Yes. This connects to strategies of repression as experienced during Argentine Dictatorship's "dirty war" on its citizens...

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Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband.

Today they attacked two journalists.

We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.

This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.

All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

History majors have lower unemployment than computer science majors.

Folks with humanities graduate degrees are more sought after by corporate recruiters than those with MBAs.

Study history! Get a job!

Pure fucking evil. Everyone involved in this shit needs to be held accountable.

😂😂Perfect historical reference.

I don't know what to do with all this anger.

I disagree, but I’m also one of those genocide scholars who find the whole concept problematic - I prefer different terminology. One problem (among many) is how it often sets up a hierarchy of suffering, and leads us into squabbles (like this one) over what qualifies and what doesn’t.

As I’m sure you know, intent is the hallmark of genocide in the Genocide Convention definition, which was a political compromise. As I’m sure you also know, that definition is considered very flawed by most genocide scholars.
Government leader statements appear to show intent here as well.

Yes and by the way they told me the quickest way to deal with it (slightly frayed passport) was to rebook with another airline, which I did. No problems there.

BA has a reputation for this (refusing travel documents). I have a story as well. And when checking with local consulate they laughed and said, “you must be flying BA.” Not great.

Every day, it's a new Mad Lib from the Mad King.

Trump building FEMA camps.

Conservatives in 2015: “Obama’s building FEMA camps to lock us all up!”
Conservatives in 2025: “We should build FEMA camps to lock them all up!”

This is horrifying and unacceptable. A betrayal of fellow faculty and students.

Fabulous story!

I don't mean to sound hysterical but there are some pretty clear historical examples of "force the urban-dwellers to the farms," and none of them are great.

Freedom from kings.
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️

Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Strip 16 million people of health insurance versus opening up five state-owned grocery stores as a pilot project.

Imagine being on the wrong side of this.

An addled president is shredding the Constitution to usher in white nationalism and fascism while destroying the economy and our health care, so if you’re going to write an alarmist op-ed because a mayoral candidate might open five (5) city-run grocery stores, you can kindly get bent.

A sitting Member of Congress calling for an American citizen to be stripped of his citizenship & deported, all because of that American citizen’s political views. This is fascism.👇

I’ve seen lots of nonsense since Mamdani’s primary victory but the most irritating thread is people claiming they will leave NY if he is mayor. First of all,
Go! It’s fine. It’s FINE. Go swelter in FL or wherever. No one cares. And secondly shut up. You’re lying. You aren’t going anywhere.

It’s true Cuomo has tremendous name recognition — and a lot of people, when they recognize his name, remember why they can’t stand him.

A Muslim son of immigrants might become mayor of NYC in part because he cross endorsed and supported a Jewish candidate and Black candidate, and vice versa.

It's a beautiful American story for the rest of us. A nightmare for all the right people ;)

It's so New York.

Wow so you’re telling me everyone who cheered on the Iraq war is on board with this now too? And so are the people who opposed the Iran nuclear deal and killed it?

You’re kidding.

😂😂

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

The Subway Is Not Scary Fear of the subway is a mark of low moral character.

Telling me "the subway is so dangerous now" is my immediate sign that you need your TV taken away and your news algorithm adjusted www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...?

On Juneteenth, we celebrate freedom and recommit ourselves to the work that remains undone. We remember that even in the darkest hours, there is cause to hope for tomorrow’s light.