The Politics Thread

[janea4old]

April 14, 2025
Hungary just approved a constitutional amendment to ban Pride and any LGBTQ+ public events
https://apnews.com/article/hungary-pride-ban-amendment-orban-gay-rights-lgbtq-155ec12cbbde7cc6be0f96adb323de77

Earlier article detailing what would happen when this is enacted
https://apnews.com/article/hungary-constitutional-amendment-lgbtq-rights-710e5dc9005f0c802cb342f32afacbd5

Edited April 14 by janea4old

[janea4old]

Why the illegally kidnapped and deported person Mr. Garcia has not been returned to the USA ...

 

 

https://www.lawdork.com/p/trump-told-us-the-horrifying-reason

On Monday, President Donald Trump told us why Abrego Garcia is not back. Abrego Garcia cannot be brought back because his continued imprisonment there — and the success of its underlying claim that the U.S. doesn’t have the authority to bring him back — is key to the Trump administration’s lawless plans to create an outside-the-law prison system to hold anyone it dislikes, including U.S. citizens.

“You know what I want them to do?” Trump told El Salvador President Nayib Bukele as the two walked into the Oval Office. “Homegrown criminals next.”

Repeating it to the others in the room — including Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Attorney General Pam Bondi — Trump said, “I said, ‘Homegrowns are next.’ The homegrowns.” adding that Bukele would need to “build about five more places.

Edited April 15 by janea4old

[janea4old]

It's all awful. Can't say that any one thing is more horrific than another.  Just that the latest horror (whatever that latest horror is at the current moment) is overwritten in the news by the next horror, and then the one after that.

Edited April 15 by janea4old

[I Am A Swede]

It's more than awful. I knew it was gonna be bad when he was elected, but this is way worse than I think anyone could have imagined. Every day he reaches a new low and I have stopped wondering how he low can go. I don't think he has a limit.

Edited April 15 by I Am A Swede

[janea4old]

This poll was taken a week before Tr*mp said he would do it

 

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Edited April 16 by janea4old

[DRW50]

Very sad. 

We will have that within a few years.

[I Am A Swede]

Do you think it will take that long?

[DRW50]

Depends on how many other distractions they find first. (distractions being completely destroying our economy and government) This law is the type of focus all fascist slaughterhouses turn to and we'd probably be there even faster if Trump wasn't so busy golfing and begging Russia to love him. If we ever get President JD, I imagine it's at the top of his list, along with humiliating his wife and tweeting about how "based" he is.

[janea4old]

posting this in multiple social media formats because... I think it's helpful

https://bsky.app/profile/vanhollen.senate.gov/post/3lmwe64rexc2p

 

 

https://x.com/ChrisVanHollen/status/1912447452117942763

 

Copy of the same on Threads:
https://www.threads.net/@chrisvanhollen/post/DIgOkUkhlWf

Copy of the same on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/chrisvanhollen/videos/595278463068754/



https://www.instagram.com/p/DIgOZyUvZm3/

April 16, 2025
chrisvanhollen (Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland)

I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.

 

 

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Edited April 16 by janea4old

[janea4old]

Essay/article about how all of the arrests/kidnappings/bans/defunding of protesters and universities ... is about authoritarian control, pretending to be about antisemitism.
The would-be king and his cronies are stating that the people protesting about Palestine must be antisemites, when most are not.  (some are, but most are not). Many people of Jewish faith support reasonable Palestinian rights, as they support all human rights. 
The US government is just using that as an excuse to round up people and send them to gulags.

The essay explains it better than I can
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/it-was-never-about-antisemitism

The author Marisa Kabas is an independent journalist whom I follow on bluesky.  She is a good source of breaking news.
https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social

Her newsletter is
thehandbasket.co
".co", not .com
Her site thehandbasket.co starts with "the".
(just plain handbasket.co without "the" is a creepy unrelated site)
 

[janea4old]

https://bsky.app/profile/vanhollen.senate.gov/post/3lmzlf4pw6k2n

 

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UPDATE !!!!

https://bsky.app/profile/vanhollen.senate.gov/post/3ln2gcpf6js2m

 

[janea4old]

 

 

https://bsky.app/profile/llanosjackie.bsky.social/post/3ln2hlfjgd22x

 

 

 

https://floridaphoenix.com/2025/04/17/u-s-citizen-released-from-jail-after-arrest-under-floridas-new-anti-immigration-law/

 

Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez is a U.S. citizen, born and raised in the USA.  He lives in Georgia and works across the state line in Florida.  Was entering Florida from Georgia -- as a passenger in a car -- on his way to work.  They got stopped because the driver was speeding.  Then the cops arrested everyone.  They claimed that Mr. Lopez-Garcia was an illegal immigrant, even though he showed the cops his Georgia state ID and his social security card.  He spent 24 hours under arrest at the jail.  The judge ordered his release after examining his birth certificate and social security card.

Edited April 18 by janea4old

[wonderwoman1951]

cannot make this up. and she gets secret service protection!

free link. 

kristi noem purse stolen

[I Am A Swede]

Wow.....

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No wonder tourism to the US is falling like a stone. Who would want to visit a country that does this to its own citizens?

[janea4old]

It's happening all over.  U.S. citizens being arrested and jailed for existing.  Citizens showing their documentation and the police pretending no documents were shown.   If you don't know how to get an immediate hearing in front of a judge, you get deported/disappeared from your own country.

It's recommended that you have a lawyer to call, family to call, and to know what courthouse will hear your case.   Make sure your family and attorney have legal certified copies of your birth certificate, passport, citizenship, social security card, drivers license, etc. -- readily available to bring to any courthouse in case you are arrested.

Part of the issue is that some who are randomly rounded up like this... don't know what procedure to follow, and to request a hearing.  If you don't demand a hearing and obtain the hearing, they try to deport you without a hearing.  None of this is legal but this is what is happening.

Edited April 22 by janea4old