Paul Cantrell3d ago

This is extremely, extremely alarming.

Look, if you show up for a protest and you slash car tires and break a security camera, you do that understanding that there may be personal consequences — and for vandalizing gov property, as the price of civil disobedience, maybe you accept your 9-month sentence + probation.

You do not accept a 50- or 70- or 100-year sentence. Many murderers get less time than that. If they murdered Alex Pretti or Renee Good, they apparently get no time at all.

This isn’t justice. It’s suppression. It’s authoritarianism.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/23/prairieland-ice-protesters-texas-sentenced

Texas anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism charges sentenced to at least 50 years in prison

Activists accused of being part of antifa get long prison terms in case seen as test of Trump’s crackdown on dissent

The Guardian
Show threadSpirit

@inthehands it's unfortunate that the mainstream of the opposition party cares more about a reflecting pool than this miscarriage of justice.

Even as most legal avenues are being erased, I don't think most Americans in the center and left of center have the appetite for insurgency and terrorism. You're not going to see the kind of glee that came from the Republican party when Rittenhouse murdered those protesters.

Jun 24 at 2:55amWeb
Show threadshwell2d ago
@Spirit @inthehands There is no opposition. There is AIPAC. Stop voting for it.