What ICE is doing in US airports today, it will be doing at US polling places in November.
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I don't get the impression that tge people organising the No Kings protests think they will be enough. The function of these protests is to let everyone who thinks something needs to be done, but doesn't know what to do, know they're not alone.
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November, December, and January next year will be the most historic months this nation has ever seen, including the civil war era.
Why? Because the republic will either be preserved --or it will fall.
Gonna be a eventful, historic year anyway it goes.
@kitkat_blue @ben I'm wondering if we'll even be allowed to have that. They're doing every single thing they can ramping up more and more to try to stop the vote. I'm expecting them to try to come up with some way to actually cancel it somehow. Yes that's completely unconstitutional, but a man who committed treason against the United States of America by leading a violent coup against Congress itself running for president is unconstitutional, so... Yeah...
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@ben we've had so many elections in the past 10 years which could have prevented this had people shown up to vote AND used their vote strategically. People couldn't be bothered to do that. This is the police state their idiocy brought down on us. I don't expect them to save us now and the people who have been doing the right thing are exhausted. We could end this if voters would get their heads out of their asses and make a plan to show up in November. History tells us how that will go.
@effariwhy @ben
When districts are so gerrymandered that black and Latino voters have to walk walk miles to get to the nearest polling place, people get an hour off to vote but could wait 8 hours in line to cast their ballots, and voter rolls are purged routinely by Republican governors...There are major structural hurdles put in place to keep people from voting, and I think calling people stupid and acting as if it's an individual choice ignores that.
If you want to make sure people vote, help them get there. Offer to drive people, or watch their kids so they can wait in line. Volunteer to be a poll worker. Do something constructive instead of calling people stupid.
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@kitkat_blue @ben I'm wondering if we'll even be allowed to have that. They're doing every single thing they can ramping up more and more to try to stop the vote. I'm expecting them to try to come up with some way to actually cancel it somehow. Yes that's completely unconstitutional, but a man who committed treason against the United States of America by leading a violent coup against Congress itself running for president is unconstitutional, so... Yeah...
I feel it's pretty clear by now that none of these people are planning to go anywhere or allow their present power to be reduced, IF they can help it.
"If". That's where the rest of us come in...
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What ICE is doing in US airports today, it will be doing at US polling places in November. These photos aren’t funny or incongruous; they should be giving us nightmares. This has to end now.
@ben it's not going to end as Americans simply can't be bothered to do so. They'll gladly take themselves and the world with them rather than do anything to stop this.
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I feel it's pretty clear by now that none of these people are planning to go anywhere or allow their present power to be reduced, IF they can help it.
"If". That's where the rest of us come in...
@kitkat_blue @ben Agreed, but their methods are... I don't want to say the word "sneaky" but incremental and just barely slow enough that people apparently have time to integrate them into their lives first before realizing that they just gave away another fundamental right that should have been a final line in the sand.
It won't be just all of a sudden Trump announcing tomorrow there will be no vote. They'll work their way up a bit at a time until November and then somehow make it "ok."
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What ICE is doing in US airports today, it will be doing at US polling places in November. These photos aren’t funny or incongruous; they should be giving us nightmares. This has to end now.
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@stonykark I agree, but that's a lot easier to say than to do.
And folx *are* doing something. Millions of us are protesting, aiding the communities that ICE is attacking, posting to keep the stories alive, donating to causes that are fighting our government, doing mutual aid, filming and tracking ICE, voting, and a million other ways of resisting.
Everyone has a different threshold for "well, I guess this is worth dying for now". Usually that threshold is when they have no other option left.
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@dougiec3 @freyjfreyj @ben
Isn't it interesting how much better behaved they are in the airports without their masks than they've been on the streets? (At least according to the recorded images/videos - it's easier to delete the ones that paint them in a bad light too)@Cassandra_Complex @freyjfreyj @ben
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@Cassandra_Complex @freyjfreyj @ben
They apparently have to work solo in airports where they are used to working as armed gangs in the streets.@dougiec3 @freyjfreyj @ben
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@stonykark what are you doing to help?
