Van Hollen and Booker showing how representatives in government should be working for their constituents. I hope their aim is to be as annoying as possible until something good comes of it, but I worry Bukele will just arrest them and further erode the numbers we have in Congress.
Why not all of them? Weren’t they all wrongfully deported?
Meanwhile, in Germany 1934
The bottom line is that man will never be safe in this country again. This fascist regime has made sure of that. He will have a massive target on his back if he ever returns.
American fascism is here.
He’s definitely gonna run for president again and is trying to position himself as relevant. He’ll never win.
“You won’t have to vote ever again”
All of them were wrongly deported.
Correct, although I imagine they don’t want to risk the optics of coming to the rescue of everyone only to find out after a court case that at least one of those people were actually guilty, even though you’d have saved hundreds from wrongful imprisonment and stood up for the constitution.
Voters are just too dumb, I guess.
If I were that man I would not want to return to the US. Send him somewhere safe.
His wife and child are American citizens. His life, job and friends are in the US.
It’s not easy for people to give up the people and places they love.
Where would he go? If he doesn’t have family anywhere else, how do you uproot your life and start 100% fresh elsewhere?
Look for him in this mound
What is that?
That’s the question! These are satellite images from the notorious El Salvadorian prison from 2024. The image is viral online with people claiming this is a pile of bodies and blood, but that’s unsubstantiated (and the image is from before Trump took office). Another idea is that it’s a pile of construction materials and clay.
Doesn’t look like anything to me.
Many stated it’s dead bodies-if you use Google Maps satellite. If you use Apple Maps-it’s very clean. But it seems like Google Maps is more updated than Apple…
I have a feeling this will be the first politician to be arrested.
Why would you think that? Just because he’s not a white m-ohhhhh right.
Yeah, no, you’re probably right. But they’re going to fuck up enough at some point. Hopefully we’ll be here to make them pay for it, and I like Booker. (yeah yeah miss me with the ‘he voted for Israel’ links, I got it, thanks.)
I have a feeling you’re wrong.
Cool.
Absolutely.
Human rights group, prison report.
Super glad he’s going to continue paying lip service. True hero.
Lets not conflate Van hollen and Booker.
Van Hollen actually does good with his position and I dont see skeletons in his closet.Booker is a centrist zionist bullshitter trying to ride van hollens coattails. Booker has done some good things, but when the chips are down and his vote is needed, he doesnt show up. A DNC democrat that needs to be removed along with the rest of the so called “liberals”. Lets make these people wear their voting history and not adore them for their purely performative BS or empty words.
Tired of empty cult of personality democrats.
Well Booker is doing a hell of a lot more than most other reps when it comes to this, no need to shit on the dude.
Like, I’d take him over the GOP candidate that ran against him.
so would I, but why is our yardstick always “is he better than a republican”. Thats exactly how we lose campaigns.
It’s not but party unity is also important and we won’t find perfection. Working within the confines of our real world is important but I agree that we need better representatives. Booker is just what our system gave us and he’s a lot better than many alternatives and worse than others.
Mostly I think having a unified message and party is important but hard when you’re dealing with people who actually care.
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Hard agree. Underrated comment.
Donald and his many goons has many skeletons in his cabinet. The only difference is, he’s showing it in real time.
If you hate liberals so much, why even vote for them? Just support a 3rd party or force all the liberals out and make them vote Republican.
Your comment makes no sense and jumps to conclusions. Maybe dont bother doing that.
This is a ballsy move on Booker’s part, and shit like this is exactly why nobody likes the left. Make better use of your time.
The left doesnt like centrists either. But neither of us can win without the other. So now what. The centrists would be in charge of the presidency right now if they could have held off sucking off AIPAC for 5 minutes but you lot couldnt even give a little bit on that-- you would rather lose to trump than give up on the genocide and bring the left and a critical portion of your base on side. That election was very winnable but you lot always seem to hate the left more than you hate trump. So what does the left owe you besides the back of our hand?
One of these days you ethics-free troglodyte centrists will have to admit you are in a coalition with the left. Neither of us has to like it-- and we absolutely dont like it-- or you, but we have to do it. And you need to ditch the zionists or get used to trump and losing every election till you do. You think the left will back down, we wont. We will never ever back your dirty genocide.
Do a helicopter escape, it will work
The lemmy hot takes are getting as bad as hacker news
What is the “hot take”?
What about the rest of them?
How about the legislatures stay home and legislate and you can send a fucking staffer or emissary for the photo op. FFS.
Actually do their jobs? No no, we prefer the virtue signaling tyvm
Apparently lmao -7 downvotes from people claiming the fascists are taking over. Fighting fascism is when take photos, and no one criticizes the photo op.
