shakedown.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A community for live music fans with roots in the jam scene. Shakedown Social is run by a team of volunteers (led by @clifff and @sethadam1) and funded by donations.

Administered by:

Server stats:

286
active users

#citizens

2 posts2 participants0 posts today
Continued thread

At the Dept of Housing & Urban Development [#HUD], for example, ofcls are working on a rule that would #ban mixed-status households[‼️] — in which some family members have legal status & others don’t—from public #housing, acc/to multiple staffers…. Affiliates from #DOGE are also looking to kick out existing mixed-status households, vowing to ensure that undocumented immigrants do not benefit from public programs, even if they live w/ #citizens or other eligible family members.

How do we know Trump is a fascist? Because he already lies about renditioning innocent asylum seekers like a fascist and now he's trying to set the stage for renditioning citizens based on lies as well. Like a fascist.

"Trump says he supports deporting U.S. citizens"

msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/trump-sa

MSNBC · Trump says he supports deporting U.S. citizensBy MSNBC

The US President wants to send #UnitedStates #citizens to #ElSalvador’s #HumanRights violating #CECOT. I’m guessing they won’t get #DueProcess either. We’ll just have to take #Trump’s word that they’re criminals.

Reporter: You mentioned you're open to deporting individuals that aren't foreign aliens but are *criminals* to El Salvador. Does that include US citizens?

Trump: If they are criminals…, yeah. Yeah. That includes them. I'm all for it.

Continued thread

I feel like throwing an eraser at these sleeping #influencers like one of my professors did at #HowardU BITD. Hello? Have you been paying attention? The current #fascist #lawless regime is, whelp, #lawless. They are busy #deporting #legalimmigrants & threatening to #deport #citizens. They have illegally fired #civilservants. Why would they, on god's green earth, be constrained by #international #treaties and #IARU agreements or listen to suggestions from #hams?

Continued thread

#Bukele posted a video on Sun of what he says is 238 members of Tren de Aragua arriving in #ElSalvador. He said they would be transferred to CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center in the country, for 1 year.

#MarcoRubio, #Trump’s secy of #State, last month said Bukele had agreed to accept deportees from the US of ANY NATIONALITY [including US #citizens]. Bukele's social media posts on Sun refer to "a very low fee" that the #US paid to El Salvador for the #deportations.

Continued thread

Advocates for immigrants raised alarms Sat amid reports that the #Trump admin, after signing the proclamation w/o publicizing it, had arranged to spirit immigrants onto airplanes & out of the country, in particular to El Salvador, where Trump agreed last month to house immigrants & US #citizens who had been convicted of crimes.

The ACLU says the men do not have any ties to the criminal group.

🎺

As early as Friday, President Donald Trump is expected to invoke the #AlienEnemiesAct -- a wartime law that allows the president to detain or #deport the natives and #citizens of an enemy nation -- as part of the efforts to carry out mass deportations, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
The Department of Defense is not expected to have a role in the invoking of the authority, which could be used to deport some migrants without a hearing.

wkjc.com/politics/083d98f5a211

Carroll BroadcastingTrump expected to invoke wartime Alien Enemies Act to carry out mass deportations: SourcesHulton Deutsch/Corbis via Getty Images, FILE(WASHINGTON) -- As early as Friday, President Donald Trump is expected to invoke the Alien Enemies Act -- a wartime law that allows the president to detain or deport the natives and citizens of an enemy nation -- as part of the efforts to carry out mass deportations, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter.The Department of Defense is not expected to have a role in the invoking of the authority, which could be used to deport some migrants without a hearingThere have been discussions inside the administration about invoking the act, multiple sources said.Trump had previously said on the campaign trail that he planned to invoke the act.The act hasn't been used since World War II, when it was used to detain Japanese Americans.During World War II, the Alien Enemies Act was partially used to justify the internment of Japanese immigrants who had not become U.S. citizens. The broader internment of Japanese-Americans was carried out under executive orders signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and not the Alien Enemies Act since the law does not apply to U.S. citizens.Copyright © 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

"Bad thing in another country horrifies, driving support for the opposite at home"

I think it helped in #Germany

I think it will help in #Canada

So the fate of the #USA is to be an example of what poor #gunControl, no #universalHealthcare, and what an unchecked #plutocrat-#bigot #political axis does to a motherfucker:

Sane observant #citizens in other #democracies can avoid our fate

🥴

"Anti-#Trump sentiment drives dramatic upturn in fortunes for Canada’s #Liberals"

theguardian.com/world/2025/feb

The Guardian · Anti-Trump sentiment drives dramatic upturn in fortunes for Canada’s LiberalsBy Guardian staff reporter
Continued thread

…The new program could lead to a “nationwide show-me-your-papers regime” that could ensnare US #citizens & legal immigrants, Greg Chen, senior director of government relations for the American #Immigration Lawyers Association, warned in an interview. Anyone who “appears foreign” could be harassed, he said.

#Trump#law#USpol
Continued thread

oh it's far worse than just a #deportation scheme

#NayibBukele (President of #ElSalvador):

"We have offered the #UnitedStates of #America #USA the opportunity to outsource part of its #prison system.

We are willing to take in only #convicted #criminals (including convicted #US #citizens) into our mega-prison (#CECOT) in exchange for a fee.

The fee would be relatively low for the U.S. but significant for us, making our entire prison system sustainable."