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I KNEW this motherfucker was going to start pulling shit like this. First, he backchannels Van Hollen to humiliate Trump by giving the Senator access to Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Now he's trying to broker a deal with Venezuela to get Salvadorean political prisoners back. Bukele is an operator. But the Trump people foolishly believe that they actually control this situation.

cnn.com/2025/04/20/americas/el

CNN · El Salvador’s president offers Maduro US-deported Venezuelans for prisoner swapBy Michael Rios

The #masternegotiator at work:
Bully #ukraine to give up territory before negotiations really started.
Watch quietly how #Russia breaks promises.
Bully #ukraine to sign a #rareearths 'deal' with him.
Reject #selenskyj 's request to buy arms claiming he has started the war that #Putin started.
Announcing that #USA will quit the peace negotiations if they don't see progress.

Putin did everything to slow or disturb any step towards peace - surely is the happiest #dictator in the world right now!

In today's Vatnik Soup, I'll publish my latest op-ed published by The BaSe, The Baltic Sentinel:

Wake up, World War 3 is Here

In September 1939, Europe watched #Hitler invade Poland. Britain and France declared #war, but let’s be honest: they weren’t ready for one. They’d spent years pretending that if they just gave the Austrian painter turned #dictator with the funny mustache what he wanted, he’d eventually be satisfied and go home. He didn’t.

We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear-fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or fired because of the plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for bad debts or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer.
Hunter S. Thompson
Rings true today.
#terrorist #trump #dictator #fear #Gulag
There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
HST

Only in #solidarity do we affirm #law

"If citizens endorse the idea that people named by authorities as "criminals" or "terrorists" have no right to due process, then they are accepting that they themselves have no right to due process. It is #dueProcess, and due process alone, that allows you to demonstrate that you are a #citizen. Without it, the masked men in the black vans can simply claim that you are a foreign terrorist & disappear you"

#StateTerror #US #dictator
snyder.substack.com/p/state-te

Thinking about... · State TerrorBy Timothy Snyder
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"This is why Donald Trump cannot allow Kilmar Abrego Garcia to return to the United States. …

In an authoritarian regime, the opposition needs symbols and stories. Kilmar Abrego Garcia is that symbol. His abduction in front of his autistic son and imprisonment in a foreign concentration camp is that story.

All of the opposition’s energy should be focused on him."

#Trump #Bukele #AbregoGarcia #Rubio #ElSalvador #SupremeCourt #dictator #authoritarianism
/19

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"This is not incarceration; it is liquidation.

Incarceration is a penal act. It is controlled by laws. There are well-understood mechanisms governing the length of terms, applications for parole, processes for release.

Liquidation is a political act. It is arbitrary, opaque, and unappealable. There are no controlling laws or processes. There is only power."

~ Jonathan V. Last

#Trump #Bukele #AbregoGarcia #Rubio #ElSalvador #SupremeCourt #dictator
/18

thebulwark.com/p/bring-him-hom

The Bulwark · Bring. Him. Home.By Jonathan V. Last
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"The central feature in the U.S.—a cult of personality in which the erratic, chaotic, and unhinged leader runs roughshod over its people—has nothing to do with Democrats. We cannot blame the small 'd' democrats (or the large 'D' ones either) for extremism or intransigence simply for insisting their fellow countrymen recognize objective reality and respect democratic norms."

#Trump #Bukele #AbregoGarcia #Rubio #ElSalvador #SupremeCourt #dictator #authoritarianism #MediaFail #media
/16

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"If you didn’t know better you would think 'polarization' descended from on high, a plague for which no one party is responsible. This deliberate obfuscation of our political situation suits the corporate media’s obsession with moral equivalence and contrived balance."

~ Jennifer Rubin

#Trump #Bukele #AbregoGarcia #Rubio #ElSalvador #SupremeCourt #dictator #authoritarianism #MediaFail #media
/15

contrarian.substack.com/p/word

The Contrarian · Words & Phrases We Can Do WithoutBy Jennifer Rubin
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"Trump 'crossed the Rubicon' long ago—but the media has somehow forgotten or minimized prior actions by Trump that qualify as a 'constitutional crises.' ...

I do not mean to minimize what happened in the Oval Office on Monday."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #Bukele #AbregoGarcia #Rubio #ElSalvador #SupremeCourt #dictator #authoritarianism
/13

roberthubbell.substack.com/p/c

Today's Edition Newsletter · Call it by its name: A coup (redux)By Robert B. Hubbell
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"While it is completely outrageous and startling that Rubio as Secretary of State would enter into a contract to render people in United States to this hellhole without due process, in the sense of, if you knew that Marco Rubio had deep ties to the for-profit private prison industry in the U.S., it might not surprise you as much."

~ Nadine Smith

#Trump #Bukele #AbregoGarcia #Rubio #ElSalvador #SupremeCourt #dictator #authoritarianism
/12

gregolear.substack.com/p/tuesd

PREVAIL by Greg Olear · Tuesday Convo: Nadine Smith & Lisa Graves of "The Five 8 1/2" (video)By Greg Olear