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Post #1405293

2026-04-17 18:45 UTC

Don't visit the #USA. A French woman, aged 86, finally arrived back in France thanks to help from the embassy. "Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé was arrested in her nightgown at the home she shared with her late husband, a retired US army captain" by ICE and imprisoned in a #detention camp. Arriving, "she was still dressed in her detention uniform of orange shoes, sweatpants and a grey sweater covered in stains and holes. ... in a state of shock and exhausted after her ordeal." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/17/french-widow-86-flies-home-after-ice-detention-centre-ordeal

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  • @NatureMC yes, we are a sick country destined to fall. Think about it this way: The USA was founded on: White supremacy, Genocide, Slavery, and religious fascism. How the hell does anyone not see the repercussions that would surely be coming? A country that starts this way will also end this way. I just hope that our fall doesn't take everyone else down. But at this point I spit on my citizenship, and dare them to deport me. #LandBackALLOFIT

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  • @Emmacox@writing.exchange 2026-04-17 18:59

    @NatureMC how awful. I visited over a decade ago on a business trip and ended up getting stopped at the airport, taken to a side room and strip-searched because they didn't like the seams in the jeans I wore and thought I was carrying drugs. I think the guards just wanted to grope and check out my underwear. That (and having to suffer a visit to a gun range) put me off ever going again.

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  • @raganwald@social.bau-ha.us 2026-04-17 19:15

    @NatureMC “The cruelty is the point.” —Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 2018 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelty-is-the-point/572104/

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