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Originally Posted By u/HarmlessHeresy At 2025-04-16 12:07:10 AM | Source

I was reading comments about the kilmar Garcia case in tiktok, about how he deserves it, mocking his wife who's brave enough to go on TV and talk about this against an administration that would deport her too, or worse. And they mock her, saying if you love him so much go join him, saying that she's lying, saying that they hope he's dead. All because this man is visibly brown in America.

Something just welled up inside me. It felt like I just wanted to hurt them. To stop them from hurting others. And that they were bad people hurting not just innocent people but humanity. And I wanted them to suffer for it. And I hate it. These people to me are just evil. And I can't stand it. Idk what to do. They are like nazis.

I'm a gentle person. I work at a garden center. I work with flowers. I garden. I cry seeing animals in pain. But these people... these people that want others to go to a concentration camp for having autism awareness tattoos and without due process are evil to me. They want brown skinned people to go to concentration camps. Idk what to do. This world is so cruel.

Originally Posted By u/Informal_Natural8128 At 2025-04-16 12:35:38 AM | Source

Originally Posted By u/Shinji_Okami At 2025-04-15 09:13:32 PM | Source

Statement from Van Hollen:

Mr. Abrego Garcia was illegally abducted by the Trump Administration and, by their own admission, wrongly deported to El Salvador. He shouldn’t have to spend another second away from his family.

I'm flying to El Salvador tomorrow morning to check on his condition and discuss his return.

Van Hollen and our other Maryland senator, Angela Alsobrooks, met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia's family last week. Abrego Garcia has been living in Maryland for more than ten years and has a US citizen wife and children.

I hope Van Hollen is bringing security with him, and I hope he's able to bring Abrego Garcia back home to Maryland. And hopefully this will set a precedent for getting due process for all those who Trump illegally sent to that torture prison.

Edit: You can call your representatives in the House and Senate to encourage them to stand with Van Hollen on this (and you can email Van Hollen's office if you want to leave a message of support, especially if you live in MD). And as someone points out below, campaign contributions can be used to pay for security. Donations can be made here.

Edit 2: For those thinking of how Congressman Leo Ryan was murdered by the Jonestown cultists, I'm sure Van Hollen knows his life is in danger as he does this, and hopefully he's taking precautions. A key difference is that this would be the government of El Salvador, not a cult, killing a US senator. Trump would of course side with El Salvador, calling Van Hollen a crazy communist left wing extremist, but that would drive some people even further from Trump. It'd be an international incident. I don't know that Bukele would want to risk that, especially knowing there might be a Democratic president in less than four years.

Originally Posted By u/michaelavolio At 2025-04-15 08:42:22 PM | Source

(AI generated, sorry I can’t draw, just wanted to make a point and thought it came out pretty well so figured maybe someone here would appreciate it)

Originally Posted By u/DrHaruspex At 2025-04-15 08:20:14 PM | Source

Originally Posted By u/Glum-Sympathy3869 At 2025-04-15 07:50:18 PM | Source

Originally Posted By u/HumusSapien At 2025-04-15 06:51:35 PM | Source

50501GA has obtained the footage of a protester being forcibly removed and tased from MTGs town hall.

Originally Posted By u/EnvironmentalAd4406 At 2025-04-15 09:41:11 PM | Source

Originally Posted By u/transcendent167 At 2025-04-15 07:58:07 PM | Source

Originally Posted By u/jillisonflook At 2025-04-15 06:07:42 PM | Source

Originally Posted By u/HumusSapien At 2025-04-15 06:52:43 PM | Source

This is not a metaphor. It actually happened.

She told me the politics were making her sick. That she couldn’t handle it. That she was “just one person.” She said she needed to look away.

But she didn’t look away from the earthquake. She texted all her friends about that. She just looked away from this— from what’s happening to democracy. From the creeping silence. The complicity. The collapse.

And it hit me: That’s what they want. They want you overwhelmed. They want you to feel powerless. They want you to believe it’s someone else’s job to save the world.

But I won’t look away. I’ve been through the fire now. I was put into the cauldron. And I stole something from it.

I stole the fire.

It didn’t destroy me. It made me.

So I’ll say it louder:

If you can go to a Trump boat parade, you can go to a protest.

If you can scream about the shaking ground, you can scream about the falling sky.

I will not be silent. I will not be complicit. I will not look away.

Not anymore.

Originally Posted By u/Status_Cup_5549 At 2025-04-15 05:11:55 PM | Source