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William Lindsey :toad:

Landry Ayres notes,

"The White House is using national security as a pretext for suppressing ideological dissidents."

And this is "part of a larger pattern—one that threatens not just immigrants, but all of us."


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theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-cru

The UnPopulist · Trump's Cruel and Lawless Deportations: Our Video RoundupBy Landry Ayres
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William Lindsey :toad:

"They are flexing their powers and normalizing their fascist behavior by going after the most vulnerable and marginalized among us. They are punishing innocent immigrants, college students, and foreign academics. They have expanded their targets to include law firms, media companies, and judges, and it will eventually include anyone who dares defy their authoritarian dictates."


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William Lindsey :toad:

"People are being swept off the streets right now, every day, and being detained without legitimate cause. The administration is fast-forwarding to its desired conclusion and daring the courts to stop it, while also choosing which court orders to obey and which to defy. Even if the judiciary were somehow able to stop all of this, the chilling effect remains—which, after all, is the point."

~ Alex Shephard


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newrepublic.com/article/193291

The New Republic · The Biggest Scandal of the Second Trump Term Isn’t “Signalgate”The national security chat debacle certainly merits attention. But the Trump administration is now blatantly disappearing students and others who are in the country legally.
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William Lindsey :toad:

"The Trump administration is requiring that foreign students studying in, or seeking to study in the United States, pass an ideological test in order to obtain a visa, according to a “sensitive” State Department directive issued by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and which I obtained. ...

The directive, dated March 25, bears the subject line 'Enhanced Screening and Social Media Vetting for Visa Applicants.'”

~ Ken Klippenstein


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kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusiv

Ken Klippenstein · Trump Admin Spies on Social Media of Student Visa HoldersBy Ken Klippenstein
William Lindsey :toad:

"As U.S. President Donald Trump pledges to deport 'millions and millions' of 'criminal aliens,' thousands of federal law enforcement officials from multiple agencies are being enlisted to take on new work as immigration enforcers, pulling crime-fighting resources away on other areas -- from drug trafficking and terrorism to sexual abuse and fraud."

~ Reuters


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reuters.com/world/us/thousands

Mar 29, 2025, 03:08 PM·Public·Web
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William Lindsey :toad:

"Just so it’s clear: It does not END with snatching people off the street on student visas who advocate positions the regime doesn't approve of—that is how it BEGINS."

~ Dean Obeidallah


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Pooka🍸Boo 👁🫣🫵

@wdlindsy I would just like to ask the self-identified Muslim voters in Michigan the following. How's that Jill Stein vote working out for you! While what is going on is terrible and revolting, I'm more and more convinced that you can't help stupid. The only way some people are forced to actually use their comprehension skills is when they fuck around and find out. But, I daresay, even then some will get lost in the delusion of why it's happening to them.

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Kristen

@wdlindsy Well that's total bullshit, though. No one is 'forcing' any of these people to enforce the raping felon's idiocy. They CHOOSE to do so.

Ask yourself what kind of gaping scumbag will follow this asshole's orders.

ALL of this would come to a screeching halt if the goons had a conscience. They're no better than Hitler's army.

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Nicole Parsons

@wdlindsy

The billionaires behind Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation, paid Oracle to develop a list of "loyalists" so Trump & Musk could hit the ground running, once in office.
nytimes.com/2023/04/20/us/poli

msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinio

axios.com/2023/11/13/trump-loy

sfchronicle.com/tech/article/p

It's equally likely that the same folks drafted a list of dissenters, climate advocates, pro-democracy lawyers, academics, scientists, civil rights organizations, and get-out-the-vote nonprofits.

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Nicole Parsons

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It's not effective accelerationism, its blitzkrieg as a tactic.
iwm.org.uk/history/the-german-

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzk

history.howstuffworks.com/worl

convergencemag.com/articles/re

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect

Now they have tools to help them identify their opponents.
news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/e

bigthink.com/culture-religion/

taskandpurpose.com/history/new

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MegatronicThronBanks

@wdlindsy

The ('the') problem is, this will continue to turn into a bigger and bigger administrative and implementational disaster, which means lots of people will be stuck in limbo effectively forever.
Or until the next government, anyway.

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