UK social media campaigners among five denied US visas
"We will not be intimidated by a government that uses accusations of censorship to silence those who stand up for human rights and freedom of expression."
by George Wright, December 24, 2025
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp39kngz008o
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/zuu2E
#USPol #WorldPol #UKPol #Authoritarianism #Fascism #SilencingDissent #CharacteristicsOfFascism
"Don't talk of dust and roses
Or should we powder our noses?
Don't live for last year's capers
Give me steel, give me steel, give me pulsars unreal
He'll build a glass asylum
With just a hint of mayhem
He'll build a better whirlpool
We'll be living from sin
Then we can really begin
Please saviour, saviour, show us
Hear me, I'm graphically yours
Someone to claim us, someone to follow
Someone to shame us, some brave Apollo
Someone to fool us, someone like you
We want you, Big Brother, Big Brother
I know you think you're awful square
But you made everyone and you've been everywhere
Lord, I'd take an overdose if you knew what's going down
Someone to claim us, someone to follow
Someone to shame us, some brave Apollo
Someone to fool us, someone like you
Someone to claim us, someone to follow
Someone to shame us, some brave Apollo
Someone to fool, someone like you
Someone to claim us, someone to follow
Someone to shame us, some brave Apollo
Someone to fool, someone like you
We want you, Big Brother"
- #DavidBowie , 1974
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kanbpbPdeQI
#BigBrother #Orwellian #MAGA #ChristoFascism #HungerGames #USPol #CharacteristicsOfFascism
Congress may be about to create the “bad internet”
Online privacy protections could be demolished, advocates warn
By Russell Payne, 12/22/2025
“We are in a moment where people are actually at risk of being surveilled by the government, targeted and punished for fully protected speech.”
https://www.salon.com/2025/12/22/congress-may-be-about-to-create-the-bad-internet/
#SilencingDissent #FreeSpeech #OnlinPrivacy #Orwellian #Authoritarianism #BigBrother #BigBrotherIsWatchngYou #USPol #CharacteristicsOfFascism
White House Refuses to Rule Out Summary Executions of People on Its Secret #DomesticTerrorist List
The Trump administration ignored questions about whether it would order the killings of those on its #NSPM7 list — even while answering our other queries.
by Nick Turse, December 12 2025, 2:02 p.m.
"Rebecca Ingber, a former State Department lawyer, notes that while the designated terrorist organization label as a targeting authority is 'entirely manufactured,' the administration is relying on it to summarily execute people in the boat strikes, making their application of the terrorist label on the domestic front especially concerning. 'Many of us have warned that there seems to be no legal limiting principle to the Administration’s claims of authority to use force and to kill people,' Ingber, now a law professor at Cardozo Law School in New York, told The Intercept. 'This is one of the many reasons it is so important that Congress push back on the President’s claim that he can simply label transporting drugs an armed attack on the United States and then claim the authority to summarily execute people on that basis.' "
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/12/12/trump-nspm-7-domestic-terrorist-executions-antifa-boat-strikes/
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https://archive.ph/Y8Zfg
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U.S. Military Willing to Attack “Designated #Terrorist Organizations” Within America, General Says
Nick Turse
December 16 2025, 8:49 a.m.
Excerpt: "NSPM-7 also directed Attorney General #PamBondi to compile a list 'of any such groups or entities' to be designated as '#DomesticTerrorist organization[s]' and Bondi has ordered the FBI to 'compile a list of groups or entities engaging in acts that may constitute domestic terrorism,' according to a December 4 Justice Department memo, 'Implementing National Security Presidential #Memorandum7: Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence,' which the Justice Department shared with The Intercept. Essayli also referenced that memo, stating that it mobilized 'federal law enforcement to prioritize and counter domestic terrorism and political violence investigations.' He added, 'As a result of those directives, we built this case.'
"Justice Department spokesperson Natalie Baldassarre did not respond to repeated requests for clarification about whether the #TurtleIslandLiberationFront and a supposed more militant faction known as the Order of the #BlackLotus were on either the domestic or designated terrorist lists.
