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I understand it's hard for some to use the term concentration camp, even for those horrified by what's happening. And there are settings (e.g., court) where it may not be helpful today. The key thing to realize is that there's an arc of how detention regimes tend to go, and we're recognizably on it.

Leading American companies — including Palantir, Deloitte, and private prison giant GEO Group — raked in over $22B from ICE and CBP contracts last year. Do not forget who is profiting from cruelty and human suffering.

It's clear the increased ICE/CBP funding under Trump is being used primarily as a tool of repression, not as a means of law enforcement, and that's all the more reason why Democrats should use this opportunity—while the public hates ICE and the GOP is on the defensive—to eviscerate both agencies.

Already at least $1.4B richer since taking office, Trump is now suing the IRS for a jaw-dropping $10B over the leak of his tax returns. As he exploits the presidency for self-enrichment and retribution, millions are still struggling with the soaring cost of living. Priorities.

There have been many journalists arrested in the US before. I'm one of them. This is still very different. Lemon wasn't arrested as part of a mass of arrests of people surrounding a protest as it was happening and released (as I was). Lemon is being re-arrested for having covered a protest.

The first step to doing any serious kind of opsec is not some digital security measure or some move to hide your identity. It is to carefully do threat analysis and understand what scenarios you are trying to avert, how likely each is, and how harmful it is. You can’t skip that part.

it is really important to recognize that the administration does a lot of things that are terrifying and dangerous and at the same time stupid and counterproductive arresting journalists is very bad and also this will end in humiliation for them

insisting on calling every mass day of protest or one-day boycott a "general strike" is not the move. it's good to see people rallying around the cause, it matters, but if you want to be part of a large-scale labor action that shuts down the gears of capital, start by unionizing your workplace!!!

They don't have enough guys and they keep spreading them thinner, using all their juice for show arrests for things that aren't going to stick Be brave. We're all holding hands .

Regime continues siege of Northern Oblast controlled by opposition faction. Government forces have begun a roundup of journalists deemed hostile to The State. Questions swirl around Dear Leader's health as mid-level Apparatchiks engage in a behind the scenes succession battle.

cool economic system we’ve got here, where the people who have all of the money and none of the brains generally get to determine everything about the rest of our lives

they wouldn’t be using signal for their war crimes group chats if they had popped signal.

every Signal chat of laypeople is losing their minds over the wildest opsec advice imaginable and every Signal chat of security professionals is like “dude wtf” The vast majority of problems can be avoided by not being foolish, being aware of your surroundings, and using common sense

“What if someone adds a bad actor in disguise to the Signal chat” is a *social* problem that *literally cannot be solved by any messaging app*.

boy are Bezos and Ellison clumsy about their propaganda. they'd be much savvier to leave the coverage mostly intact and slowly introduce the right-wing poison

DOJ has since killed this link. This is what was there:

The good news is this means things are going terribly for them. The bad news is they’re going to become increasingly desperate, violent, and brutal. And have three years to escalate unless Trump can be removed first.

Uhhhh this file magically disappeared from the dump after being up for a while apparently

interesting thing to note is the most authoritarian among them are already self negotiating. they know how bad this looks, so their selling the only way this isn’t a massive failure for them is if they bring in a far right one party authoritarian state into full effect

we will not be silenced.

They want everyone to know it came from the top, that it's corrupt and anti-1A, and they like that. Because they don't have anywhere close to the capacity to silence everyone by force. So they use a show of intimidation to try to chill speech, and to try to raise their supporters' flagging spirits.

Bruhhh

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Part of the opsec confusion right now is because small isolated groups – vulnerable to individual targeting – are merging into mass resistance, in which there’s no meaningful way everyone involved can be targeted. Safety in numbers is key in this moment. Some of aren’t used to having numbers.

I’m so glad you went. I had many people ask me - “is it safe? Should I leave my phone and ID at home? Do I need an exit strategy?” We’re building this bizarre and paranoid civic culture based almost entirely on miasmatic online fear endlessly feeding itself. Selma marchers didn’t even mask!

Online security theater posting made me really afraid about having my phone or showing my face before going to a no kings protest and then when I got there it was a great time and my mom was taking pictures of everything lol. I felt ridiculous because I almost didn’t go people made it sound so risky

i am happy to fight for freedom with the libertarians but also, we don’t really need to *talk*

Bondi directed federal agents to arrest four journalists. Georgia Fort, Don Lemon, Jamael Lundy, and Trahern Crews. All Black. All doing their jobs.

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

I love working at the deep state and rigging the 2020 election but not the 2024 one when the Democrats were already in power

And somehow the bulk of the preening self-styled free speech warriors of our younger days support it to the hilt

Podcast host who voted for Trump because Tulsi Gabbard said he'd stop lawfare and regime change wars

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The VERY MEAN AND NASTY Jesus Christ flipped over a bunch of tables in the temple and assaulted our fine money changers with a whip! HE WILL NOT GET AWAY WITH THIS. Jesus is a well-known leftist who has NO RESPECT for the businesses that make our houses of worship great!

when all of this gets slightly less heated the NYT is going to be profiling anonymous ICE agents like they’re regretful Trump voters just you watch

ICE reportedly has a tool where they circle a geography and get the names of all the cell phone users within it. The key to defeating this technology is not "smashing your cell phone with a hammer" but "recognizing that having a list of 30 people who are recording you in public is not very useful"

Anyone who is cagey about who they are or what they’re doing, do not trust. Real journalists exist in a kind of social compact where they tell us their role and their rules, they respect our rules, and in exchange for that they get access. Almost all of them are extremely scrupulous about this

Anyone else thinking about how yesterday Stancil had to defend the very utility of press to the resistance, and today the regime is just rounding up journalists? Wonder if this settles anything for anyone in those debates…

everything is pointing to us not living in a democracy anymore. they punish journalists for doing journalism, this is fucking insane

“Independent” is doing too much work in this first wave. They are arresting journalists and just like everything else they’ve done, they’re testing the limits of our resistance by starting wt vulnerable margins.

Schumer and Jeffries negotiating to limit the number of journalist arrested by the Department of Justice each year to a maximum of 20.

Let’s try this one in foreign correspondent voice: State Security Forces Arrest Journalist Who Covered Protests Against Regime Official

legislators should be staging sit-ins, they should not leave the fucking chambers until there are votes on impeachment. make your colleagues defend this piece of shit on the record. show history what you fucking did in this moment you god damned cowards

This is terrible. It is also an opportunity for certain journalists to finally speak up with a *fraction* of the courage the people of Minneapolis have shown. It is also instructive that Lemon is Black. Woe/pox etc upon white journalists who don’t freak out about this.

We're living in a bizarro world where polling at 5% doesn't deter the party in power at all, while the opposition party constantly wrings their hands about accidentally being too aggressive

You could imagine similar situations in which members of the media coordinated in solidarity around Lemon to direct sustained negative attention to Trump over this story. Instead the political press spent the earlier part of the week making up a fake story ("new tone") to help Trump.

This isn’t about convicting Don Lemon. It’s unlikely that will happen. It’s about intimidating journalists & making them censure themselves out of fear of consequences. It’s about eroding the free press because the administration can’t afford the criticism.