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Katy Elphinstone<p>Refs: </p><p>Suarez, C. (2018). The Power Manual. New Society Publishers. </p><p>She draws here also on the work of Audre Lorde, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, and others.</p><p>End of 🧵 </p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Oppression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oppression</span></a><br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/PowerDynamics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PowerDynamics</span></a><br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Exploitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Exploitation</span></a><br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dehumanization</span></a><br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Marginalized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Marginalized</span></a><br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Equity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Equity</span></a></p>
Katy Elphinstone<p>How oppression comes about through people's micro-interactions. 🤷‍♀️</p><p>Seven patterns of dominance:</p><p>👑 1. Tolerance. </p><p>Allowing small doses of difference (especially those that are of benefit to my own or my company/organization's agenda).</p><p>But never enough to cause change to the power relationship. <br>Diversity, but not equity!</p><p>1/7</p><p>(A thread 🧵 )</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Oppression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oppression</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/PowerDynamics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PowerDynamics</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Exploitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Exploitation</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dehumanization</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Marginalized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Marginalized</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Equity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Equity</span></a></p>
Bongolian<p>The Disappeared: Deported. Disappeared. Dehumanized.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TheContrarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheContrarian</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/disappeared" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disappeared</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deportation</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dehumanization</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a><br><a href="https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-disappeared?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">contrarian.substack.com/p/the-</span><span class="invisible">disappeared?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> posted a photo of himself holding up a picture claiming to show <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/KilmarAbregoGarcia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KilmarAbregoGarcia</span></a>’s tattoos that prove he’s MS-13.</p><p>The picture he’s holding has obviously been digitally altered to add the characters MS-13. </p><p>The source of this BS is a neo-Nazi X user who claims the tattoos are code for “MS-13.”</p><p>This is why you try people in court of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> &amp; not on social media.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FactCheck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FactCheck</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpLies</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/gaslighting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gaslighting</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>propaganda</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dehumanization</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DueProcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DueProcess</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>&quot;In a stark recasting of Orwell’s original insight, in 2024 it was not Trump and his MAGA allies who cloaked their intentions in euphemism and ambiguity. Instead, it was mainstream media, pollsters, and political consultants who retreated into vagueness—minimizing or outright ignoring Trump&#39;s explicit threats in an effort to avoid accusations of bias, partisanship, or alarmism.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cruelty</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nazis</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dehumanization</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/lies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>lies</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>media</span></a><br />/6</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>&quot;In the shadow of mid-20th-century atrocities, George Orwell warned us in his indispensable essay, &#39;Politics and the English Language,&#39; that political speech often serves primarily to defend the indefensible through &#39;euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness.&#39; Today, this warning rings truer than ever.</p><p>~ Michael Podhorzer</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cruelty</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nazis</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dehumanization</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/lies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>lies</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>media</span></a><br />/5</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>&quot;The reason I think we&#39;re at the numbers we&#39;re at is because this movement has been building a very long time. And one of the things that we need to do when we reclaim America and an America for everybody is to push these people back under the rock they came from. Because that&#39;s really where this kind of mentality should be in a healthy society. They&#39;ll always be there, but they shouldn&#39;t be running everything.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cruelty</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nazis</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dehumanization</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>racism</span></a><br />/4</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>&quot;There is the idea of othering and ... you can see the way the administration began these flights with individuals that they believed they had constructed this image of them as these terrible human beings. Again, although 90% of them do not have criminal records, but they could do it. They had brown skin.&quot;</p><p>~ Heather Cox Richardson</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cruelty</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nazis</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dehumanization</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/lies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>lies</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>racism</span></a><br />/3</p><p><a href="https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-trumps-greed-grift-and-racism" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thelefthook.substack.com/p/how</span><span class="invisible">-trumps-greed-grift-and-racism</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>&quot;They’re painted not as people, but as animals. As monsters. As rapists. As the scourge of American society. The messaging isn’t accidental. It is the exact kind of dehumanization that makes cruelty palatable, even desirable. ...</p><p>This is the playbook. This has always been the playbook. Turn the masses against the vulnerable. Make cruelty the point. Then repeat the lie until the truth chokes on its own breath.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cruelty</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nazis</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dehumanization</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/lies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>lies</span></a><br />/2</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>&quot;Reminiscent of Hitler’s grotesque propaganda, where Jews were cast as vermin, stripped of their humanity so that no one would care when they were disappeared, the Trump apparatus is manufacturing the same cruelty, recast for modern America. The new &#39;vermin&#39; are the immigrants. The undocumented. The vulnerable. The desperate.&quot;</p><p>~ Michael Cohen</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cruelty</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nazis</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dehumanization</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/lies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>lies</span></a><br />/1</p><p><a href="https://www.meidasplus.com/p/when-silence-wins-everyone-else-loses" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">meidasplus.com/p/when-silence-</span><span class="invisible">wins-everyone-else-loses</span></a></p>
