OK. Sure western people are more valuable.

The second and third are the same incident, from the prior Trump administration. But the visa was denied; nobody was arrested or detained.

(Apart from the GDS Transport font, which is exclusive to GOV.UK websites)

But he was definitely talking about ADHD. This tweet has the short video of him actually including adderal.

https://x.com/MotherJones/status/1816180369110270435

> I’m going to create these wellness farms where they can go to get off of illegal drugs, off of opiates, but also illegal drugs, other psychiatric drugs, if they want to, to get off of SSRIs, to get off of benzos, to get off of Adderall, and to spend time as much time as they need — three or four years if they need it — to learn to get reparented, to reconnect with communities,

I am not going to skim through 1.5h of deranged ramblings in a raspy voice to find him saying this though.

However, you put it in context with the fact that this administration has shipped off people to an El Salvadoran prison without any due process… this becomes a lot more ominous.

I had a friend deported from Denmark when he overstayed his visa and it was basically the same thing.

Some of these look really bad and could be sensible justification for the proposed boycott/cancellation (see French scientist eg) but a lot of it looks completely hysterical.

In other words, his opinion isn't worth the electronic bits needed to spread them.

Given the things he said about vaccines and bird flu, I wouldn’t trust him an inch.

the State Department has also announced that it considers sex markers that don't correspond to sex at birth to be fraudulent. ostensibly for the sports ban, but it actually applies to all visa applications and documentation.

combine those two facts with the administration's stated antipathy towards us, and the recent trend of Germans and Canadians being detained for weeks with no apparent cause, and I think you should see why trans women ought to avoid US travel right now.

This petition is just another tired partisan attack. Like a lot of empty outrage stories, it makes hysterical claims about safety that aren’t based on reality. And of course the people signing it were not going to go anyways and frankly it doesn’t matter if they’re there or not.

This is a great point: doing menacing things here and there creates a sort of illusion that they can do menacing things everywhere at once, which they actually cannot.

If we're talking about carried out threat and not achieved aims: there were more than those two flights and more than those two buildings targeted. And even if you are talking about achieved aims only: the Pentagon was hit as well if you are forgetting that or maybe that just belongs in the '~'. In fact more than two buildings in NYC itself were destroyed, even if only two there were targeted.

The seat of the main elected branch of government (US Capitol) was targeted and likely would have been struck without the passenger interventions (fighter jets had been sent out towards the atlantic ocean and FAA had not yet ordered all planes grounded even if NORAD had been alerted by that point). We were very lucky passengers and crew had made airphone calls and some disallowed cell phone calls to get enough critical mass to fight back.

I think the subsequent war on terror, used to invade Iraq without any relation to the attack, was terrible, but this kind of deflation is pretty insane to read.

There is also no evidence of them of any wrongdoing. Just claims by the ICE.

Except the link you're responding to is literally linking to reports of threats to safety.

> Activists who are in opposition to the US presidency are overreacting to a few lone cases of people being detained at borders without knowing the details of those situations.

We know more than enough to point out that it shouldn't have happened at all. Even without those incidents, the previous concentration camps are not acceptable.

> Three of the stories linked are from the guardian, a far left publication that has been attacking the Trump administration.

The Guardian is a centre-left outlet, not a far-left outlet. Also, other outlets across the political bias spectrum are reporting the same thing so your comment here is boiling down to ignoring the message and attacking the messenger.

> All of the stories lack details and evidence of wrongdoing. So this just looks like hysteria and manufactured outrage.

You mean, except for the details, and the evidence of wrongdoing?

The rest of the world is basically telling the US to fuck off.

You'll get the message eventually, when it will be too late.

Good luck on making it to your 250th birthday as a republic, let alone a democracy.