William Lindsey :toad:<p>Larry Diamond quotes Fareed Zakaria:</p><p>"Of America’s top 10 companies, five are run by immigrants."</p><p>What Trump is effecting, Diamond says, is "the end, not the recovery, of American greatness—what the China expert Rush Doshi calls the 'suicide of a superpower'—with horrific consequences for the freedom, prosperity, and health of Americans (and our allies)."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/StephenMiller" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StephenMiller</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/BigBeautifulBill" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BigBeautifulBill</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ConcentrationCamps" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ConcentrationCamps</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/PoliceForce" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PoliceForce</span></a><br />/13</p><p><a href="https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/trump-is-gutting-every-source-of" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theunpopulist.net/p/trump-is-g</span><span class="invisible">utting-every-source-of</span></a></p>
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William Lindsey :toad:<p>"On the way to authoritarianism, there are boxes that need to be checked. One of the biggest boxes is: a private militia under full control of the leader."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/StephenMiller" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StephenMiller</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/BigBeautifulBill" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BigBeautifulBill</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ConcentrationCamps" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ConcentrationCamps</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/PoliceForce" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PoliceForce</span></a><br />/12</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>Kristin Du Mez writes,</p><p>"Jemar Tisby’s post today hit me hard. Because I see exactly what he sees. Of all the concerning and even frightening things in Trump’s new budget, the allocation for ICE feels like the most foreboding.</p><p>Why? Because as Jemar says, we know the historical patterns."</p><p>See /5-6 above for Jemar Tisby's commentary.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/StephenMiller" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StephenMiller</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/BigBeautifulBill" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BigBeautifulBill</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ConcentrationCamps" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ConcentrationCamps</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/PoliceForce" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PoliceForce</span></a><br />/11</p><p><a href="https://kristindumez.substack.com/p/ice-and-the-patterns-of-history" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kristindumez.substack.com/p/ic</span><span class="invisible">e-and-the-patterns-of-history</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>Stewart writes,</p><p>"You might think that the overt cruelty of the BBB [big beautiful bill] would count as a disadvantage, a cost to be set against whatever benefits supposedly flow from giving tax cuts to rich people. ...</p><p>But the cruelty is one of the bill’s selling features."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/StephenMiller" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StephenMiller</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/BigBeautifulBill" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BigBeautifulBill</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/PoliceForce" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PoliceForce</span></a><br />/9</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>His conclusion: authoritarian leanings reinforced by a certain kind of religion can cause people to delude themselves, to ignore information that might alert them to how they're actually harming themselves as they target others.</p><p>The thrill of hurting someone else is all-consuming and compelling: we can applaud ripping funds we need from ourselves to build a huge police force if it polices "those others."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/StephenMiller" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StephenMiller</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/BigBeautifulBill" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BigBeautifulBill</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/PoliceForce" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PoliceForce</span></a><br />/8</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>Why do many Americans who will now be badly hurt by the big, beautiful bill's ripping of necessary support networks from them cheer the bill? To answer that question, Katherine Stewart turns to Wilhelm Reich's Mass Psychology of Fascism. </p><p>As she notes, Reich was preoccupied with the question of why working-class Germans succumbed to Hitler. </p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/StephenMiller" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StephenMiller</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/BigBeautifulBill" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BigBeautifulBill</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/PoliceForce" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PoliceForce</span></a><br />/7</p><p><a href="https://writekaths.substack.com/p/bbb-and-the-psychology-of-fascism" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">writekaths.substack.com/p/bbb-</span><span class="invisible">and-the-psychology-of-fascism</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"Anyone could be a target for harassment, imprisonment, or disappearing.</p><p>ICE is the president’s personal army to carry out his authoritarian will."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/StephenMiller" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StephenMiller</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/BigBeautifulBill" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BigBeautifulBill</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/PoliceForce" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PoliceForce</span></a><br />/6</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"A private police force with the power to conduct raids, surveillance, arrests, and disappearances—all without military oversight or congressional restraint.</p><p>With $170 billion behind it, ICE can now be deployed not just against immigrants but against anyone who threatens the regime’s ideological, economic, or political grip."</p><p>~ Jemar Tisby</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/StephenMiller" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StephenMiller</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/BigBeautifulBill" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BigBeautifulBill</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/PoliceForce" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PoliceForce</span></a><br />/5</p><p><a href="https://jemartisby.substack.com/p/trumps-personal-army" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jemartisby.substack.com/p/trum</span><span class="invisible">ps-personal-army</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>The moment when you learn something cool about a friend that you didn't know before. I was hanging out with a friend before today's Pride Parade and saw that he had a special issue of the "<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EarthFirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EarthFirst</span></a> Journal" on his coffee table. Having been in an EF affiliate group in the northeast, I asked if I could thumb through it. When I got to a certain page, my friend pointed to photograph of some people at an action. "Recognize that nerd?" he asked. "OMGs! That's you!" He then proceeded to tell me what it was like being at the tree sittings in Eugene, Oregon when they were trying to save a forest from being cut down. The cops went crazy with pepper spray, attacking the protestors in ways I won't detail (but very <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ACAB</span></a>). Un-armed protestors. In trees. My friend tells me that this incident radicalized a LOT of folks -- as did some of the subsequent ones that soon followed...