mjt

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“Characters include Jean Valjean, who is imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread then seeks redemption, and Inspector Javert, who is obsessed with law and order and hunts Valjean without mercy. One reporter asked Trump whether he identifies more with Valjean or Javert.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/14/no-kings-protests-vehicles-struck-injuries… (2/3)

“The story of Les Mis is inspired by the June Rebellion, an 1832 insurrection by republicans against the authoritarianism of a newly established French king. No one is expecting a replay from Republicans in June 2025.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/14/no-kings-protests-vehicles-struck-injuries… (1/3)

We are not "post-COVID". In my view, using that term in a headline is a clear indication of a fundamental lack of seriousness.
Pedestrian commercial streets are wildly popular in every corner of the globe.

“In other words, the Trump administration is vowing to get rid of the democratically elected government of California by using military force. That threat is the definition of a coup.”

#USpol

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/june-12-2025?r=14j7ia (2/2)

June 12, 2025

At a press conference for Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem in Los Angeles today, Noem’s security assaulted Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA), dragged him into the hallway, forced him to the floor, and handcuffed him as he tried to ask the secretary a question.

Letters from an American
“[W]hat Noem was saying before Padilla spoke out is crucially important. ‘We are not going away,’ she said. ‘We are staying here to liberate this city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city.’
#USpol
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/june-12-2025?r=14j7ia… (1/2)

@ycwang @pluralistic US citizens have been deported. There have been many more instances of almost deported citizens. Green card holders have gotten it so much worse. And then if you don't even hold green card status you are well and truly fucked if you see ICE.

When you are kidnapped by people in masks who don't check papers, don't identify themselves, don't even show you badges, or allow you to see an imaginary warrant it won't matter what papers you have. It doesnt matter what rights you try to invoke. You could have a passport or green card in your back pocket and they will just sneer and take you away anyway. There are documented cases of ICE not believing a citizen or green card holder, roughing them up, taking them to an ICE 'holding cell' (Incarceration camp), and then only releasing them when they surrender their belongings or after the press and/or locals put pressure on them. They are constantly using excessive force so you might get bruised up for simply looking 'like one them them'.

This is something a lot of people who aren't part of a marginalized group don't understand. Rights are for those who have the power and privledge to enforce and enact them. The first to lose and the last to gain them...minority and marginalized groups. It's easy to ignore a Hispanic woman pleading to not rip her away from her family. She's Hispanic. That must mean she's here illegally. Since she's here illegally she's probably violent and deals in drugs. Since shes violent and deals in drugs she is not allowed human rights. And if pushed, theyll quote the same fucking lines: "we are targetting violent criminals". They'll drag that woman into an unmarked vehicle, all while she screams, sobbing that she has little children born here. They'll do this after they broke down her front door and traumatized her family whose only crime was to be human with the wrong skin color or wrong religion or wrong speech.

Once we take rights from certain groups, no one has rights. If I can nab people and send them away or disappear them into an internment camp why bother being careful? If you have a quota to fill...why not just act on those 'innate police instincts' (ie racism)?

If they'll do it to a sitting Senator, they'll do it to you.
“Everyone wants to save the world but no one wants to help mom do the dishes”

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