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President Trump has nearly completed his wall.
It is not a wall of steel and concrete to keep people out. It is a wall of failed democracy and failed diplomacy to keep us in. It is the lynchpin of the coming oppression, and one of few keys that remain below 100% completion. 1/16
It is not a wall of steel and concrete to keep people out. It is a wall of failed democracy and failed diplomacy to keep us in. It is the lynchpin of the coming oppression, and one of few keys that remain below 100% completion. 1/16
Through wholesale failure to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic, from top to bottom, the US government has now begun the de facto imprisonment of its people. The EU is first to ban American entry. 2/16 https://www.forbes.com/sites/tamarathiessen/2020/06/28/europe-travel-us-banned-14-countries-can-visit-eu/
Customs and Immigration Service is no longer functioning, and visas are being revoked. Every day, fewer and fewer outsiders will be allowed to witness what happens here. 3/16 https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2020/06/furlough-notices-arrive-for-some-13400-uscis-employees/
The assault on the credibility of news has taken its toll. Few independent journalistic outlets survive, especially at the local level. While C-SPAN still hums, the rise of streaming platforms mean fewer people can see it. 4/16 https://nocable.org/learn/cable-tv-cord-cutting-statistics/
Newspapers no longer can afford to send a reporter to cover the state legislature and its proceedings. Journalists are threatened with loss of White House credentials for asking all but softball questions. 5/16
https://www.ncsl.org/press-room/sl-magazine-disappearing-act.aspx
https://www.ncsl.org/press-room/sl-magazine-disappearing-act.aspx
We haven't free elections. While felons are nominally enfranchised, all are disenfranchised by assaults on mail-in voting and the availability of in-person voting. To travel across a city and wait for hours, with no paid leave, is a poll tax. 6/16 https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/jun/23/whats-happening-polling-places-kentucky/
In those unmonitored state houses across the US, partisan legislators already drool awaiting the Census and with it a gerrymandering that can leverage deep-learning computing on scale unimagined even 10 years ago. SCOTUS has ruled this uncontestable. 7/16 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/us/politics/supreme-court-gerrymandering.html
Workers are left with the false dichotomy of the "choice" between returning to work—putting themselves and their loved ones at risk of pandemic disease and in doing so helping to build the wall—or staying safe and staring down starvation. 8/16 https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/06/24/unemployment-americans-will-lose-their-extra-600-days-earlier-than-expected/3253111001/
Police continue their militarization unaccountable even as military forces supply more boots on the necks of the people. Meanwhile Americans are pitted against each other and have begun assisting directly in the execution of their fellows. 9/16 https://fox6now.com/2020/06/08/deadly-unrest-here-are-the-people-who-have-died-amid-george-floyd-protests-across-us/
The once-greatest deliberative body in the world idly takes up issues that could've sailed on their popularity at any time, and only to support the reelection of an unknown Senator needed to keep the majority in power. 10/16 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/us/senate-national-parks-funding-bill.html
They push for a Constitutional amendment to end protection for flag desecration: creating more, not less, reasons for police to harass and kill citizens and dissidents. The 1st Amendment is under attack. 11/16 https://twitter.com/SteveDaines/status/1276910509887979525
Under the guise of national security, Senators push to eliminate secure digital communication between citizens. The 4th Amendment is under attack. 12/16 https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/graham-cotton-blackburn-introduce-balanced-solution-to-bolster-national-security-end-use-of-warrant-proof-encryption-that-shields-criminal-activity
Abortion headlines changing nothing distract the "pro-life" from the quandary of state-sponsored killing of innocent—for all are innocent until proven guilty before their peers—and undeniably viable humans. Amendments 5, 6, and 14 are under attack. 13/16 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/29/abortion-ruling-supreme-court-strikes-down-louisiana-law
Distracted by a bogeyman that would physically take their guns, 2nd Amendment defenders miss that people of color have already lost those rights. That 2A is under attack by the same politicians who claim to hold it dear: wolves in sheep's clothing. 14/16 https://www.thedailybeast.com/heres-what-happens-when-a-black-man-open-carries-gun
If no one may enter or leave, and no one may communicate securely, and no one may defend themselves: there will soon be no freedom left in the US. Whatever happens in Vegas will stay in Vegas; but so too from Omaha to Yakima, to Key West; from Portland to Portland. 15/16
You must vote for those who will stand against fascism. Fight for free and fair elections: volunteer as an elections official. Open our borders by stopping the Coronavirus: put on your mask and stand apart together. Do it so that the flag still means something. 16/16
