Matthew HaugheyApr 30
Sometimes you see an image so striking that you have to state plainly that there are concentration camps inside the US with kidnapped people in them suffering
Show threadGoofNewfApr 30
@mathowie Bluebonnet?! What a nice name for such a horrible place. Trump just needs to change “detention facility” to “Summer Camp” to make everyone feel better about it, right?!
Show threadnotthatkindofdoctor
@GoofNewf @mathowie
It's appropriate because it's the state flower of this fascist place and its a good reminder that we are complicit in this. If we can make people associate bluebonnets with authoritarianism, good. This whole state was stolen to enable the slave trade to continue. Once the US banned importing new slaves, they just trafficked them through independent Texas instead. These were our so-called state founding fathers too, their names and likeness all over the place. Fuck the Alamo!
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Matthew HaugheyApr 30
Sometimes you see an image so striking that you have to state plainly that there are concentration camps inside the US with kidnapped people in them suffering
Show threadbkApr 30
@mathowie
Your taxes at work ( #ConcentrationCamps )
Show threadBenRiceMApr 30
@mathowie
Show threadsharon linne faulkApr 30
@BenRiceM @mathowie Ben, I think you are too young to have seen the Gillian Islands episode where they have logs on the beach to spell SOS but Gillian trips and makes it SOL who happens to be the name of the pilot who is flying the plane and thinks it is just a nice gesture.
Show threadGoofNewfApr 30
@mathowie Bluebonnet?! What a nice name for such a horrible place. Trump just needs to change “detention facility” to “Summer Camp” to make everyone feel better about it, right?!
Show threadnotthatkindofdoctorApr 30
@GoofNewf @mathowie
It's appropriate because it's the state flower of this fascist place and its a good reminder that we are complicit in this. If we can make people associate bluebonnets with authoritarianism, good. This whole state was stolen to enable the slave trade to continue. Once the US banned importing new slaves, they just trafficked them through independent Texas instead. These were our so-called state founding fathers too, their names and likeness all over the place. Fuck the Alamo!
Show threadMark Reeves 📚 🎸Apr 30
@mathowie Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/sos-migrants-held-texas-fear-notorious-el-salvador-prison-2025-04-30/
Show threadCorvusMay 1
@heymarkreeves @mathowie
I appreciate you sharing the source.
Please, I beg of everyone out there trying their best to expose the depravity and dishonesty of the current US administration to make sure that others don't need to dig for the source of your claims.
Show threadWeltzeitgeistApr 30
@mathowie If we had a German government and a German public that really took the responsibility of history seriously, we would have to start cutting relations with the USA now, kick all the troops out of the country and summon the ambassadors or kick them out of the country too. Never again fascism! But this country is not interested in that.
Show threadfritzoidsApr 30

@wackJackle @mathowie

Given that Vance was booed when he visited the troops in Rammstein, I think that European governments should consider offering all US-Americans currently here the possibility of just staying here with their families before the US withdraws its troops.

Show threadEndicottRoad59Apr 30
@mathowie That tells you everything you need to know.
Show threadCanadian CroneApr 30
@mathowie The #USIsATerroristState Enter at your own risk. Avoid at all costs. And if you can’t leave, our deepest sympathies.
Show threadCanadian CroneApr 30
@mathowie The #USIsATerroristState Enter at your own risk. Avoid at all costs. And if you can’t leave, our deepest sympathies.
Show threadAldo BrunoApr 30

@mathowie

Reminds me of this art project to raise awareness.
https://www.designboom.com/art/jr-tehachapi-project-mural-california-correctional-institution-11-20-2019/

incarcerated citizens work together with french artist JR to realize the tehachapi project

 

designboom | architecture & design magazine
Show threadYaqub. MApr 30
@mathowie We heard of it before something like Guantanamo Bay
Show threadnotthatkindofdoctorApr 30
@mathowie
I'm sure the punishment for this will ensure it doesn't happen again. Expect the feds to charge the drone operator and anyone involved as terrorists
Show threadGrumble 🇺🇸 🇺🇦Apr 30

@mathowie That SOS photo will define Trump like Abu Ghraib defines W.
Shameful.

It's obvious that the GOP does not, in fact, hold these truths to be self-evident.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

Show threadRADman11Apr 30
@mathowie Didn't take but a hundred days before we're undeniably wallowing in the swill and the filth and the shame of it. Guess we were nearly there to begin with already huh?
Show threadArbresApr 30

@mathowie Way to go #fauxgressive #BernieSanders protest voting, non-voting, "I don't like my choices" #GreenParty TRASH.
All of this shit was avoidable.
You fucking people did this when you didn't show up and #VoteStraightTicketDemLikeAFuckingAdultWithABrain

You bunch of dumbass, whinyass BRATS.
YES IT IS YOUR FAULT.
90 million DUMBFUCKS didn't show up. That's you. This is on you.

Show threadCharles 𝄢 HApr 30

@arbres

Hi Arbres, your frustration is very understandable, but I have few comments:

1. This isn't helpful. It's too late. We need these people as allies now, so it's actively counterproductive.
2. Shouting accusations randomly is maybe also a bit unhelpful.
3. Trump voters bear a tiny portion of the blame, surely?

