Trump abruptly fires librarian of Congress in latest purge of government;
Carla Hayden, first woman and first African American to hold post, dismissed in terse email on Thursday night
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/09/trump-congress-librarian-fired
#news #politics #authoritarianism #NineteenEightyFour #Fahrenheit451 #LibraryOfCongress #UnitedStates
#nineteeneightyfour
How could anyone enjoy reading #NineteenEightyFour?
I read it, in school, and I'm not saying I regret it, but I sure as heck didn't ENJOY reading the book.
#nineteeneightyfour is a must read
Keith Hernandez compares MLB umpire oversight to ‘1984’ https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/4366/ #Baseball #GaryCohen #GeorgeOrwell #KeithHernandez #NineteenEightyFour
Keith Hernandez compares MLB umpire oversight to ‘1984’ https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/3982/ #Baseball #GaryCohen #GeorgeOrwell #KeithHernandez #NineteenEightyFour
And today I started #nineteeneightyfour, first chapter has hooked me already
If I was a brutal, mass-murdering despot this is exactly what I'd force on any wife or mother who dared criticise me for the death of their son or husband.
And then, 6 months later, the rest of their punishment would begin.
3 ways #Trump's #immigration #crackdown could hit #USCitizens
Brittany Gibson, Apr 23, 2025
"#Trump administration officials are suggesting their immigration crackdown could expand to include deporting convicted U.S. citizens and charging anyone — not just immigrants — who criticizes Trump's policies.
"Why it matters: Such moves — described by officials in recent days — would show how U.S. citizens could be impacted by the growing number of tactics President Trump is using to, in his view, improve national security.
"They'd also be certain to ignite new legal battles over how far Trump's team can go in fighting illegal immigration and responding to #dissenters.
"Zoom in: Here are three tactics the administration has teased that legal analysts say would challenge Americans' rights:
1. Sending convicted U.S. citizens to prisons abroad.
This has been floated as a spinoff of Trump's deal with El Salvador, where a high-security prison is holding about 300 U.S. immigration detainees that the administration says are suspected criminals and gang members.
"Homegrowns are next," Trump said during an Oval Office meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele last week, referring to sending Americans convicted of crimes to serve time in foreign prisons.
"We always have to obey the laws," Trump said, "but we also have homegrown criminals that push people into subways, that hit elderly ladies over the head ... I'd like to include them in the group of people to get them out of the country."
Trump's suggestion — echoing a similar proposal Bukele made to Secretary of State Marco Rubio in February — drew a storm of criticism from legal advocates, who called it unconstitutional.
2. Putting critics of the administration's policies in jeopardy.
Some officials say U.S. citizens who #criticize administration policies could be charged with crimes, based on the notion that they're aiding terrorists and criminals.
"You have to ask yourself, are they technically aiding and abetting them, because aiding and abetting criminals and terrorists is a crime," White House senior director for counterterrorism Seb Gorka said in an interview with Newsmax.
Trump's team also has questioned the legality of civic groups providing #immigrants with "#KnowYourRights" trainings on how to respond to federal agents. Border czar Tom Homan suggested that such seminars help people evade law enforcement.
"They're trying to use terrorism laws to attack people for their speech and for their political activism, and that's an authoritarian effort," said Kerri Talbot, co-executive director of the Immigration Hub, an immigration advocacy group.
3. Questioning the authority of court orders.
The administration's resistance to returning Kilmar Abrego Garcia — who was legally in the U.S. with an order not to be deported back to El Salvador, but deported to the prison there anyway — has raised questions about how far Trump's team can go in trying to skirt court orders.
The White House says the decision to return #AbregoGarcia rests with El Salvador because the U.S. Supreme Court told the administration only to "facilitate" his return, not "effectuate" it.
Advocates worry the resulting confusion has laid the groundwork for Trump's team to send a #USCitizen to a foreign prison, then claim that person couldn't be returned.
A federal judge raised this concern in Abrego Garcia's case.
"If today the Executive claims the right to deport without due process and in disregard of court orders, what assurance will there be tomorrow that it will not deport American citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home?" wrote Judge Harvie Wilkinson III.
"And what assurance shall there be that the Executive will not train its broad discretionary powers upon its political enemies?"
What they're saying: Michelle Brané, former executive director of the Biden administration's Family Reunification Task Force, echoed Wilkinson.
