Notices by William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social), page 2

"Van Hollen has said that other members of Congress are going to visit El Salvador demanding answers. Hopefully, that will include members in leadership. And hopefully others in the Senate and House will take a cue from Van Hollen’s actions, and figure out ways to show up for their constituents in person."

~ Noah Berlatsky

#Trump #AbregoGarcia #ICE #ElSalvador #deportations #kidnapping #trafficking
/4

https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/van-hollen-shows-the-way

"That Salvadoran officials cannot or will not produce him raises concerns about his well-being."

Why will they not let Abrego Garcia be seen?

#Trump #AbregoGarcia #ICE #ElSalvador #deportations #kidnapping #trafficking
/3

"With the Roberts Court having already blanketed the President with immunity from prosecution and the Justice Department firmly in his pocket, it is difficult to envision a scenario where the judicial branch is able to effectively enforce its orders in face of Trump’s defiance or to impose enforceable consequences for his failure to comply."

~ David Kurtz

#Trump #AbregoGarcia #ICE #ElSalvador #deportations #kidnapping #trafficking #SupremeCourt #immunity
/5

https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/were-now-on-the-fast-track-to-a-historic

"The pictures of Kristi Noem and others in front of of these men reminds me of how white people used to take pictures in front of Black bodies hanging from trees after they were lynched."

#Trump #AbregoGarcia #ICE #ElSalvador #deportations #kidnapping #trafficking #SupremeCourt #immunity
/7

"Van Hollen was refused entry into into Seacock. But do you know who's been going there on some type of like lynching tour? Republicans going to take pictures and pose in front of these prisoners who are being held there, who have committed absolutely no crime."

~ Danielle Moody

#Trump #AbregoGarcia #ICE #ElSalvador #deportations #kidnapping #trafficking #SupremeCourt #immunity
/6

https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/fighters-wanted-democrats-please

"Depriving due process is the domino that causes the rest of the legal system to fall.”

~ James Sample

#Trump #AbregoGarcia #ICE #ElSalvador #deportations #kidnapping #trafficking #SupremeCourt #immunity #DueProcess #Constitution
/8

https://truthout.org/articles/kilmar-abrego-garcia-case-shows-constitutional-crisis-is-here/

"Historians (if they exist in the future and any records of this period survive) will note this month as one where the United States slipped fully into authoritarianism."

~ Dave Troy

#Trump #Bukele #AbregoGarcia #ElSalvador #SupremeCourt #dictator #authoritarianism
/1

https://america2.news/americas-meltdown-as-seen-from-ted-2025/

"That’s what’s happening in El Salvador. ...

If there were a map that showed democracy slipping into dictatorship, we would be at the spot marked 'You are here.' We shouldn’t sugarcoat the danger."

#Trump #Bukele #AbregoGarcia #ElSalvador #SupremeCourt #dictator #authoritarianism #Holocaust
/3

"What makes for a concentration camp as opposed to a prison? Max Burns turned to this entry in the Holocaust Encyclopedia for a definition: 'What distinguishes a concentration camp from a prison (in the modern sense) is that it functions outside of a judicial system. The prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process.'”

~ Joyce Vance

#Trump #Bukele #AbregoGarcia #ElSalvador #SupremeCourt #dictator #authoritarianism #Holocaust
/2

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-supreme-court-got-it-badly-wrong

"The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones."

~ Timothy Snyder

#Trump #Bukele #AbregoGarcia #ElSalvador #SupremeCourt #dictator #authoritarianism #Holocaust
/4

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xl3w4e5jxslqeaglaqit2ql3/post/3lmsvkbq6bs2g

"This is the authoritarian ratchet.

If Trump can, in defiance of the Supreme Court, arbitrarily 'disappear' non-citizens in El Salvador, anyone else could be next — including journalists who report on his administration."

~ Freedom of the Press Foundation

#Trump #Bukele #AbregoGarcia #ElSalvador #SupremeCourt #dictator #authoritarianism
/5

https://bsky.app/profile/freedom.press/post/3lms2ujd2oc2t

"The administration is maintaining that it has the power to send armed agents of the state to grab someone off the street and then, without a shred of due process, deport them to a Gulag in a foreign country and leave them there forever. The crucial point here is that the administration’s logic means that it could do the same to American citizens."

#Trump #Bukele #AbregoGarcia #ElSalvador #SupremeCourt #dictator #authoritarianism
/7

"This rhetorical game the administration is playing, where it pretends it lacks the power to ask for Abrego Garcia to be returned while Bukele pretends he doesn’t have the power to return him, is an expression of obvious contempt for the Supreme Court—and for the rule of law."

~ Adam Serwer

#Trump #Bukele #AbregoGarcia #ElSalvador #SupremeCourt #dictator #authoritarianism
/6

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/bukele-trump-court-order/682432/?gift=_ZIU2b-u6NxEmt_0j2INZkFfMhbxeqA9KKZRzniQU08&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

"Only four months into his term, and Trump is molding the American presidency into something ever closer to the grinning dictator seated next to him in the Oval Office Monday."

~ Kate Riga

#Trump #Bukele #AbregoGarcia #ElSalvador #SupremeCourt #dictator #authoritarianism
/8

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/just-another-lawless-monday

"The president sat there with Nayib Bukele, the Dollar Store jefe who runs El Salvador and they both mocked the continued plight of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the innocent Marylander who was trafficked by this country into a hellhole in that country, and who the Supreme Court has (mildly) ordered the government to get back."

~ Charles Pierce

#Trump #Bukele #AbregoGarcia #ElSalvador #SupremeCourt #dictator #authoritarianism
/9

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a64479935/illegal-deporation-kilmar-armando-abrego-garcia/

"At least a dozen members of Congress, all Democrats, have written to the Trump administration with pointed questions about constituents and other citizens whom immigration agents have questioned, detained and even held at gunpoint. In one letter, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee demanded a list of every citizen detained during the new administration.

None has received an answer."

~ Nicole Foy

#Trump #Bukele #AbregoGarcia #ElSalvador #SupremeCourt
/11

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-ice-immigration-detained-americans-congress-questions-unanswered

"The two penny-ante dictators found the idea of releasing Abrego Garcia amusing, and the Supreme Court's order even more so."

#Trump #Bukele #AbregoGarcia #ElSalvador #SupremeCourt #dictator #authoritarianism
/10

"While it is completely outrageous and startling that Rubio as Secretary of State would enter into a contract to render people in United States to this hellhole without due process, in the sense of, if you knew that Marco Rubio had deep ties to the for-profit private prison industry in the U.S., it might not surprise you as much."

~ Nadine Smith

#Trump #Bukele #AbregoGarcia #Rubio #ElSalvador #SupremeCourt #dictator #authoritarianism
/12

https://gregolear.substack.com/p/tuesday-convo-nadine-smith-and-lisa

"Trump 'crossed the Rubicon' long ago—but the media has somehow forgotten or minimized prior actions by Trump that qualify as a 'constitutional crises.' ...

I do not mean to minimize what happened in the Oval Office on Monday."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #Bukele #AbregoGarcia #Rubio #ElSalvador #SupremeCourt #dictator #authoritarianism
/13

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/call-it-by-its-name-a-coup-redux

"If you didn’t know better you would think 'polarization' descended from on high, a plague for which no one party is responsible. This deliberate obfuscation of our political situation suits the corporate media’s obsession with moral equivalence and contrived balance."

~ Jennifer Rubin

#Trump #Bukele #AbregoGarcia #Rubio #ElSalvador #SupremeCourt #dictator #authoritarianism #MediaFail #media
/15

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/words-and-phrases-we-can-do-without