Taylor
@tatenotmodern.bsky.social
Mountain-loving bookworm. Librarian by training. Former life in data & research for Big Three consulting on private equity and hedge fund investments.
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@tatenotmodern.bsky.social
· Feb 3
Reminder: if you can’t access online newspaper articles because of the paywalls, get a library card! Most libraries offer free online access to digital publications. I read the NYT, FT, WSJ, WaPo, etc. through the #SeattlePublicLibrary.
#booksky #democracy #Trump #resist #america #libraries
#booksky #democracy #Trump #resist #america #libraries
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In the United States of America, this is happening
According to litigators, on Tuesday, at one detention center in Texas, ICE gathered together 1 Vietnamese, 1 Lao, and 4 other people in detention and ordered them to sign paperwork agreeing to be sent to Libya.
All 6 refused, so ICE handcuffed them and threw them into solitary.
All 6 refused, so ICE handcuffed them and threw them into solitary.
![The reports with respect to the imminent removal to Libya show, inter alia, Philippine, Vietnamese and Laotian class members being set for removal without any reasonable fear screening, let alone a fifteen-day window to file a motion to reopen with the immigration court to contest any negative reasonable fear determination. See Exhibits B, C, D. In one reported case, "[U.S.
Immigration and Customs Officers (ICE)] officers at the South Texas Detention Facility gathered 1 Vietnamese detainee, along with 5 others (including 1 from Laos) into a room and told them that they needed to sign a document agreeing to be deported to Libya. When they all refused, they were each put in a separate room and cuffed in (basically, solitary) in order to get
them to sign it." Exhibit B.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreiceond5y4ih4ljlfnhev2dd3qat2fgdu3h4ickuhd25otfhzhibcq@jpeg)
May 7, 2025 at 11:05 PM
In the United States of America, this is happening
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"The road to atrocities is paved by people telling you you're overreacting." -Kat Abughazaleh, getting it absolutely right #USPol www.youtube.com/watch?v=xITS...
We Need To Talk About ICE
YouTube video by Kat Abughazaleh
www.youtube.com
April 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
"The road to atrocities is paved by people telling you you're overreacting." -Kat Abughazaleh, getting it absolutely right #USPol www.youtube.com/watch?v=xITS...
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Arresting judges is 101 dictator shit.
Bondi declares war on the courts: "What has happened to our judiciary is beyond me ... they are deranged ... we are sending a very strong message today ... we will come after you and we will prosecute you. We will find you."
April 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Arresting judges is 101 dictator shit.
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I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.
The Department of Homeland Security denied Mahmoud Khalil permission to attend the birth of his first child, who was delivered at a New York hospital on Monday, according to emails reviewed by The New York Times.
Mahmoud Khalil’s Son Arrives After ICE Refuses to Let Him Attend Birth
Mr. Khalil, a permanent resident detained in Louisiana, had requested a monitored furlough for the birth. His request was denied in less than an hour.
www.nytimes.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.
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I’m reading @davidenrich.bsky.social’s very good book Murder the Truth about the legal campaign against free speech and just as I suspected this seems to stem from men being exposed for how they treat women and deciding we shouldn’t have democracy because of the few people criticizing them for it
April 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I’m reading @davidenrich.bsky.social’s very good book Murder the Truth about the legal campaign against free speech and just as I suspected this seems to stem from men being exposed for how they treat women and deciding we shouldn’t have democracy because of the few people criticizing them for it
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A fool that mistakes history as a guide, but a bigger fool still who doesn't acknowledge its trends. The Wiemar Republic seems analogous, yet the fast pace of information of our age compresses time; it becomes an exponential trajectory towards outcomes of an authoritarianism
April 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Here's Palantir's Louis Mosley, grandson of Britain's most famous fascist leader, talking about the importance of AI, if you aren't convinced yet that this is one big co-ordinated push towards the destruction of everything good in life.
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
April 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Here's Palantir's Louis Mosley, grandson of Britain's most famous fascist leader, talking about the importance of AI, if you aren't convinced yet that this is one big co-ordinated push towards the destruction of everything good in life.
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
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The Abu Ghraib Caucus.
April 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The Abu Ghraib Caucus.
