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"Silicon Valley was once viewed as a tool for liberation. Now, from blocking apps to banning groups, it is helping the White House suppress dissent."
Named here as agents helping Trump suppress dissent: TikTok, Apple, Google, Meta, Facebook.
~ Judd Legum, Rebecca Crosby, and Noel Sims
#Trump #ICE #violence #MaskedThugs #authoritarianism #immigrants #LawandOrder #lies #disinformation #TikTok #Apple #Google #Meta #Facebook
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"Frst you get Epstein, which gets you Greenland, which gets you ice in Minneapolis. which now gets you raiding the Georgia [election board]. I mean, the distractions are actually piling up the scar tissue that's being pulled apart here."
~ Joe Trippi
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #Maine #WhiteSupremacy #violence #MaskedThugs #authoritarianism #immigrants #LawandOrder #lies #disinformation
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Minneapolis Mayhem: What Comes Next | Two Joes Podcast with Trygve Olson
Founding Lincoln Project Advisor Trygve Olson shares what he saw in Minneapolis last week.Joe Trippi (Lincoln Square)
"Destroying our ability to reality test is the only way he can maintain his own delusion."
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #Maine #WhiteSupremacy #violence #MaskedThugs #authoritarianism #immigrants #LawandOrder #lies #disinformation
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"Trump’s paranoia at losing his power will not lead to a sudden rash of moderation. It will not lead to less violence. It will not lead to a lowering of tensions." ...
Trump wants to remake America to be his personal Jonestown, an isolated compound separate from any external accountability or internal dissent—a giant island only existing to serve himself."
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #Maine #WhiteSupremacy #violence #MaskedThugs #authoritarianism #immigrants #LawandOrder
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"The most dangerous moment for any abusive relationship, whether one-on-one, or one-to-millions, comes when the victims want to leave. It’s why all cult leaders try to isolate their victims from external information and contact. Everything that’s not about the leader is a threat."
~ Jim Stewartson
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #Maine #WhiteSupremacy #violence #MaskedThugs #authoritarianism #immigrants #LawandOrder
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When the Mirror Cracks: The Most Dangerous Moment
Like his historical predecessors, Donald Trump has entered a death spiral. The more he loses power, the more he demands it.Jim Stewartson (MindWar: The Psychological War on Democracy)
"At this point, the predominant emotion so many of us are feeling is anger. Anger that people are being treated like this. Anger that our government is doing it. Anger that it’s doing it with our tax dollars."
~ Joyce Vance
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #Maine #WhiteSupremacy #violence #MaskedThugs #authoritarianism #immigrants #LawandOrder
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Minnesota and Elsewhere
Today, more from Judge Schlitz in Minnesota.Joyce Vance (Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
"Trump sicced his droogs on Minneapolis because he’s a racist who hates Somalis, and his lawless campaign has spread to Maine, of all places, because it’s another state with a Somali population whose voters rejected him in 2024."
~ Stephen Robinson
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #Maine #WhiteSupremacy #violence #MaskedThugs #authoritarianism #immigrants #LawandOrder #Somalis
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'Abolish ICE' is imperative
It's also better politics than you might think.Stephen Robinson (Public Notice)
“Federal agents continue to rain terror on Minneapolis, Minnesota, and other U.S. cities including Portland and Lewiston, Maine. That violence has made it crystal clear that the goal of attacking immigrants is not simply to create a white nation; it is also to terrorize Americans into accepting the domination of MAGA Republicans.”
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #WhiteSupremacy #violence #MaskedThugs #authoritarianism #immigrants #LawandOrder
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"Over time, confinement without trial, punishment without conviction, and surveillance without oversight become treated as unfortunate but reasonable."
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #WhiteSupremacy #violence #MaskedThugs #authoritarianism #immigrants #LawandOrder
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"Authoritarian systems do not begin with overt tyranny. They begin with a normalization process. Each move is framed as temporary, necessary, or targeted at 'bad people.' Each expansion of power is justified by manufactured crisis. Each erosion of civil rights is sold as a trade-off for safety."
~ Oliver Kornetzke
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #WhiteSupremacy #violence #MaskedThugs #authoritarianism #immigrants #LawandOrder
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"What this moment reveals is not merely the fragility of white political innocence, but the durability of a system that has survived Reconstruction, Jim Crow, civil rights reform, and the carceral turn by continually redefining violence as order."
~ Elisabeth Glassco
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #WhiteSupremacy #violence #MaskedThugs #authoritarianism #immigrants #LawandOrder
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What History Reveals About The Hard Truths of This Moment in America
The language people are using right now matters. So does who is shocked by it. This piece sits with that reaction and asks what history tells us when the mask slips and what happens next.400 Years
Year 1 of Trump’s immigration crackdown:
- U.S. citizens were held against their will.
- ICE placed at least 600 immigrant kids in federal shelters.
- Student activists became a target.
