These aren't Trump abductions, these are ICE abductions. ICE - under both parties - and border agents everywhere kidnap people, separate them from loved ones, jail them under torturous conditions & expel them.

Also, these aren't "third world gulags', border violence is perfected in imperial core.

one of the many important things I learned from Sylvia Wynter is that capitalism (specifically dispossession by accumulation) is a belief system (not just, say, a social-economic system). it is deified and worshipped. dig this: it’s a religion, faith, theology. we follow it.

Bordering is key architecture of fascism

Palmer Raids over 100 yrs ago led to arrest of 8,000+ communists & anarchists, laying groundwork for the Red Scare and mass deportations

Mahmoud Khalil is not canary in the mine - this isnt new. He is targeted because he is Palestinian immigrant organizer.