My friend is a lawyer who sues insurance companies.
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@FranceskaMann I will do whatever I can to help. Is there a legal defense fund that your friend recommends?
That's a great question. We here in Minnesota have a few local pro bono lawyers and we also work with the national lawyers guild. The NLG has teams of lawyers on call who help us whenever we need them. My recommendation is to donate to the NLG or ACLU.
My lawyer friend is a corporate lawyer. He sues health insurance companies! Three weeks ago he started practicing immigration law. The strength and resilience of my community humble me every single day.
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Last Friday three panel judges changed section 1226 of title eight. Three states, Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana no longer release folks with habeus. The 2 nastiest judges gamed it. They waited until they were both on the same panel. Next step is the 12 panel judge will vote. This is called En blanc. If that fails it goes up to SCOTUS. For now, detainis in those three states, once deported, are out. This will change. But there's a window for the fascism.
The 12 jury vote to overturn a panel decision is called en banc, Latin for "whole bench."
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Last Friday three panel judges changed section 1226 of title eight. Three states, Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana no longer release folks with habeus. The 2 nastiest judges gamed it. They waited until they were both on the same panel. Next step is the 12 panel judge will vote. This is called En blanc. If that fails it goes up to SCOTUS. For now, detainis in those three states, once deported, are out. This will change. But there's a window for the fascism.
@FranceskaMann @rjohnsonmn
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My friend got seven people out and they told him about the conditions inside Trump's concentration camps. Dirty underwear, toilets covered in blood and feces, disease, the lights are on 24/7. These are torture camps.Our taxes pay for thousands of human beings to be tortured, starved, not given clothing. We have to fight. We have to get every person back. No one gets left behind. They need to know we're fighting for them. They need to know they are loved.
@FranceskaMann @rjohnsonmn Right now, the only thing we have operating in our favor is the Trump TACO factor. I don't know if this is a result of incompetence, cowardice, or what, and in my view we should be grateful TACO is operative because, otherwise, he would just steamroll over everyone, all the time, and however objectively bad things are now, I'm certain they'd be demonstrably worse.
That being said, unbelievably, "the rest of us" still have to worry about electability of Democrats. ↲
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@FranceskaMann @rjohnsonmn Right now, the only thing we have operating in our favor is the Trump TACO factor. I don't know if this is a result of incompetence, cowardice, or what, and in my view we should be grateful TACO is operative because, otherwise, he would just steamroll over everyone, all the time, and however objectively bad things are now, I'm certain they'd be demonstrably worse.
That being said, unbelievably, "the rest of us" still have to worry about electability of Democrats. ↲
@FranceskaMann @rjohnsonmn Just as those few Republican representatives and senators who've spoken up against Trump — or even voted against Trump — have only done so in excruciatingly narrow and hyper-focused ways in objection to one comparatively minor "bad thing" out of 99 other horrific things, so too we have to contend with voters who *still*, in spite of *everything* that's happened, will act/vote like it's all been hyperbole.
Stereotypical "But her emailz!!!!1!!one!!" voters are going ↲
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@FranceskaMann @rjohnsonmn Just as those few Republican representatives and senators who've spoken up against Trump — or even voted against Trump — have only done so in excruciatingly narrow and hyper-focused ways in objection to one comparatively minor "bad thing" out of 99 other horrific things, so too we have to contend with voters who *still*, in spite of *everything* that's happened, will act/vote like it's all been hyperbole.
Stereotypical "But her emailz!!!!1!!one!!" voters are going ↲
@FranceskaMann @rjohnsonmn to be a problem going into the midterms, and probably moreso in the 2028 cycle, particularly if we win in the '26 midterms and have any success at all.
The short-term-memory mindset of many Americans, along with the propensity of far too many to be so-called "low information" voters, and/or thinking "it's all going to work out somehow" or "it's all hyperbole", could easily put *more* Republicans in office, not fewer, and not more Democrats. ❖
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@FranceskaMann @rjohnsonmn Right now, the only thing we have operating in our favor is the Trump TACO factor. I don't know if this is a result of incompetence, cowardice, or what, and in my view we should be grateful TACO is operative because, otherwise, he would just steamroll over everyone, all the time, and however objectively bad things are now, I'm certain they'd be demonstrably worse.
That being said, unbelievably, "the rest of us" still have to worry about electability of Democrats. ↲
A party that is OK with genocide is not going to save us from fascism.
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@FranceskaMann @rjohnsonmn
En banc. Although I'm guessing they may all be white?Yes, en banc.
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A party that is OK with genocide is not going to save us from fascism.
@FranceskaMann @rjohnsonmn So I guess that leaves us with "just give up" as a practical matter, because there's presently no effective way to create viable, capable replacement political parties.
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@FranceskaMann @rjohnsonmn So I guess that leaves us with "just give up" as a practical matter, because there's presently no effective way to create viable, capable replacement political parties.
@rjohnsonmn @QuarkMaker @FranceskaMann or you could become more active within the party, becoming the makers of policy and platforms to change the positions you dislike?
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