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Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. I wear out the Foxtrot. Loneliness feeds fascism. - Hannah Arendt (So, be kind & connect with people. Include them.) Ultimately, Ubuntu...(the Bantu system of values, not the Linux OS)

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Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 10d

Is this your country?
It's being done in your name.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10d

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

"It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face," Fisher said. "They asked my name and my date of birth and asked me, did I have any warrants? And I told them, 'No, 'Ididn't."
Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 a.m., and she was told that if anyone had any kind of warrant out for them, even if it was unrelated to immigration, they would not be released.

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Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 9h

Operative word: MAY
It doesn't have to involve a ransom.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1d

“[T]he broader aim of all this agitprop is far uglier. Trump has employed a form of state propaganda that may be unrivaled by any presidency in modern memory, and these MAGA influencers are generating material for that vile effort.”

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

This MAGA propaganda is deeply sinister. Stephen Miller has been lying about Portland/Chicago relentlessly. It's core to his project: He's trying to establish quasi-absolute power for Trump to simply invent pretexts by fiat to justify whatever abuses he launches. 5/

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Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 18h

Kidnapping can be accompanied by bodily injury, which in some jurisdictions elevates the crime to aggravated kidnapping. 3/3

Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 18h

Kidnapping is distinguished from false imprisonment by the intentional movement of the victim to a different location.

Kidnapping may be done to demand a ransom in exchange for releasing the victim, or for other illegal purposes. 2/3

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Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 18h

From Wikipedia: Kidnapping or abduction is the unlawful abduction and confinement of a person against their will, and is a crime in many jurisdictions. Kidnapping may be accomplished by use of force or fear, or a victim may be enticed into confinement by fraud or deception. 1/3

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Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 22h

That time will come.

Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 22h

I can see that he grew older but no wiser, and certainly no more mature.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 23h

Who do they report to @jbpritzker.bsky.social.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 22h

Right?!
As a Hispanic, I'd gladly kick his brown ass back to wherever he came from.

Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 22h

Latinos, hijos de puta need to burn. Evil fucking traicioneros.
Cabrones malditos.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2d

🚨Veteran wrongly detained by ICE, placed on suicide watch in a cell with no clothes. Only a hospital gown and a thin mattress on a concrete floor from Friday to Sunday. Lights on 24 hours/day. WTF, America? 1/2

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Hookcity - 🚫“War Plan” DMs Please 👊🏻🇺🇸🔥 🫣 @hookcity.bsky.social · 2d

Just got Plump's MRI results

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Lexington&Concord1775 @lexandcon.bsky.social · 23h

FYI StopIce.net is legit. ✅️ StopIce.org is a trap. ❌️

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Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 23h

She would make Fidel Castro so proud!

Hey, Lil Marco, what would your abuelito who fled Cuba think of this, you big cobarde?

Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 23h

Without hesitation, I'd call them abductions and kidnappings.

As such, I'd also report them as kidnappings/abductions to the police, with as much documentation as possible.

Let them be responsible for tracking and investigating the kidnappers and those who go missing.

Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 1d

Reporters: stop using the deferential term "detaining" when talking about ICE goons' abduction of innocent people from US streets. You proper term would indeed by "abduction", but if you want to pretend neutrality you could use "capture", which at least says nothing about the captors' motives.

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 1d

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

ICE IS DISAPPEARING PEOPLE TO WORK CAMPS

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Run, Erasmus @elmeaux.bsky.social · 23h

Wow. This is so disheartening.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

ICE agents that are attacking your neighborhood and kidnapping your neighbors are being housed at his family’s hotel chain

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

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