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Trying to install commissars in every part of society - first a private university, now a legal nonprofit. Could not be more contrary to the ideals of this country.
Autocrats erase the boundary between public and private - and now DOGE is seeking to assign "teams" to private organizations that receive federal funds. Yet another line has been crossed.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
DOGE sought to assign a team to an independent nonprofit group
A representative of DOGE met with leaders of the Vera Institute of Justice, a nonprofit organization that advocates for lower incarceration rates.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 16, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Trying to install commissars in every part of society - first a private university, now a legal nonprofit. Could not be more contrary to the ideals of this country.
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Autocrats erase the boundary between public and private - and now DOGE is seeking to assign "teams" to private organizations that receive federal funds. Yet another line has been crossed.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
DOGE sought to assign a team to an independent nonprofit group
A representative of DOGE met with leaders of the Vera Institute of Justice, a nonprofit organization that advocates for lower incarceration rates.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 16, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Autocrats erase the boundary between public and private - and now DOGE is seeking to assign "teams" to private organizations that receive federal funds. Yet another line has been crossed.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Just a reminder how classic what we're seeing is:
1. redefine a group as a threat to civilization
2. reduce legal protections that they enjoy
3. abuse, threaten, harm, and/or relocate them
4. dismiss/ignore concerns about abuses and harms from the process
5. repeat steps 2-4, escalating each time
1. redefine a group as a threat to civilization
2. reduce legal protections that they enjoy
3. abuse, threaten, harm, and/or relocate them
4. dismiss/ignore concerns about abuses and harms from the process
5. repeat steps 2-4, escalating each time
Confession that due process is or should be optional according to the vice president
April 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Just a reminder how classic what we're seeing is:
1. redefine a group as a threat to civilization
2. reduce legal protections that they enjoy
3. abuse, threaten, harm, and/or relocate them
4. dismiss/ignore concerns about abuses and harms from the process
5. repeat steps 2-4, escalating each time
1. redefine a group as a threat to civilization
2. reduce legal protections that they enjoy
3. abuse, threaten, harm, and/or relocate them
4. dismiss/ignore concerns about abuses and harms from the process
5. repeat steps 2-4, escalating each time
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I'm going to have to add a paragraph to this book on the Civil Rights Division in the 1960s that informs readers that, originally, the CRD fought tirelessly for diversity, filed countless lawsuits to secure equity and showed up at segregated institutions to demand inclusion.
"Diversity is discrimination" is literally Orwellian language, like "war is peace, hate is love, slavery is freedom."
You can find it at civilrights.justice.gov
You can find it at civilrights.justice.gov
April 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I'm going to have to add a paragraph to this book on the Civil Rights Division in the 1960s that informs readers that, originally, the CRD fought tirelessly for diversity, filed countless lawsuits to secure equity and showed up at segregated institutions to demand inclusion.
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We've seen videos like this before, but usually when you see a tearful wife pleading with the kidnappers who have taken her husband, she's not talking to the U.S. president
Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."
April 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
We've seen videos like this before, but usually when you see a tearful wife pleading with the kidnappers who have taken her husband, she's not talking to the U.S. president
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This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s happening too.
April 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s happening too.
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Just so we’re clear, everybody calling Kilmar Abrego Garcia a “terrorist” or a “gang member” are lying, and they know they’re lying, and they repeat it for purposes of confusing people who don’t follow this stuff closely into accepting what was done to him.
April 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Just so we’re clear, everybody calling Kilmar Abrego Garcia a “terrorist” or a “gang member” are lying, and they know they’re lying, and they repeat it for purposes of confusing people who don’t follow this stuff closely into accepting what was done to him.
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We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.
April 15, 2025 at 12:09 AM
We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.
