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"ICE rounded up parents and kids, including some American citizens, and herded them, some naked and zip-tied, into the streets, around 1 a.m. in Chicago last Tuesday. Today, there is video from Portland and Colorado showing what appears to be ICE agents attacking and tear-gassing peaceful protestors."
~ Joyce Vance
#Trump #StephenMiller #fascism #immigrants #ICE #MaskedThugs #Chicago #Portland #Colorado
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https://joycevance.substack.com/p/project-2025-taking-on-the-constitution
"In Chicago, agents appear to attack a man who is not threatening them, leg-sweeping him to the ground, something agents are trained not to do because it has the potential to be debilitating. The violence is condoned, in fact directed, by the Department of Homeland Security, the agency ICE is a part of."
#Trump #StephenMiller #fascism #immigrants #ICE #MaskedThugs #Chicago #Portland #Colorado
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"Even back in 2016, i wrote that Americans would very soon discover that so many things that they believed were carved in stone. it's actually based on traditions. It''s not codified ...
Donald Trump, … he's a genius of normalizing things that we thought would never happen in this country."
~ Gary Kasparov
#Trump #StephenMiller #fascism #immigrants #ICE #MaskedThugs
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"We will learn very soon whether Americans swant politicians who actually deliver improvements to their real lives, or whether they prefer to sit back and enjoy dark memes and sadistic videos. Or perhaps they simply won’t pay attention until it’s too late. That’s what happened in Venezuela, as another Atlantic colleague, Gisela Salim-Peyer, recently wrote."
~ Anne Applebaum
#Trump #StephenMiller #fascism #immigrants #ICE #MaskedThugs
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"She grew up there, and remembers how it happened:
'The disintegration of a democracy is a deceptively quiet affair. For a while, everything looks the same. Each authoritarian milestone—the first political prisoner, the first closure of an opposition media outlet—is anticipated with fear. Then the milestone goes by, and after a brief period of outrage, life continues as before. You begin to wonder if things will be so bad after all.'"
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