Linda Greenhouse warns us Americans: "We will regret not standing up to this venomous cruelty." She says,
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Linda Greenhouse warns us Americans: "We will regret not standing up to this venomous cruelty." She says,
"Something beyond the raw politics of immigration lies behind the venomous cruelty on display, and I think it is this:"
#Trump #StephenMiller #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #deportations #cruelty
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Linda Greenhouse warns us Americans: "We will regret not standing up to this venomous cruelty." She says,
"Something beyond the raw politics of immigration lies behind the venomous cruelty on display, and I think it is this:"
#Trump #StephenMiller #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #deportations #cruelty
/1"To everyone involved, from the policymakers in Washington to the masked agents on the street, undocumented individuals are 'the other,' people who not only lack legal rights as a formal matter but who stand outside the web of connection that defines human society."
#Trump #StephenMiller #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #deportations #cruelty
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"To everyone involved, from the policymakers in Washington to the masked agents on the street, undocumented individuals are 'the other,' people who not only lack legal rights as a formal matter but who stand outside the web of connection that defines human society."
#Trump #StephenMiller #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #deportations #cruelty
/2Commenting on how the Trump administration ratchets up the anti-immigrant cruelty even as polls show it's wildly unpopular, Rebecca Solnit says,
"This is all a reminder that they have to be authoritarian, because what they want to do is unpopular. They have to be authoritarian because they want to override the will of the people."
#Trump #StephenMiller #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #deportations #cruelty
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Today Is the Original No Kings Day/Happy Bastille Day
Yesterday I wrote, "The United States is being destroyed from within, and mainstream journalism isn't making that clear. It's when you assemble the whole picture that you have to raise the question if the intention is to destroy this country and whether this country is in fact being destroyed. The
Meditations in an Emergency (www.meditationsinanemergency.com)
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Commenting on how the Trump administration ratchets up the anti-immigrant cruelty even as polls show it's wildly unpopular, Rebecca Solnit says,
"This is all a reminder that they have to be authoritarian, because what they want to do is unpopular. They have to be authoritarian because they want to override the will of the people."
#Trump #StephenMiller #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #deportations #cruelty
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Today Is the Original No Kings Day/Happy Bastille Day
Yesterday I wrote, "The United States is being destroyed from within, and mainstream journalism isn't making that clear. It's when you assemble the whole picture that you have to raise the question if the intention is to destroy this country and whether this country is in fact being destroyed. The
Meditations in an Emergency (www.meditationsinanemergency.com)
"Which makes being strong-willed all the more important. Also important is remembering that this is a wildly unstable situation and what happens next is at least partly up to us."
Solnit appends a salient reminder of what inevitably happens to cruel, overweening dictators and dictator wannabees, as their hubris blinds them and creates the conditions for their downfall.
#Trump #StephenMiller #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #deportations #cruelty
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"Which makes being strong-willed all the more important. Also important is remembering that this is a wildly unstable situation and what happens next is at least partly up to us."
Solnit appends a salient reminder of what inevitably happens to cruel, overweening dictators and dictator wannabees, as their hubris blinds them and creates the conditions for their downfall.
#Trump #StephenMiller #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #deportations #cruelty
/4"Trump was reelected in part because of his promise to strengthen border security, but now his administration is using attacks on immigrants to impose a police state."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #StephenMiller #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #deportations #cruelty #PoliceState
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July 14, 2025
Trump appointees insist they have a “mandate” to drive undocumented immigrants out of the U.S.
(heathercoxrichardson.substack.com)
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"Trump was reelected in part because of his promise to strengthen border security, but now his administration is using attacks on immigrants to impose a police state."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #StephenMiller #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #deportations #cruelty #PoliceState
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July 14, 2025
Trump appointees insist they have a “mandate” to drive undocumented immigrants out of the U.S.
(heathercoxrichardson.substack.com)
"As Andrew Perez and Asawin Suebsaeng reported Saturday in Rolling Stone, the administration is fighting to impose its will on wrongly-deported Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom it rendered to a terrorist prison in El Salvador, because if they are forced to back down, 'it could set a precedent that opens the floodgates to other legal challenges' to Trump’s other executive power grabs."
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #deportations #cruelty #PoliceState
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"To everyone involved, from the policymakers in Washington to the masked agents on the street, undocumented individuals are 'the other,' people who not only lack legal rights as a formal matter but who stand outside the web of connection that defines human society."
#Trump #StephenMiller #Republicans #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #deportations #cruelty
/2@wdlindsy
Thank you for posting the NYT’s article.
I tried to read it yesterday, but I couldn’t find a gift link. I wasn’t able to access it, but just found this link. It may be useful to others:
https://eedition.sltrib.com/infinity/article_popover_share.aspx?guid=5d5e61f6-d846-4332-9a21-4c9d6a073247&share=true -
@wdlindsy
Thank you for posting the NYT’s article.
I tried to read it yesterday, but I couldn’t find a gift link. I wasn’t able to access it, but just found this link. It may be useful to others:
https://eedition.sltrib.com/infinity/article_popover_share.aspx?guid=5d5e61f6-d846-4332-9a21-4c9d6a073247&share=true"Can New Yorkers envision such a scene in Central Park?"
We don't need to "envision" it we are looking right at it.
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"As Andrew Perez and Asawin Suebsaeng reported Saturday in Rolling Stone, the administration is fighting to impose its will on wrongly-deported Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom it rendered to a terrorist prison in El Salvador, because if they are forced to back down, 'it could set a precedent that opens the floodgates to other legal challenges' to Trump’s other executive power grabs."
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #deportations #cruelty #PoliceState
/6"The Internal Revenue Service is building a computer program that would give deportation officers unprecedented access to confidential tax data.
ProPublica has obtained a blueprint of the system, which would create an 'on demand' process allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to obtain the home addresses of people it’s seeking to deport."
~ Pro Publica
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #deportations #cruelty #PoliceState
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The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE
ProPublica has obtained the blueprint for the Trump administration’s unprecedented plan to turn over IRS records to Homeland Security in order to speed up the agency’s mass deportation efforts.
ProPublica (www.propublica.org)
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"The Internal Revenue Service is building a computer program that would give deportation officers unprecedented access to confidential tax data.
ProPublica has obtained a blueprint of the system, which would create an 'on demand' process allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to obtain the home addresses of people it’s seeking to deport."
~ Pro Publica
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #ConcentrationCamps #deportations #cruelty #PoliceState
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The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE
ProPublica has obtained the blueprint for the Trump administration’s unprecedented plan to turn over IRS records to Homeland Security in order to speed up the agency’s mass deportation efforts.
ProPublica (www.propublica.org)
I know this is obvious but ...
this implies that it's working people, people who pay taxes that are being targeted.
