John Muller
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This thread is really important to read in full, and articulates why fighting unjust detention by ICE is so difficult. It also confirms why I decided not to look for a new job in the US after my layoff and move back to Canada.
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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February 11, 2026 at 11:06 PM
This thread is really important to read in full, and articulates why fighting unjust detention by ICE is so difficult. It also confirms why I decided not to look for a new job in the US after my layoff and move back to Canada.
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There is literally no better example of textbook fascistic thinking than "Who cares about human rights when the rich are doing so very well"
Bondi crashes out over Epstein: "The Dow is over 50,000 dollars! I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about."
February 11, 2026 at 5:26 PM
There is literally no better example of textbook fascistic thinking than "Who cares about human rights when the rich are doing so very well"
Hast du etwas Zeit für mich? / Dann singe ich ein Lied für dich:
February 11, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Hast du etwas Zeit für mich? / Dann singe ich ein Lied für dich:
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The year is 2045. Nurse is the only job left. It has been hastily retconned to a male coded job and every nurse now wears tactical combat gear and has a gun.
Yikes here are the numbers for the past 12 months. Everything is pretty much dead except healthcare/social assistance. Note that healthcare growth is largely not about the business cycle -- it's about the aging of the population and more elderly people needing care.
February 11, 2026 at 2:27 PM
The year is 2045. Nurse is the only job left. It has been hastily retconned to a male coded job and every nurse now wears tactical combat gear and has a gun.
One of the main jobs of a national leader is to be a comforting and unifying voice in times of tragedy. The bar has been so radically lowered by Trump, it's almost shocking to see someone capable of a genuine, human reaction, with emotion and solidarity instead of immediate crass politicization.
Prime Minister Carney on B.C. mass shooting: "Parents, grandparents, sisters, brothers in Tumbler Ridge will wake up without someone they love. The nation mourns with you. Canada stands by you."
February 11, 2026 at 4:06 PM
One of the main jobs of a national leader is to be a comforting and unifying voice in times of tragedy. The bar has been so radically lowered by Trump, it's almost shocking to see someone capable of a genuine, human reaction, with emotion and solidarity instead of immediate crass politicization.
WaPo had to fire every staffer with a complexion darker than mayonnaise, but they still got money to commission thinkpieces from quislings who think that Canadian patriotism is the *real* dictatorship.
(fuck you, @washingtonpost.com. fuck you.)
(fuck you, @washingtonpost.com. fuck you.)
February 11, 2026 at 3:40 PM
WaPo had to fire every staffer with a complexion darker than mayonnaise, but they still got money to commission thinkpieces from quislings who think that Canadian patriotism is the *real* dictatorship.
(fuck you, @washingtonpost.com. fuck you.)
(fuck you, @washingtonpost.com. fuck you.)
Across ideologies, the panic about global overpopulation has always been, fundamentally, bullshit.
February 11, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Across ideologies, the panic about global overpopulation has always been, fundamentally, bullshit.
Yes, federal conservatives. Do this. Absolutely please go to war with the most popular conservative premier in Canada, who governs the most heavily populated province in the country.
Please do that.
Please do that.
February 11, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Yes, federal conservatives. Do this. Absolutely please go to war with the most popular conservative premier in Canada, who governs the most heavily populated province in the country.
Please do that.
Please do that.
It is beyond fucked up that people trying to escape the fascist hellhole that is the former USA and find safety in Canada need to not only sneak across the border, but stay in hiding for *two weeks* before they can apply for asylum without being sent back south under the "safe third country" deal.
MONTREAL – At times, a 25-year old woman said the snow reached her knees as she trudged through a dark, icy forest near the Quebec border in mid-January.
A mother recounts her dangerous journey across the border to escape Trump's America
MONTREAL – At times, a 25-year old woman said the snow reached her knees as she trudged through a dark, icy forest near the Quebec border in mid-January.
www.winnipegfreepress.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:33 PM
It is beyond fucked up that people trying to escape the fascist hellhole that is the former USA and find safety in Canada need to not only sneak across the border, but stay in hiding for *two weeks* before they can apply for asylum without being sent back south under the "safe third country" deal.
The past is prologue.
“Historians call this passageway a masterwork of deliberate concealment, designed to be absolutely invisible to slave catchers or city marshals during the 19th-century”
Safe house linked to Underground Railroad discovered in Manhattan
The Merchant's House is the first landmarked building in Manhattan.
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February 11, 2026 at 12:13 PM
The past is prologue.
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“Authoritarians tend to seize existing facilities while the government works on building new, more permanent structures. So you'll see stadiums, warehouses, racetracks, and the like commandeered to hold masses of people.”
