America will have its own Gulag Archipelago. Twenty-three concentration camps will soon come online, unless, together, we can find and pull the political handbrake.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-29/us-spends-hundreds-of-millions-on-warehouses-for-ice-detention-centers

@xankarn To the extent that indifference dogs our political footsteps, we have to get people to understand ๐™ฉ๐™๐™ž๐™จ situation in particular ๐’„๐’‚๐’๐’๐’๐’• and ๐’˜๐’Š๐’๐’ ๐’๐’๐’• be resolved without first getting Republicans out of office ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ putting progressive Democrats into office ๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™ข๐™–๐™Ÿ๐™ค๐™ง๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™ฎ.

I think former Ambassador Susan Rice was right: we ๐™™๐™–๐™ง๐™š ๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ฉ operate with a โ€œforgive and forgetโ€ mentality, and so just electing โ€œDemocratsโ€ is not going to be sufficient. In fact, I think we're screwed if we do.