As most have predicted and feared, the US Administration appears to now be testing if they can push one step further towards enforcing an authoritarian ethno-state: threatening a full-on US citizen by-birth with detainment and deportation (to where, exactly, if they are a born US citizen?). Someone who, “coincidentally”, is an immigration lawyer, someone who might defend other targets of their deportation agenda.

First they came for …


EDIT: a thread indicating this has been a mass email to others https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3lmljpkrdj22h

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    6 days ago

    Yeah, it took a bit of getting used to when I started following politics and everyone was referring to “liberals” as left-leaning! The Liberal/National Party (LNP or Coalition) is more libertarian than liberal.

    Labor (the ALP) is centrist. The biggest left-leaning party are the Greens. There are a host of smaller parties and independents that usually get a handful of seats too.