cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29094869
Brett Wilkins Apr 23, 2025
“Federal and local law enforcement officers smashed their way into the Michigan homes of pro-Palestine student organizers on Wednesday in what the state attorney general’s office said was a vandalism probe—but critics called an attack on dissent against Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza.”
Federal and local law enforcement officers smashed into multiple homes with weapons drawn, arrested students, seized electronic devices and vehicles just to investigate… vandalism.
This shit is insane.
I feel like I’m watching all the flashback scenes of Handmaids Tale or basically all of Years and Years.
Fascism always looks the same, regardless of the year or circumstances of the situation. Fascism never changes. All they do is paint a thin veneer on the previous fascist attempt and try again, and again, and again, and again, and again.
Dana Nessel and the whole board of U of M should be removed from office over this. I doubt Whitmer will do it, but this has got to stop
