Source: Common Dreams
by Thom Hartmann
“We’re all familiar with Trump’s famous deportation flights of Venezuelans and Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a concentration camp in El Salvador in violation of a court’s order. But did you know there have been over 1,000 such flights in the past few months, some to absolute hellhole countries? On top of that, the Washington Post reports this morning that ICE is planning to open or expand 125 new ‘detention facilities’ across the country, including ones to hold families, giving America the largest prison system in the world. … Are Americans being conditioned by our media to become ‘Good Germans’?” [editor’s note: This pundit’s first error was in not examining more closely how the “media” is the main culprit in this, and not because (with tiny exceptions) it only foments hatred for the current regime, even when it does something maybe good, while supporting no sane alternatives, in officeholder or policies – SAT] [editor’s note: The current regime, like all others, does nothing “maybe good,” and deserves nothing but “hatred” – TLK] (08/16/25)