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Report: "Just Do Something"

"Sen. Chris Van Hollen met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia—and showed what can be accomplished when Dems act beyond the bare minimum."

Trump attacked Van Hollen as a “GRANDSTANDER!!!”

The once little-known senator is now a symbol of what it looks like to challenge this president by simply doing something.

motherjones.com/politics/2025/

#ChrisVanHollen #KilmarAbregoGarcia #uspol #fascism #racism #trump #cecot #elsalvador .

Mother JonesJust do somethingSen. Chris Van Hollen met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia—and showed what can be accomplished when Dems act beyond the bare minimum.

There are certain basic rights I believe all human beings deserve. Rights that should never be up for debate.

Healthcare

Safe and affordable housing

Universal Basic income

Clean air

Education

Freedom to love/marry who they want

We need to fight for these rights for all people, because we succeed or fail together. A society thrives on community and should be willing to protect ALL its members, not just the ones that are the same as you.

The Trump regime seeks to divide, alienate, confuse and sew hate.

We must not let them.

Love over hate. Community over fear. Let’s celebrate our differences instead of judging one another.

No one is safe until we’re all safe.

#uspoli #fascism #healthcare #disability #lgbtq+ #transrights #universalbasicincome #education #cleanair

Michigan native #ErikPrince proposes #deportation plan to #ElSalvador, report says

By Justin Engel, Apr. 14, 2025

"Erik Prince, the former CEO of #Blackwater USA and a Michigan native, is among a group of defense contractors proposing to expand plans for deporting #immigrants to a prison in El Salvador, Politico reported.

"The pitch would attempt to avoid #legal challenges by designating part of the El Salvador prison system as #AmericanTerritory, the report stated.

" 'It’s unclear how seriously the White House is considering the plan by Prince, who has drawn scrutiny for his firm’s role in a deadly massacre in Iraq two decades ago,' the Politico report stated. 'But it would give Prince’s group an unprecedented and potentially highly lucrative role in an expanded version of a transnational operation that has elicited its own web of controversies, in part because it has swept up immigrants who do not have criminal records in the United States.'

"The report coincides with President Donald Trump’s plans to host #NayibBukele, the president of El Salvador, at the White House on Monday, April 14.

"Since March, El Salvador has accepted from the U.S. more than 200 #Venezuelan immigrants — whom officials with President Donald Trump’s administration have accused of gang activity and violent crimes — and placed them inside the country’s notorious maximum-security gang prison. It is also holding a Maryland man who the administration admits was wrongly deported but has not been returned to the U.S., despite court orders to do so.

"Trump has ties to the family of Prince, an automotive supplier heir from Holland. Prince is the brother of #BetsyDeVos, the secretary of education during the first Trump administration.

"Prince, a major Republican donor, has been accused of acting as a back channel on behalf of Trump. As Trump was preparing to take office in 2017, Prince met with a official close to Russian President Vladimir #Putin in the #Seychelles, islands off the coast of east Africa. Special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on his Russia investigation said the meeting was set up ahead of time with the knowledge of former White House aide #StephenBannon.

"Prince soared to notoriety after Blackwater USA employees in 2007 shot and killed #Iraqi #civilians in Baghdad’s #NisourSquare during the Iraq war, casting a light on the role played by private contractors in U.S. military operations overseas.

"In the wake of the scandal the company’s name was changed and Prince sold his shares to a private equity fund."

mlive.com/politics/2025/04/mic

#ErikPrinceColonialism #Blackwater #Academi #ErikPrinceIsAWarCriminal #TripleCanopy #PrivateArmy #OffLeash #ProjectVeritas #Project2025 #TigerSwan #Fascism
#Authoritarianism

mlive · Michigan native Erik Prince proposes deportation plan to El Salvador, report saysBy Justin Engel | jengel@mlive.com

Analysis: "American Concentration Camps"

"Once a regime starts to send people to concentration camps, it creates a system of detention that eschews due process & disappears citizens into black holes.

"Our offshore concentration camps are in El Salvador & Guantánamo."

But "once they are normalized, not only for immigrants & residents, but U.S. citizens, they will migrate to the homeland."

chrishedges.substack.com/p/ame

#usconcentratiincamps #us #uspol #fascism #immigration #freespeech racism .

