In another thread and some recent conversations on my personal account, I talked a little bit about why the Trump regime's actions in court signal that they have no intention of ceasing their ideological policing of anti-genocide, pro-Palestine critics, through the federally-controlled immigration process. As if to demonstrate the point, the US government has deported an Australian blogger returning to the country, expressly for his writings about Israel's genocide in Gaza, and anti-genocide student protests in the United States.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/15/australian-deported-from-us-says-he-was-targeted-due-to-writing-on-pro-palestine-student-protests

Australian deported from US says he was ‘targeted’ due to writing on pro-Palestine student protests

"The 33-year-old said he was “clearly targeted for politically motivated reasons” and said officials spent more than 30 minutes questioning him about his views on Israel and Palestine including his “thoughts on Hamas”.

Kitchen said officials asked him for his “thoughts about the conflict in a very broad sense”, including about student protesters, what Israel “should have done differently” and “how I would resolve the conflict”.

“It was quite an in-depth probing of my views on the war,” he said.

Kitchen said he was deported and landed back in Melbourne on Saturday morning.

“The CBP explicitly said to me, the reason you have been detained is because of your writing on the Columbia student protests,” he told Guardian Australia on Sunday. The US Department of Homeland Security was contacted for comment."

To be clear, Kitchen is not a resident of the United States and nothing CBP did is strictly illegal; it's not like they kidnapped him and threw him in private prison cage, as they have done to anti-genocide protestors and critics in America where immigration law made it possible (but not legal.) However the blogger's testimony makes it clear that US immigration officials knew who he was in advance, wanted to grill him on his writing about the genocide and anti-genocide protests on college campuses, and denied him entry for the purely ideological reason that he doesn't support Trump's genocide or fascist repression of student protestors. The investigating officials made up some bullshit about there being evidence of drug use on Kitchen's phone, but their laser-like focus on his writing makes it abundantly clear that this was fascist ideological policing.

Folks, let's be clear here; Kitchen is a guy with a conscience who maintains a small blog. He is not a threat to the US government, and there was no valid reason to deny him entry to the United States or deport him whatsoever. Immigration enforcement under the Trump regime is clearly about keeping the kind of people Trump himself doesn't like out of the country, and has nothing to do with the law, national security, or keeping us safe.

This episode brings us back to something I was talking about when immigration pigs harassed and detained Hasan Piker at the Chicago airport, in that it speaks to the scope of the Trump regime's ideological policing. These fascist pigs are tracking Twitch streamers and guys writing blogs with a few thousand regular readers (folks not unlike myself) and the only reason this is all focused on immigrants and foreign visitors to the United States is because that's the part of the government Trump more or less controls completely. The regime thinks opposing the regime itself is a crime, and as soon as they can make this ideological policing an operational program domestically, you can bet that they're coming for American-born critics in the same ways, and for the same reasons.

As you have perhaps heard, US ally Israel attacked US-declared regional adversary Iran on Friday. This has touched off a conflict that could end up anywhere on the spectrum between "a very short war" and "World War Three" in light of how many powerful countries on Earth have a vested interest in ensuring the survival of either Israel, or Iran respectively. The situation is tense, delicate, and while the purpose of this blog isn't to talk about global foreign policy decisions, I still feel pretty comfortable saying the United States is already on the wrong side of history here given Israel's illegal aggression; to say nothing of the ongoing US-enabled genocide the Netanyahu government is conducting against Palestinians in Gaza. We are, by virtue of our alliance with Israel and our government's open and even material support of Netanyahu's desperate gambit, as close to being at war with Iran as possible without actually declaring a war.

Truly, this is a moment that calls for a clear-headed, elite negotiator style of President who can deescalate the situation before the conflict draws in global powers, and most importantly of all keep the United States out of yet another unwinnable forever war in the MENA. Of course, we instead have Donald Fucking Trump; a man who apparently does not seem to realize that Israel is incapable of reaching the war objectives of a conflict it started *without* direct American intervention, and are thus actively trying to draw the US into Netanyahu's war, even as Israeli political officials openly admit as much.

How do I know Trump is that stupid? Well, he keeps saying the quiet part out loud - like Sunday for example, when he told ABC News that he was willing to commit US forces to the conflict; which would officially be joining Israel's objectively illegal war on Iran.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-iran-war

Trump Says US Forces 'Could Get Involved' as Israel Expands Deadly Assault on Iran

"U.S. President Donald Trump suggested Sunday that American forces "could get involved" in the intensifying military conflict that Israel started late last week with a barrage of attacks on Iran, prompting large-scale retaliatory strikes and warnings of a prolonged and catastrophic war.

Trump told ABC News senior political correspondent Rachel Scott that the U.S. is not currently involved in the conflict, which is false. The U.S. has helped Israel shoot down Iranian missiles, and American fighter jets are reportedly "patrolling the sky in the Middle East to protect personnel and installations." One Israeli official told the Jerusalem Post that "there was full and complete coordination with the Americans" on Israel's early Friday bombardment of Iran, which set off the conflict.

But Trump's remarks Sunday signaled the potential for a deeper U.S. role in the war, setting off alarm among lawmakers who have warned that such involvement would be illegal as well as disastrous."

Look, I don't want to get all libbed up here but, are you fucking kidding me with this dipshit? Literally any other US President in the entire history of this country would be telling Israel to shut this shitshow down because the US empire doesn't get dragged into wars to save the careers of politicians running our client states, we drag client states into wars the US declares at a time and place of our warmongers' choosing. I do not give a single rat's ass about American "national security" and the Pig Empire's international racket to enforce capitalist extraction at bayonet point, but Trump trying to hitch our wagon to Netanyahu's desperate hail mary so he can look tough is a profound display of political weakness and yet another example of why this absolute fucking muppet should not be the guy in charge of an American war machine that can turn the whole planet to ash multiple times over.

To put it fucking politely, Israel is an ethnonationalist colonial outpost for the Pig Empire in the MENA, that is currently conducting an ongoing livestreamed baby holocaust in Gaza, and the only fucking thing keeping them from being a pariah state is the support of the US government as embodied by the Trump regime. Netanyahu needs America, way more than Trump needs Netanyahu; for the Swine Emperor to even be considering committing US troops to Israel's ongoing assault, which almost certainly started with an actual fucking war crime, is the most Dunning-Krueger effect shit I've ever seen a US President do; and I survived the George W. Bush presidency.

Look folks, I don't know how this story ends; recent reports indicate that Iran is inexplicably still willing to negotiate for peace with us, so I think we should take their offer. But make no mistake, there will be no winners of a war against Iran, and the fact that Trump is toying with embroiling us in one, again, speaks to why this man must go. So much for the "anti-war" President, amirite?