Mastodawn

William Lindsey

"Adam Boyd, a 33-year-old attorney who resigned from ICE’s legal department last month, told me he left because the mission was no longer about protecting the homeland from threats. 'It became a contest of how many deportations could be reported to Stephen Miller by December,' Boyd said. ...

'I had to make a moral decision,' he told me."

~ Nick Miroff

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #deportations #violence #ConcentrationCamps
/1

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/07/trump-ice-morale-immigration/683477/

Trump Loves ICE. Its Workforce Has Never Been So Miserable.

A “mission impossible” deportation campaign has left many employees burned out and morally conflicted.

The Atlantic

William Lindsey

"How big is the nearly $30 billion allocated for hiring ICE agents? As Aaron Reichlin-Melnick noted, the vote to approve the budget made ICE 'the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.'”

~ Jay Kuo

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #deportations #violence #ConcentrationCamps
/2

https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/ice-trump-police-force

Trump's ICE Will Have $160 Billion Surge In Funding

ICE will soon be supercharged and more dangerous than ever—but it’s also vulnerable

The Big Picture

William Lindsey

As Roger Parloff reports, the goal of the Trump administration in its criminal case and civil litigation against Abrego Garcia is not about upholding the rule of law, but rather contributing to President Trump’s political messaging.

Abrego Garcia's innocence, his wrongful detention and torture, the lies told about him: all take second place to what Trump wants.

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #deportations #violence #ConcentrationCamps #AbregoGarcia
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https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what-abrego-s-bail-hearing-revealed-about-him-and-the-trump-administration

What Abrego’s Bail Hearing Revealed About Him—and the Trump Administration

The government’s goals in the detention hearing, the criminal case it relates to, and Abrego’s civil litigation are the same: political messaging.

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William Lindsey

"Autocrats know that when disappeared people reappear, truths are spoken, and forbidden histories are written, this punctures veils of silence and engineered forgetting, reminds people of the moral collapse that comes from complicity with dictatorship, and complicates the revisionist histories authoritarian states produce and circulate."

~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #deportations #violence #ConcentrationCamps #AbregoGarcia
/4

https://lucid.substack.com/p/how-autocrats-disappear-people-and

How Autocrats Disappear People and Information, and How We Can Fight Back

A New Lucid Series

Lucid

William Lindsey

"The ultimate goal of autocrats is to gain enough power to have a monopoly on who can tell the stories about the past and the present. And yet truth comes out in the end, despite their efforts, because such holes in the heart and the historical record have always been calls to action."

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #deportations #violence #ConcentrationCamps #AbregoGarcia
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William Lindsey

There are lots of photos from the Nazi years in Germany, photos showing smiling Germans standing under signs adorned with swastikas and reading, "Jews are our misfortune."

After the war, those who starred in these photos celebrating cruelty — rounding up targeted people, sending them to concentration camps and, ultimately, to be murdered — had to live with this photographic evidence.

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #deportations #violence #ConcentrationCamps #AlligatorAlcatraz
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William Lindsey

Their children and grandchildren had to live with the photos demonstrating that their parents or grandparents were really despicable human beings who could laugh as hapless others were consigned to unspeakable cruelty.

Karma has an eerie way of visiting us, and even visiting our family members down the generations.

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #deportations #violence #ConcentrationCamps #AlligatorAlcatraz
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William Lindsey

When we celebrate cruelty to others, we invite cruelty for ourselves and our families: we open the door to it.

And it will visit us with karmic certainty.

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #deportations #violence #ConcentrationCamps #AlligatorAlcatraz
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William Lindsey

"This morning on Fox News, Tom Homan, currently serving as Border Czar under President Donald Trump’s administration, made a legally dubious and deeply concerning claim about the power of immigration enforcement agents."

~ Aaron Parnas

#Trump #StephenMiller #TomHoman #ICE #immigrants #deportations #violence #ConcentrationCamps
/9

https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-tom-homan-suggests-ice-agents

NEWS: Tom Homan Suggests ICE Agents Can Briefly Detain Individuals Based on Physical Appearance

This morning on Fox News, Tom Homan, currently serving as Border Czar under President Donald Trump’s administration, made a legally dubious and deeply concerning claim about the power of immigration enforcement agents.

The Parnas Perspective

William Lindsey

“'People need to understand ICE officers and Border Patrol don't need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them, and question them … based [in part] on their physical appearance,' Homan said."

#Trump #StephenMiller #TomHoman #ICE #immigrants #deportations #violence #ConcentrationCamps
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William Lindsey

"Seen in Utah.

ICE is now marching through suburban neighborhoods, conducting home raids.

Their budget is now bigger than that of the Marines, and the entire military budgets of Israel and Russia.

Coming soon to a neighborhood near you."

#Trump #StephenMiller #TomHoman #ICE #immigrants #deportations #violence #ConcentrationCamps #Utah
/11

https://www.threads.com/@jreakle/post/DL-j1onSLO8

Joshua Reed Eakle (@jreakle) on Threads

Seen in Utah. ICE is now marching through suburban neighborhoods, conducting home raids. Their budget is now bigger than that of the Marines, and the entire military budgets of Israel and Russia. Coming soon to a neighborhood near you.

Threads

William Lindsey

"As a result of ICE’s cruelty, which includes tear gassing children and harassing US citizens, Trump is losing on immigration by nearly 30 points, and Americans now have a record high approval of immigration at 79%. …

He is willing to burn the country down to make the country white again, folks."

