.
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This is the government obliterating the principle of the social contract in front of our very eyes.
No longer a slippery slope, our rights as citizens are careening off a cliff.
This will not stop with lawful permanent residents, student visa holders, or other non-citizens.
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ICE used the legal process for becoming a citizen to entrap Mahdawi and arrest him under false pretense.
If he didn’t show up to the meeting, his citizenship application would have been thrown out.
Since he did show, he was arrested.
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www.newsweek.com/merwil-gutie...
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This is the government obliterating the principle of the social contract in front of our very eyes.
No longer a slippery slope, our rights as citizens are careening off a cliff.
This will not stop with lawful permanent residents, student visa holders, or other non-citizens.
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ICE used the legal process for becoming a citizen to entrap Mahdawi and arrest him under false pretense.
If he didn’t show up to the meeting, his citizenship application would have been thrown out.
Since he did show, he was arrested.