As Silky Shah says, the Khalil case shows how migrant justice and Palestine solidarity are tied together:

"The Trump regime is now using the immigration enforcement apparatus to target people who criticize its policies or support ideas that it doesn’t approve of.:

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https://truthout.org/articles/khalil-case-shows-how-migrant-justice-and-palestine-solidarity-are-tied-together/

"What I have tried to say over and over again to those people in my writing is that your silence will not save you. Palestinian rights, trans rights, women’s rights: these are not separate issues. Unless you are a Maga supporter at the top of the food chain, the Trump administration will be coming for you too."

~ Arwa Mahdawi

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/15/mahmoud-khalil-free-speech-civil-liberties

"If 'government efficiency' alone is your goal, Nazi Germany is exemplary."

~ Philip D. Bunn

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https://everythingwasbeautiful.substack.com/p/against-government-efficiency

"Populism—the deliberate creation of a 'frontier of exclusion' between friends and enemies—and unaccountable power capture the style of politics today."

~ Tom G. Palmer

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https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-apostles-of-strongman-politics

"A presidential campaign built on the Big Lie, and incorporating lots of little lies, is intolerant of images, voices or evidence at odds with its worldview. It has only one vision of America in mind, much of it fanciful, and so it will erase anyone not part of that narrative."

But if it's good my 401(k)….

Many of us voted to purge others of us and I suspect the purges are just starting.

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As Moynihan notes, pictures of the most senior Black soldier to receive awards, Charles Calvin Rogers, have been removed from the Department of Defense website.

"The Trump presidency is, as much as anything, a project of purging and erasing large parts of America, of people, ideas, capacities, and knowledge."

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"An NIH mural featuring Anthony Fauci was removed.

More systematically, it is also the removal of women, persons of color, and trans people, following executive orders around DEI and gender. Here, the removals signal the end one form of representation that valued inclusiveness and a broader understanding and acknowledgment of people whose stories were not always told."

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"Right now, the federal government is engaged in a dramatic purging of visual representations of American history and its current workforce. Some of this is a Stalinist removal of former officials. The official portraits of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, and Trump Secretary of Defense Mark Esper are gone."

~ Don Moynihan

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https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashing-american-history

"That means we must recalibrate what we expect going forward. 'They are not going to go *that* far' has been proven wrong over and over again. The idea that 'they won’t be able to do this' seems similarly unfounded."

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"For many years, the radicalization of the Right has consistently outpaced what even critical observers expected. Now the speed and scope of the authoritarian transformation and destruction of the system over the past two months have gone beyond what some of the most insightful observers thought likely."

~ Thomas Zimmer

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https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/what-authoritarianism-means

"We cannot get ourselves to see how this is going to unfold in its most frightening versions. You neutralize the branches of government; you neutralize the media; you neutralize universities, and you’re on your way.

We’re beginning to see the effects on universities. It’s very, very frightening."

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"The characters regarded as people to emulate, like Orban and Putin and so on, all indicate that the strategy is to create an illiberal democracy or an authoritarian democracy or a strongman democracy. That’s what we’re experiencing. Our problem in part is a failure of imagination."

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“'[The Germans] really believe that the Czech government had voluntarily sought Hitler’s protection and that they would all starve if they do not get this lebensraum and colonies.'"

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Laurie Winer cites history to insist that "MAGA will continue to believe what the leader says up until the very brink of disaster":

In the summer of 1939, three months after Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia, Robert Jamieson, a British English teacher living in Essen, wrote to Lord Londonderry, who had recently acted as a go-between British and Nazi leaders:"

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https://snyder.substack.com/p/what-to-expect-when-youre-expecting