That’s not all. Our year in review: propublica.org/article/trump-m…
#News #Immigration #Trump #Deportation #ICE #Immigrants #DonaldTrump
A Year in Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign
Skyrocketing detentions, violent arrests, troops in cities. President Donald Trump promised an immigration crackdown that would make history. One year in, we look at how it’s changed the lives of immigrants and citizens across the U.S.Diego Sorbara (ProPublica)
"Because it fits their narrative. It allows them to say what they want to say. It allows them to feel like they're big boys and they're flexing. They're cowards. They're disgusting. They're scumbags. Anyone still supporting Donald Trump and ICE at this point in the game is an absolute piece of human garbage. And I will not take it back. I don't care how closely you're related to me."
#AlexPretti #murder #execution #Trump #MAGA #ICE #DHS #WhiteSupremacy #racism #violence #immigrants
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"They [i.e. MAGA] know what they're seeing [in video footage of Alex Pretti's murder]. They can see it plain as day, too. They do not care. And they will drag a good man in his name. And they'll sit back and cheer Donald Trump as he drags a good man in his name. Why?"
~ Tennessee Brando
#AlexPretti #murder #execution #Trump #MAGA #ICE #DHS #WhiteSupremacy #racism #violence #immigrants
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ICE Shooting Victim’s Family SPEAKS OUT
We can't allow a good man like Alex Pretti be smeared by the radical right.Support Tennessee Brando: https://www.patreon.com/tnbrandoDownload my NEW ALBUM "F...YouTube
"Obama Derangement Syndrome has proved both virulent and lasting. How else can one explain the casual acceptance of blatant lies about broad-daylight, video-recorded murders, so easily disproven by visual evidence?"
#Trump #MAGA #ICE #DHS #WhiteSupremacy #racism #violence #immigrants
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"I never would have expected that so many Americans would be just fine with a poorly trained but well-equipped paramilitary force operating under the aegis of a rogue administration – discarding due process, engaging in racial profiling, dragging people out of cars and homes by their hair, and killing those who object."
~ Nina Burleigh
#Trump #MAGA #ICE #DHS #WhiteSupremacy #racism #violence #immigrants
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(continued from /15)
"on numerous church grounds throughout California (Inland Empire, Downey Memorial Christian Church, Montclair, Highland and St. Adelaide); and in Washington, D.C., where the Evangelical Lutheran Church joined the Quakers in a suit to block ICE raids in places of worship."
#Trump #ICE #churches #ReligiousFreedom #immigrants
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"Although most ICE attacks go unnoticed by the media, ICE attacks on or near church grounds to date include: a raid on Iglesia Fuente de Vida church in the Atlanta suburbs; a raid on United Methodist church property in Charlotte; raids at Our Lady of Lourdes in San Bernadino; throughout Puerto Rico during Sunday services;" (continued in /16)
#Trump #ICE #churches #ReligiousFreedom #immigrants
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"Trump reversed the policy that prohibited ICE from attacking people at places of worship in January 2025, after that policy had been in effect for 13 years.
Trump’s green shirts have arrested, brutalized, and tackled people in churches all across America."
~ Sabrina Haake
#Trump #ICE #churches #ReligiousFreedom #immigrants
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The First Amendment will outlive Trump
Christopher Katsarov—The Canadian Press via Associated PressSabrina Haake (The Haake Take)
"And then NPR reported that when he got to the detention facility, they took trophy photos with him, like he was a slave or an animal that they caught out in the wild. And he wasn't the only one that they did that to.
So somebody tell me, how is it acceptable for David Easterwood to be a pastor when he is condoning this kind of conduct? And not just condoning it."
#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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"Now contrast that gospel message to what we have been seeing by ICE and the terrorism that they have engaged in on the streets of St. Paul, Minneapolis and surrounding suburbs and including outstate Minnesota where they kicked in the man's door and came in with big guns and took him out."
#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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"Someone help me understand how it's possible to hold both roles with integrity, with honor, because the gospel that I believe in, the foundation, says that we are to love our neighbor as we love ourselves."
#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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Joy-Ann Reid addresses "people who have a problem with the fact that we came into the church to confront an injustice and do not have a problem with the fact that you have an ICE director, not just an ICE agent, as some people have said, but the director of the ICE field office in the state of Minnesota, also serving as a pastor at Cities Church in St. Paul."
#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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America 2026: A Tale of Two Dons | The Joy Reid Show
A recording from The Joy Reid Show's live videoThe Joy Reid Show (Welcome to Joy's House!)
(continued from /8)
"one that's compatible with democracy, one that celebrates pluralism, and one that is willing to put itself on the line, right, to help bring those things into reality."
