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So far we’ve seen basically all the awfulness of this regime fall by the wayside, not because people don’t care, but because there’s always some fresh terrible news that captures our attention.
Not with SignalGate. At least not so far.
This debacle where the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic was accidentally included in a group discussing upcoming military plans on the Signal app has captured the nation’s attention for longer than just a single news cycle.
I think it is such an egregious and idiotic mistake, not their typical intentional maliciousness, makes it hard to explain away.
But that doesn’t mean they aren’t trying.
Already the public relations spin has begun.
The information wasn’t classified, they say. The EIC of The Atlantic is a hack. They did nothing wrong.
The truth is vanishing.
But not only the truth. People are vanishing as well.
For the more than 250 Venezuelans deported from the United States to a notorious detention center in El Salvador, their nightmare is only beginning.
A chilling article in TIME, details their arrival.
Then a PhD student at Tufts University was accosted and detained by plainclothes officers, some wearing masks, while she was walking down the street.
Her crime?
Holding the wrong political opinions according to this regime.
What can we do?
As ordinary people, we have little opportunity for direct intervention.
But we are not powerless.
We raise our voices. We do not to forget. We continue to bear witness.
We do not let them play semantics with human rights abuses, with these affronts against the very image of God in all people.
We refuse to let fear, apathy, or ignorance close our eyes or silence our voices.
These will not be vanishing acts.
Not with our safety, not our people, and not on our watch.
How do you stay focused when there’s always some new crisis? What helps you not look away?
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