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   William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Jul-2025 22:09:13 JST William Lindsey :toad:

   "Adam Boyd, a 33-year-old attorney who resigned from ICE’s legal department last month, told me he left because the mission was no longer about protecting the homeland from threats. 'It became a contest of how many deportations could be reported to Stephen Miller by December,' Boyd said. ...

   'I had to make a moral decision,' he told me."

   ~ Nick Miroff

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   https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/07/trump-ice-morale-immigration/683477/

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Jul-2025 02:36:43 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     There are lots of photos from the Nazi years in Germany, photos showing smiling Germans standing under signs adorned with swastikas and reading, "Jews are our misfortune."

     After the war, those who starred in these photos celebrating cruelty — rounding up targeted people, sending them to concentration camps and, ultimately, to be murdered — had to live with this photographic evidence.

     #Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #deportations #violence #ConcentrationCamps #AlligatorAlcatraz
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Jul-2025 02:36:44 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "The ultimate goal of autocrats is to gain enough power to have a monopoly on who can tell the stories about the past and the present. And yet truth comes out in the end, despite their efforts, because such holes in the heart and the historical record have always been calls to action."

     #Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #deportations #violence #ConcentrationCamps #AbregoGarcia
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     Mr. Bill and Steve's Place repeated this.
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Jul-2025 02:36:45 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     As Roger Parloff reports, the goal of the Trump administration in its criminal case and civil litigation against Abrego Garcia is not about upholding the rule of law, but rather contributing to President Trump’s political messaging.

     Abrego Garcia's innocence, his wrongful detention and torture, the lies told about him: all take second place to what Trump wants.

     #Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #deportations #violence #ConcentrationCamps #AbregoGarcia
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     https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what-abrego-s-bail-hearing-revealed-about-him-and-the-trump-administration

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Jul-2025 02:36:45 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "Autocrats know that when disappeared people reappear, truths are spoken, and forbidden histories are written, this punctures veils of silence and engineered forgetting, reminds people of the moral collapse that comes from complicity with dictatorship, and complicates the revisionist histories authoritarian states produce and circulate."

     ~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat

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     https://lucid.substack.com/p/how-autocrats-disappear-people-and

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Jul-2025 02:36:46 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "How big is the nearly $30 billion allocated for hiring ICE agents? As Aaron Reichlin-Melnick noted, the vote to approve the budget made ICE 'the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.'”

     ~ Jay Kuo

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     https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/ice-trump-police-force

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Jul-2025 06:55:51 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "As a result of ICE’s cruelty, which includes tear gassing children and harassing US citizens, Trump is losing on immigration by nearly 30 points, and Americans now have a record high approval of immigration at 79%. …

     He is willing to burn the country down to make the country white again, folks."

     ~ Wajahat Ali

     #Trump #StephenMiller #TomHoman #ICE #immigrants #deportations #violence #ConcentrationCamps #Utah
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     https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-people-are-finally-rejecting

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Jul-2025 06:55:52 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     “'People need to understand ICE officers and Border Patrol don't need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them, and question them … based [in part] on their physical appearance,' Homan said."

     #Trump #StephenMiller #TomHoman #ICE #immigrants #deportations #violence #ConcentrationCamps
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     Steve's Place and Warner Crocker repeated this.
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Jul-2025 06:55:52 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "Seen in Utah.

     ICE is now marching through suburban neighborhoods, conducting home raids.

     Their budget is now bigger than that of the Marines, and the entire military budgets of Israel and Russia.

     Coming soon to a neighborhood near you."

     #Trump #StephenMiller #TomHoman #ICE #immigrants #deportations #violence #ConcentrationCamps #Utah
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     https://www.threads.com/@jreakle/post/DL-j1onSLO8

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Jul-2025 06:55:53 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "This morning on Fox News, Tom Homan, currently serving as Border Czar under President Donald Trump’s administration, made a legally dubious and deeply concerning claim about the power of immigration enforcement agents."

     ~ Aaron Parnas

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     https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-tom-homan-suggests-ice-agents

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Jul-2025 06:55:54 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     When we celebrate cruelty to others, we invite cruelty for ourselves and our families: we open the door to it.

     And it will visit us with karmic certainty.

     #Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #deportations #violence #ConcentrationCamps #AlligatorAlcatraz
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Jul-2025 06:55:55 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     Their children and grandchildren had to live with the photos demonstrating that their parents or grandparents were really despicable human beings who could laugh as hapless others were consigned to unspeakable cruelty.

     Karma has an eerie way of visiting us, and even visiting our family members down the generations.

     #Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #deportations #violence #ConcentrationCamps #AlligatorAlcatraz
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Jul-2025 07:12:51 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "So this is why I think this is a big deal. Because with the Gallup poll showing a complete reversal, with people saying, I didn't vote for this shit, with ICE not being a personal Gestapo terrorizing Americans with military, and with Stephen Miller, and this is my prediction: he doesn't care about the polls. I have power. I'm going to flex power."

     #Trump #StephenMiller #TomHoman #ICE #immigrants #deportations #violence #ConcentrationCamps #Utah
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     Steve's Place repeated this.
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Jul-2025 07:12:51 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "I don't care. I'm going to get this done or I will die trying. Now you have other people like human concrete Tom Homan who said this. I want to give you two quotes, and I think it's all connected.

     People need to understand ICE officers and Border Patrol don't need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them, and question them based on their physical appearance."

     #Trump #StephenMiller #TomHoman #ICE #immigrants #deportations #violence #ConcentrationCamps #Utah
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