Gerd_Brodowski<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>israel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>palestine</span></a> : <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>war</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gaza</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hamas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hamas</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hostages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hostages</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dehumanization</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/eyewitnessreport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eyewitnessreport</span></a></p><p>„Keith Siegel, who spent 484 days as a hostage, described the physical and psychological distress he endured, in an interview with The New York Times.“</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/world/middleeast/keith-siegel-israel-hostage-hamas-gaza-interview.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AE8.QIHd.e-VHugT5Z4lv&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/04/16/world/m</span><span class="invisible">iddleeast/keith-siegel-israel-hostage-hamas-gaza-interview.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AE8.QIHd.e-VHugT5Z4lv&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare</span></a></p>
Kim Perales<p>The &#39;banality of evil&#39; described by political theorist Hannah Arendt is taking hold in the United States.🚨What she saw in Hitler’s Germany, we can see in Trump’s America.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nazis</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TrumpMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TrumpMusk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Deportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Deportations</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Coup</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Dehumanization</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Racism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USPol</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-04-10/hannah-arendt-germany-hitler" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">latimes.com/opinion/story/2025</span><span class="invisible">-04-10/hannah-arendt-germany-hitler</span></a></p>
DB 🌱💦<p>🚨 UPDATE: The Danish Club of Ottawa has released a statement re: Bente Nielsen's Islamophobic, racist post.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/@dbattistella/114316459006745660" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mstdn.ca/@dbattistella/1143164</span><span class="invisible">59006745660</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Islamophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Islamophobia</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Racism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dehumanization</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>It’s begun.</p><p>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialSecurity</span></a> Admin this week entered the names &amp; SSNs of &gt;6,000 mostly Latino immigrants into a database it uses to track <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/dead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dead</span></a> people, effectively <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/erasing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>erasing</span></a> their ability to receive <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/benefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>benefits</span></a> or <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/work" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>work</span></a> legally in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a>….<br>
The move, requested by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DHS</span></a> Secy [&amp; dog killer] <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/KristiNoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KristiNoem</span></a>, is aimed at putting pressure on the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/undocumented" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>undocumented</span></a> immigrants to leave the country.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dehumanization</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>labor</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/10/self-deportation-immigrants-social-security-dead/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/politics/20</span><span class="invisible">25/04/10/self-deportation-immigrants-social-security-dead/</span></a></p>
DB 🌱💦<p>🚨 <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Islamophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Islamophobia</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Racism</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dehumanization</span></a></p><p>“Arabs shouldn’t be allowed in any luxury restaurant” - Bente Nielsen is Director of the Danish Club of <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Ottawa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ottawa</span></a> </p><p>You can let the club know what you think of their Islamophobic, racist director at: 📧 info@danishclubottawa.ca</p>
DB 🌱💦<p>🚨 <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Islamophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Islamophobia</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Racism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dehumanization</span></a></p><p>“Arabs shouldn’t be allowed in any luxury restaurant” - Bente Nielsen is Director of the Danish Club of <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Ottawa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ottawa</span></a> </p><p>You can let the club know what you think of their Islamophobic, racist director at: 📧 info@danishclubottawa.ca</p>
Nonilex<p>The goal is to cut those people off from using crucial financial services like bank accounts &amp; credit cards, along w/their access to government benefits.</p><p>The effort hinges on a surprising new tactic: repurposing <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialSecurity</span></a>’s “death master file,” which for years has been used to track dead people who should no longer receive benefits, to include the names of living people who the govt believes should be TREATED AS IF THEY ARE DEAD.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>labor</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dehumanization</span></a></p>
Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p>"<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> director says <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/deportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deportations</span></a> should be run like ‘<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amazon</span></a> Prime for human beings’"</p><p>Jesus fucking Christ</p><p>The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sadism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sadism</span></a> has no bottom. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dehumanization</span></a> is the gleeful loudly announced goal</p><p>All of the bigots and morons out there will love it or not care</p><p>None of this is going to end well, there is some really scary shit coming</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/ice-todd-lyons-deporation-amazon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a</span><span class="invisible">pr/09/ice-todd-lyons-deporation-amazon</span></a></p>
Bongolian<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dehumanization</span></a> is their goal.</p><p>Marina Dunbar: <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Ice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ice</span></a> director says deportations should be run like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’: Todd Lyons said he wanted US <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> agency to be ‘like a business’ in its deportation process</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ToddLyons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ToddLyons</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deportation</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/avelo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>avelo</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/militaryindustrialcomplex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>militaryindustrialcomplex</span></a><br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/ice-todd-lyons-deporation-amazon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a</span><span class="invisible">pr/09/ice-todd-lyons-deporation-amazon</span></a></p>
Gray Beard<p>Dehumanization has become so normal these days I'm starting to wonder what species I'm gonna be this week and whether or not I'm a pest.</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/dehumanization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dehumanization</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deportation</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/humanrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humanrights</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ice</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/secondclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>secondclass</span></a></p>