The Chris Hedges Report · American Concentration CampsBy Chris Hedges

Interview: Harvard stands up to Trump

"This is an effort to take over the ideological agenda of the country by taking over universities. The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.”

~Andrew Manuel Crespo, Harvard Law School

Harvard has rejected Trump's demands to eliminate all DEI initiatives & further crack down on student protestors.

democracynow.org/2025/4/16/tru

#Trump #harvardcuts #uspol #highereducation #fascism #dei #studentprotests .

Democracy Now! · “Unquestionably Unconstitutional”: Harvard Law Prof Slams Cuts as School Rejects Trump DemandsBy Democracy Now!

Interview: Trump says he wants to send U.S. citizens to El Salvador's maximum-security prisons, notorious for torture.

Over 300 non-citizens have been disappeared there including at least one, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, by mistake.

Trump & Salvadoran President Bukele now say they have no power to bring him back.

"Trump can absolutely bring home Mr. Abrego Garcia. That is well within their power and authority.”

~Nayna Gupta

democracynow.org/2025/4/15/nay

#uspol #trump #elsalvadorprisons #fascism .

Democracy Now! · Trump Weighs Expelling U.S. Citizens as Salvadoran Pres. Says He Won’t Return Wrongfully Removed ManBy Democracy Now!

Interview: "Mohsen Mahdawi’s Abduction Should Terrify Us"

“This should terrify every single person living in this country, regardless of your citizenship status.

"This is Trump creating his own army of brownshirts right here in our country.”

~Rep. Becca Balint

Mahdawi has been a legal permanent resident of the US since 2015.

democracynow.org/2025/4/16/moh

#fascism #uspol #MohsenMahdawi #trump #studentprotestors #racism .

Democracy Now! · Mohsen Mahdawi’s Abduction “Should Terrify” Us, Says VT Rep. Balint, Whose Grandfather Was Killed in HolocaustBy Democracy Now!

Panel: Who is being targeted by Trump and why?

David Cay Johnston – Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology

Ryan Enos – Professor of government and director of the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University

Shannan Adler – Adjunct professor of journalism, ethics and interactive media at Emerson College

aljazeera.com/video/inside-sto

#trump #fascism #uspol #studentprotests #immigration #ushighered .

Al JazeeraWho is being targeted by Trump and why?Law firms, universities, NGOs and media under White House attack.

Exclusive- #Trump supporter #ErikPrince reaches deal with #Congo to help secure [steal] mineral wealth

Jessica Donati and Sonia Rolley
Thu, April 17, 2025

Excerpt: "Democratic Republic of Congo has vast reserves of #copper, #cobalt, #lithium and #coltan - a mineral used widely in smartphones, computers and electric vehicles - but has been plagued for decades by violence in its eastern region.

"The agreement between Congo and Prince initially involved a plan to deploy contractors to Goma, the capital of North Kivu province and the largest city in eastern Congo. But Goma is now under M23 control and that plan has been put on hold. M23 controls tracts of mineral-rich territory.

"A source close to the Congolese government told Reuters an initial deployment of Prince's advisers was expected to start in the south, far from the area controlled by #M23 and its allies.

" 'If you just look at Katanga, if you look at Kolwezi down just off the Zambian-Congo border, they claim that there's like $40 million a month in lost revenue of what's going out and what's coming in,' the source said.

"A diplomatic source also told Reuters the first stage of Prince's effort in Congo would focus on securing mines and tax revenues in copper-producing Katanga province.

"One of the sources close to Prince said advisers were expected to deploy with technical experts from a company specialised in testing and inspecting commodities. The advisers would initially target larger mines and expand as revenue collection improved.

"The source did not provide details on how the advisers would tackle corruption in the sector that has long drained revenue that would otherwise flow to the state.

"A source in the office of Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi said an agreement in principle had been signed with Prince, but the details on where and how many advisers would be deployed remained to be established."

aol.com/news/exclusive-trump-s

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#PrivateArmy #Academi #ErikPrinceIsAWarCriminal
#TripleCanopy #OffLeash #ProjectVeritas
#Project2025 #TigerSwan #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Colonialism #Mining #Pollution #Genocide #Corruption #CopperMining #MiningPollution #CorporateColonialism

AOL · Exclusive-Trump supporter Prince reaches deal with Congo to help secure mineral wealthBy Jessica Donati and Sonia Rolley