2025 and we are being asked to read Playboy for the articles
From: @doughenwood
https://bird.makeup/users/doughenwood/statuses/1946044202657235267
I just saw a quote from Donald Trump’s 1990 interview with Playboy. It’s wild. He gets all reflective and shit. To be an adept in Trump Studies you have to read it. It’s here: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/q66nty2m84q2e9kb8w672/Playboy-interview-with-Trump-1990.pdf?rlkey=qgrgd52h6qvwb791j4s8e09cb&dl=0
When you're tempted to believe the fash never respond to pressure: this was held up before, now released after the floods in TX.
NOAA (under BIDEN) was already doing the work. Trump wanted to kill it, if at all possible. Pressure (& tragedy) made it impossible.
R voters need to connect the dots & toss these people out. Until that happens, the fash will continue to kill as many as possible: it gives them power.
In the meantime, pressure can work to reduce the harm.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/18/weather/flood-risk-database-proceeds-climate
We found hacked data that revealed dozens of people on deportation flights to El Salvador are missing.
Hacked data obtained by 404 Media reveals dozens more people on deportation flights to El Salvador who are unaccounted for. “We have not heard from these people’s families, so I think perhaps even they don’t know," one lawyer said.
'Deportation Tok' Is Taking Off
I went on Marketplace to talk about how ICE is accessing an insurance fraud database to assist in location targets to deport (the Associated Press just reported the Trump administration handed over Medicaid recipients’ personal data, including addresses, to ICE)
https://www.marketplace.org/episode/2025/07/17/why-ice-is-accessing-an-insurance-fraud-database
Joseph Cox, reporter at the tech news site 404 Media, has been following all of the surveillance tech ICE agents are using to identify undocumented immigrants. More recently, he said, the agency is getting hold of many databases to dig through for potential targets.
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Hacked data obtained by 404 Media reveals dozens more people on deportation flights to El Salvador who are unaccounted for. “We have not heard from these people’s families, so I think perhaps even they don’t know," one lawyer said.
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@theklan I understand our for-profit prison system and how it's a modern day slavery system.
This does away with the pretense of crime. Or rather this "criminalizes" an entire class of people who are *right now* doing nothing but working Aisle 13 of Home Depot, but now we're going to drag you out of Home Depot, put you into prison and then... monetize "loaning you out" to Home Depot.
It's doing away with the legal system entirely. And it could be anyone they choose.
@deborahh It's strange to be in Canada this last week or so, seeing these things from a little bit more distance... it doesn't change my anger or anything, but the contrast is substantial, and it's clarifying to move through city after city and province and state and see how different they are and how we *choose* these things, they are not immutable forces of nature.
We make a lot of *really bad* choices but we know how to make good ones too. It makes it all the more enraging tbh
Nu Trumps dodelijke “One Big Beautifull Bill Act” door het parlement is, worden we geconfronteerd met het vooruitzicht van veel groot onheil, waaronder een archipel van concentratiekampen verspreid over de Verenigde Staten. Concentratiekampen zijn plaatsen waar slavenarbeid aantrekkelijk wordt gemaakt. De Sovjets gebruikten concentratiekamparbeid onder andere om kanalen aan te leggen en mijnen te exploiteren. Het concentratiekampsysteem van nazi-Duitsland volgde
@cejjacobs yes, the 13th amendment allows slavery for criminals, that is not new and the for-profit prison system is a horror in the US.
The scary part is NOT that this is out in the open (it's never been secret) — the scary part is they have abandoned the rule of law entirely.
ANYONE can be a "criminal"...this does away with the pretense of crime....
...It "criminalizes" an entire class of people who are *right now* doing nothing but working Aisle 13 of Home Depot (or picking strawberries in the field), but now we're going to drag you out of Home Depot (or the field or your home), put you into prison and then... monetize "loaning you out" to Home Depot.
It's doing away with the legal system entirely. And it could be anyone they choose.
They also didn’t wholesale criminalize millions of people, snatch them off the street with masks and no ID, and appropriate more money than the budget of the Marines to incarcerate.
What’s happening is categorically a different scale and yes that matters.
@cejjacobs @susankayequinn yes, I wrote this in January, and I'm still shocked it's done so openly.
📈 For-profit-prison stocks rose on Trump's re-election.
👨🏼⚖️ Reframing narrative of immigration from civil to criminal to justify forced labor under fig leaf of 13th Amendment.
https://open.substack.com/pub/morewretchthansage/p/land-of-the-free-home-of-the-slave
@cejjacobs @susankayequinn yes, it’s spelled out in the text of the 13th Amendment.
Section 1
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
@mtconleyuk yes but now we're doing away with the need to "actually do a crime" before being sent to the for-profit prison/slavery system.
(yes, I know it's been used disproportionately against Black folks forever; if that gif were accurate, it wouldn't be white people on the chain gang)
Lending out some "inmates" to local farmers was one way NAZI Germany used to convince the people the concentration camps were just work camps.
So MAGA wants to round up immigrants, because they're "stealing" jobs.
And now we're going to send them right back to those same jobs, and pay for it with taxpayer money.
They're going to be so mad when they find out slave labor is now stealing jobs. 🙄
@mason he calls it a concentration camp
I'd call it a work camp as well — they're already talking about using the LABOR not exterminating people
Not that work camps can't also be torture camps and death camps
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