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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 30-Jun-2025 11:57:37 JST Paul Cantrell

   The billions and billions of dollars this bill pumps into ICE far exceeds any conceivable legitimate need the agency could have, even if you agree with its mission.

   This bill takes the same masked, anonymous gunmen who have been kidnapping people off the streets and gives them a budget the size of a military.

   This is not about honoring the law. This is not even about immigrants.

   This is about creating a police state.

   I see no other way to read these numbers. https://mastodon.world/@MJmusicinears/114764606160963355

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     mike bayer :python_logo: (zzzeek@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 30-Jun-2025 22:31:35 JST mike bayer :python_logo:

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     @inthehands we should expect that heavily armed ICE agents will be present at most voting locations in 2028 if not 2026, checking people's identification as they wait in line, randomly ripping people away to be sent to detention or disappeared for made up reasons. They will have the funds to do this and it's clear that even in 2025 there is zero legal/civic/criminal recourse against this, not even a nationwide injunction. Not a governor. Not a judge. Nothing. Only the whitest, bilssfully-FOXED, most faithful MAGA voter would feel comfortable actually voting.

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     EndicottRoad59 (endicottauthor@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Jun-2025 23:52:17 JST EndicottRoad59

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     @inthehands And if you have any tint to your skin at all, be very afraid.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 30-Jun-2025 23:52:17 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • EndicottRoad59

     @EndicottAuthor
     Oh, I don’t think even my very pale skin protects me. At most, it just puts me a little further back in line.

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     Ishitonyoutankie (ishitonyoutankie@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Jun-2025 23:59:03 JST Ishitonyoutankie

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     @inthehands you got the 2nd amendment for a reason, next time you see a masked person with a vest rush from an unmarked vehicle you know what to do.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 30-Jun-2025 23:59:03 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Ishitonyoutankie

     @Ishitonyoutankie
     I do not want to live in a country or a world where this is how we do things. The point of having democracy and the rule of law is to be an alternative to that. Take them away, and I shudder to think what is coming.

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     Andy Norman (andynormancx@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 00:00:01 JST Andy Norman

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     • MJ Muse

     @inthehands @MJmusicinears that really is more than the entire UK military budget for this year 😮

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     Ulrich Hegemann (uhege@nrw.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 00:01:31 JST Ulrich Hegemann

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     @inthehands
     After the immigrants, they will look for new minorities. This is how fascism works. Hatred is needing more and more food.

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     Galad (galad@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 00:02:31 JST Galad

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     @inthehands They’re preparing to commit genocide. Ethnic cleansing is already underway.

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     lin11c (lin11c@toad.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 00:04:13 JST lin11c

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     @inthehands
     Dems have not spoken about this at all!! Only about Medicaid and Snap. Why not? This is a much bigger and more dangerous issue!! JFC it is a Police State that can subvert elections.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 00:04:13 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • lin11c

     @lin11c
     Democrats are still afraid of appearing “soft on immigration;” generations of right-wing Overton shifting and feckless political consultants have left them terrified to take this head on.

     They need to feel pressure from us.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 00:05:21 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Ulrich Hegemann

     @Uhege
     Yup.

     https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/114100015971649318

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 00:05:35 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • JW

     @jwi
     But efficiency is not the goal, is it? Cruelty, power, fear: that’s the goal.

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     JW (jwi@aus.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 00:05:36 JST JW

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     @inthehands
     ICE could carry out Trumps stated policy at a much lower cost if it didn't waste money on gratuitous cruelty. For instance, at airports, they often detain a person for days or weeks who has been refused entry, when the cheaper and kinder option is to put them on the first flight home.

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     JillL (jilll@theblower.au)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 00:08:04 JST JillL

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     @inthehands It's very hard to roll back funding for policing type agencies once it's in place.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 00:09:44 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Pēteris Krišjānis

     @peteriskrisjanis

     I don’t know…the SS and SA were massive grifts too. I find little comfort in either corruption or incompetence as protection.

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     Pēteris Krišjānis (peteriskrisjanis@toot.lv)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 00:09:45 JST Pēteris Krišjānis

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     @inthehands Yes, aaaand no. It is pretty clear it will be massive grift. ICE struggles to run operations at this size right now. I can't imagine that going more smoothly later on.
     It is beyond fucked up, but guaranteed success it isn't.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 02:21:23 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷
     • mike bayer :python_logo:

     @KimSJ @zzzeek
     It’s a mitigation, but hardly a protection. We need to actively fight back on every front available to us.

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     Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷 (kimsj@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 02:21:24 JST Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷

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     • mike bayer :python_logo:

     @zzzeek @inthehands
     Postal voting is a partial answer, if that is even allowed by then.