Sasha Abramsky
Freelance journalist, Nation magazine correspondent, teacher, book author, tennis fan and skier.
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- After a while, it gets repetitive saying "Fascist is as fascist does..." But if it quacks like a duck, it's probably a goddamn duck. Where are all the anti-big-brother folks now? Where's the outrage at proposals such as this? www.cnn.com/2025/05/09/p...
- Reposted by Sasha AbramskyI am outraged by the unjust arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka earlier this afternoon outside of Delaney Hall in Newark. I am calling for his immediate release by federal law enforcement.
- Reposted by Sasha AbramskyThe Library of Congress is a research library. You have to be 16 to access it. Leavitt is lying.
- My latest Hiding in Plain Sight Nation column, on the cruelty -- and absurdity -- of Trump's latest plan, to deport migrants to Libya in military planes. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
- A long feature article I wrote for the Nation on California in the Trump era. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
- My latest Santa Fe Reporter column. sfreporter.com/columns/lett...
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- Reposted by Sasha Abramsky64 days with no aid reaching Gaza. No food, water or medicine. Children are starving. Netanyahu’s extremist government now says it will occupy Gaza & put mercenaries in charge of distributing aid, instead of the UN and other aid groups. Despicable. No more US support for Netanyahu’s war machine.
- The more I read Trump's statement on tariffs on foreign movies, the more two thoughts strike me: 1) This is classic fascism, accusing foreigners of undermining nat'l security with globalist worldview; 2), more pertinently, the man is a raving fucking lunatic. Mad as a march hare. Utterly bonkers.
- Yes, Trump, you DO have to uphold the constitution; that's what living in a constitutional system of governance, and swearing an oath of office to uphold constitution means. And, NO, you don't make Americabetter, wiser place by putting 100% tariff on all foreign movies. Fascist is as fascist does.
- Reposted by Sasha AbramskyShooting films in foreign countries is a “national security threat”?!? He is certifiable. And astonishingly stupid.
- On the entirely harmful destruction of the National Institute on Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and how this will hurt many of the very people, including coalminers, who were part of Trump's coalition. truthout.org/articles/nio...
- So... just to be clear on priorities: the day Trump admin announces it is cancelling a program that helps keep thousands of vets from having their homes foreclosed, it also announces it is spending tens of millions of dollars on military parade for Trump's birthday!?! So very North Korean of them...
- Here's my long Hiding in Plain Sight column for the Nation on the first 100 days of this hellish Administration. The focus is on the corruption and the cruelty. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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- Bravo, Mark Carney! And what a speech he made, a blistering attack on Trump's destruction of the world order.
- My latest Truthout column, on Trump's efforts to make care even more unaffordable and public health even more out of reach. truthout.org/articles/tar...
- My latest Nation column, on Trump's escalating assaults on immigrants, the university system, and the rule of law -- and ways that GOP states are aping this. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
- The scale of this govt's data-destruction efforts -- akin to infamous book-burning episodes of yore -- is simply staggering. Here's a BBC article detailing it: www.bbc.com/future/artic...
- Hmmm.... I wonder what are the Freudian implications of this obsession with really large flagpoles? www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
- Superb, and utterly disturbing, analysis of this authoritarian moment. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...
- Trump's pain threshold -- as determined by the market giving the Bronx Jeer, repeatedly, to his economic policies and his statements on the Fed Reserve -- is apparently rather low. www.cnn.com/2025/04/22/b...
- My latest Santa Fe Reporter column, asking small-government advocates where their voices are now, in the midst of this Trumpian power-grab. Hope you can circulate it to libertarian friends, etc. sfreporter.com/columns/lett...
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- Sec of Defense has been firing top brass left and right, denouncing them as unqualified "DEI hires" . But it turns out the really unqualified one is the arse who keeps bandying about classified info to all and sundry on Signal. As Seinfeld used to say: whodathunkit!? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...
- A second podcast conversation, from yesterday, with Jason Herbert. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
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- Organizers of protests today are hoping for 11 million people -- 3% of the population -- to be on the streets in cities throughout the country. Here's a link to the 50501 website; it lists all the protests in the country by zip code. www.fiftyfifty.one
- Administration is preparing to deport dozens more people to CECOT. They are flouting every court order they can at this point. Supreme Court: When will you intervene? Congress: When will you intervene? Governors: When will you intervene. The whole world is watching. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/u...
- Reposted by Sasha AbramskyThe US government’s position, again, is that anyone caught up in these human trafficking operations is suffering a final and irreversible loss of all the rights guaranteed by the Constitution and all the rights described as inalienable by the Declaration of Independence. bsky.app/profile/kyle...
- I don't know how many ways to say this: disappearing people without due process and sending them to an overseas concentration camp, ignoring judges orders, attacking those who work to bring the deportee home, releasing WH statements saying he's never coming back, this is FASCISM.