"Senior White House adviser #StephenMiller issued an ominous pronouncement about the administration’s crackdown on dissent in America on Monday. 'Following the issuance of #NSPM7 vast government resources have been unleashed to find and dismantle the violent fifth column of domestic terrorists clandestinely operating inside the United States,' he wrote on X."
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/12/16/trump-domestic-attack-dtos/
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https://archive.ph/nnUCa
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ICE agents tackle, arrest American citizen in #Minneapolis
by Matt Sepic, December 10, 2025 6:46 PM
"Federal immigration agents tackled and arrested a Somali American man in Minneapolis on Tuesday and detained him for about two hours for no apparent reason other than his ethnicity. The man who was arrested said that the agents had trouble finding the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building at Ft. Snelling while driving him there.
"The 20-year-old was not suspected of any crime, and described his ordeal during a Wednesday news conference alongside Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Police Chief Brian O’Hara, who each denounced the agents’ actions.
"Mubashir declined to share his last name out of fear for his and his family’s safety, but he gave a detailed account of the incident to reporters, who also viewed video that city officials shared recorded on a business’ security camera and a bystander’s mobile phone.
"Mubashir, who moved to the United States as a small boy and became a naturalized American citizen, said that he stepped onto a sidewalk near 4th Street and Cedar Avenue during his lunch break when two masked men approached him. The Cedar-Riverside neighborhood is the heart of the city’s #SomaliAmerican community.
"Sensing trouble, he ducked into a restaurant. They followed him inside, dragged him out and forcibly arrested him. The agents handcuffed Mubashir, took him across 4th Street and pushed him onto his knees in the snow. One put him in a choke hold.
" 'I have my ID!' Mubashir shouted repeatedly, as heard on the video. The agents do not respond.
"He added that the agents never identified themselves as ICE, and he feared that they could have been anyone. In the video, one agent is seen wearing a vest marked 'POLICE FEDERAL OFFICER' the other’s is marked 'POLICE ICE.'
"Mubashir said that the agents put him in an unmarked SUV and asked to take his picture.
" 'I declined, because how will a picture prove I’m a U.S. citizen?' Mubashir said. 'I told him I have my passport, it’s in my phone. Can I open it and show you? He declined. I told him can I give you my name and my date of birth. He declined.'
"Mubashir said that the agents detained him in their vehicle for about an hour after he refused to consent to a photo. Mubashir said that they also tried to take his fingerprints but their digital reader wouldn’t work, so they drove toward Fort Snelling, where ICE has a detention facility, but they appeared unfamiliar with the area.
" 'While they were driving me all the way there, they were wasting time,' Mubashir said. “They kept going back on the same highway. I told them, ‘Are you guys lost?’ They said, ‘This is our first time taking someone in.’ They had their maps out and everything, and they were trying to intimidate me.'
"Mubashir said that when they finally arrived at the Whipple Federal Building, the agents took him out of the vehicle and made him stand in the cold unless he consented to a face scan, so he finally did. He said that the face scanner appeared not to work either, so they took him inside the federal building. Mubashir said that they refused his request for water or to warm his hands.
"Once inside, a staff member finally allowed him to turn on his phone and show his ID before releasing him. His parents picked him up.
"Mayor Jacob Frey, who’s an attorney, said that the agents’ actions were blatantly unconstitutional.
" 'What we saw by these ICE agents that clearly did not know what they were doing was violence and unwillingness to hear the simple truth, which he was repeating again and again, which is, ‘I’m an American citizen.’ '
"Police Chief #BrianOHara called it embarrassing to the law enforcement profession that the agents were wearing vests that said ‘POLICE.’
" 'Random efforts, including individuals who are American citizens are being stopped because they appear to be #Latino or because they appear to be #Somali, is wrong,' O’Hara said.
"#MPR News contacted ICE by email Wednesday afternoon to ask about the reason for Mubashir’s arrest and the agents’ treatment of him. "
Source:
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/12/10/ice-agents-tackle-arrest-american-citizen-in-minneapolis
#ICESucks #RacialProfiling #CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol #Orwellian #Fascism #PoliceState
Stay away from the USA! Seriously!!!
