Post AvIruphpzUT0sSvXiS by stargazersmith@social.linux.pizza
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(DIR) Post #AvIFAFj7dG4Li7tDt2 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-19T16:07:14Z
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Abolishing #ICE Is the Bare MinimumICE agents aren’t out of control. They are performing their designed role as #fascism’s #StormTroopers.by Jack MirkinsonYou have probably seen the video of ICE agents violently arresting #NYC comptroller & mayoral candidate #BradLander.#law #Trump #Gestapo #MafiaState #AmericanAutocracy https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/abolish-ice-brad-lander/
(DIR) Post #AvIFGrPSRPxEJrqJ9s by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-19T16:08:25Z
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The footage is disturbing not just because of the thuggish way #BradLander is manhandled but also because of the brazenness. Here are #FederalAgents — not local police officers — essentially #kidnapping a high-profile #ElectedOfficial in the biggest city in the #UnitedStates, on camera as he loudly points out that they have no #jurisdiction or #legal grounds to hold him. The message is clear: If they can do that to him, they can do that to anyone.#law #Trump #ICE #Gestapo #AmericanAutocracy
(DIR) Post #AvIFlNDqj6rVfkxkjw by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-19T16:13:55Z
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#BradLander’s #arrest was so out of line that even his rivals in NYC’s upcoming mayoral primary had to defend him. Among them was… #AndrewCuomo, who weighed in thusly:“This is the latest example of the extreme thuggery of #Trump’s #ICE out of control—one can only imagine the fear families across our country feel when confronted w/ICE. Fear of separation, fear of being taken from their schools, fear of being detained without just cause. This is not who we are. This must stop,& it must stop now.”
(DIR) Post #AvIFttRwn1rpwNcT1E by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-19T16:15:29Z
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On the surface, Cuomo’s response is just about hitting the required beats. This is bad, it has to end—yes, all true. But there’s one phrase that jumps out: “out of control.”The implication is that #ICE has somehow slipped the bonds of respectability & is rampaging around with no supervision. Nobody’s minding the store! Everything’s chaos! Where are the rule followers!?#law #Trump #Gestapo #MafiaState #AmericanAutocracy
(DIR) Post #AvIG5fWoNLVmErVewy by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-19T16:17:35Z
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But this isn’t what #ICE looks like when it’s “out of control.” It’s what ICE looks like when it’s in control—when it’s doing the job that it has been asked to do. That job, more or less, is to be the chief enforcement arm of #US #fascism.And that’s why the agency should be torn down—& why abolishing ICE must be part of the platform of any politician who identifies as a progressive or leftist in this country.#law #Trump #Gestapo #MafiaState #AmericanAutocracy
(DIR) Post #AvIH1GZ5LY9jc12Om0 by Danetteb@mstdn.social
2025-06-19T16:27:58Z
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@Nonilex yesss! #abolishICE
(DIR) Post #AvII5K2QTVnrUrG9XE by jwcph@helvede.net
2025-06-19T16:39:55Z
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@Nonilex - and just to be clear, everyone with an ounce of common sense said this from the very day ICE was established. It was always a fascist thug army in waiting & this was a secret so open that by the time a president turned up who is willing to strip away the veneer of legality & use it as such, the ranks were already stuffed with exactly the kind of assholes this role appeals to. So like regular US law enforcement, but somehow even worse.
(DIR) Post #AvIKEw1onVWbpsgdhA by ChrisHolladay@mastodon.social
2025-06-19T17:04:04Z
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@Nonilex DHS as a whole needs to go away.They carry too much power in the hands of a very select few.
(DIR) Post #AvIaXQwOCeJIBizRs8 by knutson_brain@sfba.social
2025-06-19T20:06:42Z
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@Nonilex #DeportICE
(DIR) Post #AvIruphpzUT0sSvXiS by stargazersmith@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-19T23:21:22Z
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@Nonilex I emailed that thought to my congressman and senators just the other day.