"Shockingly, the Miami Herald found that approximately two-thirds of the 1,800 immigrants who were held at Alligator Alcatraz, the Florida Everglades immigration detention center in July, were missing from ICE’s online database in August. Neither their attorneys nor their families know where they are. The United States government is now disappearing people."

~ Julie Roginsky

#Trump #fascism #immigrants #ICE #MaskedThugs
/1

https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/how-trump-gets-away-with-it

Isabel Wilkerson in Caste on how ordinary Germans knew — they knew what was happening in the death camps — but the allure of looking down on and even hating despised minorities trumped what they knew was being done to those minorities.

#Trump #StephenMiller #fascism #immigrants #ICE #MaskedThugs
/18

Isabel Wilkerson in Caste on how ordinary Germans knew — they knew what was happening in the death camps — but the allure of looking down on and even hating despised minorities trumped what they knew was being done to those minorities.

#Trump #StephenMiller #fascism #immigrants #ICE #MaskedThugs
/18

Isabel Wilkerson in Caste on how Hitler did not represent a majority of Germans as he rose to power, had never held office before, but had the support of German elites who thought they could control him — and then he proved them wrong and whipped the nation into a frenzy of hate.

#Trump #StephenMiller #fascism #immigrants #ICE #MaskedThugs
/17

Hannah Arendt in Origins of Totalitarianism on how the ideal subject for totalitarian rule are those for whom the distinction between fact and fiction or true and false no longer exists.

#Trump #StephenMiller #fascism #immigrants #ICE #MaskedThugs
/16

Julia Boyd in Travelers in the Third Reich on the puzzlement of many travelers in Germany as Hitler rose to power that warm-hearted and genial people with strong family values could countenance such cruelty towards Jewish neighbors — and how it was not possible to claim ignorance of what the Nazis were doing after Kristallnacht.

#Trump #StephenMiller #fascism #immigrants #ICE #MaskedThugs
/15

Bettina Stangneth quoted by Susan Neiman in Learning from the Germans on how many of those voting for Hitler, Putin, and Trump knew full well what they were voting for and the price others would pay when they cast these votes.

#Trump #StephenMiller #fascism #immigrants #ICE #MaskedThugs
/14

Alexander Wolff in Endpapers on how the refusal of many Germans now to court pity for their ancestors in the Nazi period is a tacit acknowledgement that most of those ancestors knew what was happening under Hitler.

#Trump #StephenMiller #fascism #immigrants #ICE #MaskedThugs
/13

"Shockingly, the Miami Herald found that approximately two-thirds of the 1,800 immigrants who were held at Alligator Alcatraz, the Florida Everglades immigration detention center in July, were missing from ICE’s online database in August. Neither their attorneys nor their families know where they are. The United States government is now disappearing people."

~ Julie Roginsky

#Trump #fascism #immigrants #ICE #MaskedThugs
/1

https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/how-trump-gets-away-with-it

"Welcome to the era of what history will remember someday as the Kavanaugh Raids. …

Chicago media this week has been ablaze with horrifying stories from Monday’s ICE raid on a South Shore apartment building; DHS has bragged that the raid ended with 37 arrests, but the on-the-scene witness reporting describes a level of scale and brutality we’ve never seen in ICE’s raids so far."

~ Garrett Graff

#Chicago #Trump #fascism #ICE #MaskedThugs
/8

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to-the-era-of-kavanaugh-raids

More reports and discussion about what happened in Chicago in the dark of early Tuesday morning:

Chris Hayes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXOWAhFz0A

Heather Cox Richardson:

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-2-2025

Robert McCoy:

https://newrepublic.com/post/201258/ice-zip-ties-children-raid-chicago-apartment-building

Greg Olear:

https://gregolear.substack.com/p/ramble-on-the-maga-onslaught

Cate Cauguiran, Craig Wall, Tre Ward:

https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-federal-agents-surround-south-shore-apartment-building-dhs-requests-military-deployment-illinois/17908911/

#Chicago #Trump #fascism #ICE #MaskedThugs #racism
/2

"Appalling to see zero coverage of the ICE kidnappings and invasion in Chicago by @nytimes and @washingtonpost.

An unconscionable failure by the papers of records that needs to be fixed immediately."

~ Edward Aten

#Chicago #Trump #fascism #ICE #MaskedThugs #racism #NewYorkTimes #WashingtonPost
/3

https://www.threads.com/@edwardaten/post/DPUio44ElF5

Mike Luckovich's commentary on Trump's "leadership" as thugs representing the federal government smash down doors in an apartment building in Chicago in the middle of the night and drag people out of their homes, some naked, zip-tying them.

As Heather Cox Richardson notes (/2 above), Trump has not appeared in public since Tuesday though he's posting on social media.

#Chicago #Trump #fascism #ICE #MaskedThugs #racism
/5

https://www.threads.com/@mikeluckovich/post/DPRqelTkYO0/media

"The reports out of Chicago are horrifying. And they are intended to be so. The regime wants us scared and cowering. But after reading the reports and hearing from the victims of this attack, I and many others are not scared but furious. We are more determined than ever to demand an end to ICE abuses and accountability for those who violate the rights of citizens and residents."

~ Jay Kuo

#Chicago #Trump #fascism #ICE #MaskedThugs
/6

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/chicago-and-the-horrors-of-carte

"Here’s what people still don’t understand: once you normalize the suspension of constitutional rights for one group, you’ve eliminated the principle that protects everyone."

~ Mike Brock

#Chicago #Trump #fascism #ICE #MaskedThugs
/7

https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-sufferable-evil

"What DHS did was beyond shameful. It was heinous. When so many people’s rights are violated this egregiously, the people need to know about it. And it’s the job of journalists to tell them, not to pretend it didn’t happen."

For Chris Hayes' report, see /2 above.

#Chicago #Trump #fascism #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs
/15

"If you wanna know why people don’t trust mainstream media anymore it’s because none of them have covered the fact that 300 ICE agents rappelled out of Blackhawk helicopters onto an apartment building in Chicago and dragged everyone including children out on the street in their underwear and zip tied them until 3am!"

~ The Other 98%

#Chicago #Trump #fascism #ICE #DHS #MaskedThugs #media
/16

https://www.threads.com/@other98/post/DPXJC4AgUJW