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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

Or you can choose to ignore my comments because I'm not going to stop making them...

Lol. Unfortunately many people outside the US have "skin in the game". Up here we are literally wondering if our former closest ally could turn on us militarily, so yeah, we're going to talk about it.

Yup. Which is exactly why folks that are fortunate enough to have an out shouldn't assume that door will always be open.

Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man

Not familiar with the guy, just pointing out that history is full of sad stories about people who waited too long to get out. I see you are an optimist, I hope you are right, but I fear things aren't going to be easy.

And yes, the Trumpists are purging US military and Intel services. This seems obvious, yes?

Huh? Read some history. Authoritarian regime consolidation pretty much always involves removing military leaders that question the dictator's orders.

I can list a whole bunch of their efforts that have been successful. How do you think the purge of the US military leadership is going?

IMO they have crossed the Rubicon in terms of needing to hold on to power to stay out of prison. Bannon just said as much. So they will try. We can bicker about how likely it is they will succeed, but they have a plausible shot at it.

Are you suggesting that MAGA is not an authoritarian movement, or that you don't believe they can succeed?

What odds do you believe the MAGA seizure power attempt has of succeeding? Even an optimist would have to concede that it isn't unlikely.

Yes. The GOP is an authoritarian movement very similar to Hitler's Nazis, many MAGA luminaries openly admire them.

Why wouldn't studying fascism give one insight as to how fascist seizures of power typically go? I'm a Canadian with a history degree that lived in the US since '98. I left the US in the spring because I am not optimistic (and staying felt like betrayal given the threats against Canada).

One of the lessons of history is that those that flee early tend to do better. Open doors close as more people flee. It does imply he believes things will get much worse.

This speech in 1 sentence: we are staying in power, come hell or high water.

Listen to him carefully. No, seriously, listen! These guys aren’t joking.

Be as deadly serious as they are.

Oligarchs must not be allowed to use their media assets to play at being Goebbels as Murdoch and Musk have done.

This guy is a legend
Expressing the collective thoughts of the world.

Chart showing how much right-wing political content left-wing, right-wing and neutral users were shown. “So right-wing content was shown most prominently regardless of users’ political leaning”

Data shows that the algorithm on Elon Musk’s X is systematically pushing right-wing political content to British social media users regardless of their political orientation or who they follow, according to an investigation by Sky News:

news.sky.com/story/bluesk...

Is that because the resources are being shifted to the new "Build Canada Homes" agency which is getting 13bn allocated?

There should be laws that punish the oligarch owners of media outlets that have used them to attack democracy. These should be capitol crimes and applied retroactively like Nuremberg.

Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."

At this point in time we need all the pro-democracy parties on board with keeping the Maple MAGA controlled CPC out of power. The NDP risking a CPC government in hopes of gaining a few seats last year was reckless on their part, things could have gone very badly.

And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.

Amazingly brave ladies evacuate dogs and cats from Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, under fire. Despite the danger, they try to save every life.

The road is covered with nets against Russian drones.

📹: annet_krav/Instagram

Pope Leo is not mincing words about the “grave crimes” being committed against migrants in certain places.

It’s no wonder the Vatican took a full week to publish this speech in English.

But now they have, and we can spread the message.

(via @colleendulle on IG & the Inside the Vatican podcast)

Donald Trump said ICE raids haven't gone far enough.

Kristi Noem said no citizens have been detained in these raids.

But we know the truth. Because we have story after heartbreaking story that proves otherwise.

Listen to these brave Americans in their own words.

We strongly condemn @CondéNast’s consolidation plans for Teen Vogue, a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most. More from our statement:

That she wouldn't ask about that is probably one of the reasons the interview happened.

Tech CEOs suggest AI job losses could be offset by UBI which they will violently oppose PALO ALTO, CA - A group of Silicon Valley tech CEOs assure North Americans that job losses from artificial intelligence could easily be mitigated by universal basic income, while also adding that they...

Tech CEOs suggest AI job losses could be offset by UBI which they will violently oppose