“The knowledge infrastructure that used to anchor American governance is fraying,” writes @Daojoan in her story for her Index newsletter. People in senior positions often have limited understanding of their roles, responsibilities, the law and the U.S. Constitution, and it doesn’t seem to matter. “The crisis we face — not only in America but worldwide — isn't a knowledge gap. It's a moral gap. A deficit of virtue. And the only remedy for that is cultural, not political,” she writes.

https://www.theindex.media/the-unlearning-of-america/

“The fundamental right to due process is under attack by Trump's mass deportation policy,” wrote our @ElectionCentral team in this Flipboard Storyboard. Here’s a collection of articles exploring what’s happening, who is being sent where, and if U.S. citizens could be next.

https://flipboard.com/@electioncentral/the-vanished-trump-deportations-4c20bskv33q9e5j9

@andrewstroehlein

haven’t read this particular article (paywall) but have read about this extraordinary display of pride in (well, not really sure what to call it…)

USA is an interesting case. i envy their <mission statement> approach to nation-building, but am wary of people who think the USA is in any way <mission accomplished>

as for the founding fathers themselves… i think they kinda loved the sound of their own quills scratching, and would be horrified by indifference to what they said (perhaps not at all horrified by people who have read enough of what they wrote to call out their hypocrisy)

@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes this really shocks me...

• Like I as a German should not have much of an understanding on "#HabeasCorpus" or it's history going back to the Civil War in England but even here we got an equivalent as in anyone detained has a right to face a judge within 24 hours and the right to appeal said detainment legally.

Anything else is legalized #ForcedDisappearance, because in a working system, the State has to justify why it restricts or suspends freedoms and has to face scrutiny for that.

• But I guess the #Trump-#Regime doesn't give a shit about #HumanRights, #CivilRights #ChecksAndBalanves as well as #RuleOfLaw.

Otherwise we might just not bother with #Democracy at all!

When I first saw headlines about this story, I genuinely thought the media was just taking the bait while yet another Trump regime official "played stupid" under questioning, but seeing is believing; as this short Majority Report segment demonstrations, DHS Secretary (and former Governor of South Dakota) absolutely does not know what the Writ of Habeas Corpus is and what, or even whose rights it protects. Facing down questions during a Senate oversight committee hearing, the DHS Secretary responded to the simple question of "what is habeas corpus" with "habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country, and suspend their right to" before being cut off by Senator (D-NH) Maggie Hassan, who provided the correct answer. The entire exchange, as well as Noem's responses to further questioning by Senator (D-NJ) Andy Kim have a bizarro-world quality to them that exposes Noem as a deeply unserious and untrustworthy person who absolutely should not be serving in the US government in any capacity whatsoever; I wouldn't trust this lady to run the Easter Egg Roll.

I would however like to note that the things Noem did say, or at least clearly had absorbed by repetition for propaganda purposes, were just as revealing as the things she didn't know and couldn't recite. Analyzing Noem's answers, it's very clear that she was making a propaganda argument to manufacture consent for suspending habeas corpus, and Donald Trump's presumed power to do so; even going so far as to push back against the clearly better informed and more legally knowledgeable Senators questioning her. Listening to the DHS Secretary, it's pretty easy to sketch a rough outline of Stephen Miller's plan to declare Trump can suspend habeas corpus without Congressional approval, under the presumption that said approval will be given retroactively because Abe Lincoln did so one time during the literal Civil War.

Of course none of the regime's arguments for this fascist bullshit are legally valid or make any sense at all. As we've discussed many times already here in this space, America is absolutely not being invaded, by narco-terrorist gangs or otherwise, and I think "we saw too many Mexican-looking people in our neighborhoods" doesn't represent an equivalent public safety "crisis" to that time Lincoln had to stop Confederate soldiers from pillaging Union territories when the South formally seceded and declared war on the US government. Despite this however, the Trump regime is currently working hard to make that argument and win the court of public opinion on this alarming subject for a reason; Kristi Noem might be an ignorant fool, but someone certainly fed her the talking points the administration wants to use to justify suspending habeas corpus, and that should concern us all

The Majority Report: Trump Team's Stunning Ignorance On Full Display During Noem's 'Habeas Corpus' Flop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aZH2dQcwyQ