Kudos to this church for following Jesus' teaching and standing up for the vulnerable.
Illinois Church Nativity Scene Shows Baby Jesus in Zip Ties Surrounded by ICE Agents Sparking Outrage | IBTimes UK
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/illinois-church-nativity-scene-shows-baby-jesus-zip-ties-surrounded-ice-agents-sparking-outrage-1760635
ICE, Border Patrol tactics meant to scare North Carolina immigrants – Axios Raleigh
Dec 3, 2025 – Immigration
Deliberately aggressive immigration tactics in North Carolina sow fear, confusion
By Mary Helen MooreThe aggressive tactics used by immigration agents in North Carolina, which advocates say sow fear and confusion, aim to persuade immigrants to leave the U.S. voluntarily, Border Patrol’s chief recently affirmed.
Driving the news: Federal agents surged into Charlotte and the Triangle last month, and were documented wearing tactical gear and masks while making arrests in public places, sparking widespread fear.
What they’re saying: Border Patrol leader Gregory Bovino has not sat for an interview with Axios Raleigh or Axios Charlotte, despite multiple requests, although he did discuss the work of the “mean green team” in Charlotte on a recent podcast.
The big picture: DHS did not provide statistics about self-deportations before our deadline, but told The Atlantic’s Nick Miroff that around 35,000 people self-deported this year by using a government app that arranges plane tickets.
Zoom in: Andrew Willis Garcés, a Greensboro-based strategist for Siembra NC, an activist group that supports immigrants, told Axios that masked agents chasing people as they take out the trash, do landscaping or go to church has that effect.
Case in point: Photographer Logan Cyrus, who lives in east Charlotte and documented Border Patrol activity there last month for the Charlotte Optimist, told Axios that “it was kind of surreal having these people dressed in combat gear all over the neighborhood.”
Cyrus said a “palpable fear” lingers in Charlotte, mixed with defiance and confusion.
Between the lines: Garcés and Cyrus both say that in North Carolina, agents have shied away from media and others recording them.
Context: Siembra NC is a networkof mostly volunteers that assembled to support immigrants during President Donald Trump’s first administration. They document immigration enforcement and chase down rumors submitted to their hotline (336-543-0353).
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#Axios #AxiosRaleigh #Charlotte #Cruelty #GregoryBovino #Ice #Immigrants #ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcementICE #LoganCyrus #NorthCarolina #NorthCarolinaImmigrants #Raleigh #Scare #SiembraNC #Tactics #TriangleArea #USBorderPatrol
#Hegseth #Cruelty #WarCrimes #AndrewKolvet
Heather Cox Richardson 12/4/25
Andrew Kolvet of Turning Point USA posted on social media: “Every new attack aimed at Pete Hegseth makes me want another narco drug boat blown up and sent to the bottom of the ocean.”
Hegseth quoted Kolvet and commented: “Your wish is our command, Andrew. Just sunk another narco boat.”
"The theory at the heart of what the administration is doing, and what Trump’s entire career is based on, is that we should all be our worst selves, that our darkest impulses should be the ones that reign. We should be the most bigoted, the most corrupt, the most angry and hateful—our truest self is our worst self. And if you look at who is in this administration, it is a collection of the worst people from top to bottom."
~ Paul Waldman
https://newrepublic.com/article/203889/transcript-trump-white-house-rages-pop-star-nailed-maga-evil
"Detainees at the notorious Florida immigration jail known as “Alligator Alcatraz” were shackled inside a metal cage and left outside without water for up to a day at a time, a shocking report published Thursday by Amnesty International alleges. The human rights group said migrants continue to be exposed to cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment, rising in some cases to torture":
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/04/alligator-alcatraz-human-right-violations-amnesty-report
copy: @renewedresistance #HumanRights #politics #racism #cruelty
"Federal authorities conducting immigration enforcement in Florida were seen pulling a woman wearing medical scrubs from her vehicle as she shouted that she was a U.S. citizen":
https://www.rawstory.com/feds-forcibly-yank-woman-in-medical-scrubs-from-car-as-she-screams-she-s-a-us-citizen/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Dec.3.2025_9.05pm#
#AbuseOfAuthority #mismanagement #politics #cruelty #HumanRights
"In Istanbul, Wilder noticed that while representations from other embassies “were there to receive their citizens,” there was one exception: The US. Similarly for Schnall, there was no US consular presence in sight when she arrived in Jordan, and the FCC organized her trip back to France, where she resides.
