And now, an executive order that calls for the involuntary institutionalization of the homeless and mentally ill without due process or clear release criteria. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets/
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@ben What I learned from On the Road: they can fine you until you're broke and then lock you up for vagrancy
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Just like in the old Soviet Union!
Just like in the old Soviet Union!
@ben So… Reagan closing the institutions was a bad thing, but Trump reopening them is also a bad thing? Which is it?
@ben Major distraction attempt ☑️
@ben How long before they come after Democrats calling them mentally ill?
@ben Jesus.
You know, even though I was against incarcerating immigrants, it does hit different when your number is on the list.
This is cruel, it is criminal, and it is intentional.
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Republican megadonors CoreCivic and Geo Corp paid millions to profit from the criminalization of poverty and mental illness.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/private-prison-mass-deportation-trump-billions-geogroup-corecivic-ice/
https://truthout.org/articles/appeals-court-strikes-down-new-jerseys-ban-on-private-prisons/
https://jacobin.com/2024/11/private-companies-trump-immigration-surveillance
Detention costs $100,000 per person.
Providing housing and healthcare is far more effective & less expensive.
@ben Fuck this timeline.
@ben And we thought V for Vendetta was fiction...
@ben Here in the DC Metro area, the homeless community has its own weekly newspaper and I can’t wait to read their coverage of this.
@ben I truly hate how people believe we can just simply “vote this away” now.
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History repeats. The work camps of 1938 Germany:
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@ben How is this not a permission slip for ICE goons to disappear anybody anywhere?