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In less than 3 months, the Trump regime:
- Centralized all the government’s information on you
- Claims the right to deport legal residents—including citizens—without due process
- Has kidnapped and jailed people for their expressed beliefs
- Forced opposition lawyers to “bend the knee”
- Centralized all the government’s information on you
- Claims the right to deport legal residents—including citizens—without due process
- Has kidnapped and jailed people for their expressed beliefs
- Forced opposition lawyers to “bend the knee”
April 14, 2025 at 10:36 PM
In less than 3 months, the Trump regime:
- Centralized all the government’s information on you
- Claims the right to deport legal residents—including citizens—without due process
- Has kidnapped and jailed people for their expressed beliefs
- Forced opposition lawyers to “bend the knee”
- Centralized all the government’s information on you
- Claims the right to deport legal residents—including citizens—without due process
- Has kidnapped and jailed people for their expressed beliefs
- Forced opposition lawyers to “bend the knee”
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It’s time to start paying attention to prisoners rights.
It’s how our country continued slavery and labor exploitation and unequal representation in politics.
now is the time to fight for the equal human dignity and citizenship of all people, including those who are incarcerated.
It’s how our country continued slavery and labor exploitation and unequal representation in politics.
now is the time to fight for the equal human dignity and citizenship of all people, including those who are incarcerated.
April 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
It’s time to start paying attention to prisoners rights.
It’s how our country continued slavery and labor exploitation and unequal representation in politics.
now is the time to fight for the equal human dignity and citizenship of all people, including those who are incarcerated.
It’s how our country continued slavery and labor exploitation and unequal representation in politics.
now is the time to fight for the equal human dignity and citizenship of all people, including those who are incarcerated.
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Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not.
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library?
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
www.nytimes.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not.
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
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Sic semper tyrannis
If the government can pay a foreign state to imprison you and, in so doing, remove you from the protection of US law, the Constitution is worthless.
April 13, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Sic semper tyrannis
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“What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? … The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants.” –TJ, 1787
Two weeks ago I did a thread on how the Founding Fathers declared independence from the crown for behaving literally the same way as the Trump administration.
It's getting worse and Americans need to connect today's events to this founding document.
It's getting worse and Americans need to connect today's events to this founding document.
I just re-read the full Declaration of Independence. It's the most illuminating and depressing thing I've read in a while. Highly recommend folks give it a read.
Many — if not most — of the complaints levied against King George are indistinguishable from those brought against President Trump today.
Many — if not most — of the complaints levied against King George are indistinguishable from those brought against President Trump today.
April 13, 2025 at 4:37 AM
“What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? … The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants.” –TJ, 1787
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The Trump regime is claiming tyrannical powers. Not an exaggeration, not hyperbole, not a partisan statement. The reality we now face.
If the government can pay a foreign state to imprison you and, in so doing, remove you from the protection of US law, the Constitution is worthless.
April 13, 2025 at 3:12 AM
The Trump regime is claiming tyrannical powers. Not an exaggeration, not hyperbole, not a partisan statement. The reality we now face.
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If the government can pay a foreign state to imprison you and, in so doing, remove you from the protection of US law, the Constitution is worthless.
April 13, 2025 at 12:49 AM
If the government can pay a foreign state to imprison you and, in so doing, remove you from the protection of US law, the Constitution is worthless.
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Holy shit
“Greg Pearre, a career civil servant who led an IT team working on the agency’s data systems, was removed over his opposition to a DOGE plan to cut off immigrants from key financial services”
“Greg Pearre, a career civil servant who led an IT team working on the agency’s data systems, was removed over his opposition to a DOGE plan to cut off immigrants from key financial services”
April 13, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Holy shit
“Greg Pearre, a career civil servant who led an IT team working on the agency’s data systems, was removed over his opposition to a DOGE plan to cut off immigrants from key financial services”
“Greg Pearre, a career civil servant who led an IT team working on the agency’s data systems, was removed over his opposition to a DOGE plan to cut off immigrants from key financial services”
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Georgetown scholar Dr. Khan Suri, who was abducted by ICE, was refused food/water to break Ramadan fast, housed in a room without a bed, and issued *used* underwear.
His child cried for days after he was taken and has since stopped speaking.
ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...
His child cried for days after he was taken and has since stopped speaking.
ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...
April 8, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Georgetown scholar Dr. Khan Suri, who was abducted by ICE, was refused food/water to break Ramadan fast, housed in a room without a bed, and issued *used* underwear.
His child cried for days after he was taken and has since stopped speaking.
ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...
His child cried for days after he was taken and has since stopped speaking.
ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...