A top aide to President Donald Trump has accused India of effectively financing Russia's war in Ukraine by purchasing oil from Moscow, after the U.S. leader escalated pressure on New Delhi to stop buying Russian oil. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/04/asia-pacific/politics/trump-aide-india-russia-ukraine/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #stephenmiller #us #donaldtrump #republicans #india #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #narendramodi #tariffs #oil
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Adam Carrasquillo tells the story of Jesus Teran, who fled oppression in Venezuela, where he was trained to be a civil engineer, and became a carpenter in the US. He went for a check-in at the ICE office in Pittsburgh and was arrested on July 8, though he's followed all laws.
"Jesus’s detention resembles thousands of other stories that are quickly defining American society in the age of Trump deportations."
Adam Carrasquillo tells the story of Jesus Teran, who fled oppression in Venezuela, where he was trained to be a civil engineer, and became a carpenter in the US. He went for a check-in at the ICE office in Pittsburgh and was arrested on July 8, though he's followed all laws.
"Jesus’s detention resembles thousands of other stories that are quickly defining American society in the age of Trump deportations."
Prefacing a difficult-to-read report on the testimony of men now freed from CECOT, ProPublica states,
"We interviewed nine men for this story. They are bewildered, frightened, angry. Some said their feelings about what happened were still so raw they had trouble finding words to describe them. All of the men said they were abused physically and mentally during their imprisonment."
#Trump#StephenMiller #ElSalvador#Venezuela #immigrants #torture
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https://www.propublica.org/article/venezuelan-men-cecot-interviews-trump
On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador.
Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been taken away.
These are their stories.
https://projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-immigrants-trump-deported-cecot/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News#CECOT#Immigration#Immigrants#Venezuela #ElSalvador#Trump#Deportation#ICE
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"As someone who has written about and celebrated Alexei Navalny, I don’t use the word 'gulag' lightly. But unlike with Soviet-era or even Putin-era Russia, you thought that couldn’t happen here, right? Guess again. It already has. Or at least a Nerf version of it. No, we’re not executing prisoners just yet."
~ Matt Labash
#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps #torture #gulags
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"There are lines you cannot cross as a human being, and moving one’s own personal Overton Window over far enough to accommodate shackling people and making them eat like dogs, or stay in a cell with a toilet covered in shit, is not something that will end well for those around you."
#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps #torture #gulags
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Tim Miller talks with Mehdi Hasan about his brave decision to face the spittle-spewing screaming meemies of the fascist right in a Jubilee debate — and about how racist hostility to black and brown immigrants (like Hasan himself) is the energizing center of the fascist right.
#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps #torture #gulags
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/mehdi-hasan-jubilee-debate-left-me
"I think victims, in many cases (not the ones where they die from neglect), can recover from horrific treatment like this, but I don’t think doing it is something a person can come back from."
Robyn Pennacchia
#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps #torture #gulags
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/ice-has-entered-its-abu-ghraib-era
"There are lines you cannot cross as a human being, and moving one’s own personal Overton Window over far enough to accommodate shackling people and making them eat like dogs, or stay in a cell with a toilet covered in shit, is not something that will end well for those around you."
#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps #torture #gulags
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"(Though I wouldn’t be surprised if 20 percent or so of our population would find a way to rationalize that, too. Because that’s how far we’ve fallen.) But just this week, the Drudge Report was littered with headlines about such activities. Here’s a sampling:
Migrants Forced To 'Eat Like Dogs'
'Caged Like Chickens'
Camera Over Toilet
FEMA Camp Raises Alarm
Are you okay with that? I’m not."
#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps #torture #gulags
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"I think victims, in many cases (not the ones where they die from neglect), can recover from horrific treatment like this, but I don’t think doing it is something a person can come back from."
Robyn Pennacchia
#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps #torture #gulags
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/ice-has-entered-its-abu-ghraib-era
"As someone who has written about and celebrated Alexei Navalny, I don’t use the word 'gulag' lightly. But unlike with Soviet-era or even Putin-era Russia, you thought that couldn’t happen here, right? Guess again. It already has. Or at least a Nerf version of it. No, we’re not executing prisoners just yet."
