" I no longer see almost anything real on my Instagram Reels anymore, and, as I have often reported, many users seem to have completely lost the ability to tell what is real and what is fake, or simply do not care anymore. "

Horrifying. As Voltaire said, "if they can make you believe absurdities, they can make you commit atrocities"

Ruining people's ability to judge truth from fiction will help Gilead tolerate the Concentration Camps

"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
/15

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
/14

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
/13

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-ahead-a7d

"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
/12

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
/11

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
/10

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/the-moment-of-crisis-trump-intentionally

"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
/9

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
/8

“'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
/7

https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/trump-says-court-orders-dont-count

"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
/6

"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
/5

https://www.wonkette.com/p/can-you-spare-some-eggs-tabs-mon

"Lawyers for Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a doctor specializing in kidney transplant patients and a professor at Brown University’s medical school, said she was deported on Friday despite a court order to the contrary from Judge Leo T. Sorokin of the Federal District Court in Massachusetts.”

~ Mattathias Schwartz

#Trump #courts #RuleofLaw #fascism #immigrants #migrants #deportations
/4

"It’s hard not to see the two cases as related and further evidence that we have arrived – two months to the day after Trump’s second inaugural – at the falling-over-the-cliff’s-edge moment we’ve long thought would mark an irreversible-in-the-short-term descent into authoritarianism."

#Trump #courts #RuleofLaw #fascism #immigrants #migrants #deportations
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