Jones replies:
"If we don't want Christianity to be associated with ICE, if we don't want Christianity to be associated with Trump, if we don't want Christianity to be associated with the Nazis and the racists, we're going to have to build and put out there a different version of Christianity that people can in fact see," (continuedf in /9)
"Stop believing in God. I said, yes, it's fine. I've heard it all. You might be done with religion, but sadly, for better and for worse, religion is not done with America and American politics. And if you simply dismiss all religion, religious people, then you're dismissing a huge chunk of America that is motivated by God and religion, which now, unfortunately, because we have ceded the ground, it has been taken over by MAGA."
"I've always said this, folks, you need to publicly hear and see from faith leaders, especially white Christians. You need like a public face. You need a reclaiming of Christianity, of religion, of religious values, of religious language. Because you and I know this, Robbie, and this is much to the chagrin of many progressives and liberals.
They say religion's stupid. You guys are idiots."
#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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Wajahat Ali (who is Muslim) responds by underscoring how critically important it is for people of faith, for other white Christians, to challenge this white supremacist distortion of Christian faith. He says that progressives and anti-religionists are making a huge mistake in taunting and not supporting those believers who are trying to wrest ownership of the Christian tradition from MAGA:
#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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"I mean, part of it is that because inside of white Christianity, the largest Protestant expression of Christianity stems directly from this move to say that, oh, no, actually enslaving others is completely compatible with the gospel and the worship of Jesus and the worship of white Jesus."
#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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"They were like, No, no, no. We think this is perfectly consistent with the gospel and the Jesus that we worship. They founded an entire denomination on that. And that denomination has become the largest Protestant expression of Christianity in the country today. So if we're confused about, like, why is this so easily acceptable?"
#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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"This is the denomination I grew up in, was founded in 1845. And they were founded that year because they decided that they could no longer be in fellowship with their Northern brethren because the Northern brethren were saying to them, It's inconsistent to call yourself Christian and enslave others based on the color of their skin."
#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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"Victor Manuel Diaz died Jan. 14 after being found unconscious in the Camp East Montana detention center in El Paso, Texas. Four days later, ICE announced the news, saying in a statement that his death was a 'presumed suicide,' though the official cause of death remains under investigation."
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants
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"The family of a Minnesota man who died at a Texas facility eight days after he was detained in Minneapolis is questioning the circumstances of his death and demanding a more thorough investigation."
~ Minneapolios Star Tribune
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants
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"As DHS/ICE cannot work with state and local law enforcement due to their lawless tactics they are having to fly people they detain in Minnesota out of state to other detention facilities. Even children separated from their parents."
~ Simon Rosenberg
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants
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The Courage Of The People Of Minnesota Is Lifting Up And Inspiring A Nation
Watch now | For those in the path of the storm - stay safe all!Simon Rosenberg (Hopium Chronicles By Simon Rosenberg)
Sam Levin reports that after what ICE did to the little girl and her father was publicly known, ICE flew the two back to Minnesota and is continuing to detain the father, with the little girl now reunited with her mother.
Irina Vaynerman, one of the lawyers helping the family, states,
“The horror is truly unimaginable. The depravity of all of this is beyond words.”
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants
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US immigration agents detain two-year-old Minnesota girl: ‘depravity beyond words’
DHS detain a toddler and her father on Thursday and fly them to Texas before returning child on judge’s orderSam Levin (The Guardian)
"Video circulating on social media appeared to show agents using chemical irritants and flash-bang devices as crowds gathered at the scene."
Attorneys for the family say they were asylum-seekers who were pulled over without a warrant and did not have a final order for removal.
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #MaskedThugs #cruelty #immigrants
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"'Meaning, trying to identify them via social media, running their license plates if available, and running a criminal history check,' the official explained.
The directive is part of a sweeping, nationwide effort by U.S. immigration authorities to identify anyone and everyone trying to film their conduct."
#Trump #ICE #DHS #Maine #immigrants #MaskedThugs #Constitution #cruelty
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"Now the visible targets of border enforcement are increasingly immigrants who have built their lives in the U.S. – neighbors, friends, co-workers – as well as anyone who opposes ICE’s tactics, like Renee Good."
#Trump #ICE #DHS #immigrants #deportations #cruelty #Minnesota
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"But Trump during his second presidency has greatly shifted immigration enforcement north into the interior of the U.S. And ICE has played a central role. ...
Americans may not know about the experiences of migrants who are quickly deported near the border, but it is harder to ignore recent images of people snatched up within their own neighborhoods."
#Trump #ICE #DHS #immigrants #deportations #cruelty #Minnesota
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"From 2010-2020, nearly 80% of all deportations were initiated at or near the U.S.-Mexico border. During the COVID-19 pandemic, that number jumped to 98%, as both the Trump and Biden administrations utilized Title 42, a public health statute that allowed the government to rapidly deport recently arrived migrants."
~ The Conversation
#Trump #ICE #DHS #immigrants #deportations #cruelty #Minnesota
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ICE immigration tactics are shocking more Americans as US-Mexico border operations move north
Militarized immigration enforcement used to be confined to near the US-Mexico border, far away from most Americans’ front lawns.The Conversation