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"If Trump can disappear them, he can disappear you."

~ Robert Reich

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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/if-trump-can-disappear-them-he-can

"An authoritarian regime doesn’t spare anyone. Ultimately, all have to bend their knee or lose their head. ...

Trump and MAGA aren’t just going after undocumented immigrants, the Muslims, the Black folks in the urban cities, the Latinos, the LGBTQ+, and the poor. They’re coming for everyone, including attractive, white, Canadian actresses, and U.S. citizens."

~ Wajahat Ali

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https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-united-states-of-terror

"Your income, credit score, degrees, suburban neighborhood, Christian background, light skin tone, Republican voting record, and Rust Belt zip code won’t save you. Nobody is safe under fascism. Nobody is safe under Trump’s reign of terror."

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"The intake began with slaps. One young man (23 years old) sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. But maybe it’s only because he didn’t look like what I had expected—he wasn’t a tattooed monster.”

~ Philip Holsinger

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https://time.com/7269604/el-salvador-photos-venezuelan-detainees/

“Inside the intake room, a sea of trustees descended on the men with electric shavers, stripping heads of hair with haste. The guy who claimed to be a barber began to whimper, folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell. He was slapped. The man asked for his mother, then buried his face in his chained hands and cried as he was slapped again.”

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"These countries [warning their citizens about travel to the US] know. They understand what everything Trump is doing adds up to, even if the frogs here at home are letting themselves get boiled before they realize how hot the water is."

~ Joyce Vance

The video in the next posting /8 was featured by Joyce Vance in the posting linked below.

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https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-ahead-4e0

"My German friends wondered what had hit, them how did it happen, where did it start? It started right here and this was where it could have been stopped. If those people had stood together, if they had protected each other, they could have resisted the Nazi threat together. They would have been strong, but once they allowed themselves to be split apart, they were helpless. When that first minority lost out, everybody lost out."

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGAqYNFQdZ4&t=1s

"The Wisconsin man, who is white, voted for the candidate who said he would expel all those who 'poison the blood of the country.' The man told USA Today that he didn’t believe Trump meant his wife. She was different, he said. He thought Trump 'would target people who snuck over the border and weren’t vetted.' And now that his wife has been detained by ICE, he still can’t believe it. 'It doesn’t make any sense.'”

~ John Stoehr

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https://www.editorialboard.com/nows-the-time-for-the-democrats-to-demoralize-trump-voters/

"Bradley Bartell does not regret voting for Trump despite the fact that his wife from Peru is now in ICE custody after she was detained at the airport coming back from their honeymoon in Puerto Rico. Bartell to Newsweek: 'I don't regret the vote, but it's all been a nightmare really. We have an attorney. It has crossed my mind to move to Peru if she gets deported, but it would be very difficult for my son.'"

~ Ron Filipkowski

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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weekend-in-politics-bulletin-c24

"If they can do this to Andrys, who's next?

'Repulsive' and 'evil' don't even scratch the surface—this is one of the darkest periods in American history, and we're living through it right now."

~ Joshua Reed Eakle

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https://bsky.app/profile/joshuaeakle.com/post/3lkyyixnhgm2w

@Npars01 @wdlindsy just as they did in 1933 Germany...