They've gone from sending:
- undocumented "illegal" immigrants
- documented "legal" immigrants

to concentration camps,

and have now moved onto rounding up and sending:
- the homeless
- individuals with mental illnesses

to concentration camps.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets/

#EO #executiveOrder #homelessness #homeless #mentalHealth #ICE #concentrationCamps

Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and

The White House
@tinker just wait till they come after naturalized citizens.
@tinker prepare to defend strangers. maybe hide them.

@tinker

These actions shall include, to the extent permitted by law, ending support for “housing first” policies that deprioritize accountability and fail to promote treatment, recovery, and self-sufficiency

this is fucked

@tinker Next up indigenous people, gays and political opponents
@tinker Isn't something like 40 to 60 percent of America a few missed paychecks away from homelessness?
@noyes @tinker 60% are not making ends meet/covering cost of survival.
@tinker It has hardly been safe for me and other folks to leave the house, and now it will only be more dangerous. This is awful.
@tinker wait until They go after citizens whose families have been on this ground for generations.
Solid Props to the Indigenous Peoples.

@tinker
What's next?

"As the next of kin we are sorry to inform you that person xy suddenly died by cardiac arrest. With this letter you receive the urn with the ashes. Heil Trump."

Because racial hygiene is what we did next in germany back in 1939. See Aktion T4 on wikipedia if you can stomach it.

@tinker

Through history it has been quite common for totalitarians to define “being in opposition to the regime” as “mental illness”.

Soon the camps will overfill, and then they will start the systematic killings.

@tinker You can blame California liberals for paving the way for concentration camps for homeless people. At the state level, CARE courts, and at the local level, camps run by Urban Alchemy
How Urban Alchemy Turns Homelessness Into Gold

Cities are pouring money into the nonprofit to manage encampments and patrol the streets where unhoused residents congregate. Not everyone is happy about it.

The Nation
@tinker time tot start spreading this one, as a public courtesy, since the people who are now still not willing to acknowledge this is fascism, will need them later on.

@tinker

We should arm qualifying homeless and well-regulate them into standing constitutional militias.

@tinker
first they came for…
etc.
(if we don’t stop them, no one will)

@tinker

Right out of the Nazi playbook…

@tinker So next are *checks Hitler's playbook* the disabled...
@tinker the 🍊💩🤡 is really embracing everything that Hitler enjoyed!

@robchapman @tinker

This kind of thing is Stephen Miller and Russ Vought. Like, yeah Trump has no problem going along with it, but those two are the real source of these ideas and the progression of the plan.

@tinker

#Thanks for sharing.

I looked up "germany third reich policy homeless" and found this...

"Vagrants and Beggars in Hitler's Reich" by #WolfgangAyass linked from the #UniversitätKassel website:

https://kobra.uni-kassel.de/bitstreams/09a307fd-cb54-4421-813f-87e6d6b8ca22/download

(The link opens up a PDF file.)

[First published in: Richard J. Evans (Ed.), The German Underworld. Deviants and Outcasts in German History, London/ New York 1988, pp. 210-37". Available here: https://archive.org/details/germanunderworld0000unse/page/278/mode/2up. More than disturbing.]

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This column on U.S. concentration camps is the one I hoped I’d never write

Andrea Pitzer literally wrote the book on concentration camps. I talked to her about how they came to America.

The Philadelphia Inquirer
@tinker Trade Unionists next, then if I was Jewish I would be getting very jumpy and the hell out.....
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And the definition of mental illness has to remain intentionally ambiguous to accommodate those who oppose the Soviet govern… Oops, I mean the local thing 😅

@tinker The pattern is there and has been used many, many times. Many bad, but predictable things are going to happen in the USA. To the applause of many, sadly.

I am still baffled how quickly the US have taken the route to #fascism

I might be a European sceptic, though...

@janbartosik @tinker

America was built by slaves on stolen land. How else could it have turned out?

@LevZadov @tinker
A fairly common, way to establish a country, right?

Mine, too, came to existence that way. Albeit, it was the 7th century, so a very long time ago.

@janbartosik @tinker

(1.) That doesn't make it right. Countries themselves are a very bad idea. Anything divisive is a very bad idea. Patriotism makes people feel good about killing each other.

(2.) Our common humanity should be the prime motivator of human interaction, not nationality, not race, not religion, not language, not gender, not caste, not ideology, not anything divisive. Our divisions work against all of us.

(3.) Nationalism is a mental disorder. Countries come and go. Only the Earth abides.

https://www.thoughtco.com/missing-countries-1435425

An A to Z List of Countries That No Longer Exist

Tibet, Rhodesia, and Siam are just a few of the many countries that no longer exist as a result of geopolitical changes.

