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START w/ the Golden Rule and UNIVERSAL human rights — ⚠️What you abide be done to *othered* people/groups by those w/in power, you enable to be done to everyone.
Nationality, ethnicity, race, sex, gender, religion, etc. don't determine people's character.
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- 1930s 🇺🇸: "To avoid controversy, the superintendent pulled them from the district’s schools... In towns from New Jersey to Wisconsin, panicked "patriots" lit bonfires of the books..." slate.com/news-and-pol...
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- Wrong. Encyclopædia Britannica - fascism - neofascism: www.britannica.com/topic/fascis... "[W]hereas fascists assigned much of the blame for their countries’ economic problems to the machinations of bolsheviks, liberals, and Jews, neofascists tended to focus on non-European immigrants..."
- Reposted by Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.
- Also... The Border Patrol Has Been a Cult of Brutality Since 1924 theintercept.com/2019/01/12/b...
- Authoritarianism always starts at home.
- Reposted by Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄This exactly why I tell people to fight misogyny and child abuse if they want to fight authoritarianism. Those are pillars of fascism that so many people think are “normal” parts of a “democratic” society. News flash: they have no place in a democratic society.
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- Reposted by Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄pleading with the richest man in the world for him to let you continue covering international news is so fucking grim
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- Reposted by Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄HORRIFIC: the Trump admin is reportedly planning to dump hundreds of parents and children arrested in the interior (including Minneapolis) into extraordinarily dangerous Mexican border towns, and make them run a gauntlet of kidnappers if they want kangaroo court hearings.
- Scoop: Trump admin plans to remove ~400 individuals, including children and families, to Mexico in first known restart of controversial “Remain in Mexico” policy during Trump’s 2nd term, sources tell me and Jake Traylor @ms.now They’re set to be removed as early as Tuesday from TX and AZ to Mexico
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- 2019: "In the name of fighting illegal immigration, the EU, the United States, and Australia are emboldening authoritarian regimes, fueling abuses and corruption, and stoking intolerance at home..." West’s Obsession With Border Security Breeding Instability foreignpolicy.com/2019/11/16/b...
- "We like to cordon evil off to make evil the domain of a few demented individuals... who seem quite different from us. But whether it's the transatlantic slave trade or Nazism or genocide... We see again and again that evil... is the product of demented social orders." - John Green
- Fascism is not a mental illness.
- Reposted by Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”
- 2019: "In the name of fighting illegal immigration, the EU, the United States, and Australia are emboldening authoritarian regimes, fueling abuses and corruption, and stoking intolerance at home..." West’s Obsession With Border Security Breeding Instability foreignpolicy.com/2019/11/16/b...
- 2019: "In the name of fighting illegal immigration, the EU, the United States, and Australia are emboldening authoritarian regimes, fueling abuses and corruption, and stoking intolerance at home..." West’s Obsession With Border Security Breeding Instability foreignpolicy.com/2019/11/16/b...
- 2019: "In the name of fighting illegal immigration, the EU, the United States, and Australia are emboldening authoritarian regimes, fueling abuses and corruption, and stoking intolerance at home..." West’s Obsession With Border Security Breeding Instability foreignpolicy.com/2019/11/16/b...
- 2019: "In the name of fighting illegal immigration, the EU, the United States, and Australia are emboldening authoritarian regimes, fueling abuses and corruption, and stoking intolerance at home..." West’s Obsession With Border Security Breeding Instability foreignpolicy.com/2019/11/16/b...
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- Reposted by Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄I think one of the wildly disorienting parts of this is that when you try to "look for the helpers," you end up looking at the guy they shot.
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- Reposted by Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄A few days ago, Fox News was whining about ICE agents getting heckled at a Mexican restaurant in Minneapolis. Meanwhile, in the town of Willmar, ICE agents had lunch at a Mexican restaurant, waited until it closed, then confronted and arrested three workers as they left.
- Reposted by Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄This is the kind of shit that would make you completely outside the bounds of any ancient society, the gods bestow generational curses for violating hospitality
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- Reposted by Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄The ICE agent who shot Renee Good was a former Border Patrol agent. And today's murder was committed by a Border Patrol agent. This is violence and impunity that border communities have known all too well for years.
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- What you abide be done to *othered* people/groups by those with or "in" power, you enable to eventually be done to everyone. ⤴️ A basic fact of life evident throughout the history of human civilization; and yet one that most "sensible" centrists and "common-sense" moderates seem unaware of. 😞💔
- Reposted by Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄ICE attacked an observer after they tailed a group of clergy on a spiritual pilgrimage. Our digital producer @sam.vp just so happened to be with the clergy on their journey. He spoke with the observer who was attacked and others who witnessed the assault.
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- Reposted by Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄Establishing the run against authoritarian rule, as @edsbs.bsky.social says, requires the little things, the acts of resistance and kindness and community that eventually add up to something much larger and transformative. I wrote about it for BadFaithTimes.com. badfaithtimes.com/we-must-esta...
- Reposted by Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄A VP for a Chicago based auto group is of course on Twitter, celebrating the execution of Alex Pretti.
- Reposted by Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄Also a major sponsor of Cubs games on Marquee Network
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- Reposted by Wide Mind-Fierce Heart 🦓🥄Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
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