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🧵This 58-year-old nurse from Maryland is seen being violently dragged along the ground by officials in Ghana.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Woman deported from Maryland shown on video being dragged in Ghana
Rabbiatu Kuyateh was detained this summer at her annual ICE check-in, her son said. She moved to the D.C. area 30 years ago as she fled civil war in Sierra Leone.
www.nbcnews.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:30 AM
🧵This 58-year-old nurse from Maryland is seen being violently dragged along the ground by officials in Ghana.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
we are hurtling backwards as a society and i want to scream
bro are you fucking kidding me
November 7, 2025 at 12:04 PM
we are hurtling backwards as a society and i want to scream
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you think you're special because of where you were born? America is where the world goes to escape the circumstances of its birth, get with the program.
October 23, 2025 at 4:36 AM
you think you're special because of where you were born? America is where the world goes to escape the circumstances of its birth, get with the program.
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Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
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Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record.
I just don't know what to say anymore.
I just don't know what to say anymore.
September 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record.
I just don't know what to say anymore.
I just don't know what to say anymore.
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I expected the tyranny and the blustering and the mockery of everything they’ve ever claimed America was supposed to stand for
what I didn’t expect was the depth and speed of the capitulation at every level
what I didn’t expect was the depth and speed of the capitulation at every level
September 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I expected the tyranny and the blustering and the mockery of everything they’ve ever claimed America was supposed to stand for
what I didn’t expect was the depth and speed of the capitulation at every level
what I didn’t expect was the depth and speed of the capitulation at every level
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it's easy to look past these when there were much larger tragedies to come in its darkest years, but something that would be recorded, from Jewish exiles to German intellectuals who simply made enemies with the regime, is how many people died in crude desolation because the stress became too much.
September 16, 2025 at 1:09 AM
it's easy to look past these when there were much larger tragedies to come in its darkest years, but something that would be recorded, from Jewish exiles to German intellectuals who simply made enemies with the regime, is how many people died in crude desolation because the stress became too much.
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Lives entirely ruined. Careers thrown entirely to the wind. You were running a successful publishing house in Hamburg but, in little over a year, are now in total financial ruin, alone in some foreign country. You can't get a job because no one needs a German publisher in America. You're nobody.
September 16, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Lives entirely ruined. Careers thrown entirely to the wind. You were running a successful publishing house in Hamburg but, in little over a year, are now in total financial ruin, alone in some foreign country. You can't get a job because no one needs a German publisher in America. You're nobody.
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We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.
September 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.
thinking of Eugène Ionesco’s commentary on Rhinoceros for no particular reason
September 14, 2025 at 12:05 PM
thinking of Eugène Ionesco’s commentary on Rhinoceros for no particular reason
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Murdering people on a boat because of allegations that they are criminals isn't acceptable
Acts of political violence aren’t acceptable. Non-political school shootings aren’t acceptable. Sacking the legislature isn’t acceptable. Military occupation of peaceful American cities isn’t acceptable. Abductions conducted in courthouse hallways by masked agents of the state aren’t acceptable.
September 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Murdering people on a boat because of allegations that they are criminals isn't acceptable
why are they booing dropshots lol
August 31, 2025 at 5:07 AM
why are they booing dropshots lol
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Warnings From Weimar
Why bargaining with authoritarians fails.
www.foreignaffairs.com
August 28, 2025 at 10:17 AM
reactive politics is so ineffectual!! a crisis calls for *shaping* public opinion
This memo is being sent to Democratic leaders/elites,
arguing that directly attacking Trump's deployment of the National Guard in DC is politically unwise. It encourages the use of terms like distraction and stunt. (I am not endorsing this kind of thinking at all. ) www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bz9d8...
arguing that directly attacking Trump's deployment of the National Guard in DC is politically unwise. It encourages the use of terms like distraction and stunt. (I am not endorsing this kind of thinking at all. ) www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bz9d8...
www.dropbox.com
August 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
reactive politics is so ineffectual!! a crisis calls for *shaping* public opinion
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The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
America Tips Into Fascism
Today is different than before.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
August 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
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The notion that resistance to authoritarianism should be comfortable and painless is a substantial reason why we have been so ineffective in resisting it.
The entire point of taking moral stands in defense against totalitarianism is that we have to be willing to bear the costs that come from the courage of our convictions.
I’m not remotely suggesting we stop research, but we maybe consider whether to refuse traveling to schools for academic events.
I’m not remotely suggesting we stop research, but we maybe consider whether to refuse traveling to schools for academic events.
