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Rhode Island doctor Rasha Alawieh was deported for unknown reasons, despite a court order that should have stopped the act. She is a kidney doctor who works for the Brown Medicine Division of Kidney Disease & Hypertension. She had a valid H1B visa at the time.

providencejournal.com/story/ne

The Providence Journal · Brown Medicine doctor deported despite federal court order. What we know.By , The Providence Journal
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A corollary to this is that the "prestige" of an institution is what we assign to it. Many of these institutions are assigned a prestige that hasn't jibed with the reality for a while. And non-prestigious institutions that actually do a better job of teaching are disregarded.

It's time to look at your candidates themselves and their works, and not spend as much time assigning prestige based on institution names. #AcademicChatter #Fascism

Re last boost:

Those in charge of admissions at other universities, those in charge of hiring: What makes a university degree worth something is the value you assign to it.

When universities are revoking degrees because they're too weak or collaborationist to resist the pressure of a fascist gov't, that doesn't mean you have to go along with that.

Accept the credentials of those who've earned them. Hell, they're ESPECIALLY earned right now. #AcademicChatter #Fascism

I think it's important to keep in mind that what Trump does is sign a paper or give a written or verbal order.

What makes the horrible shit he's ordering happen is a series of people carrying it out. Any one or all of whom could have refused to do so.

One person refusing slows things down.

The more people who refuse, the more hope we have of not going further down this road.

You fear getting fired? Are they not firing ppl anyway?

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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

Liberals: "Don't do anything that's illegal, it will hurt the message."

Um, what? Coloring within the lines is what got us into this FUBAR situation in the first place.

You don't ask for permission from the aggressor to remove its boot from your neck that's strangling the life out of you; you throw it off as violently as you find to be necessary.

Illegality =/= immorality

Sometimes the illegal choice *is* the moral one. More often than not.