Scream Day

Today is National Scream Day.

Scream Day is a day dedicated to the idea that sometimes, the best way to deal with stress or overwhelming emotions is to let it all out with a good scream. (source)

Who, especially here in the US, doesn’t need to scream out their rage, frustration, fear, and disgust over the state of humanity?

It’s also Yom HaShoah. The full title is Yom Hashoah Ve-Hagevurah— the Day of (Remembrance of) the Holocaust and the Heroism.

The first people to be sent to concentration camps were members of the Polish resistance. Dissidents. People who weren’t real keen on Hitler and the whole Nazi vision.

On 14 June 1940, Germans deported a group of 728 Poles from the prison in Tarnów to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Among them were soldiers of the September campaign, members of the underground independence organizations, secondary school…students, as well as a small group of Polish Jews. (source)

Does this sound at all familiar? It fucking well should.

President Trump says his administration is actively exploring a proposal to detain U.S. citizens and send them to prisons in El Salvador.
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NPR contacted three prominent conservative legal scholars. All declined to comment. We also contacted three conservative legal think tanks. One declined to comment; two others didn't respond.  (source)

For the crime of speaking out, Trump and his ICE Brownshirts have already sent Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Öztürk, and who knows how many others to an ICE detention center in Louisiana. Kilmar Abrego Garcia and so many others have been deported (human trafficked) to a forced labor prison in another country—El Salvador—with no hope of release. All without due process of law. The Constitution? Apparently the Republican Party has never heard of, let alone read, the 5th and 14th amendments.

Also, FYI, the Department of Homeland Security (run by that puppy killing, purse losing, reservation banned, plastic surgery addicted Kristi Noem) has now doxxed Garcia’s wife and family. Such a peach, eh?

Ya know who else the Nazi fucks murdered? People with physical and mental disabilities. Folks like me were viewed as "useless" to society.

Brainworm Bobby has proposed creating a registry, drawn from private medical records, to track people with autism. 

His beliefs about autistic people would be almost laughable if he were some unknown spewing nonsense in a bar. “…these are kids who will never pay taxes, they’ll never hold a job, they’ll never play baseball, they’ll never write a poem, they’ll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted.”

A draft of proposed cuts to the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), leaked on Wednesday, would also eliminate support for people with disabilities in the US, including education, research and services. (source)

How long before Trump’s own Karl Brandt decides that those of us deemed worthless drains on society are sent away to special clinics where we *oopsie* die? Who will stop the Trump Euthanasia Program?

On March 17 of 1942 the SS began the first mass deportations of Jews, from the ghettos in Lublin, Poland and L'viv, Ukraine to the Belzec killing center.

Speaking of homegrown genocide, resistance, and resilience…

Today is the first day of The Gathering of Nations PowWow—the largest in North America. It’s held in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I wish I could be there.