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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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"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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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •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
Rebecca Solnit (Meditations in an Emergency)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"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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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"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
Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"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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Kim Perales
in reply to William Lindsey • • •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:
eedition.sltrib.com/infinity/a…
We will regret not standing up to the venomous, anti-immigrant cruelty
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