"If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary."
~ Timothy Snyder
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #LawandOrder #fascism #authoritarianism
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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
Few of us, myself included, anticipated the widespread chaos and potential collapse of government services and financial protections as shadow President Musk and DOGE hackers rampage through agency after agency waging their broligarchy coup of self-enrichment. A clearer picture is emerging as the dominos of undermining government funding and services begin to fall all across

The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
CNN reports the Social Security Administration's acting commissioner Michelle King’s departure from the agency over the weekend – after more than 30 years of service – was initiated after King refused to provide DOGE staffers at the SSA with access to sensitive information, the people said Monday.
White House has replaced her as acting commissioner with Leland Dudek, who currently works at the SSA.
Here's a now-deleted self-serving confession from Dudek, which speaks volumes about the pervasive cowardice that is essential for this administration to get what it wants.
In today’s post on @medium, I describe how the @internetarchive and @wikipedia are preserving a record of the changes made by the #Trump administration.
Click the link, not the image preview, to bypass the paywall:
HHS employees, DO NOT OPEN YOUR EMAIL
HHS employees, DO NOT OPEN YOUR EMAIL.
Not without reading this first.
They’re going to cut off your network access as soon as you read your email, so you need to download a bunch of things first. Details at the link.
DO NOT OPEN YOUR EMAIL WITHOUT READING THIS FIRST.
See also the firings in the Epidemic Intelligence Service.
#datascience #fascism #medicine #politics #science #uspol #uspolitics