Elizabeth Maddock Dillon

In less than a week the Kennedy Center has effectively closed and our local DC paper has been gutted, both by billionaires.

I don’t think immigrants are our problem in this country.

“Democracy dies in darkness.” First as warning, then as how-to manual.

Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)

In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.
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Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio? Nazi Lies in Vance's America

In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.
snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...

Melissa McCoul was a senior lecturer in the English department at Texas A&M University, where she taught contemporary children’s literature.

She was terminated from her position without due process after a student filmed a complaint about in-class discussions of gender.

Listen to her story.

Because what the world needs now is a little more David Brooks. Gahhhh…

HUGE UPDATE: we confronted Congressman Tom Suozzi. He is one of seven Democrats casting the decisive votes to increase ICE funding by $10,000,000,000. Hideous, grotesque, fascist-loving coward, this man has blood on his hands. We will not forgive and we will not forget.

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If you’re a US citizen looking to move abroad because of fear, now you know why immigration happens.

#KennedyOutbreak

In her screams, the desperation of a community under siege by ICE - The Boston Globe When ICE arrested of Fátima Lucas Henrique, the video of her screaming as agents pulled her from her vehicle resonated across the state.

Someone should play the video of Fátima Lucas Henrique’s screams as she was kidnapped by federal agents on the way to her early morning nursing shift to Sen Susan Collins wherever she shows her face. This is happening to Mainers on her watch.
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Street art on pill hill in Seattle 🥹

Everybody in higher ed has questions these days. For example, admins ask "how can we get faculty to incorporate AI into their classes?" while faculty ask "can I come in to campus to teach my classes without being abducted by an unlawful paramilitary force?"

This whole piece is so good!

Trump administration: “Alex Pretti was a demotic terrorist who planned to massacre as many immigration officers as he could.”

Alex Pretti’s last words: “Are you okay?”

The best headline I've seen about MN murder was "Gunmen still at large."

Every accusation is a tell.

"He has ... sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people ...

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power." 1/

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

Ok, now we are truly in a sectional crisis

On the execution in Minnesota: Obviously, the individuals involved should be held accountable. But responsibility goes to the top of ICE and CBP, and DHS. Their appropriations come up next week in the senate. Not a cent for DHS without pulling ICE and CBP off the streets, in MN and everywhere else.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

Screenshot of a video from the phila inquirer that shows torn down murals at Independence park that used to discuss slavery, but which Trump ordered removed

Girl that is NOT how history works

Trump privately frustrated that he risks losing control of immigration message amid Minnesota chaos | CNN Politics The ongoing protests and images coming out of Minnesota have prompted concerns from some Trump administration officials over the optics of the immigration crackdown as Americans grow alarmed by the ch...

Minnesota shifting narrative from "rabble rousing protesters" vs "law enforcement" to "people of conscience" vs "evil regime." This is essential to defeating authoritarianism - exposing who, what & why they are by demonstrating who, what & why we are.
And MAGA knows it.
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Drawing of the 5-year old captured by ICE in Minnesota with the quote: “The children are always ours, every single one of them” -James Baldwin

#Minnesota

It’s hard to accurately describe what is happening in Minneapolis without sounding crazy.

Unmarked rental vans all over the city, with people in military gear and no id jumping out of them to take captive anyone who looks nonwhite or who makes political speech they disagree with.

ICE launches immigration enforcement effort in Maine called ‘Operation Catch of the Day’ - The Boston Globe The effort comes after the president’s recent verbal attacks on Somali immigrants, who have a large presence in the state.

“ICE officials said… the Tuesday arrests include defendants accused of aggravated assault, false imprisonment, and endangering the welfare of a child.”

Fascinating, given that ICE has been killing people, imprisoning citizens, and pepper spraying children.
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