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#fascism

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PS:

to those who asked me about this pinned post,
mastodon.social/@blogdiva/1134

use this thread as an explanation to the very serious joke.

when #fascism happens to BPIOC it’s called #racism; but that racism is sometimes #sexism, #misogyny, #homophobia, #transphobia, #xenophobia, #antisemitism, #ableism, #eugenics ―and when against entire nations, #colonialism & #genocide.

so whatever you let the ruling classes get away with racism will come back to haunt you as fascism.

get it now?

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"Each time we show solidarity with others, or support those who are protecting the rule of law, helping the targeted, or exposing the lies and the corruption, we are standing up for democratic values of justice, accountability, equality, and more. In doing so, we model the behaviors the authoritarian state wants us to abandon."

~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat

#Trump #Musk #courts #RuleofLaw #fascism #immigrants #migrants #deportations #resistance
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lucid.substack.com/p/we-are-li

Lucid · We Are Living Through Moral Collapse. How Democrats Can Strike BackBy Ruth Ben-Ghiat
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"The unitary executive theory is really just a way to cloak the morphing of a democratically elected president into a dictator with the appearance of legality. If presidents can do whatever they want, including putting people on a plane and sending them to prisons in a foreign country with no due process whatsoever, then really, who are we?"

~ Joyce Vance

#Trump #courts #RuleofLaw #fascism #immigrants #migrants #deportations #UnitaryExecutive #SupremeCourt
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joycevance.substack.com/p/the-

Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance · The Week AheadBy Joyce Vance
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"Before we give up the rule of law because Trump wants us to do so, I believe we must continue to fight for it in spite of anything they throw at us. …

Every single moment, statement, or action that slows down the backslide into authoritarianism is a good one, and we should look for and document them."

~ Chris Geidner

#Trump #courts #RuleofLaw #fascism #immigrants #migrants #deportations
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lawdork.com/p/what-the-trump-a

Law Dork · Trying to understand the Trump admin's TRO response mattersBy Chris Geidner
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#fascism is often described as #capitalism turning #colonialism inward.

once the ruling capitalist classes run out of scapegoat minorities to colonize, they turn against the “buffer zone”, the so-called hegemonic working classes that separate & protect them from the colonized masses.

in USA #racism creates that buffer zone by allotting more money & access to designated hegemonic segments of the working classes.

so let’s speak of this from a neoconfederacy perspective…

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"Saturday night, the administration deported 260-something alleged Venezuelan gang members. Alleged, because these people have had no hearings or any kind of public due process that we know of, and so we don’t actually know who they are. They could have been US citizens who’d been on their way to church."

~ Marcie Jones

#Trump #courts #RuleofLaw #fascism #immigrants #migrants #deportations
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wonkette.com/p/anybody-going-t

Wonkette · Anybody Going To Stop Trump Disappearing Whoever He Wants Into Foreign Prisons?By Marcie Jones
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"Far from Trump’s once-upon-a-time, oft-repeated lie that he was only focused on deporting criminals, a Lebanese doctor, kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor with a legal visa was detained and subsequently deported back to Lebanon.

Despite a federal judge’s order to give the court 48 hours’ notice, Dr. Rasha Alawieh was put on a flight to Paris."

~ Steven Beschloss

#Trump #courts #RuleofLaw #fascism #immigrants #migrants #deportations
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americaamerica.news/p/a-lawles

America, America · A Lawless President's ContemptBy Steven Beschloss
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“'Any planes that are going to take off or are in the air need to be returned to the United States,' Judge Boasberg ordered from the bench.

That did not happen. Instead, planes that were in the air landed in El Salvador, where hundreds of asylum seekers were turned over to President Nayib Bukele, a brutal authoritarian who calls himself the 'world’s coolest dictator.'"

~ Andrew Torrez

#Trump #courts #RuleofLaw #fascism #immigrants #migrants #deportations #ICE
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lawandchaospod.com/p/trump-say

Law and Chaos · Trump Says Court Orders Don't Count In An Airplane. Also ... GANGS!By Andrew Torrez
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"ICE is already detaining green card holders: Not just Mahmoud Khalil, but also German-born New Hampshire resident Fabian Schmidt, who has had a green card since 2008 and was detained at Logan airport in Boston over a decade-old marijuana misdemeanor, then 'violently interrogated' by ICE agents trying to get him to voluntarily give up his green card."

~ Marcie Jones

#Trump #courts #RuleofLaw #fascism #immigrants #migrants #deportations #ICE
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wonkette.com/p/can-you-spare-s

Wonkette · The Dead Guy And The Social Security (He Got Better). Tabs, Mon., March 17, 2025By Marcie Jones

"The major news of the weekend was the rapid-fire series of events following President Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act that culminated with the White House chortling over its defiance of a federal court order blocking deportations under the act and ordering outbound flights to return to the United States."

~ David Kurtz

#Trump #courts #RuleofLaw #fascism #immigrants #migrants #deportations
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morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.

Morning Memo · Trump’s Open Defiance Of Federal Courts Is Now At HandBy David Kurtz
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"The photos and videos of humans beings to whom this is done are dehumanizing, and deliberately so. …

This deportation was planned as a political spectacle. The deportees were carefully chosen, as was the language used to describe them. The messaging was obviously coordinated in advance. And the entire humiliating procedure was carried out before cameras that were already in place."

But my 401(k)!

#Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportations #demonization #PoliticsofSpectacle #fascism
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As Timothy Snyder says, evil is at our door now, at the door of all Americans, knocking and being welcomed in:

"Individuals associated with the federal government have, in defiance of a court order and without a trial or any form of due process, deported hundreds of people from the territory of the United States to El Salvador, where they will be held indefinitely in a concentration camp."

#Trump #immigrants #fascism #deportations #demonization #PoliticsofSpectacle
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snyder.substack.com/p/the-evil

Thinking about... · The evil at your doorBy Timothy Snyder