Indeed. And when they come for Georgia State you will find that your moral positioning will become infinitely more complicated and agonizing as you look at the students who will be forced from your institution, the research trials that are stopped, the career educators pushed out of their jobs...
July 31, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The notion that resistance to authoritarianism should be comfortable and painless is a substantial reason why we have been so ineffective in resisting it.
so criminalizing poverty and vulnerability. this is evil.
July 25, 2025 at 1:35 AM
so criminalizing poverty and vulnerability. this is evil.
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I mean, yes, it often is hard and unpleasant to take a moral stand against evil.
Does this mean it’s inherently unfair and rude to encourage people to do so?
Does this mean it’s inherently unfair and rude to encourage people to do so?
July 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I mean, yes, it often is hard and unpleasant to take a moral stand against evil.
Does this mean it’s inherently unfair and rude to encourage people to do so?
Does this mean it’s inherently unfair and rude to encourage people to do so?
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Former US ambassador to Hungary: "After years watching Hungary suffocate under the weight of its democratic collapse, I came to understand that the real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence." (h/t @bnovak.bsky.social)
Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.
www.nytimes.com
July 23, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Former US ambassador to Hungary: "After years watching Hungary suffocate under the weight of its democratic collapse, I came to understand that the real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence." (h/t @bnovak.bsky.social)
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We are under a fascist regime, which albeit hasn't fully consolidated control over an extremely large and technologically advanced country, and it would be dangerously foolish to wait for an imaginary checklist to be completed before accepting this truth.
Yeah I really dislike the genre of post which is like "trump has done something very bad, therefore we live under a totalitarian regime" like the very fact that you're posting that without fear of consequences is proof that we are not (yet). Engage with the harms as they actually exist
It’s an anocracy. Trump hasn’t consolidated authoritarian control. If he did, he’d be able to carry out his desire to crush all mass protest with overwhelming force. There wouldn’t be No Kings protests all over the county, with little difficulty.
But his aims are clear and the rule of law, broken.
But his aims are clear and the rule of law, broken.
July 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM
We are under a fascist regime, which albeit hasn't fully consolidated control over an extremely large and technologically advanced country, and it would be dangerously foolish to wait for an imaginary checklist to be completed before accepting this truth.
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I do feel like there is a significant portion of the legal academy would clap like seals (but solemnly) if the Supreme Court ordered babies be thrown into a woodchipper for Moloch if the "reasoning" was sound
Put a pin in this.
Elite legal liberal obtuseness.
I have great respect for Bagley, but this isn’t gonna end well.
Elite legal liberal obtuseness.
I have great respect for Bagley, but this isn’t gonna end well.
June 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I do feel like there is a significant portion of the legal academy would clap like seals (but solemnly) if the Supreme Court ordered babies be thrown into a woodchipper for Moloch if the "reasoning" was sound
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Stephen Miller got caught repeatedly trafficking in white nationalist rhetoric and conspiracy theories and an ABC News reporter got suspended for calling Miller hateful
Stephen Miller’s Affinity for White Nationalism Revealed in Leaked Emails
In the run-up to the 2016 election, White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller promoted white nationalist literature, pushed racist immigration stories.
www.splcenter.org
June 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Stephen Miller got caught repeatedly trafficking in white nationalist rhetoric and conspiracy theories and an ABC News reporter got suspended for calling Miller hateful
hope the kid is ok. what courage.
Just before the previous clip, the skater kid was practically taunting the Border Patrol agents by dancing around their munitions shots.
June 7, 2025 at 11:59 PM
hope the kid is ok. what courage.
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every day there are new horrors for gender-marginalized people and women--trump going after the equal credit opportunity act, loss of body autonomy, exterminationist anti-trans attacks ramping up--and every single day we have to talk about "male loneliness" and "it's a brutal time to be a young man"
May 3, 2025 at 9:38 PM
every day there are new horrors for gender-marginalized people and women--trump going after the equal credit opportunity act, loss of body autonomy, exterminationist anti-trans attacks ramping up--and every single day we have to talk about "male loneliness" and "it's a brutal time to be a young man"
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Popular narrative proposes that the only way to defeat Nazis is by not confronting them or even naming them until the exact right perfect strategic future moment, a moment that is never defined or sought. It's an unwatchful anticipation designed to forestall the slightest meaningful action.
April 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Popular narrative proposes that the only way to defeat Nazis is by not confronting them or even naming them until the exact right perfect strategic future moment, a moment that is never defined or sought. It's an unwatchful anticipation designed to forestall the slightest meaningful action.