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For-profit immigrant detention centers were expanded under Obama.

These are hellish de facto prisons where immigrants live in inhuman conditions and corporations profit from them working for $1 per day.

Trump is expanding bipartisan dystopian policies. salon.com/2017/05/16/pri…
Some of us reported on the Obama admin's Trumpian dehumanization and exploitation of immigrants and support for privated for-profit incarceration.

Not only was there little interest at the time; we were demonized by Dems posing as the Resistance™ today
salon.com/2016/03/04/the…
Activists vociferously condemned Deporter-in-Chief Obama's Trumpian anti-immigrant policies, but they were ignored and even silenced by the neoliberal partisan hacks who have rebranded as defenders of immigrants today, now that a Republican is doing it
salon.com/2016/01/04/rig…
Like usual, it was neoliberal right-wing Democrats who helped mainstream hellish policies that were later exacerbated by racist Republicans like Trump

1996 laws signed by Bill Clinton led to arbitrary detention, fast-track deportations & family separation salon.com/2016/04/27/bil…
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(Movie Review Thread) I just saw Peter Jackson's new film They Shall Not Grow Old, a documentary on World War I. The film is technically breathtaking, but I was shocked to see a film on WWI that is completely apolitical. It's about political mass slaughter but it avoids politics!
They Shall Not Grow Old does not even try to explain why WWI was fought — let alone why it was an entirely preventable, pointless inter-imperialist bloodbath that led to the unnecessary deaths of tens of millions of (almost entirely poor) people!
Instead the whole point of the film is to humanize the soldiers fighting in WWI and show what day-to-day life was for them. And that's great; it's important to see the mind-boggling horrors of WWI and trench warfare. But that must be done *in historical and political context*.
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I just saw @ViceMovie, and it's brilliant. The film shows how well-made narratives can capture the zeitgeist and politics of an era not only more captivatingly but even more accurately than documentaries. Because it's not just about the facts; it's about the tone and attitude.
.@GhostPanther masterfully captured the essence of Cheney and the Bush admin -- and the facts, yes, but more importantly the spirit.

Christian Bale and Amy Adams used their bodies as instruments, like musical virtuosi, to forge a sick world in which reactionary power intoxicates
Vice does much more than just retell the story of Cheney/Bush's crimes; it offers profound human insight into how right-wing aspiring autocrats think about and see the world, and their place in it

By humanizing blood-soaked Dick Cheney, it makes his crimes all the more monstrous
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I interviewed peace activist @MedeaBenjamin of @CODEPINK, who stressed that US support for the Saudi monarchy must be fundamentally challenged.

Some US officials want a cosmetic change, simply replacing Crown Prince MBS, but the problem runs much deeper
.@MedeaBenjamin: "It's our job now to say this is not just about MBS... We have to use this time to re-evaluate the entire relationship. But it’s very difficult then, because there’s so much money that is involved in this."
therealnews.com/stories/the-re…
Back in early 2016, @CODEPINK organized the first-ever summit calling for an end to the "suicidal death pact between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia" salon.com/2016/03/10/ins…
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Most people fail to realize is that we’ve been living under many forms of “martial law” put in place by #Obama that are still damaging America and its citizens to this very day. For example:
The tech giants’ de-platforming of InfoWars, Natural News and other pro-Trump channels is an extremely dangerous form of digital martial law, where citizens who say certain things are not allowed to exist in the online ecosystem.
The left-wing media, now fully complicit in deep state treason against America, is handed daily marching orders by Obama’s CIA factions that determine what “news” is allowed to be broadcast across America.
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Detention of Migrant Children Has Skyrocketed to Highest Levels Ever nyti.ms/2Nat9tC
We have learned that this administration diverted funds intended for FEMA & US Coast Guard for ICE, presumably to fund things like these immigrant detention centers. This is appalling & shameful. The depths of the Trump regime's inhumanity has no nadir.
And at a period when we face extreme weather due to climate change, and with hurricane season to deal with to boot. So in addition to being depraved, the Trump regime is also incompetent at planning & administration.
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1st- So we can actually say the home office is not fit for its purpose!

2nd-Well v hav been saying this since a long time now!
Time to do something actually about it!
Why is everyone lying & misleading everyone!
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found immigrants were being restrained for up to 17 hours.

#HostileEnvironment doesn't stop! Why can't we stop all this!
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Around 20 #NHS staff in a letter told - Theresa May of their “great sorrow and shame” that “hostile environment” immigration policies which she initiated are leading to needless suffering and early death.

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There’s a lot of focus on the facilities used to house immigrant children, but there’s not enough focus on the private prison companies that run some of them. Let’s talk. 1/7
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A CREW investigation found that the two largest private prison companies have sought to influence politics and policy in 39 states, contributing millions of dollars to campaigns at local, state, and federal levels while hiring dozens of lobbyists 2/7
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There’s big money to be made by private prison companies with immigrant jails. ICE spends more than $2 billion a year on them. 3/7
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It’s amazing that it takes pictures of children in cages from a couple of years ago for people to be enraged about the separation of families.
And even then, from what I’ve seen, people are mostly mad about the kids being in cages, not even about families being separated on a daily basis.
I long for the day where it doesn’t take videos & photos of gross inhumane treatment & death to get people fired up.
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