It only took us a little over 3 months to get to the “concentration camps for mean tweets” stage of our national collapse.
Steve Inskeep: “US President has launched a trade war against the world, believes he can force the EU and China to meet his terms, is determined to annex Canada and Greenland, but is powerless before the sovereign might of El Salvador. Is that it?”
Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social:
One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind.
An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, “He’s not the one.”
The other said, “Take him anyway.”
So they did.
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It’s not difficult to see that the collapse of the basic rule of law in the United States is inextricably linked to the bipartisan consensus on the legitimacy of Israeli genocide.
Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social:
“It’s us and them. It’s the fascists vs. everyone else. If criminalization is all it takes to void our solidarity, then we have already lost, because the enemy holds the power to criminalize whoever they want, whenever they choose.”
Must-Reads and Some Thoughts on Deportations and the Rule of Law by Kelly Hayes
“This may be one of the worst moments in history to fetishize the law or the quality of being law-abiding.”
