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Featured story: By converting a digital camera to reveal infrared light, photographer Jordan Vonderhaar turns surveillance tech back on itself, with bright foliage highlighting the intensity of Texas' #border militarization. https://www.texasobserver.org/the-river-and-the-fever-dream-photo-essay/

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Our top story: By converting a digital camera to reveal infrared light, photographer Jordan Vonderhaar turns #surveillance tech back on itself, with bright foliage highlighting the intensity of #Texas' border militarization. https://www.texasobserver.org/the-river-and-the-fever-dream-photo-essay/

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Our top story: By converting a digital camera to reveal infrared light, photographer Jordan Vonderhaar turns #surveillance tech back on itself, with bright foliage highlighting the intensity of #Texas' border militarization. https://www.texasobserver.org/the-river-and-the-fever-dream-photo-essay/

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"Those in the media who choose to treat propaganda as the story, who begin from lies rather than from events, are also complicit. The border is the crack, the lies are the wedge, and the people who accept those lies are opening it wider."

See also T. Snyder's discussion of these issues in the video linked below.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuNBKQDNT0I

"The aspiring tyrant looks for cracks in the system that can be pried open.
One of these cracks is the border, where the country ends. Because the law ends there, too, an obvious move for the tyrant is to turn the whole country into a border, where no rules apply. ...

The border becomes the pretext to undo the law everywhere, at all times, and against anyone."

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"Respectable white people are now keenly aware that the logical conclusion of a decades' worth of anti-immigrant hatred includes murdering white people and they don't like it. They are shocked to discover that authoritarianism did not stop at the color line."

~ John Stoehr

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https://www.editorialboard.com/americans-are-shocked-to-discover-authoritarianism-did-not-stop-at-the-color-line/

"Respectable white people are now keenly aware that the logical conclusion of a decades' worth of anti-immigrant hatred includes murdering white people and they don't like it. They are shocked to discover that authoritarianism did not stop at the color line."

~ John Stoehr

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #tyranny #fascism #immigrants #border #BorderPatrol #PoliceState #LawandOrder #lies #disinformation #propaganda #media
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https://www.editorialboard.com/americans-are-shocked-to-discover-authoritarianism-did-not-stop-at-the-color-line/

"Those in the media who choose to treat propaganda as the story, who begin from lies rather than from events, are also complicit. The border is the crack, the lies are the wedge, and the people who accept those lies are opening it wider."

See also T. Snyder's discussion of these issues in the video linked below.

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #tyranny #fascism #immigrants #border #BorderPatrol #PoliceState #LawandOrder #lies #disinformation #propaganda #media
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuNBKQDNT0I

"It is the crack that can be opened. The wedge is constructed with lies, which begin as cliches and memes that the government pounds into our heads, and which the media repeat, mindlessly or with malice.

One of these cliches is 'law enforcement,' which is uttered over and over like an incantation."

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"The aspiring tyrant looks for cracks in the system that can be pried open.
One of these cracks is the border, where the country ends. Because the law ends there, too, an obvious move for the tyrant is to turn the whole country into a border, where no rules apply. ...

The border becomes the pretext to undo the law everywhere, at all times, and against anyone."

#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #tyranny #fascism #immigrants #border #BorderPatrol #PoliceState #LawandOrder
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