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jennycohn.bsky.social
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
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jennycohn.bsky.social
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French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found
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jennycohn.bsky.social
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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
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maybekaybee7.bsky.social
What I learned from reading this is that detention centers are privately owned and run as a business. The more people they detain, and the longer they keep them there, the more money they make. This is horrifying and every citizen should be extremely concerned about this issue.
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megabyterose.bsky.social
Same as prisons
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maybekaybee7.bsky.social
Not exactly…when the government is contracting with ICE and detaining US citizens and people with green cards without warning, plainclothes “officers” basically abducting random people and hauling them off in vans with no criminal charges and no due process…this is different.
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megabyterose.bsky.social
Yes, fukk ICE. But this can also be said for prisons, “[prisons] are privately owned and run as a business. The more people they detain, and the longer they keep them there, the more money they make.” hence me saying “same as prisons.” I am not a pro ICE account or something?
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maybekaybee7.bsky.social
I understand we are on the same page here. And I understand about prisons being run as businesses as well. It’s all terrible, the way human beings are being treated, especially those who have no evidence of criminal misconduct.
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jennycohn.bsky.social
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Steve Bannon on mass deportations to El Salvador: "If there's some innocent gardeners in there? Hey, tough break for a swell guy."
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jennymaz.bsky.social
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xewhat.bsky.social
Empathy, or ‘woke mind virus’ as MAGA would call it. The world is in such deep deep trouble
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darkyn1138.bsky.social
The US certainly is.
Hopefully, the horror that the rest of the world is experiencing in watching it will keep us from making the same mistakes.
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xewhat.bsky.social
‘Hopefully’. What does it say that avoiding this kind of horror is something for which we can only hope?
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darkyn1138.bsky.social
If it can happen once, it can happen again.
"The price of peace is eternal vigilance"
~Leonard Henry Courtney
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xewhat.bsky.social
True, but sadly collective apathy & amnesia would seem to have eroded the requisite vigilance. Even if events in America do act as a reminder & wake people up, will it all be too little too late & what suffering will be endured before sanity is restored?
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garbagewitch.bsky.social
I saw clips of this on cnn today and it looked as much like torture as it is. And we broadcast their misery.
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jenjen97.bsky.social
Isn’t this some sort of war crime or against the Geneva convention? Can we please get that man out of office and into prison? Please?
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oldmansparkplug.bsky.social
These are Crimes Against Humanity.
Only the US can save the US here, there's no Lafayette coming this time and Canada is assuredly not bailing our neighbours out.
The US revolted against less severe Tyranny to build that nation. They need to remember how to do it again.
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ptna666.bsky.social
america is done
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oldmansparkplug.bsky.social
I fear so. I admit to feeling a lot like an Austrian looking across the German border in the 1930s....
Not a great feeling.
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adisun9.bsky.social
Trump should be charged at the ICJ for committing crimes against humanity. He has blood on his hands.
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emjay65.bsky.social
He deserves far, far worse. No mercy should be given.
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gravener.bsky.social
Hey
@cnn.com @msnbc.com @nbcnews.com @cbsnews.com @axios.com @rollingstone.com why are you not telling this story? This young man is not the only one. We are in the "rounding up" phase. Do more.
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bensurgeon.bsky.social
That is how it started in Nazi Germany
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gojiwave.bsky.social
Reminder to Americans that Trump doesn't just want to send immigrants to foreign, inhumane prisons. He regularly tweets about wanting to send his political enemies and other Americans there too.
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tinfoilawards.bsky.social
First they came for the foreigners...
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lrp91.bsky.social
Why is cruelty to defenseless people the guiding principle of this administration?
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dvbee.bsky.social
So many wise souls warned us
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vivbernstein.bsky.social
One day they’ll write about Trump, Miller m, Homan, ICE and the rest like they wrote about the Nazis. Shame on all of them. Shame on the voters who chose this cruelty.
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amelianywhere.bsky.social
The hope is that they can be removed from power again. Last time, the MAGA cult didn’t take it well and attempted a coup. We’ll see how this plays out in the coming years—they are becoming more authoritarian.
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garagantua.bsky.social
And they learned from their beer hall pu... that thing on 6th January 2021.
Trump and his followers are even more going for loyalty instead of qualifications this time, in all levels and branches of government. With the full support of the Republican Party.
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deanburnett.bsky.social
Does this not remind people of the Jews in 1930s Germany.
How does a civilised society allow this to happen.
How evil and depraved do you have to be, to be someone that could do this to another human being!
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garagantua.bsky.social
Well, the US did elect a fascist who tried a very bad, extremely failed coup.
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beachlady1955.bsky.social
This breaks my heart. There is also a gentleman from Arlington VA, who's been taken. He had a green card and legally sanctioned asylum. He's in El Salvador's prison. His wife and children are frantic. And he's in severe danger. fukk you DJT.
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leahisokayiguess.bsky.social
There is a couple in my area, too. 35 years. Of course they should have gotten their paperwork together, but Jfc
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