New:🚨”How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force.”

#PoliceState #Immigrants #Fascism #Impunity #Disappearances #Constitution #Corruption #Racism #NoKings #Protest #USPol
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable

New:🚨”How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force.”

#PoliceState #Immigrants #Fascism #Impunity #Disappearances #Constitution #Corruption #Racism #NoKings #Protest #USPol
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable

#Trump #law #privacy #immigration #tech#SurveillanceState#MilitaryState #fascism #tyranny#NoKings
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/17/ice-surveillance-immigrants-antifa/

The blitz of #surveillance purchases is motivated in large part by ICE’s intensive, nationwide campaign to find & deport undocumented #immigrants. But documents show that some of the #technology may also be used to target what the admin regards as anti-ICE extremist groups. Late last month, #Trump declared “#Antifa” a domestic #terrorist organization in the wake of a few violent clashes & a Dallas shooting at an #ICE facility.

#law #privacy #immigration#MilitaryState #fascism #tyranny#NoKings

#Trump #law #privacy #immigration #tech#SurveillanceState#MilitaryState #fascism #tyranny#NoKings
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/17/ice-surveillance-immigrants-antifa/

I became a US citizen yesterday!

4 years in the making, a dream for much longer than that. I was fortunate to have one of the fastest routes to citizenship and to have mostly experienced a very smooth process with lovely immigration agents who processed my cases with respect and dignity.

I spent the last 9 months living in fear, watching immigrants get demonized and even permanent residency (green cards) to be treated as “a privilege” to be revoked at whim.

I've been quiet, afraid to say anything in public that could be misinterpreted or used against me.

I've repeatedly said goodbye to my city, I've cried walking my favorite streets, bracing for the worst as top officials bragged about getting rid of immigrants and "cleaning up" the country as if we were filth.

Now, I intend to find ways to use my citizenship for the greater good and to be civically engaged in ways not available to people here on visas and green cards, affected but forced to suffer in silence. I am looking forward to discovering what that will look like for me.

#USA #citizenship #immigration #immigrants

1/2 (A mini-thread)

I became a US citizen yesterday!

4 years in the making, a dream for much longer than that. I was fortunate to have one of the fastest routes to citizenship and to have mostly experienced a very smooth process with lovely immigration agents who processed my cases with respect and dignity.

I spent the last 9 months living in fear, watching immigrants get demonized and even permanent residency (green cards) to be treated as “a privilege” to be revoked at whim.

I've been quiet, afraid to say anything in public that could be misinterpreted or used against me.

I've repeatedly said goodbye to my city, I've cried walking my favorite streets, bracing for the worst as top officials bragged about getting rid of immigrants and "cleaning up" the country as if we were filth.

Now, I intend to find ways to use my citizenship for the greater good and to be civically engaged in ways not available to people here on visas and green cards, affected but forced to suffer in silence. I am looking forward to discovering what that will look like for me.

#USA #citizenship #immigration #immigrants

1/2 (A mini-thread)

"But it gets worse. Trump backtracked on the promise of the financial bailout, saying that the aid would be granted only if Trump’s preferred candidate wins in the upcoming presidential election in Argentina."

#Trump #fascism#PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants#ICE #shutdown #military#MikeJohnson #corruption#Argentina #bailout
/9

"During the federal shutdown, in which hundreds of thousands of federal workers are not being paid, Trump announced that he would give Argentina $20 billion in 'aid' that would go to political and social elites in that country."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #fascism#PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants#ICE #shutdown #military#MikeJohnson #corruption#Argentina #bailout
/8

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/our-job-invite-disaffected-trump

"Of the nearly $28 billion in grants the administration has frozen or canceled during the shutdown, $27.24 billion—97 percent—was for projects in Democrat-led congressional districts."

~ The Bulwark

#Trump #fascism#PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants#ICE #shutdown #military#MikeJohnson #corruption
/7

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/its-getting-worse-bondi-patel-political-prosecutions-comey-james-young-republican-group-chat

"The administration continues to try to demonstrate its power. Today it announced its fifth known attack on a boat 'just off the coast of Venezuela' in international waters."

#Trump #fascism#PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants#ICE #shutdown #military#MikeJohnson #corruption#Venezuela
/6

"To bring a democracy under authoritarian control, you need more than a strongman. You need politicians who will assure the public, as we slide toward one-man rule, that nothing odd is happening. That’s the role Johnson is playing in Donald Trump’s takeover of America."

~ Will Saletan

#Trump #fascism#PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants#ICE #shutdown #military#MikeJohnson #corruption
/4

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/speaker-mike-johnson-abetting-trump-authoritarianism

"I’ve worked through shutdowns. I’ve witnessed them in Washington, and I’ve covered them for Pod Save America. What Johnson and the Republicans are doing—and why they’re doing it—is truly unconscionable.

It should be a national scandal."

#Trump #fascism#PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants#ICE #shutdown #military#MikeJohnson #corruption
/3

"It’s a statement about life in the Trump era that a government shutdown is the most normal thing happening in politics.

If people were paying attention—or if the political press had the attention span and reach to cover the shutdown—the behavior of Speaker Mike Johnson and the House Republicans would be a massive scandal."

~ Dan Pfeiffer

#Trump #fascism#PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants#ICE #shutdown #military#MikeJohnson #corruption
/2

https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/mike-johnsons-shutdown-strategy-is

"The politics of the second Trump administration is a politics of fear."

~ Guillaume A. W. Attia

#Trump #fascism#PoliticsofFear #cruelty #immigrants#ICE #shutdown #military
/1

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politics-of-fear-in-american-history/