ThoughtCo

@tinker

Poverty and Mental Health Agencies across America have suggested President Trump get out of the way of the Epstein files or resign.

Stop talking about the Epstein files.

@kevinrns @tinker

Don't stop talking about the Epstein files. They're turning the #MAGAts against Trump. They're starting to wonder what else he lied to them about.

Oh, and he called them "stupid people". That can't endear him to them. Nobody likes to be called stupid.

By Trust Betrayed: Patients, Physicians, and the Licens…

Book by Gallagher, Hugh Gregory

Goodreads
@tinker Just the first few words in the meta description chills me. "By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United..." Someone gave this man power and it was the citizens. Of course, not all of them, but still

@tinker The key here is "without due process"

A cop or ICE agent or whomever can now decide, based on their own judgement, what they themselves consider a "mental illness" or if someone they deem as "homeless" based purely on say appearance.

If you're LGBTQ+ they will say you're mentally ill and send you off to a camp. If you work a blue collar job, are low income, they will believe that you're homeless and also send you off to said camps.

If you have any kind of disability they will toss you into either group and again, send you off to the camps.

Will they view people who are blind, deaf, or say have Downs Syndrome as mentally ill? probably.

@rozodru @tinker

First they'll send you off to the camps then, sooner or later, to cremation.

@tinker what if they had paying jobs instead

@tinker

My thought exactly as soon as Ive seen it. They are criminalizing homelessness now. But in the mainstream news they are framing it as anything but cruel. Ugh I'm so tired of this shit.

@tinker Sounds like the only proper response to this is an armed one.

@QuarkMaker @tinker

Say something once, why say it again.

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@LevZadov @tinker I'm not talking about CW 2.0, which I agree would be a bloodbath that the right wing of this country should have seriously considered before pushing their insane beliefs multigenerationally on to America.

I'm talking about when the government shows up to arrest folk, those folk need to be prepared to respond with whatever force is required to make L.E.A. think twice about executing those sorts of orders.

Levka (@[email protected])

@[email protected] @[email protected] “And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” -- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , *The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956*

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@LevZadov @tinker Sounds about right to me.

@QuarkMaker @tinker

Unfortunately, no matter how many individuals in the system meet up with their own personal Luigi, our problems will not go away. They're all replaceable parts. The system itself must go. We need new ways to live. The current paradigm is not sustainable. It's not only a moral atrocity, though it is that. It's a pragmatic problem. The way we live now is not only oppressive. It's killing the biosphere. Hierarchy and capitalism condemn all humanity to a hellish future for all but the elites. Sooner or later even they will succumb.

@tinker There is no other way to say it. This is absolutely fucked. I am ashamed of my country and the complete failure of Congress and the SCOTUS to defend the Constitution from this lawless tyrant.

@tinker

Nearly two-thirds of homeless individuals report having regularly used hard drugs like methamphetamines, cocaine, or opioids in their lifetimes

Just wait until they learn what the middle classes get up to.

@dee - The upper class / millionaires and especially billionaires are the worst "offenders" of using hard drugs. That shit is expensive.

@tinker I want to start off by saying that I think this administration will be terrible on this front, and this is NOT what I want. I think they will execute this without compassion, and that it will be abused for political purposes.

I also want to say that as someone who does caretaking for a very unwell addict who would otherwise be on the streets, we do need something to fill the gap between 'committed to a mental facility' and 'living independently on public assistance'. Group homes and halfway houses do not work for a lot of the addicts you see in encampments or out on the streets. I'm not sure what the right solution is, but there's probably something like 1/1000 people who probably should be brought to compassionate and well-administered residential programs where they get daily attention from professionals. Some will rehabilitate, some will not, some will fall back in after getting out.

@tinker

It's time to think again about the meaning of what about a free state:

@tinker Hey I remember that history class part
@tinker
We're pretty far into the Niemoller message at this point 😢
@tinker Was this written by a 12 year old? Who was home schooled?
@tinker ironic that the CAUSE of so much homelessness IS unchecked mental issues, and also, losing ones home or job because of the bullshit capitalism that's forced on all of us. These total fools and assholes. We ALL have mental health issues to some degree, and if they come for me or anyone I know, there's gonna be a FIGHT
@tinker next in line: disabled people, if the playbook still checks out.

@tinker
in summary:

wanted to write something but theres so much bullshit i just want to vomit

in essence:

The Federal Government and the States have spent tens of billions of dollars on failed programs that address homelessness but not its root causes, thats why i am going to spend billions of dollars on failed programs that address homelessness but not its root causes.

@tinker I am especially terrified by the use of 'or' for homeless or mentally ill. It then becomes an all too subjective and slippery slope as to what "mental illness" is... and we all know where _that_ is headed.