In a “breathtaking departure from the rule of law” - and facing multiple legal routs - Trump and his fascist flunkies continue to lie, stall and gaslight on their right to disappear a Maryland sheet metal worker and other brown-skinned migrants to an El Salvador gulag with zero evidence of wrongdoing, even as ICE Gestapo still run rampant - Smashed Windshields 'R Us - and oh yeah U.S. citizens may be next. Take note, says historian Timothy Snyder: “This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror.”

The escalating legal standoff over the wrongful deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia has in turn become a “political flashpoint” on an already fiercely divided Capitol Hill. To most of us, the case symbolizes a racist crackdown that threatens the basic rights of us all, while the regime’s increasingly flagrant violations of court orders threaten the very rule of law. Dug into an alternate reality, the regime argues it’s nobly fighting for “the safety of American citizens” against raping, murdering “illegal aliens,” “foreign criminals,” and “terrorists” like Garcia, who came here from El Salvador without papers at 16, has never been charged with a crime, was granted protection under a 2019 court order due to a “credible fear” of violence from gangs back home, is now a union member and father of three married to a U.S. citizen, and is alleged to be a member of the MS-13 gang because he wore a Chicago Bulls hat and hoodie “indicative” of gang membership, and a detective - since suspended for being a lying scum bag - said he was.