Drop Site Daily: August 25, 2025
from #DropSiteNews

Gaza— all over the past 24 hours. Another attack on Nasser Hospital killed at least 20 people, including five journalists in Gaza—raising the total number of journalists killed in Gaza to 245. #Israel widens its assault on Gaza City where it has destroyed over 1,000 buildings, after days of heavy strikes on Jabaliya. Only six #hospitals are partially operating in Gaza City, as the #Gaza Health Ministry issues a distress call on Monday to protect what remains of health services. Israeli Forces raided the village of Al-Mughayyir in the #WestBank for four consecutive days. [...]

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/drop-site-daily-gaza-israel-nasser-hospital-killed-journalists-kilmar-abrego-garcia

#StopGazaGenocide
#StopTheDeporations
#StopStarvingGaza
#BlockTheBombs
#StopKillingJournalists
#Palestine#MiddleEast#WestAsia
#USPol
#news #press #politics @palestine

Drop Site Daily: August 25, 2025
from #DropSiteNews

Gaza— all over the past 24 hours. Another attack on Nasser Hospital killed at least 20 people, including five journalists in Gaza—raising the total number of journalists killed in Gaza to 245. #Israel widens its assault on Gaza City where it has destroyed over 1,000 buildings, after days of heavy strikes on Jabaliya. Only six #hospitals are partially operating in Gaza City, as the #Gaza Health Ministry issues a distress call on Monday to protect what remains of health services. Israeli Forces raided the village of Al-Mughayyir in the #WestBank for four consecutive days. [...]

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/drop-site-daily-gaza-israel-nasser-hospital-killed-journalists-kilmar-abrego-garcia

#StopGazaGenocide
#StopTheDeporations
#StopStarvingGaza
#BlockTheBombs
#StopKillingJournalists
#Palestine#MiddleEast#WestAsia
#USPol
#news #press #politics @palestine

Within hours after being inaugurated, Trump signed an executive order targeting people like their child and defining sex as only male or female. Gorman says,

“'I don’t foresee this movement ending with the end of the Trump administration … I think that the rot is much deeper,' said Gorman."

Ashifa Kassam

#Trump #fascism #military#ICE#WashingtonDC#Chicago#KilmarAbregoGarcia #gender #trans
/11

“'If he wouldn’t have a huge base of support, Trump is just, you know, your crazy uncle yelling things on a porch. That base of support needs to be addressed. Why was there support for this kind of fascism?' he added. 'And that’s a much deeper question. I would not personally feel safe going back to a country that doesn’t fully reckon with its fascist impulses.'"

#Trump #fascism #military#ICE#WashingtonDC#Chicago#KilmarAbregoGarcia #gender #trans
/12

Within hours after being inaugurated, Trump signed an executive order targeting people like their child and defining sex as only male or female. Gorman says,

“'I don’t foresee this movement ending with the end of the Trump administration … I think that the rot is much deeper,' said Gorman."

Ashifa Kassam

#Trump #fascism #military#ICE#WashingtonDC#Chicago#KilmarAbregoGarcia #gender #trans
/11

Immediately after Trump's election in 2024, Benjamin and Chrys Groman made plans to sell their house, cars, most of their belongings and move to Barcelona. They were determined to leave the country before his inauguration, because they have a child whose passport has the non-binary X for gender.

#Trump #fascism #military#ICE#WashingtonDC#Chicago#KilmarAbregoGarcia #gender #trans
/10

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/25/americans-moving-europe-trump

"Tonight, California governor Gavin Newsom’s social media account posted: 'Trump’s militarization of Los Angeles seems to have been just the start of an authoritarian takeover of American cities. This is not leadership. This is a scary, unlawful grab for power, and we should all be deeply concerned.'”

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #fascism #military#ICE#WashingtonDC#Chicago#KilmarAbregoGarcia
/9

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-24-2025

Tonight, there is reporting that some of the National Guard troops in Washington D.C. are now carrying weapons. Most guardsmen will be carrying M17 pistols, but some will be armed with M4 rifles. It’s a frightening moment for those of us old enough to remember Kent State."

~ Joyce Vance

#Trump #fascism #military#ICE#WashingtonDC#Chicago#KilmarAbregoGarcia
/8

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-ahead-0ec

"Planning is under way to send national guard troops to Chicago, an official at the Pentagon confirmed to ABC News on Sunday. ...

The national guard is normally under the authority of the individual states, deployed at the request of the state governor and federalized – deployed by the federal government – only in a national emergency and at the request of a governor."