</p><p>From Wikipedia: Eugene Oregon - 1990s: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anarchist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anarchist</span></a> activity</p><p>"Attempts by the city to remove a forest grove at downtown Broadway and Charnelton were met with protests on June 1, 1997. Forty trees in downtown Eugene were cut down to make way for a housing, retail, and parking project and were met with community resistance.</p><p>"The Eugene [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/policeforce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>policeforce</span></a>] was accused of overreaction and excessive use of force for their flagrant use of pepper spray, which was defended by Republican mayor Jim Torrey. In the Whitaker District, citizens were further radicalized by the incident and helped spur the activist community, which was already burgeoning due to a lack of affordable housing and growing income inequality in the area." </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_activism_in_Eugene,_Oregon" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communit</span><span class="invisible">y_activism_in_Eugene,_Oregon</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EugeneOregon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EugeneOregon</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Activism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveTheForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SaveTheForest</span></a></p>
Silkester<p>German police goes old tech when it comes to safely apprehend a mentally disturbed woman with a knife.</p><p>Officers wore full body chain armor under the ballistic vest before entering and apprehending. The woman was safely transferred to the psychiatric hospital. No shooting of sick persons, officers unharmed. And it's not exactly the same material as in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MiddleAges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MiddleAges</span></a>.</p><p>(GER)<br><a href="https://www.nn.de/nuernberg/polizei-mit-grossaufgebot-in-der-weissgerbergasse-das-sind-die-bilder-vom-einsatzort-in-nurnberg-1.14378223" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nn.de/nuernberg/polizei-mit-gr</span><span class="invisible">ossaufgebot-in-der-weissgerbergasse-das-sind-die-bilder-vom-einsatzort-in-nurnberg-1.14378223</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/policeForce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>policeForce</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SafetyMeasures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SafetyMeasures</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChainArmor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChainArmor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GermanPolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GermanPolice</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ServeAndProtect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ServeAndProtect</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChainArmor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChainArmor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OldTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OldTech</span></a> 😎</p>
Delphi<p>The <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/gardenisle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gardenisle</span></a> has the <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a>'s highest charge for <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/gardenwaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gardenwaste</span></a> collection (& they <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/compost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compost</span></a> it & sell it for <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/profit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>profit</span></a>). The <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/policeforce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>policeforce</span></a> was combined with a <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/mainland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mainland</span></a> force with different priorities and a <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ferry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ferry</span></a> journey away. If you call the <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> now they'll have no idea about the quirky island locations, the nature of the <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/roads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>roads</span></a> etc. Now the <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/policeprecept" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>policeprecept</span></a> has been increased. Will there be more <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/officers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>officers</span></a> the for <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/island" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>island</span></a> or just for #<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Hampshire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hampshire</span></a>? <br><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>policing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/IsleofWight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IsleofWight</span></a><br><a href="https://onthewight.com/policing-precept-hike-approved-despite-concerns-over-cost-of-living-crisis/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">onthewight.com/policing-precep</span><span class="invisible">t-hike-approved-despite-concerns-over-cost-of-living-crisis/</span></a></p>
Steve Dustcircle 🌹<p>Who is attracted to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>policing</span></a> jobs?<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxt_foRCN7k" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=Yxt_foRCN7</span><span class="invisible">k</span></a><br>Brian Klaas argues that the key to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/reform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reform</span></a> is changing who wants to be a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/cop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cop</span></a>. <br>Could revamping police <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/recruitment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>recruitment</span></a> strategies pave the way to a more accountable and community-oriented <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/policeforce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>policeforce</span></a>? <br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/policestate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>policestate</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/policebrutality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>policebrutality</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/murder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>murder</span></a></p>
Thierna<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mekkaokereke</span></a></span> "Researchers have spent 50 years studying the way crowds of protesters and crowds of police behave—and what happens when the two interact. ... disproportionate <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/PoliceForce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliceForce</span></a> is one of the things that can make a peaceful protest not so peaceful. But if we know that (and have known that for decades), why are <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> still doing it? "</p><p><a href="https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/06/01/why-so-many-police-are-handling-the-protests-wrong" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">themarshallproject.org/2020/06</span><span class="invisible">/01/why-so-many-police-are-handling-the-protests-wrong</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/MissedQuoteBoost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MissedQuoteBoost</span></a></p>
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