Jesse McClure 1d ago
George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽
Glad to hear he is safe and back with his family. But if they can disappear a U.S. citizen and terrorize his family this way, imagine what they are doing with immigrants in ICE facilities.
Jul 14 at 4:03pmWeb
Show threadferricoxide1d ago
@georgetakei

ICE needs to be sue-able for this shit with minimum of $1Mn/day for wrongful detainment plus damages for any loss of employment, legal fees, etc. If that was a guaranteed baseline, they'd either burn through their budget even quicker than they already are or they'd learn to be a bit more discerning in who they disappear.
Show threadMagnus Ahltorp1d ago
@ferricoxide @georgetakei I don’t want ICE to be “more discerning in who they disappear”. I want them to stop sorting people into categories at all.
Show threadSweet Home Alaberta 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽1d ago
@georgetakei
Sue the MAGA USA govt for unlawful confinement (and other crimes). Sue for a billion to try and set the bar for other victims that had their constitutional rights transgressed.
Show threadGreenSkyOverMe (Monika)1d ago
@georgetakei Image description:
United Farm Workers:
George Retes, an American citizen disabled US Army veteran who has been held in federal custody since Thursday, was released without charges this
evening.
Photo of a female and a male soldier. His arm is on her shoulder.
Show threadDatavizzard1d ago
@georgetakei Imagine what happen in 1933-1945
Show threadcognitively accessible math1d ago
@georgetakei Right. Whee are the consequences for the perpetrators of this injustice? They should have to pay him 50 grand outright.
Show threadDusk20251d ago

@georgetakei

Following up with a slightly older but more detailed article from before Retes' release.

https://theintercept.com/2025/07/12/ice-violence-deaths-jaime-alanis/

ICE Campaign of Violence Will Lead to More Deaths

Jaime Alanis’s death shows the horrific consequences of a secret police force behaving with utter impunity.

The Intercept
Show threadLevka1d ago

@Dusk2025 @georgetakei

Fuck The Intercept. They come up with some good stories sometimes, but they're *not* ethical. Ethical journalists don't get their sources thrown in prison by employing lazy, slovenly, irresponsible OpSec. Journalists are supposed know better. If they're not unbelievably incompetent, they're running a honey pot. Either way, I don't want my traffic linked them, or anyone like them.

If this was a shooting war they'd have gotten Reality Winner killed. As it is, they pretty much ruined her life. They're exactly the kind of people that smart folks do *not* want on their team. They're a danger to themselves and others.