~ Nicola Slawson

#Trump #fascism #military#ICE#WashingtonDC#Chicago#KilmarAbregoGarcia
/7

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/25/first-thing-trump-manufactured-crisis-to-justify-plan-to-send-national-guard-to-chicago-leading-democrat-says

"This is not law enforcement. This is psychological torture disguised as legal process, and it represents something far more sinister than immigration policy gone wrong. This is sadism as statecraft—the deliberate infliction of suffering for its own sake, wrapped in bureaucratic language and carried out by federal agents who treat human beings like cargo to be processed and shipped."

~ Mike Brock

#Trump #fascism#ICE#KilmarAbregoGarcia
/6

https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-cruelty-really-is-the-point

"When asked how it was possible the German people ultimately allowed the Nazi Party to rise to power, to take the nation to war, and ultimately to commit the Holocaust, we need not look further that what is happening in our name, using our tax dollars, this very moment in the U.S."

#Trump#Republicans#KilmarAbregoGarcia #immigrants #prisons #torture
/3

"The Trump administration knew full well that if Garcia were released from CECOT, he would be able to speak freely about the abuses he suffered, proving Noem to be lying. Seeing Garcia’s allegations illuminates why the Trump administration has gone to such lengths to refuse to return Garcia—even after admitting that sending him to El Salvador was an accident."

~ Lisa Needham

#Trump#BigBeautifulBill#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps#KilmarAbregoGarcia
/10

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/3/2331491/-Why-Trump-fought-so-hard-to-stop-Kilmar-Abrego-Garcia-s-return

"Prison officials repeatedly told Plaintiff Abrego Garcia that they would transfer him to the cells containing gang members who, they assured him, would 'tear' him apart. ...

During his first two weeks at CECOT, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia suffered a significant deterioration in his physical condition and lost approximately 31 pounds (dropping from approximately 215 pounds to 184 pounds)."

#Trump#Republicans#KilmarAbregoGarcia #immigrants #prisons #torture
/7

He was "forced to kneel from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion. During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself. The detainees were confined to metal bunks with no mattresses in an overcrowded cell with no windows, bright lights that remained on 24 hours a day, and minimal access to sanitation."

#Trump#Republicans#KilmarAbregoGarcia #immigrants #prisons #torture
/6

He was "kicked in the legs with boots and struck on his head and arms to make him change clothes faster. His head was shaved with a zero razor, and he was frog-marched to cell 15, being struck with wooden batons along the way. By the following day, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia had visible bruises and lumps all over his body."

#Trump#Republicans#KilmarAbregoGarcia #immigrants #prisons #torture
/5

Evan Hurst quotes from the brief that Kilmar Abrego García's attorney filed yesterday, detailing his torture at CECOT:

"Plaintiff Abrego Garcia reports that he was subjected to severe mistreatment upon arrival at CECOT, including but not limited to severe beatings, severe sleep deprivation, inadequate nutrition, and psychological torture."

#Trump#Republicans#KilmarAbregoGarcia #immigrants #prisons #torture
/4

https://www.wonkette.com/p/this-is-what-trump-paid-el-salvador

"When asked how it was possible the German people ultimately allowed the Nazi Party to rise to power, to take the nation to war, and ultimately to commit the Holocaust, we need not look further that what is happening in our name, using our tax dollars, this very moment in the U.S."

#Trump#Republicans#KilmarAbregoGarcia #immigrants #prisons #torture
/3

"It’s also important to remember that several news outlets have confirmed, through separate investigations, that most of the men sent to CECOT have no criminal record."

#Trump#Republicans#KilmarAbregoGarcia #immigrants #prisons #torture
/2

"Yesterday, Kilmar Abrego García filed a brief in his criminal case, and for the first time we have a first-person account of what is going on inside of CECOT, the El Salvadoran prison to which the Trump regime sent hundreds of immigrants, all without any kind of hearing or due process.

What he recounts is horrifying, and it should be on the front page of every paper."

~ Jay Kuo

#Trump#Republicans#KilmarAbregoGarcia #immigrants #prisons #torture
/1

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/outsourcing-torture-and-abuse

In the new court docs, #KilmarAbregoGarcia said detainees at #CECOT “were confined to metal bunks with no mattresses in an overcrowded cell with no windows, bright lights that remained on 24 hours a day, & minimal access to sanitation.”

He said prison ofcls told him repeatedly that they would transfer him to cells w/people who were gang members who would “tear” him apart. He said he saw others in nearby cells violently harm each other & heard screams from people throughout the night.

#law