Must-read from Garrett Graff -- a topic that Big Journalism should be shouting from the rooftops.
Our top news organizations are merely covering it as just one side of a normal dispute, not the precursor to America's emerging police state.
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ICE believes it will never face accountability again
The Trump administration is letting an unaccountable secret police form at the heart of our democracy.Doomsday Scenario
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Nicole Parsons
in reply to Dan Gillmor • • •What's even more worrisome is how minimal the news coverage of the billionaires funding Trump's fascist movement.
Tim Dunn, Farris & Dan Wilks, Harold Hamm
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MBS & Putin, Musk, Ellison Thiel
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washingtonpost.com/technology/…
npr.org/2025/05/16/nx-s1-54004…
responsiblestatecraft.org/trum…
vanityfair.com/news/2018/06/th…
Bradley, Koch, Coors, Scaife Mellon, Seid, Uihlein
desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-…
motherjones.com/politics/2025/…
Mapped: How 6 Billionaire Family Fortunes Fund Project 2025 - DeSmog
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in reply to Dan Gillmor • • •Big journalism (BJ) chose to report on "discontent and protest" while people were being stolen from their lives. They weren't important people though.
The intense (BJ) focus on individual people wronged (one guy sent to a prison vs the thousands of lives upended) make this story a vignette to be forgotten. Is that a bug or a feature of (BJ)?
Is (BJ) complicit in the whitewash of our evils today? I don't think you or anyone can say no with confidence. We made and allow this sadly.
Toni M.
in reply to Dan Gillmor • • •Stephen Elliott~Buckley
in reply to Dan Gillmor • • •#mairikkka has been a police state for some time now. Some people just aren't so directly affected.
#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnaby #canlab
Toni Aittoniemi
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in reply to Dan Gillmor • • •This is why, if we ever get the chance to put an opposition into power, we cannot waste that opportunity by electing neoliberals and aipac democrats.
They will not pursue accountability. We know this because we've seen it.
It's more critical than ever that we all prioritize scrutinizing where our potential leaders get their money using resources like opensecrets.org.
No more lesser evil. Only good.
SofaFernsehFan
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in reply to Dan Gillmor • • •and why are the Democrats not loudly declaring that if/when they assume power again, members of ICE found to have participated in illegal actions will be imprisoned.
It would be funnier to warn them that they will be deported, but that's not actually constitutional.