Don't visit the #USA.

[naturemc@mastodon.online]

Don't visit the #USA. A French woman, aged 86, finally arrived back in France thanks to help from the embassy. "Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé was arrested in her nightgown at the home she shared with her late husband, a retired US army captain" by ICE and imprisoned in a #detention camp. Arriving, "she was still dressed in her detention uniform of orange shoes, sweatpants and a grey sweater covered in stains and holes. ... in a state of shock and exhausted after her ordeal."

‘Maman is finally free!’: French widow, 86, flies home after ICE detention ordeal

Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé, who moved to the US to marry a GI she met in the 1950s, was arrested in her nightgown at their home

the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

[csgraves@turtleisland.social]

@NatureMC yes, we are a sick country destined to fall. Think about it this way: The USA was founded on: White supremacy, Genocide, Slavery, and religious fascism. How the hell does anyone not see the repercussions that would surely be coming? A country that starts this way will also end this way.

I just hope that our fall doesn't take everyone else down.

But at this point I spit on my citizenship, and dare them to deport me.

#LandBackALLOFIT

[emmacox@writing.exchange]

@NatureMC how awful. I visited over a decade ago on a business trip and ended up getting stopped at the airport, taken to a side room and strip-searched because they didn't like the seams in the jeans I wore and thought I was carrying drugs. I think the guards just wanted to grope and check out my underwear. That (and having to suffer a visit to a gun range) put me off ever going again.

[raganwald@social.bau-ha.us]

@NatureMC “The cruelty is the point.”

—Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 2018

The Cruelty Is the Point

President Trump and his supporters find community by rejoicing in the suffering of those they hate and fear.

The Atlantic (www.theatlantic.com)