Library workers deserve protection, not prosecution https://georgiarecorder.com/2025/03/17/library-workers-deserve-protection-not-prosecution/ #Books #Libraries #Fascism

Library workers deserve protection, not prosecution https://georgiarecorder.com/2025/03/17/library-workers-deserve-protection-not-prosecution/ #Books #Libraries #Fascism
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.
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?
The powerful and wealthy group of fascists who carried Trump to the presidency are now trying to do the same in Europe.
Please Europe, fight them better than we did!
PS:
to those who asked me about this pinned post,
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/113484331199042724
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?
"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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https://lucid.substack.com/p/we-are-living-through-moral-collapse
"You know who's doing great organizing for us right now? Elon Musk and Donald Trump, that's who. By attacking and alienating more and more swathes of the American public, they're handing us the possibility of a coalition bigger and broader than maybe anything we've ever seen in this country before. A gift, if we take it and do something with it."
~ Rebecca Solnit
#Trump #Musk #courts #RuleofLaw #fascism #immigrants #migrants #deportations #resistance
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https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/stand-your-ground-plant-some-flowers-on-it-too/
"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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"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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https://www.lawdork.com/p/what-the-trump-admin-did-after-the-tro
#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…
"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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https://www.wonkette.com/p/anybody-going-to-stop-trump-disappearing
"The question has changed from,
'What will happen IF Trump ignores a court order?'
to
'What are we going to do about the fact that Trump HAS ignored a court order?'”
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #courts #RuleofLaw #fascism #immigrants #migrants #deportations
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/the-moment-of-crisis-trump-intentionally
ICYMI, fighting fascism works by improv rules.
Yes AND.
Don't waste your energy or their enthusiasm by telling someone they are doing it wrong.
"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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https://www.americaamerica.news/p/a-lawless-presidents-contempt
“'Oopsie… Too late ' tweeted the Salvadoran leader. He was immediately retweeted by the White House, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and 16,000 other unspeakably cruel assholes."
#Trump #courts #RuleofLaw #fascism #immigrants #migrants #deportations #ElSalvador #Rubio #LittleMarco
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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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https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/trump-says-court-orders-dont-count
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.
"And ICE is reportedly violating its own policies by detaining people for much longer than 12 hours, and without food for days. BAD, ALL OF THIS IS VERY BAD."
#Trump #courts #RuleofLaw #fascism #immigrants #migrants #deportations #ICE
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