In mid-October, DRAD, FPF, and four other press freedom groups sent a letter to US secretary of state Marco Rubio criticizing the lack of official support for US journalists.
“It is the responsibility of the State Department to advocate for American journalists. Yet, the State Department has made no public condemnation of the unlawful detention of these reporters,” the coalition said. The State Department did not respond to our letter.
Neither the State Department nor the US embassy in Jordan responded to our multiple requests for comments for this article."
"Herzog’s book deftly reveals the damning scope of the church’s involvement in this ghastly program of extermination. Sadder still is the irrecoverable cost of this abdication of moral duty."
#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #cruelty #sadism #Nazis #churches #Christians
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"Once there, the Nazis could confidently rely on the willing co-operation of the clergy to give the German people what they had always wanted: the sterilization, and in some cases, the medical death of the ‘incurable idiots’ who had for ‘years and decades’ supposedly ‘drained’ state coffers and ‘sapped’ the nation’s vitality."
#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #cruelty #sadism #Nazis #churches #Christians
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"The harsh reality is that the German people did not seriously object to the sterilization and occasional murder of the severely disabled. This made the work of the Nazi regime a lot easier. Rather than struggle to convince the German people to let them do their worst, it would be more historically accurate to say that Hitler and his band of true believers rode a populist wave of homicidal ideation straight to power."
#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #cruelty #sadism #Nazis #churches #Christians
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"As historian Dagmar Herzog explains in The Question of Unworthy Life, Germany’s religious institutions did not just fail to resist the growing calls for mass murder, they often welcomed this coarsening of public attitude toward the very people they were supposed to protect."
~ Guillaume A. W. Attia
#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #cruelty #sadism #Nazis #churches #Christians
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"American victims of natural disasters are being abandoned by Trump. That abandonment reflects his personal cruelty and that of those around him, as well as the ideological allegiance to cruelty among the libertarian tech broligarchy. And the resulting message is clear. Trump to disaster victims, wherever they live and whoever they voted for: Drop dead."
"Whenever someone comes to him in need, whether its Volodomyr Zelensky, helpless African children dependent on USAID, or rural Michiganers, his cruelty is activated. And he likes surrounding himself with those of the same ilk: Stephen Miller, Pete Hegseth, and Kristi Noem, the secretary of homeland security, who impeded and slow-walked the emergency response to deadly Texas flooding back in July."
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #cruelty #sadism
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-to-disaster-victims-drop-dead
..."those who do not love or respect animals (or 🌱) cannot be trusted to love or respect each other..."
In a statement, Jacklyn Rogers, a spox for Rep #IlhanOmar, said, “The congresswoman thinks his obsession with her is unhealthy and hopes he gets help.”
#Trump also used a slur when he said that Gov #TimWalz of #Minnesota was “seriously retarded” for welcoming #immigrants from #Somalia.
In a response posted on social media, Walz said: “Donald Trump is focused on pitting people against each other. The center of his agenda is #cruelty….”
# Hegseth #DoubleTap #WarCrimes #Cruelty #alt
Heather Cox Richardson 11/1/25
HEGSETH JOKES ABOUT WAR CRIME USING FRANKLIN THE TURTLE
🇦🇺 Interpellations de quatre (4) individus soupçonnés d'être en lien avec réseau partageant du contenu pédopornographique. #australia #sydney #csam #violences #animal #rape #cruelty #satanic #police #justice #online #threats [ https://www.lalibre.be/international/oceanie/2025/12/01/un-reseau-pedopornographique-international-demantele-NVAZRYVUA5CSZCHIIUGA7XGVBA/ ]
"The main watchdog team there overseeing civil rights, the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL) – one of three DHS oversight offices – has been cut from a staff of 150 to just nine. This despite there being about 550 investigations that were active and alleging serious civil rights violations by DHS officials and contractors, including inside immigration detention centers."
"According to a declaration filed by a top DHS official, , nearly every single employee from the offices was fired, including 147 employees at the CRCL, 118 at the OIDO and 46 at CIS."
"Of the nine people now working at the CRCL, one is its acting officer, installed in May, Troup Hemenway, a former adviser to the rightwing Project 2025 blueprint for conservative government."
#ICE #DHS #Immigration #Detention #Cruelty #Project2025 #Fascism #Trump #GOP #Republicans #Nazis
