If you never witnessed the OG #ShockAndAwe of #BombsOverBaghdad, you were probably not born in the 1900’s.

Now, we have to be patient with you.

The elites of the #institutions never suffered consequences for that blunder.

Now, the #SecondRedemption will do a reverse pull out after #Reconstruction.

They will occupy—state by state—into submission.

Hear me now, believe me later.

Y’all, the Creepy Weirdos of #Project2025 are executing a #ShockAndAwe campaign on the #American people right tf now.
IF I'd the aptitude for studying all this fantastical World history, tyrants and kings, nazis and oligarchs, elections and coups, THEN I wouldn't be in a constant state of #SHOCKandAWE now. #STATECapitalism - new term for me but I get it. #damnthebastards

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bono5gae7m6r3qpfxomshwbd/post/3lw5h536w4c24
Bluesky

Bluesky Social

"Liberation Seder: Hundreds of Jewish Protesters Demand Release of Foreign Students Abducted by ICE | Democracy Now!"

#ice #deportation #trump #UnplugTrump #fascism #RuleOfLaw #habeascorpus #shockandawe

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/15/jewish_voice_for_peace_passover_protest

Liberation Seder: Hundreds of Jewish Protesters Demand Release of Foreign Students Abducted by <span class="caps">ICE</span>

Hundreds of members of Jewish Voice for Peace in New York protested outside of the office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Monday on the third night of the major Jewish holiday Passover. They gathered in support of a growing number of immigrant activists who have been taken prisoner by ICE, including New York residents Mahmoud Khalil and Mohsen Mahdawi, both Palestinian participants of pro-Palestine protests at Columbia University last year. Democracy Now! spoke to some of the Passover Seder attendees. “I’ve always thought of Passover as a celebration of liberation. And liberation can never be just the Jews,” said protester Marianne Pita. “The only way to fight for liberation is to fight for everybody.”

Democracy Now!

Aim high in life I guess.

"I grew up in Tupelo (Mississippi) and every girl wants to sleep with an Elvis impersonator once in their life. It's just their bucket list."
-- Laura Curtis, The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Saga (Netflix)

You can't imagine how many times I had to replay that section of the program to make sure I heard that bon mot correctly.

Now that I know I did, I'm swearing off documentaries for awhile.

#Documentaries
#ShockAndAwe
#OldPeopleOfMastodon

Sicherheit Grönlands - Dänemark weist US-Kritik zurück - Politikwissenschaftler Etzold: "Man will nicht in neue Abhängigkeit geraten"

Die dänische Regierungschefin Frederiksen hat den Vorwurf der US-Regierung zurückgewiesen, ihr Land habe zu wenig für die Sicherheit Grönlands getan. Dänemark sei bereit, jederzeit mit den USA beim Thema arktische Sicherheit zusammenzuarbeiten, erklärte sie.

Die Nachrichten

#ICE Secretly Hauled #MahmoudKhalil to #Louisiana as Retaliation, Lawyers Allege

By moving the campus #activist to a new jurisdiction, ICE disrupted court proceedings and limited his legal access, his attorneys say.

by Jonah Valdez, March 11 2025,

"Mahmoud Khalil’s wife watched as agents from the Department of Homeland Security handcuffed her husband and whisked him away from their New York City apartment in an unmarked vehicle on Saturday evening.
Agents ignored the pleas of Khalil’s wife who tried to show them legal papers proving her husband was a green card holder. They wouldn’t heed her requests to share where they were taking him, according to court filings. Eventually, one of the agents offered a terse response: Check the local immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan.

"By next morning, however, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainee locator indicated Khalil was no longer in New York. Instead, it showed him at the Elizabeth Detention Center in New Jersey. When Khalil’s wife visited the jail, she was turned away.

"Without warning to Khalil’s wife or his immigration attorney Amy Greer, who the same morning had filed a petition to challenge her client’s arrest as a violation of his First Amendment free speech rights, ICE agents had transferred Khalil to a different facility. This time, they moved him thousands of miles south of his New York home to a facility in Louisiana. It wasn’t until Monday morning that Khalil’s exact whereabouts were updated in the ICE online system: the #LaSalleDetentionFacility in #JenaLouisiana, a #PrivateJail operated by the #GEOGroup.

