Googling museum open hours and scrolling Twitter on my phone when a group of first graders got on with their teacher. Each student was carrying a book. The one sitting nearest turned to me and said, “Are you reading?” I realized I’d forgotten how miraculous it is to be able to read. “Yes,” I said.

Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.

I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.

Unquestionably, major policy changes, edicts and directives handed down by the new Trump administration will upend lives. But I've also been struck by the widespread efforts to erase/whitewash history. Stick with me for a pretty shocking series of events from just the past few weeks.

Well this hits like a ton of bricks.

From Naomi Klein’s ‘Doppelganger.”