Show threadAlison WilderApr 30

@celesteh @arbres

Took the words right out of my mouth.

Show threadArbresMay 1
@alisynthesis @celesteh And fuck both of you.
We don't need these shitty failures as humans as "allies".
Not helpful?
Fuck you some more.
I have busted my ass every election in every red state I lived in since 1986.
I have done A SHIT TON of unpaid labor trying to prevent shit like this.
FUCK these stupid, petulant "burn it all down" Bernie brats.
THEY aren't helpful. Because THEY don't vote.
Fuck every last motherfucker who didn't vote for Kamala Harris. 🖕
Show threadArbresMay 1
@alisynthesis @celesteh They're playing your song.
https://youtu.be/BwGkyO3RQMo?feature=shared
The Refreshments - Banditos (Official Video)

YouTube
Show threadCharles 𝄢 HMay 1

@alisynthesis

Its so weird blaming Sanders who wasn't running in 2024 and also seems to be one of the only Democrats actually doing anything meaningful.

Very sus. Anyway this is a problem sorted by the block button.

Show threadSchools are superspreadersApr 30
@arbres Get a fucking grip
Show threadQueer Like The SlurApr 30
@arbres message from outside: the USAian general public will survive the regime better if it doesn't eat itself. Go meet a neighbour. That's who is going to hide and feed you.
Show threadJennifer Moore 😷May 1

@arbres

This is a remarkable take. Why not blame e.g. the people who actively voted for 47, the media who made 47 seem electable, Biden & Harris for abetting war crimes in Gaza (or all the other choices that contributed to people not wanting to vote for them), the people who failed to disqualify 47, or even - consider it - the people actually doing the human rights abuses now?

Show threadArbresMay 1

@unchartedworlds FUCK OFF. Biden and Harris DID NOT AID OR ABET SHIT YOU FUCKING MORON.

Jesus Christ all of you halfwits, have a day off.

Dems outnumber Republicans.
WHEN WE SHOW UP WE WIN.
That's HOW OBAMA WAS ELECTED.
People talk about how they "miss Obama". No. You miss good governance with grown adults in charge and the good times that came with no drama Obama.
He told everyone to vote.
John Lewis told everyone to vote.
Elijah Cummings told everyone to vote.
People DID NOT VOTE.

Show threadArbresMay 1
@unchartedworlds Oh my god. You're in England.
You don't know shit.
Go away.
Show threadJennifer Moore 😷May 1

@arbres

“God did the State of Israel a favor that Biden was the president during this period, because it could have been much worse. We fought [in Gaza] for over a year and the administration never came to us and said, ‘ceasefire now.’ It never did. And that’s not to be taken for granted”

- Michael Herzog, former Israeli ambassador to the US, quoted in The Times of Israel, 28 April 2025

https://www.timesofisrael.com/top-biden-aide-israel-missed-opportunity-for-saudi-deal-hopefully-it-wont-do-so-again/

Show threadJennifer Moore 😷May 2

@arbres

also: https://mondoweiss.net/2025/05/biden-staffers-admit-what-we-all-knew-white-house-lied-about-ceasefire-efforts/

Biden staffers admit what we all knew: White House lied about ceasefire efforts

Once and for all, we can lay to rest any notion that the Biden administration ever did anything to stop the Gaza genocide.

Mondoweiss
Show threadSchools are superspreadersMay 1
@arbres THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION AIDED AND ABETTED A GENOCIDE, YOU FOOL
Show threadUmbel Of UmbelsMay 2

@arbres everything you have said in this thread is extreme right wing rhetoric (othering of your own people, ableist slurs, aggressive dismissal of any opposition to your favoured political party from your peers). You are in no way hiding that you are doing this.

It's unusual that you are claiming not to be in support of the newly installed extreme right regime in your country. Care to explain? Your position is not coming across as believable.

Show threadUmbel Of UmbelsMay 2

Given that the " @arbres " account has randomly popped up on an unrelated viral thread talking very aggressively about their own politics, I suggest some caution is in order.

It looks to me like a trump supporter trying to make liberal opposition look bad and ridiculous, while also inserting trumpist rhetoric into discussion.

Show threadPTBRBApr 30
@mathowie
Source : https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/sos-migrants-held-texas-fear-notorious-el-salvador-prison-2025-04-30/
Show threadkΔApr 30
@mathowie 🎶 For Trump we voted now we’ll be deported, SOS. You think it’s just us? You’ll be on the next bus, SOS 🎶
Show threadBen StokmanMay 1
@mathowie article seems to be https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/sos-migrants-held-texas-fear-notorious-el-salvador-prison-2025-04-30/
Show threadErica LaetaMay 1
@mathowie 😢
Show threadUrban Hermit6d ago

@mathowie
Let's be absolutely clear.

A rich man demonized some very miserable people fleeing for their lives to a place they thought was lawful and had always admired. Now that they are unpopular the state of Texas is allowing them to be indefinitely detained, without trial, until they can be deported to a for profit prison in a third country.

And Texas is letting it happen because people think most of this group may have broken a minor law.

Christian Nationalists are coming for you next.