"If they can send a noncitizen to a prison in El Salvador without due process ... why would a U.S. citizen be safer?"
The White House didn't respond to a request for comment. But officials have argued that they have an electoral mandate for stricter immigration enforcement, and that opposition to their policies is against the will of voters.
Trump's handling of immigration polls well in public surveys.
But sending immigrants to El Salvador's prison without criminal convictions or due process does not — about 60% were opposed in a recent YouGov survey.
Between the lines: U.S. citizens have been mistakenly detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) before, including cases this month in Arizona and Florida.
"People are realizing that this is going to impact all communities," Talbot said, "and that if one citizen can be picked up, then any of us can be picked up and put into proceedings, or labeled a #terrorist, or removed to a foreign prison."
Original article:
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/23/trump-immigration-crackdown-us-citizens
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/wUUdG
#SilencingDissent #CriminalizingProtest #CriminalizingDissent #USPol #DontQuestionBigBrother #Fascism #Authoritarianism #MemoryHoled #Orwellian #ThoughtCrime #WaterDefenders #LandDefenders #Resisters #HumanRightsDefenders #IhrePapiereBitte #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Nazis #SecretPolice
#Disappeared #USCitizens #ICEDetention
#IllegalDeportations#CharacteristicsOfFascism #Deportations #Disappeared #MemoryHoled #NineteenEightyFour #DoublePlusUngood
@warum
Viele nehmen Datenschutz einfach nicht so ernst oder das Thema scheint zu abstrakt, schwer vermittelbar und etwas nerdig. Es ist einfach ein langer Atem gefragt. Verstehe aber jede:n, die/der an eigene Grenzen stößt und resigniert. Mir geht's sehr oft genauso.
Dennoch: Jeder noch so kleiner Erfolg ist ein wertvoller Schritt hin zu digitaler #Souveränität und einem bestmöglichen Schutz unserer persönlichen #Daten. Deine 85% sind ein Erfolg.
1984 (1984) Teaser Trailer | John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djx5i7nNZ-Y
#NineteenEightyFour #Movie #Teaser #Trailer #JohnHurt #RichardBurton #SuzannaHamilton
1984 Apple's Macintosh Commercial (HD)
"More commonly, people who had incurred the displeasure of the Party simply disappeared and were never heard of again. One never had the smallest clue as to what had happened to them. In some cases, they might not even be dead."
- George Orwell, 1984
#Deportations #Disappeared #MemoryHoled #NineteenEightyFour #DoublePlusUngood
The little interlude exhorting all the unpersons to subscribe is doubleplus good. COMPLY NOW! (mgm) #Sterling #Orwell #NineteenEightyFour #BritishPathé #RoyalArmouries
Today, April 4, 1984, it was a bright cold day, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Ministry of Truth records editor Winston Smith begins a secret diary, although he is unsure of the true date (Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1984)
@LiamEgan @WTL @CanadianCrone @RichardNairn @gemelliz Time to bring back #ducktalk as a term for what we hear from #PiPiLeQ and his ilk. #NineteenEightyFour #Newspeak #OrwellMatters
DOUBLE PLUS UNGOOD! Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to #Amazon starting on March 28
By Scharon Harding, March 14, 2025
"Since Amazon announced plans for a generative #AI version of #Alexa, we were concerned about user privacy. With Alexa+ rolling out to #AmazonEcho devices in the coming weeks, we’re getting a clearer view at the privacy concessions people will have to make to maximize usage of the AI voice assistant and avoid bricking functionality of already-purchased devices.
"In an email sent to customers today, Amazon said that Echo users will no longer be able to set their devices to process Alexa requests locally and, therefore, avoid sending voice recordings to Amazon’s cloud. Amazon apparently sent the email to users with 'Do Not Send Voice Recordings' enabled on their Echo. Starting on March 28, recordings of everything spoken to the Alexa living in Echo speakers and smart displays will automatically be sent to Amazon and processed in the cloud."
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-on-march-28/
#BigBrother #Orwell #BigTechBrosAreWatchingYou #BigBrotherIsListeningToYou #NineteenEightyFour
Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:MsDropbear42@infosec.space
2025-03-11Perusing my timeline i noticed a post by a Winston Smith. This implies another fedi account i've yet to encounter, called Julia. If so, will there also be an O'Brien? 🤔🤷♀️
#DiamondDogs. My first introduction to #NineteenEightyFour! Thanks, Mom!
#BowieLove
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