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Advocates for #refugees said the rapid mobilization to resettle the #Afrikaners highlighted the #Trump admin’s inaction on other refugees, sometimes in the face of #CourtOrders.
“Thousands of refugees from across the globe remain stranded in limbo despite being fully vetted & approved for travel, including #Afghan #allies, religious minorities & other populations facing extreme #violence & persecution,” said Timothy Young, a spox for #GlobalRefuge, a resettlement agency.
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@thomholwerda yes, these people are #racist #rightwing #fascist a$$h0l3s with a love for #violence and no tolerance for anyone who does not agree with them.
They need to be banned now #afdverbotjetzt
AND WE ALL NEED TO STAND UP AND OPPOSE THEM!
All 5 youths involved in swarming attack against Kelowna teen plead guilty
The attack, which left a 13-year-old girl unconscious, drew widespread attention after graphic footage of the incident circulated widely on social media.
#attack #crime #violence #socialmedia #Kelowna #Canada
https://globalnews.ca/news/11169632/youths-involved-kelowna-swarming-attack-plead-guilty/
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#Boasberg & #McConnell are among at least 11 federal #judges whose #families have faced threats of #violence or #harassment after they ruled against the new #Trump admin, a Reuters investigation found.
The broadsides are part of an #intimidation campaign directed at federal judges who have stood in the way of Trump’s moves to dramatically expand #PresidentialAuthority & slash the federal govt.
First Nations community banishes members, demolishes homes after targeted hit and run death
The murder of a Haida Gwaii man in what police say was a targeted hit and run has set off a provincewide movement, #Justice4Luke, across British Columbia, drawing attention to the issues of drugs and violence in First Nations communities.
#violence #drugs #justice #politics #HaidaGwaii #BritishColumbia
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/haida-gwaii-death-justice-4-luke-1.7523097?cmp=rss
"Why should we love our enemies? The first reason is pretty obvious. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction. So when Jesus says 'Love your enemies' [Matt. 5:44], he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition. Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation." – Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1977), 53.
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Day 29 
“A dispute over signage between a #Labor staffer volunteering for #Wills MP #PeterKhalil and a #MuslimVotesMatter volunteer at a pre-polling station in #Brunswick led to police being called and the activist being questioned by officers.
The dispute, along with an argument between minor party #volunteers, prompted the #Australian Electoral Commission on Saturday to note “#physical and #verbal #violence” at the pre-poll booth and to warn #candidates and their teams to treat each other with #respect.”
#AusPol / #Labor / #Victoria / #AEC <https://archive.md/kWwLU> / <https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/victoria-s-hot-seats-live-updates-cost-of-living-in-focus-in-final-week-of-campaigning-20250425-p5lu8k.html?post=p58kh2#p58kh2>
If you are a loooong-time reader of DataBreaches.net, you will likely recall a terrible insider breach in Canada that I reported in 2011 where, as a result of the insider wrongdoing, 13 people became victims of arson or were shot at!
There is now an update on the litigation stemming from that case.
High court upholds damages in ICBC privacy breach that resulted in shootings, arson: https://databreaches.net/2025/04/24/high-court-upholds-damages-in-icbc-privacy-breach-that-resulted-in-shootings-arson/
And if you are someone who is one of those loooong-time readers: thank you!
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"The wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration, was forced to move to a safe house with her children, after the government posted their home address to social media."
~ Hafiz Rashid
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #DueProcess #fascism #authoritarianism #violence #AbregoGarcia
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https://newrepublic.com/post/194289/abrego-garcia-wife-hiding-dhs-address
The New Republic · Abrego Garcia’s Wife Forced to Go Into Hiding Thanks to DHS Slip-UpKilmar Abrego Garcia’s wife says she fears for her safety since the Trump administration deported him to a prison in El Salvador.
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Jay Kuo notes that as courts bore down on Trump yesterday for denying due process to those his regime is kidnapping and sending to prison outside the US, Trump replied on social media:
“We cannot give everyone a trial.”
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #DueProcess #fascism #authoritarianism #violence
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https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/three-wise-judges-one-mad-king
The Status Kuo · Three Wise Judges, One Mad King
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"In the benchmark survey, known as Bright Line Watch, U.S.-based professors rate the performance of American democracy on a scale from zero (complete dictatorship) to 100 (perfect democracy). After President Trump’s election in November, scholars gave American democracy a rating of 67. Several weeks into Trump’s second term, that figure plummeted to 55."
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"A survey of more than 500 political scientists finds that the vast majority think the United States is moving swiftly from liberal democracy toward some form of authoritarianism."
~ Frank Langfitt
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #DueProcess #fascism #authoritarianism #violence
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"Hernández Romero was classified as a gang member because he has tattoos that say 'mom' and 'dad' with crowns.
[Yassamin] Ansari told me no one had heard from Hernández Romero, who has been documented to have no history of criminal activity, since March 14.
'Everyone is extremely worried about him,' she said from El Salvador. 'We’ve had no proof of life in over a month.'”
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #DueProcess #fascism #authoritarianism #violence
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Adrian Carrasquillo reports on the trip of four House Democrats El Salvador seeking information about the detainees the Trump regime has sent to prison there with no due process, 90% of whom have no criminal record.
"The four House Democrats also asked for proof of life of Andry José Hernández Romero, a gay, 31-year-old Venezuelan makeup artist whose detention has also made waves."
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The Bulwark · ‘We Know Donald Trump Wants the Story to Die’
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"Across the country, stories are piling up of ICE arrests and detentions with no transparency, no due process, and no answers."
~ Thom Hartmann
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #DueProcess #fascism #authoritarianism #violence
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https://hartmannreport.com/p/papers-please-the-road-to-tyranny-cc7
The Hartmann Report · “Papers, Please”: The Road to Tyranny Is Paved With Bureaucratic Cruelty
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"In a twitter rant following the Dobbs decision I predicted 'the people, of all stripes, who got it so badly & utterly predictably wrong . . . will just continue. They'll never admit they were wrong.'
And so it has come to pass. The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, & so on, cover our constitutional collapse with a 'who could possibly have foreseen this' sort of tone."
~ Toby Buckle
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #DueProcess #fascism #authoritarianism #violence
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https://www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-alarmists-were-right-we-should-say-so/
Liberal Currents · Trump ‘Alarmists’ Were Right. We Should Say So.Commentators who got it wrong wouldn’t listen, won’t learn, and can’t lead.
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"Today at Axios, Brittany Gibson writes of ideas being floated around the administration right now of expanding deportations to include deporting convicted U.S. citizens. Convicted of what, you ask? …
Don’t we have laws against this? Of course we do. But thinking that laws will save us suggests you haven’t been paying attention."
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #DueProcess #fascism #authoritarianism #violence
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'Undertale: an Exploration of Violence and Morality in Video Games through Metafiction'
An interesting read about 'Undertale' and its clever reflection on violence and player agency in video games.
#gamestudies #games #media #communication #gamedev #indiedev #Undertale #violence #morality @gamingagainstv
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"There’s a reason historians have been disproportionately represented in the 'alarmist' camp since day one. We know that this kind of xenophobic rhetoric is a strategy straight out of the authoritarian playbook. Demonize 'the other,' concoct stories of imminant danger, and use those to justify any act of violence and aggression."
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #DueProcess #fascism #authoritarianism #violence
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