- Apparently Trump can't spell. When he wrote that Sen. Van Hollen was a "fool" for talking with Garcia inside CECOT, he surely meant to write "hero, defender of democracy, human rights advocate, emblem of decency in a barbarian age, nemesis of gangster president." www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
- What's at stake in the Garcia case? Pretty much everything: democracy, the rule of law, respect for court rulings, human rights, dignity, humanity... My Nation article on this: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
- This is a real prison in El Salvador, not CECOT but similar to it. This is the country's prisons that Trump wants to send US citizens to. He should instantly be disqualified from holding public office for espousing such a barbaric vision. www.snopes.com/fact-check/p...
- I think someone missed high school reading assignment for Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, about what happens in food processing facilities when there's no govt oversight. Discontinuing FDA inspections is one of scariest and craziest of Trump's many bat-shit policies. www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...
- Trump today said he has "nothing to do" with the Garcia deportation to CECOT. Yeah, right... We're now deep into constitutional crisis. Trump continuing his defiance of law, of court rulings, and of human decency. Democracies do not kidnap people and dump them into overseas concentration camps.
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- Perhaps might be a good time to remind people that the "I was only obeying orders" excuse doesn't play well historically. For all the crimes and blatantly unconstitutional actions this administration is currently committing in broad daylight, the country will one day demand legal accountability.
- Reposted by Sasha AbramskyI challenge anyone to read Judge Boasberg's careful recitation of the facts and not be filled with rage at the government's thuggish, sneering lawlessness.
- 🚨Here is Judge Boasberg's opinion finding that he has probable cause that the government in CRIMINAL contempt for defying his orders on March 15: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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- Three days into the Constitutional Crisis of Trump ignoring court orders to return Garcia, the attorney general says Garcia isn't coming back and administration continues to call deportees to CECOT "terrorists." This is thuggocracy.
- Two days into biggest constitutional crisis since Civil War. Fascist Trump admin. continues to make no effort to comply with Supreme Court ruling in Garcia case, and Garcia -- along with hundreds of others deported with no due process to CECOT -- remains imprisoned in El Salvador. Eyes wide open.
- Reposted by Sasha AbramskySays the guy whose charity was shut down by the state of New York for making illegal campaign contributions.
- Is there anybody in the world at this point who looks at what's going on today and thinks Trump's US is a fully functioning democracy? Seriously, guys, democracies don't banish the wire services from their leaders' open-to-the-press events. www.cnn.com/2025/04/15/m...
- Fascist is as fascist does.When this nightmare is over, let no-one say they were unaware of what was happening. It's unconscionable that Garcia was sent to CECOT. It's unconscionable the govt lawyer who admitted this was then fired for not "zealously" representing US. www.cnn.com/2025/04/15/p...
- Question 1) Trump's team is bulldozing guardrails on sharing of govt data, creating huge centralized databases to target immigrants/dissenters. Where are voices of supposedly anti-big govt people now? Question 2) Trump claims public safety mandate: but where's his outrage at arson vs PA gov's house?
- The most vital challenge facing US democracy right now is Garcia case. It's now been a full day since Trump brazenly declared a) that he wouldn't seek Garcia's return to the US; and b) that the Supreme Court agreed with him. Courts still haven't responded. Lawlessness now rules apparently.
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- Reposted by Sasha AbramskyUniversities must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Stanford stands with Harvard against the would-be tyrants. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/15/l...
- Let's be absolutely clear what is happening here. Another day has gone by without the Trump admin making any efforts to have Garcia returned to US, and making a mockery of court rulings ordering his return. This is a complete breakdown of the rule of law and of constitutional govt.
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- When British army was stranded at Dunkirk, a huge citizens' armada came to the rescue. Today, Harvard, is facing a catastrophic federal funding cut for daring to stand up to Trump. It's time for small-donation citizens to come to rescue in their millions. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...
- A podcast I did with Jason Herbert. He's a really good interviewer. This was a fascinating conversation to be part of. We covered a lot of ground on dangers of this MAGA moment, and escalating threats to democracy (And he let me swear a blue streak about Trump!) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
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- Trump refuses to seek return of Garcia from CECOT in El Salvador, and says "the home-grown are next." He blatantly lies about Supreme Court ruling on this case, and asks El Salvador's President Bukhele to build 5 more super max prisons. This is entirely monstrous, it's fascism in broad daylight.
- In 1960, Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram published results of an experiment in which Americans were ordered to inflict harm on others. Today, in Trump's America, the entire country is a part of an updated Milgram experiment. My Nation column on this... www.thenation.com/article/arch...
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- In past, attempts to mix and match criminal justice databases with voter rolls led to massive disenfranchisement of people WITHOUT felony records. Today, mixing-and-matching Soc Sec databases with those recently relabeled as "undocumented" will also badly misfire. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
