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Can't seem to find it via internet search but could have sworn I saw a story (maybe here?) about an #ICE arrest made at a public library? In the last couple of months?

Does this ring a bell or my news consumption getting jumbled?

it just occurred to me that a lot of those #ICE guys may NOT be, in fact, government workers. they might be the kind of militia guys that couldn’t get hired by Blackwater/Academi or whatever that Devos-Prince company is called these days. in other words, they might be “contractors”.

the numbers of goons do not add up. neither the building of the gulag in El Salvador. and i boosted recently news of Eric Prince taking his mercenary terrorist company to “train” security forces in Ecuador.

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Turns out I'm still a writer. New today on NIDC:

ninaillingworth.com/2025/04/16

Fascist Word Games and the Birth of an American Dictatorship

"Step by step the Christian Nationalist Trump regime has followed a playbook that transforms fascist propaganda into administrative reality, while purposely fracturing the rule of law to liberate itself from judicial oversight. If the United States was a Middle Eastern oil-producing nation full of Muslims, our government would be openly advocating for an invasion to “liberate” the American people and stop “tyranny.” Of course, maybe none of that matters anyway because unless someone stops him, there will be no law in this country except Trump’s word, and no America to save, except what Trump wills America to be."

Nina Illingworth Dot Com | "When the revolution is for everyone, everyone will be for the revolution" · Fascist Word Games and the Birth of an American DictatorshipOn the fascist theater, propaganda, and deceptions that may lead to the birth of a US dictatorship under Trump unless Americans rise up and stop him.
#Fascism#Trump#ICE
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#Trump’s tactics have spread #fear & created a showreel of social-media-ready highlights for the White House. But they have not brought #ICE much closer to delivering the “millions” of deportations…Trump has set as a goal.

“We need more money,” #TomHoman, Trump’s “border czar,” told Miroff in an interview. “We won’t fail if we get the resources we need.”

#GiftArticle

We’re About to Find Out What #MassDeportation Really Looks Like

The #Trump admin’s campaign to remove millions of people from the #US could soon be supercharged by #Congress.

–Nick Miroff

#Republican *lawmakers* are now preparing to lavish #ICE w/ a colossal #funding increase”

It will fund the “social & demographic transformation of the US that #immigration hard-liners have long fantasized about achieving”

#law #StateTerror #DualState #Constitution
theatlantic.com/politics/archi

The Atlantic · Trump’s Mass-Deportation Campaign Hasn’t Really Started YetBy Nick Miroff

There is no "other". That "them" or "they" newscasters point to with horror doesn't exist. "They" are made up to scare you into allowing cruelty. But the truth is, "They" are just like you, your friends, parents, grandparents, children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, brothers, and sisters. "They" are you. Language and customs may be different, but "They" are still you.

#US#USA#America