WTF??

Judge refuses to block new #DHS policy limiting #Congress members' access to #ICE facilities

A federal judge refused Monday to temporarily block the #Trump admin from enforcing a new #policy requiring a week’s notice before members of Congress can visit #immigration detention facilities.

#law #oversight #SeparationOfPowers #HumanRights #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Trump #AbuseOfPower #MafiaState #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
https://apnews.com/article/minneapolis-shooting-congress-visit-ice-5eb6749b18d59ed8c47b5eeab9784432

WTF??

Judge refuses to block new #DHS policy limiting #Congress members' access to #ICE facilities

A federal judge refused Monday to temporarily block the #Trump admin from enforcing a new #policy requiring a week’s notice before members of Congress can visit #immigration detention facilities.

#law #oversight #SeparationOfPowers #HumanRights #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Trump #AbuseOfPower #MafiaState #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
https://apnews.com/article/minneapolis-shooting-congress-visit-ice-5eb6749b18d59ed8c47b5eeab9784432

I remember the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., of course. I was a senior in high school when it happened. A senior in a small (some 25,000) but very wealthy oil town in south Arkansas, in a deep-South part of the state near the Louisiana border…. My father was a Louisianan whose parents moved to south Arkansas during the oil boom to find good-paying jobs.

#MLK #MartinLutherKing #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #ICE #Minneapolis
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And what's happening in our country today suggests that, rather than intending to face and atone for that history, we intend to bear down on that ideology and that belief system.

No matter how strongly and clearly Dr. King warned us of the misery we bring on ourselves and everyone else by behaving this way….

#MLK #MartinLutherKing #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #ICE #Minneapolis
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And what's happening in our country today suggests that, rather than intending to face and atone for that history, we intend to bear down on that ideology and that belief system.

No matter how strongly and clearly Dr. King warned us of the misery we bring on ourselves and everyone else by behaving this way….

#MLK #MartinLutherKing #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #ICE #Minneapolis
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And when and how will this end? The needless targeting of people due to their complexion, their nationality, their ethnicity, their gender, their sexual identities, their social class?

It won't end until we white Americans face — at long last — our deep centuries-long enmeshment in an ideology and constructed system of white supremacy propped up by white Christian nationalism.

#MLK #MartinLutherKing #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #ICE #Minneapolis
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Just smug, and in many cases jubilant, silence. That classmate and I were among a handful of students who openly expressed our shock and sorrow at Dr. King's murder.

This was the world in which I came of age. Bloodshed piled on bloodshed.

And now all over again, Minneapolis, and prior to that Chicago, Los Angeles, and New Orleans….

#MLK #MartinLutherKing #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #ICE #Minneapolis
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A few years ago, a high school classmate of mine — he and I competed through high school for the top two academic spots in our class — passed through Little Rock and asked if we could meet for lunch. When we did so, he reminded me that the day after Dr. King's murder, almost no one in our high school had anything to say about this historic event — no shock, no sorrow, no outrage.

#MLK #MartinLutherKing #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #ICE #Minneapolis
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The two white teens who were charged for the killing were exonerated by a jury of all white men. The whole town knew the three white teens were guilty. They bragged openly about what they had done.

This was the world in which I came of age.

#MLK #MartinLutherKing #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #ICE #Minneapolis
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Bloodshed piled on bloodshed.

A few months before Dr. King was murdered, two of my high school classmates, white teens, were charged with shooting and killing in cold blood a Black teen in our hometown. He was shot from their car as he walked on a road near his house. It was well known that a third white boy in my class was also in the car, but he was the son of an influential doctor and not charged.

#MLK #MartinLutherKing #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #ICE #Minneapolis
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I remember the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., of course. I was a senior in high school when it happened. A senior in a small (some 25,000) but very wealthy oil town in south Arkansas, in a deep-South part of the state near the Louisiana border…. My father was a Louisianan whose parents moved to south Arkansas during the oil boom to find good-paying jobs.

#MLK #MartinLutherKing #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #ICE #Minneapolis
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"The Christian nationalists, and I believe the white supremacists, too, believe they are bringing about the earth and the nation that is the right design, whether it's the white supremacist design or the white Christian nationalist design."

#Trump #Minneapolis #ICE #MaskedThugs #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteSupremacy
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Audra Watkins talks about the white Christian nationalist push that's playing a huge role behind the scenes in the Trump regime's attempt to subordinate Minnesota:

"They believe that they're carrying out God's plan for the earth if they're Christian nationalists doing this."

#Trump #Minneapolis #ICE #MaskedThugs #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteSupremacy
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https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/project-2025-jeremy-lewin-and-how

To this day we white Americans, have never reckoned with these fundamental truths of US history. And the #fascism we see unfolding now is the chickens coming home to roost.

#ICE is the brutal, violent TRUTH of 500 years of American #Colonialism.

If you don't see it then you're not looking hard enough and you are still deep in your practice of #whitesupremacy.

We don't get to pretend these truths away because they are inconvenient or uncomfortable. Our lives are built on them.

Something that is not really acknowledged in the #US is that the white middle class has long been a beneficiary of #WhiteSupremacy which also means it serves as a protector of that system. The #Democrats, especially the establishment of that party, know this perfectly well. They are protectors of #neoliberalism and #capitalism and, ultimately #fascism. They will continue to be useless in this fight.

The deep fight, the real #resistance will have to tap into the real #struggle of #ClassWar.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115911622720100646

Agreed 100%. ICE is not the problem. The problem is the latent #fascism that was always lurking behind the facade of democracy.

#Democracy in the US has always been a fucking lie, an illusion put in front of the brutal #capitalist machine built on #genocide, #landtheft, #colonialism and subjugation. The white middle class insistence that democracy was real is an expression of privilege and #whitesupremacy.

250 years of #shame, that is the #US. I encourage you to read Zinn's People's History.

Before … back when … I was far more talented in my youth. Energy you know? Passion… all of it…

Anyway,

Once upon a time I was a pianist.

This was my favorite piece to play (other than Purple Rain).

I feel in these fraught times that it is appropriate, the sorrow & the drive to fuck shit up…

https://youtu.be/qO8yfBLNVjU

#Beethoven bitches

#law #Constitution #CivilRights #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Trump #AbuseOfPower #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy #RESIST

The neo-fascist group Patriot Front is building a network of businesses in North #Texas in an attempt to create a parallel, self-sufficient white nationalist economy. The Observer identified the men behind 4 of these companies. https://www.texasobserver.org/revealed-four-businesses-patriot-front-north-texas/

#fascism #NorthTexas #Dallas #politics #USpol #extremism #news #racism #WhiteSupremacy