"Attorneys for Khalil allege the move from the New York metropolitan area to Louisiana was a '#RetaliatoryTransfer' intended to restrict his access and to lawyers and family, and position what has grown into a closely watched #FirstAmendment case in a jurisdiction more friendly to the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant policies.

"Three days after his detention, Khalil still has not been charged with a crime. The Department of Homeland Security has said it arrested Khalil, a lead negotiator for Palestine solidarity protesters at Columbia, for having “led activities aligned to Hamas.” President Donald Trump, who campaigned on deporting pro-Palestinian protesters, pledged that Khalil’s arrest is 'the first arrest of many to come' and that his administration would continue to target for deportations 'more students at Columbia and other Universities across the Country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity.'

"Although a Manhattan federal court ordered a temporary halt preventing the Trump administration from immediately deporting Khalil, attorneys remain concerned for his well-being and ability to access proper legal counsel. In a motion filed Monday evening by attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability and Responsibility project at the City University of New York School of Law, attorneys seek to reverse the ICE decision and to transfer Khalil back to New York."

Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/11/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-ice-louisiana/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/7uhSa
#CharacteristicsOfFascism #FloodingTheZone #ShockAndAwe #FirstAmendment #USPol #Fascism #Authoritarianism #FreeSpeech #FreePalestine #RightToProtest #Censorship #ColumbiaUniversity #Palestinian #Protests #FreeKhalil #DHS #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #CenterForConstitutionalRights #TrumpRegime #HumanRightsAreNeverWrong #PrivatePrisons #IndefiniteDetention

ICE Secretly Hauled Mahmoud Khalil to Louisiana as Retaliation, Lawyers Allege

By moving campus activist Mahmoud Khalil to a new jurisdiction, ICE disrupted court proceedings and limited his legal access, his attorneys say.

The Intercept

Chilling
The #Trump #regime will arrest some of you in the middle of the night because you spoke your mind

Robert Reich, Mar 11, 2025

"Friends,

"One of the purposes of 'flooding the zone,' as the Trump regime is trying to do — shocking and awing us with its blitzkrieg of bonkers orders — is to make it almost impossible to sort out what we should be incredibly freaked out about from what we should merely freak out about.

"I’m incredibly freaked out about the regime grabbing people from their homes who are legally in the United States, with permanent status — not just visas permitting them to work or study here but green cards — and then whisking them away to prison because they’ve engaged in constitutionally protected speech that the regime doesn’t like.

"You think I’m exaggerating? This is exactly what happened to #MahmoudKhalil on Saturday night. Khalil, who graduated from #Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs in December, has a green card. His wife, who is eight months pregnant, is an American citizen.

"Immigration agents appeared at his apartment building and told him he was being detained. He now appears to be in a detention facility in Louisiana.

"Khalil did nothing illegal. He has not been charged with a crime. He expressed his political point of view — peacefully, non-violently, non-threateningly. That’s supposed to be permitted — dare I say even encouraged? — in a #democracy.

"So why is he in jail?

"#Khalil was one of the leaders of last year’s peaceful pro-#Palestinian #protests at #ColumbiaUniversity.

"In a post on Truth Social, Trump conceded Khalil was snatched up and sent off because of his politics. 'This is the first arrest of many to come,' wrote Trump. 'We know there are more students at Columbia and other Universities across the Country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity, and the Trump Administration will not tolerate it.'"

Read more:
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-trump-regime-will-arrest-some?r=1v0eub&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true
#CharacteristicsOfFascism #FloodingTheZone #ShockAndAwe #FirstAmendment #USPol #Fascism #Authoritarianism #FreeSpeech #FreePalestine #RightToProtest #Censorship #TrumpRegime

The Trump regime will arrest some of you in the middle of the night because you spoke your mind

Chilling

Robert Reich