Trump is pointing to Kilmar Abrego Garcia's tattoos [18] to justify his indefinite detention [19] without charge in the ultra-oppressive Salvadoran prison gulag [20]. These notoriously include a cannabis leaf [21], demonstrating the continued propaganda utility of the "Reefer Madness [22]" stigma, even as a multi-million dollar legal industry [23] emerges. But the White House actually added the characters "MS13 [24]" (name of the notorious Salvadoran gang) to the shot of Abrego Garcia's knuckles in a crude photoshop job—despite transparent denials [25] from Trump. Lubricating the emerging transnational mass detention program [33] with this Orwellian post-truth stratagem, the Trump regime meanwhile moves toward [27] actual deportation of US citizens [28]. Bill Weinberg raises the alarm in Episode 277 [29] of the CounterVortex podcast [30].
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