I've voted against this administration at every step, I'm a member of multiple activist groups, I host community events, hand out defense whistles and active reporter instructions, shut down fascist websites, admin/moderate two Fedi communities, do suicide-prevention outreach, teach folx about security and data privacy, and still drag myself out of bed to toot about cats and post my nudes for yall's entertainment.
Saying "you need to do more" to folx suffering under a dictatorship is even less useful than standing by watching it.
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What ICE is doing in US airports today, it will be doing at US polling places in November. These photos aren’t funny or incongruous; they should be giving us nightmares. This has to end now.
@ben If Americans don't think they're gong to be "scrutinized" by Trump's personal ICE army at polling stations, they're more naive than even he imagines.
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@stonykark what are you doing to help?
I've voted against this administration at every step, I'm a member of multiple activist groups, I host community events, hand out defense whistles and active reporter instructions, shut down fascist websites, admin/moderate two Fedi communities, do suicide-prevention outreach, teach folx about security and data privacy, and still drag myself out of bed to toot about cats and post my nudes for yall's entertainment.
Saying "you need to do more" to folx suffering under a dictatorship is even less useful than standing by watching it.
@alice @ben @msbw I live in the oil rich part of canada so the things I've done to help (left tech, became a paramedic, got my gun license) are going to be different from what you need to do. I need to protect my community from america, whereas you need to overthrow your government and hang every nazi bastard. I tried just watching, it ate me up inside for years. Doing things is absolutely fucking terrifying, but for me it's a little less scary to get my hands dirty.
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What ICE is doing in US airports today, it will be doing at US polling places in November. These photos aren’t funny or incongruous; they should be giving us nightmares. This has to end now.
Exactly…
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What ICE is doing in US airports today, it will be doing at US polling places in November. These photos aren’t funny or incongruous; they should be giving us nightmares. This has to end now.
Steve Bannon seems to agree, in a more malicious manner.
Steve Bannon Calls ICE at Airports a Good ‘Test Run’ for Deployment to 2026 Midterm Polls | Common Dreams
Steve Bannon suggests using ICE agents at airports as a test run for their involvement in the 2026 midterms. Critics warn of voter suppression tactics.
Common Dreams (www.commondreams.org)
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@kitkat_blue @ben Agreed, but their methods are... I don't want to say the word "sneaky" but incremental and just barely slow enough that people apparently have time to integrate them into their lives first before realizing that they just gave away another fundamental right that should have been a final line in the sand.
It won't be just all of a sudden Trump announcing tomorrow there will be no vote. They'll work their way up a bit at a time until November and then somehow make it "ok."
oh, absolutely! and more like slow-walking in a blizzard. as there are actions almost daily that fudge the midterms. Big ones are mail-in voting, which is 90% blue states--some big states...the whole west coast plus CO and several smaller states. Also the USPS has taken steps to set up more chaos with messing with postmarks and setting up for suspension of services because of funding. Also the supreme ct case on mail-in. so yes...lots of "steps" and more to come i'm sure.
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What ICE is doing in US airports today, it will be doing at US polling places in November. These photos aren’t funny or incongruous; they should be giving us nightmares. This has to end now.
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@amanda Trump has deployed ICE to US airports to “help”. Bannon has described it as a good dry run for deploying them to polls in November.
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@amanda Trump has deployed ICE to US airports to “help”. Bannon has described it as a good dry run for deploying them to polls in November.
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What ICE is doing in US airports today, it will be doing at US polling places in November. These photos aren’t funny or incongruous; they should be giving us nightmares. This has to end now.
@ben yep. The idea of them being there for "crowd control" at the Atlanta Airport is very concerning. They purposely set up a situation where we would have TSA shortages and long security lines, with no one to control the ensuing chaos, then sent in these goons.
This is going to get ugly fast. Down from 36 lines to 2. Some lines are over four hours long. They are definitely going to make sure that voting takes forever as well, and then look for excuses to bash heads in the name of crowd control. It's clear where this is headed: martial law.