“I’ve mentioned before that concentration camp regimes in their early stages often make use of large open infrastructure to convert into detention spaces. Dachau was converted from a shuttered factory into a concentration camp in 1933.”
When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
February 11, 2026 at 2:49 AM
“Authoritarians tend to seize existing facilities while the government works on building new, more permanent structures. So you'll see stadiums, warehouses, racetracks, and the like commandeered to hold masses of people.”
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I'm so enthralled with the whole Trump-Carney-Windsor-Detroit Gordie Howe bridge scandal. A billionaire who owns the only other bridge gets pissy and suddenly the fucking President is ranting on Truth Social about how Canada is evil. It's so funny. And so, so dumb. And corrupt. Can't forget corrupt.
February 11, 2026 at 2:27 AM
I'm so enthralled with the whole Trump-Carney-Windsor-Detroit Gordie Howe bridge scandal. A billionaire who owns the only other bridge gets pissy and suddenly the fucking President is ranting on Truth Social about how Canada is evil. It's so funny. And so, so dumb. And corrupt. Can't forget corrupt.
Amazingly, saying "don't commit crimes" is still not a crime.
Another loss for Pirro, whose office has “struggled to secure indictments and convictions, including when a jury acquitted a man who chucked a Subway sandwich ..”
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February 11, 2026 at 1:44 AM
Amazingly, saying "don't commit crimes" is still not a crime.
I have a potential solution for the Gordie Howe bridge crisis
February 10, 2026 at 11:15 PM
I have a potential solution for the Gordie Howe bridge crisis
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Worth watching this in full. The statement is more powerful than this quote alone. Here is is from USA Today, with alt text.
Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.
Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.
February 10, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Worth watching this in full. The statement is more powerful than this quote alone. Here is is from USA Today, with alt text.
Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.
Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.
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This is why primarying people matters. Suddenly everybody involved in this race is in a firm spine contest.
GOLDMAN: Do you know what other regimes in the 20th century required similar proof of citizenship?
LYONS: Various nefarious regimes did that
GOLDMAN: Is Nazi Germany one?
LYONS: This is the wrong type of question
LYONS: Various nefarious regimes did that
GOLDMAN: Is Nazi Germany one?
LYONS: This is the wrong type of question
February 10, 2026 at 6:51 PM
This is why primarying people matters. Suddenly everybody involved in this race is in a firm spine contest.
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i'm a fan of the rhetorical one-two of "we're coming after you in this life and in the next"
February 10, 2026 at 6:51 PM
i'm a fan of the rhetorical one-two of "we're coming after you in this life and in the next"
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When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means
February 10, 2026 at 6:52 PM
When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means
Artists boycotting the former Kennedy Center? Shut it down for "renovations".
Canadians boycotting the former US? Close the bridges!
Canadians boycotting the former US? Close the bridges!
Trump threatens bridge to prevent Canadians from visiting country Canadians do not want to visit
Trump threatens bridge to prevent Canadians from visiting country Canadians do not want to visit
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S . President Donald Trump has threatened to halt the opening of a international bridge linking Windsor and Detroit, excluding Canadians from country that they have absolutely no ...
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February 10, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Artists boycotting the former Kennedy Center? Shut it down for "renovations".
Canadians boycotting the former US? Close the bridges!
Canadians boycotting the former US? Close the bridges!
Never forgive the people who chose this.
Never.
Never.
"This is Mia, 7 years old -- 'I don't want to be in this place. I want to be in my school'" -- Walkinshaw confronts Lyons with letters written by kids being detained by ICE
February 10, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Never forgive the people who chose this.
Never.
Never.
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“Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”—Deuteronomy 27:19 (NIV)
McIVER: Do you consider yourself a religious man?
LYONS: Yes mam
McIVER: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?
LYONS: I'm not going to entertain that question
McIVER: Do you think you're going to hell, Mr Lyons?
LYONS: Yes mam
McIVER: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?
LYONS: I'm not going to entertain that question
McIVER: Do you think you're going to hell, Mr Lyons?
February 10, 2026 at 5:36 PM
“Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”—Deuteronomy 27:19 (NIV)
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Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
February 10, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
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Canada has stood with America when we were at our lowest, has fought and died in wars alongside us, has done everything a nation could to help and be amicable with another. And now America has gratuitously stabbed Canada in the back, and continues to do so. Things can never be the same again.
With Friends Like These
To defend itself from Trump's thuggery, Canada must seek new friends.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Canada has stood with America when we were at our lowest, has fought and died in wars alongside us, has done everything a nation could to help and be amicable with another. And now America has gratuitously stabbed Canada in the back, and continues to do so. Things can never be the same again.
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Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
February 10, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.