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Right-Wing Justices Lap Up Anti-LGBTQ Arguments In Case On School Board Culture War The right-wing justices, sensing an easy win in their grasp for parents...

The right-wing justices, sensing an easy win in their grasp for parents seeking to opt their children out from LGBTQ-inclusive content at public school, couldn’t stop themselves from taking a victory lap before Tuesday’s arguments even concluded.
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Trump's Counterterror Czar Proposes Terror Charges for Democrats Either you love America or you don’t, he says

Trump's counterterrorism czar Sebastian Gorka says Americans critical of deportations like Abrego Garcia's are providing "material support" to terrorists — a felony crime.
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ICE Just Paid Palantir Tens of Millions for ‘Complete Target Analysis of Known Populations’ The records show that Palantir is actively working on the technical infrastructure underpinning the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts which could soon impact U.S. citizens.

The records show that Palantir is actively working on the technical infrastructure underpinning the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts which could soon impact U.S. citizens.

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Either the courts get to decide who is a “violent criminal” or “gang member”, or Donald Trump gets to decide.

That choice determines whether we are a Republic governed by laws or an autocracy living under a ruler.

It's not relevant whether Abrego Garcia has committed thousands of crimes. Disappearing him off to an El Salvadorean maximum security prison *without due process* is wholly illegal totalitarian bullshit. Everyone who has been sent there by this administration should be brought back, not just him.

total clarity here from @edwardluce.bsky.social

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2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.

Exactly. Trump and Miller want to make El Salvador their Generalgouvernement, and Bukele is stepping up to be their Hans Frank.

The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome you’d have gotten from complying but you don’t have to fucking hate yourself too.

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

If you hear about a citizen of another nation being kidnapped without due process and held hostage in a foreign prison and think, “I’m an American citizen, this is not my problem,” you are missing the reality of what these fascists intend.

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

the only way kidnapping and illegally detaining lawful permanent residents (or citizens!) in foreign concentration camps "plays out" is we all live our lives under fascism or the fascists are jailed and many of them executed. that's it. read a fuckin book.

Trump & Bukele Plot US Citizen Detention In Salvadoran Torture Camps, While Defying Supreme Court Via Gibberish Responses To Reporters In a stunning White House appearance that should alarm anyone who cares about constitutional rights, democracy, the rule of law or anything of the sort, Donald Trump and Salvadoran dictator Nayib B…

Wrote a thing at how the Bukele/Trump meeting, full of absolute nonsense and bullshit in support of out-and-out fascism and despotism, is yet another dark day in America. www.techdirt.com/2025/04/14/t...

Wilmer only found out his son had been detained after receiving a phone call on March 15 from his nephew, Luis, who lives with them. That morning was their last time together; they had gone around the corner to do their laundry. Later that day, Wilmer said that his son met with a friend to get help with some errands at the American Red Cross. He learned this from Luis, who looked at the situation from inside the apartment: when his son was on his way back, just steps from his home when ICE agents stopped him. “The officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our building. One said, ‘No, he’s not the one,’ like they were looking for someone else. But the other said, ‘Take him anyway.'” That moment marked the beginning of Wilmer’s search for answers — answers he’s still waiting for.

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.

pretty crazy watching the american president on live tv in the oval office planning the construction of concentration camps in a foreign country to house americans

The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.

Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.

He wants to cut diwn the Giant Redwoods.

I know some of you might be getting sick of the dark clouds of morally degraded, culturally impoverished authoritarian decay descending on the entire country and its territories but at least everything is more expensive and shittier than it materially was previously

Bells Larsen Forced To Cancel US Tour Due To Anti-Trans Visa Denial Montreal-based indie-folk singer-songwriter Bells Larsen has a new album called Blurring Time set to come out in two weeks, and he was planning to head out on a quick run of US shows in June. That tou...

Bells Larsen has been forced to cancel his US tour because of anti-trans visa denial

One sign that we are living under an authoritarian regime is that a lot of people are acting like they are living under an authoritarian regime.

It's not about immigration. It's not about gang activity.

It's about the Trump administration seeking the absolute power to send anyone they see fit — citizens included – without due process on one way trips to overseas concentration camps from which no one ever returns.

Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador

The idea that the federal government can go before a judge and say, “Yeah we arrested the wrong guy, but too bad, so sad” is not alarming nearly enough people yet.

A Prison Death Highlights Russia’s LGBTQ Crackdown The Russian government has unleashed a wave of repression against L.G.B.T.Q. people, with the police raiding gay night clubs and investigators targeting people they suspect of being gay.

2013 — that's when the American right fell in love with Putin.

"But in 2013, Mr. Putin opened a salvo against gay people when he signed a bill outlawing the dissemination of what it described as 'gay propaganda.'"

This is what they want to do here.

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This is true--but BECAUSE Stephen Miller has chosen to use the civil rights' movements tools against it, it means that IF liberals and Jews could reclaim antisemitism, then it would create problems for these assaults on universities.

These are Nazi sympathizers doing this!

The Top 1% of U.S. earners now have more wealth than the entire middle class

When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.