As I stated during my Joint Address to the Congress last month, my message to every American child is simple: you are perfect exactly the way God made you,” reads Trump’s statement.

The implication is that God didn’t make anyone gay, trans, non-binary, etc., and if any minor claims to be naturally the way they feel they are, MAGA fascists will step in to correct them with God on their side. They will tell themselves they’re doing a good thing. That’s how the original Nazis lived with working in concentration camps committing mass murder too, and like MAGA fascists they also considered themselves good Christians.

What a terrible thing. I do hope this doesn’t start happening regularly, every few days.

It’s good to see an effort to keep track of this. It would be great to have something like this for all the people kidnapped by ICE, not just the academics. But that would be a huge project, and many have probably been snatched and whisked away without the case becoming public at all. Is there a database behind this that people could contribute to if they know someone who has been abducted by the government?

Also, I wonder whether just listing the stated reason gives too much credence to it. They’re all labelled terrorist sympathizers, and it’s usually a lie or a very spun way of saying “they objected to Israel’s genocide of Palestinians.” Maybe the format could be updated with a link to some more balanced information about each case - a media article or a wiki page?

There’s not really anything wrong with being incompetent, so long as you have the humility to admit it and learn from people who know better, and try not to cause harm. That’s not Musk’s minions though.