US could ask foreign tourists for five-year #SocialMedia history before entry
James FitzGerald, 11 December 2025
Excerpt: "As well as the collection of social media information, the new document proposes the gathering of an applicant's telephone numbers and email addresses used over the last five and 10 years respectively, and more information about their family members.
"The text cites an executive order from Trump in January, titled 'Protecting the United States From Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats'.
"The Trump administration has previously required foreign nationals to make their social media accounts public if they are applying for student visas or H1B visas for skilled workers - the latter of which now also entail a much higher fee.
"A senior state department official said of the student visa policy: 'It is an expectation from American citizens that their government will make every effort to make our country safer, and that is exactly what the Trump Administration is doing every single day.'
Officers were instructed to screen for those 'who advocate for, aid, or support designated foreign terrorists and other threats to national security; or who perpetrate unlawful anti-Semitic harassment or violence'.
As part of the administration's broader effort to toughen borders, officials recently said an existing travel ban - affecting 19 countries in Africa, the Middle East and the Caribbean - could soon be expanded.' "
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1dz0g2ykpeo
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https://archive.ph/glxzh
#ICE Targets #Somali Community in #Minneapolis
By L. Cam Anderson, Niko Georgiades, Dan Feidt, #UnicornRiot
December 5, 2025
Minneapolis, MN — "About 100 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have descended on Minneapolis for Operation Metro Surge, a new phase of the Trump Administration’s crackdown on immigrants, this time targeting the city’s Somali population. The government reported on Thursday that they’ve picked up 12 'criminal illegal aliens' so far, six from #Mexico, five from Somalia and one from #ElSalvador.
"During a cabinet meeting on Dec. 2, President Donald Trump conflated the entire Somali community in the state with recent financial fraud scandals that have received national attention.
" 'We’re going to go the wrong way if we keep taking garbage into our country,' Trump said. 'Ilhan Omar is garbage. She’s garbage. Her friends are garbage… When they come from hell, and they complain and do nothing but bitch, we don’t want them in our country.”
"In a press release from the White House on Dec. 1, the administration announced that it would be reversing #TemporaryProtectedStatus for Somali immigrant refugees as well as indefinitely pausing all 'migration from third-world countries,' including asylum decisions.
"City leaders condemned the federal government’s plans in a Dec. 2 news conference live streamed on YouTube. Minneapolis Mayor #JacobFrey opened the conference, showing his support for the largest Somali community in the country.
" 'Targeting Somali people means that #DueProcess will be violated,' Frey said. 'Mistakes will be made. And let’s be clear, it means that #AmericanCitizens will be detained for no other reason than the fact that they look like they are Somali. That is not now and will never be a legitimate reason.'
St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter, Minneapolis City Council member #JamalOsman and #MinneapolisPoliceChief #BrianOHara also spoke at the conference. O’Hara said MPD would not work with federal law enforcement to conduct immigration enforcement."
https://unicornriot.ninja/2025/ice-targets-somali-community-in-minneapolis/
#RacialProfiling #USPol #ICERaids #ICESucks #CharacteristicsOfFascism
#Maine - Some #LewistonME elected leaders, community members condemn #Trump's attack on #Somali #immigrants
Maine Public | By Ari Snider
Published December 3, 2025
"After President Donald Trump called Somali immigrants quote 'garbage' this week, some in Maine's Somali community fear the rhetoric could spark violence.
"During a cabinet meeting Tuesday, Trump said he doesn't want Somali immigrants to be in the U.S. at all.
"It comes as immigration agents are launching an operation in #Minnesota, reportedly targeting the state's large Somali population.
"In Lewiston, Somali interpreter and nonprofit director Ifraax Saciid-Ciise said the president's attacks are jarring.
" 'I find it very hard to believe that president, who is supposed to represent everybody, all the people in the United States, [would] target a group of very vulnerable population here in America,' Saciid-Ciise said.
"She said many in the community worry Trump's words could incite violence or harassment against Somali residents.
" 'It has created a lot of fear,' she said, because people unfamiliar with the Somali community 'may take his words as real, and as a fact, and they may also target the Somali people.'
