Latest posts tagged with #DualState on Bluesky
The #Trump admin this winter secured a secret deal with the government of #Cameroon to deport hundreds of immigrants after remaining silent about a deadly crackdown against #protesters there ‘ withholding $30 million from a local #UN office, acc/to officials & US government documents.
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In Secret #Deportation Deal, US Leveraged Favors & Funds
In #Cameroon, the #Trump admin found a partner it could pressure into accepting covertly deported migrants.
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Targeted hysteria focused on Muslims. We’ve seen it before with shockingly close parallels.
Lawyer Gareth Pierce represented the Guildford Four (Irish) stitched up on manufactured evidence, then Muslims post 911.
State targeting is an attack on rule of law.
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Your friends are still acting like everything is normal in America. What do you do? #dualstate #fraenkel www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Honestly I have some amazing friends who are still walking around like nothing is going on. It makes me want to scream. Just have to keep trying to reach people!
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The Nazi Political Theory That Explains ICE’s Impunity
Trump’s Immigration & Customs Enforcement has become the violent face of the country’s transformation into a new 21st c. dual state.
Bill Blum, Truthdig, 23 Jan, 2026
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Incredibly important points made here about our current reality. It seems so dissonant to go to work and raise our families while people are being murdered by the state in the streets. And that is actually the point. #DualState
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On this topic, this conversation is worth your time:
"Violence Without Consequences: the Legal Pattern Behind Alex Pretti’s Killing. A Conversation on the #DualState With Law Professor Aziz Huq"
newsnotnoisejessicayellin.substack.com/p/violence-w...
Pushing back on Centralized #DualState Tyranny youtu.be/DXUVz3SIR9Q?... #ConstitutionalRights #StatesRights
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ICE and the Dual-State Regime
-- The Nazi political theory behind ICE lawlessness.
Bill Blum, Truthdig, 19 Jan 2026
www.truthdig.com/articles/ice...
Rule of law has been badly undermined in the United States, though not gone. The USA long ago adopted the #dualState described by German Jewish lawyer, #ErnstFraenkel It is baked into its constitution.
#normativeState for white, cis, gendered landowning men. A #prerogativeState for everyone else.
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If this isn’t the epitome of Fraenkel’s description of a fascist #DualState, what is? (5/n)
“… The Comey indictment, then, is a masterclass in authoritarian theater: a president flaunts control, a loyalist hails independence, and the public watches the line between law and loyalty blur.”
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“… Trump performs his power openly, while Patel’s post attempts to sanitize it after the fact. In Trumpworld, the appearance of independence is as crucial as the law itself, because perception underwrites legitimacy, even when authority is wielded without restraint.”
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“… Should Comey face trial, the shadow of a president publicly directing DOJ action could make conviction nearly impossible. Justice is served, but as performance.
This is performative authoritarianism at work.”
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“… The message is clear: the indictment was a personal victory, a public performance of retribution, and a spectacle of authority in action.”
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“”… JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!” Trump wrote, linking legal action explicitly to personal grievance and political revenge. This was Trump micromanaging the DOJ, breaking norms, and signaling that justice would be delivered on his timetable.”
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“… He excoriated a “woke RINO” U.S. Attorney in Virginia, browbeat AG Pam Bondi, and pushed Lindsey Halligan to take over — all to ensure Comey’s indictment.”
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“… Context matters. On Sept. 20, a week before the indictment, President Donald Trump posted what read less like commentary and more like a presidential marching order.”
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“… So quickly did the question arise that Kash Patel, FBI director and longtime Trump loyalist, took to X.com to defend his agency. Career agents had “called the balls and strikes,” Patel wrote. Critics were “hypocrites on steroids.””
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‘Authoritarian Theater: Kash Patel Defends Trump-Ordered Comey Indictment’
“James Comey’s indictment landed like a thunderclap, immediately reigniting debate over whether the Justice Department is acting independently or following the whims of a former president.”
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📢 Here: Professor @jennifertaub.com explains why the U.S. has gone “beyond regulatory capture to regulatory ruin.”
m.soundcloud.com/profciara/de... #businesslaw #regulatorylaw #whitecollarcrime #dualstate ⚖️🧐
We live in a #DualState. Different rules for different people. This would NEVER happen to an affluent white woman.
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American Gestapo #DualState
PATEL: Your position is that every one of those individuals is by constitutional right afforded due process. I don't know the answer to that. MERKLEY: You haven't read the constitution? PATEL: I've got it right here. But What you're saying is that every single one of the illegals that was sent down to El Salvador is supposed to be given due process pursuant to - MERKLEY: That's what the constitution says. PATEL: It doesn't say that. MERKLEY: It does say "no person." I'll encourage you to read it - PATEL: I read it every day. MERKLEY: — because it's also been affirmed by the Supreme Court repeatedly. [Miranda v. rizona, Reno v. Flores) But it’s the plain language of the Constitution. It concerns me that you're not familiar with the core concept of due process applying to all persons as written in black & white in the constitution. PATEL: As the first public defender who's ever served the FBI as its director, I am more aware of due process than any predecessor in my seat. You're delineating between removal proceedings & criminal acts. My job is to investigate criminal acts. MERKLEY: You are aware that the 5th amendment refers to taking away liberty & when people are arrested on the street, detained.... their liberty is taken away.
Check out this exchange between Senator #JeffMerkley (D-OR) & #FBI Director #KashPatel over whether #DuePocess applies to people targeted by the #AlienEnemiesAct.
#law #immigration #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights […]
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May 8, 2025 REVISED NOTICE of Hearing (same date/time): Status Conference set for 5/9/2025 at 09:30 AM in Burlington Courtroom 110 before Judge William K. Sessions Ill. (law) (Entered: 05/08/2025)
NEW: Judge Sessions appears to have converted tomorrow's scheduled bail hearing for #RümeysaÖztürk into a status conference while the court awaits #Öztürk's transfer to Vermont.
#law #Constitution #immigration #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress #DueProcess […]
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Pursuant to the Court’s April 15 & April 30 Orders, ECF Nos. 79 & 107, & Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 30(b)(6), Plaintiffs hereby move for leave to take three (3) additional depositions by oral examination of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the U.S. Department of State (DOS), & the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), through an officer, director, agent, or other representative from each Department who shall be designated to testify regarding all information known or reasonably available to the Departments with respect to the topics set forth in the Rule 30(b)(6) notices attached as Exhibits A–C hereto. The relief sought herein is needed to give effect to the Court’s Order granting expedited discovery. As the Court stated in that Order, “discovery is necessary in light of Defendants’ uniform refusal to disclose ‘what it can’ regarding their facilitation of Abrego Garcia’s release & return to the status quo ante.”
NEW: #KilmarAbregoGarcia's lawyers are asking Judge #Xinis to permit them to take 3 additional #depositions — from #State, #DHS, #DOJ. And they say that they might request a 4th deposition from the #Trump White House […]
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That’s in some tension with the result: that they were sent to a prison that is neither in the #US nor their country of origin with NO CHARGES & no clear #legal #authority justifying their continued, indefinite detention. The US govt is paying #ElSalvador to hold them.
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