“The stock prices of oligopoly private prison companies Geo Group and CoreCivic have been rising ever since the Trump announcement.”
Read more: http://inthesetimes.com/article/21234/private-prison-trump-family-separation-immigration-ice
“Even in the Trump era — when the press is openly clashing with a president — bombing still provides push-button presidential redemption.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/the-pro-war-media-deserve-criticism-not-sainthood/
“Like a number of practices, including mass deportations, it builds on the legacy of the Obama Administration, which set in motion the process of reëxamining old naturalization files.”
“In 2015, I asked President Obama to reverse course & close the for-profit baby jails (‘family detention centers’) he opened in Dilley & Karnes City, Texas. What he said shook me to my core.”
Read more: https://twitter.com/ImmCivilRights/status/1008902662828511232?s=19
“We’ve been elaborately fooled into believing the opposite of the truth, that Marxism has disappeared and offers no threat to our happiness and liberty, even as we moan about the strange and humourless restrictions on free speech and thought that grow in our midst like knotweed. How did that happen?”
Read more: https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/06/marxism-didnt-die-its-alive-and-well-and-living-among-us/
“America is now one of the world’s chief, unrepentant, unapologetic, still-polling-positive-on…torturers. How did we get here?”
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/confronting-america-the-torturer/
“Was it General Eisenhower who saw more clearly than any of us?”
Read more: https://bonnerandpartners.com/trumps-not-like-ike/
“The administration is bombing people all over the planet, under looser rules and in the shadows.”
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/targeted-killing-donald-trump-style/
“It’s a jump of nearly 150% from the last days of George W. Bush’s White House.”
“The first leak case of the Trump era, the first head on a pike.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/06/03/reality-winner-nsa-paul-manafort/