"Safiya Khalid, who served as the first Somali-American on the Lewiston city council, said in a social media post that she was quote 'deeply offended and disgusted' by the president's attacks, and called on state and local elected leaders to stand up for their Somali constituents.
"Lewiston Mayor Carl Sheline called the president's assertion that Somali immigrants contribute nothing to society 'shameful and inaccurate.'
" 'Here, Somali entrepreneurs are business owners and hard workers, creating jobs and strengthening our local economy,' Sheline said in a written statement on Wednesday. 'Their active role within our City has been instrumental in Lewiston's revitalization, making such rhetoric not only cruel but clearly false. We will continue to celebrate the contributions of all immigrants who help build a better America.'
"In a joint letter on Thursday, Democratic state representatives Mana Abdi, Deqa Dhalac, and Yusuf Yusuf also condemned Trump's statements and efforts to roll back legal protections for some Somali immigrants.
" 'The vast majority of people affected by this administration’s immigration policies are law-abiding individuals who are legitimately working to attain citizenship. Many have called #America their home for decades, raising families, contributing to our economy, and strengthening our communities,' they wrote.
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https://www.mainepublic.org/immigration/2025-12-03/some-lewiston-elected-leaders-community-members-condemn-trumps-attack-on-somali-immigrants
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#IlhanOmar: #Trump's ‘obsession' is ‘#creepy and unhealthy' as raids expand
Jason K. Morrell
Thu, December 4, 2025 at 7:17 AM EST
"Two major federal #immigration operations were underway Wednesday in #Minneapolis and #NewOrleans. They unfolded just as President Donald Trump delivered new attacks on Somali immigrants and on Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar.
"#CivilRights groups say the timing and rhetoric are escalating fear in immigrant communities already bracing for enforcement actions.
Omar responds to Trump's comments
"Trump on Wednesday launched a new round of criticism aimed at #Somali immigrants, Minnesota's largest immigrant community. He told reporters that 'Somalians should be out of here" and claimed they had "destroyed our country.'
"He said Somalia was 'not even a nation' and that he hoped never to visit, drawing condemnation from Minneapolis officials.
"The president then turned his ire to Omar, who is #SomaliAmerican and a frequent target his attacks. He said, "You have her talking about ‘The constitution provides me with …' Go back to your own country and figure out your constitution.'
"Omar responded, saying, 'Our president's obsession with me and the Somali community really is creepy and unhealthy.'
"She added that her constituents 'are not going to be scapegoated' and 'are here to stay.'
"NBC News reporting indicates federal officials are preparing an enforcement operation in Minnesota that could focus heavily on Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the U.S.
Raids already underway in Minneapolis
"Federal immigration agents began operations in Minneapolis just hours before Trump made the comments. Officials say they are targeting immigrants accused of serious crimes, though advocates warn the sweeps are casting a much wider net.
What's happening in New Orleans
"In #NewOrleans, specifically in #Kenner, a suburb with one of #Louisiana's largest #Hispanic populations, residents saw #BorderPatrol agents in marked and unmarked vehicles driving slowly through neighborhoods, gas stations and big-box store parking lots, according to the Associated Press and NBC News.
"Reporters observed agents stopping at least one man mowing a lawn and surrounding another home where a man climbed onto the roof until officers eventually left. Many agents wore Border Patrol identifiers but had their faces covered.
"A #DHS official said the New Orleans surge is aimed at immigrants accused of crimes including home invasion, armed robbery, grand theft auto and rape. The agency has blamed 'sanctuary-style' local policies for allowing some people with ICE detainers to be released from custody.
Fear across immigrant neighborhoods
"The tactics have rattled families across #JeffersonParish and surrounding communities.
"A #Honduran immigrant told Noticias Telemundo he has avoided leaving his home for two weeks.
" 'We've stopped going to work because our fear is that we'll be stopped,' he said."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ilhan-omar-trumps-obsession-creepy-121756009.html
#SanctuaryCities #USPol #ICETerrorism #ICESucks #MurderPatrol #TooManyCreeps #TrumpIsACreep #CharacteristicsOfFascism
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