~ Matt Labash
#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps #torture #gulags
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"(Though I wouldn’t be surprised if 20 percent or so of our population would find a way to rationalize that, too. Because that’s how far we’ve fallen.) But just this week, the Drudge Report was littered with headlines about such activities. Here’s a sampling:
Migrants Forced To 'Eat Like Dogs'
'Caged Like Chickens'
Camera Over Toilet
FEMA Camp Raises Alarm
Are you okay with that? I’m not."
#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps #torture #gulags
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"As someone who has written about and celebrated Alexei Navalny, I don’t use the word 'gulag' lightly. But unlike with Soviet-era or even Putin-era Russia, you thought that couldn’t happen here, right? Guess again. It already has. Or at least a Nerf version of it. No, we’re not executing prisoners just yet."
~ Matt Labash
#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps #torture #gulags
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"Dozens of men had been packed into a holding cell for hours, the report said, and denied lunch until about 7pm. They remained shackled with the food on chairs in front of them."
#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants #violence #cruelty #deportations #violence
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"Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates 'like dogs', according to a report published on Monday into conditions at three overcrowded south Florida facilities."
~ Richard Luscombe
#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants #violence #cruelty #deportations #violence
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/21/migrants-miami-ice-jail-abuses
"And DHS has collected DNA from 133,000 migrant children, and put it in the CODIS database, and collecting immigrants’ Medicare data. (Wired)"
#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants #violence #cruelty #deportations #violence
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"Horrific ICE stories: a Swiss tourist with a valid electronic travel authorization was chained to a chair and then imprisoned in New Jersey. (NZZ) An 82-year-old grandfather from Chile with a Green Card who had been in the US since 1987 was kidnapped to Guatemala, and ICE told his family he had died. (Guardian)"
~ Marcie Jones
#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants #violence #cruelty #deportations #violence
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/good-dog-susan-tabs-mon-july-21-2025
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"In New York, ICE attorneys are concealing their names, something that has never happened in the history of this country."
~ Marcie Jones
#Trump#StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations#ICE#ConcentrationCamps #cruelty
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/ice-nazi-cruelty-report-dhs-discovers
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"The United Church of Christ passed a resolution at its General Synod in the US this week denouncing what it called 'domestic terrorism' by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and accusing the Trump administration of weaponising the Constitution."
Rachel Berkebile
#Trump#StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations#ICE#ConcentrationCamps #cruelty
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"The measure was approved by a vote of 627-8, with one abstention, at the UCC’s 35th biennial General Synod, which began on Friday and continued through Tuesday in Kansas City, Missouri. The resolution reaffirmed a prior resolution from the 31st synod, in 2017, 'On Becoming an Immigrant Welcoming Church.'”
#Trump#StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations#ICE#ConcentrationCamps #cruelty
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"Amazing. New CNN poll has Trump's approval on immigration absolutely tanking. It's down to 42-58. A 19-point net swing against him on this issue in just the last few months.
Curious what those who keep saying we're in the midst of a huge societal backlash to 1965 immigration law think of this."
~ Greg Sargent
#Trump#StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations#ICE#ConcentrationCamps #cruelty
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https://bsky.app/profile/gregsargent.bsky.social/post/3lu3qaoqr222y
"The United Church of Christ passed a resolution at its General Synod in the US this week denouncing what it called 'domestic terrorism' by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and accusing the Trump administration of weaponising the Constitution."
Rachel Berkebile
#Trump#StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations#ICE#ConcentrationCamps #cruelty
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"The measure was approved by a vote of 627-8, with one abstention, at the UCC’s 35th biennial General Synod, which began on Friday and continued through Tuesday in Kansas City, Missouri. The resolution reaffirmed a prior resolution from the 31st synod, in 2017, 'On Becoming an Immigrant Welcoming Church.'”
#Trump#StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations#ICE#ConcentrationCamps #cruelty
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"The administration sure is working HARD to avoid accountability, because they know the shit they’re doing is criminal, that there is a chance that someday this regime will not be in charge and the rule of law will return, 'just following orders' won’t cut it, and they know what they’re doing will disgrace their family names for generations to come."
#Trump#StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations#ICE#ConcentrationCamps #cruelty
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"The United Church of Christ passed a resolution at its General Synod in the US this week denouncing what it called 'domestic terrorism' by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and accusing the Trump administration of weaponising the Constitution."
Rachel Berkebile
#Trump#StephenMiller #immigrants #deportations#ICE#ConcentrationCamps #cruelty
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