~ Wajahat Ali

#Trump #StephenMiller #TomHoman #ICE #immigrants #deportations #violence #ConcentrationCamps #Utah
/12

https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-people-are-finally-rejecting

The People Are Finally Rejecting ICE and Trump’s Draconian Immigration Policy

New polls reveal Trump is completely underwater on immigration and his disastrous billionaire bill, while the MAGA base remains incensed over the Epstein files that have yet to be released.

The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali

William Lindsey

"So this is why I think this is a big deal. Because with the Gallup poll showing a complete reversal, with people saying, I didn't vote for this shit, with ICE not being a personal Gestapo terrorizing Americans with military, and with Stephen Miller, and this is my prediction: he doesn't care about the polls. I have power. I'm going to flex power."

#Trump #StephenMiller #TomHoman #ICE #immigrants #deportations #violence #ConcentrationCamps
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William Lindsey

"I don't care. I'm going to get this done or I will die trying. Now you have other people like human concrete Tom Homan who said this. I want to give you two quotes, and I think it's all connected.

People need to understand ICE officers and Border Patrol don't need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them, and question them based on their physical appearance."

#Trump #StephenMiller #TomHoman #ICE #immigrants #deportations #violence #ConcentrationCamps
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William Lindsey

"To watch the footage [of the ICE raid at Camarillo, CA] - and we all should - is to be struck with a strange feeling. Every day now we are inundated with these battles. Clips of masked men in unmarked cars ramming drivers and stealing them away. Clips of an agent demolishing a window with a tactical axe."

~ Jared Yates Sexton

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #deportations #violence
/15

https://jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/we-know-what-this-is-ice-and-a-war

We Know What This Is: ICE and a War Against the People

Now is a time of choosing. And we must choose to fight the authoritarian threat before it overtakes us

Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

William Lindsey

"Stories of agents chasing men into medical facilities and terrorizing them and employees. …

There is no oversight to this. No legal foundation. It is, for all intents and purposes, an all-out assault. A smash-and-grab operation hellbent on breaking the will of the people and seizing unparalleled and unchallengeable authority over every corner of the country."

#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #deportations #violence
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Kevin Russell Jul 11, 2025

As long as its allowed

JohnW Jul 11, 2025

This may eventually foment a no-holds barred, any means necessary rebellion from the population in general. The agents themselves will be the ones in danger.

Elon Muksis 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇪🇺Jul 12, 2025

@wdlindsy https://www.lemkininstitute.com/single-post/mass-grave-complex-mgc-identification-and-analysis-of-grave-site-candidates-gsc-1-2-at-cecot

Mass Grave Complex (MGC) identification and analysis of Grave Site Candidates (GSC) #1 & #2 at CECOT.

Textbook case of a very poorly hidden genocide site.I am a former mass grave complex and genocide site investigator with real-world experience. My expertise is in analyzing satellite and spy plane imagery for the identification of very specific features and identifying landmarks to locate sites of genocide.I have worked in multiple undisclosed areas and have experience in not only the identification & reporting, but also the boots-on-the-ground investigations.I unequivocally stand by the analysi

Lemkin Institute

72mz Jul 12, 2025

@wdlindsy
Trump's American gestapo.

#ValueCreation4All Jul 12, 2025

@wdlindsy
Highest time for a millions-movement on the street and a general strike, before it is too late. Or is it ?
Asking from Germany. (Those who are already through it).

Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC Jul 15, 2025

@mastoreaderio unroll

Masto Reader Jul 15, 2025

@LordCaramac here's the unrolled thread: https://mastoreader.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscordian.social%2F%40LordCaramac%2F114857445480264125

Next time, kindly set the visibility to 'Mentioned people only' and mention only me (@mastoreaderio). This ensures we avoid spamming others' timelines and threads unless you intend for others to see the unrolled thread link as well.

Thank you!

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Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦🌹🚴‍♂️📷 🗺️Jul 11, 2025

The country was never all white. Even if a for a short period it almost was after most of the indigenous peoples were wiped out, but then the whites in charge decided they needed black slaves for free labour.

@the5thColumnist @wdlindsy

No nation based on supremacy can ever be all white: there must be an out-group to subjugate. Ensuring this is pretty easy if you keep in mind that ‘white’ is a very elastic concept that may or may not include all kinds of people depending on the convenience of the moment.

Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦🌹🚴‍♂️📷 🗺️Jul 12, 2025

"white’ is a very elastic concept that may or may not include all kinds of people "

Point in case, the Irish, I think they are white now but ...

@the5thColumnist

For those who are unaware of the relevance of this comment *today* specifically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelfth

The Twelfth - Wikipedia

bk Jul 11, 2025

@wdlindsy
Defund and deport ICE.

Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸Jul 11, 2025

@knutson_brain @wdlindsy

This. Anyone employed by ICE should lose their citizenship and be deported immediately.

Sjaak K. 🇳🇱🇪🇺🍋Jul 12, 2025

@knutson_brain @wdlindsy
Don’t deport them to our country. We have too much fascists already.

Sherri Jul 11, 2025

@wdlindsy
I don't think ICE will get much pushback in Utah. In fact, I saw reports a few weeks ago that some Utahns were turning in their neighbors.

jonathankoren™Jul 11, 2025

@wdlindsy these losers look like they’re walking through a war zone

“Yeah, man. You think Fallujah was tough? I’ve seen some shit man. I had patrolled Lehi, ON FOOT.”

valOrie_p'O Jul 11, 2025

@wdlindsy @samiamsam
#tRUMPSamerica #fascism #ComplicitGQP #CORRUPTscotus

Kevin Russell Jul 11, 2025

An army attacks America.
It first kills your soul.

PirjaPaa Jul 11, 2025