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Eliot Rosewater

(34,247 posts)
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 07:57 PM 8 hrs ago

ACLU on bluesky. This will make you FURIOUS!!!

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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ACLU on bluesky. This will make you FURIOUS!!! (Original Post) Eliot Rosewater 8 hrs ago OP
JFC orangecrush 8 hrs ago #1
Furious enough to make you forget about Epstein for a moment? usonian 8 hrs ago #2
Nope. calimary 5 hrs ago #17
Someone created a montage with JE surrounded by the photos of 4 young girls. usonian 5 hrs ago #18
Source? Amaryllis 8 hrs ago #3
Here Cirsium 8 hrs ago #4
Seems like a clear first amendment violation questionseverything 8 hrs ago #6
Thank you Amaryllis 8 hrs ago #8
Press releases are designated as such with the implied understanding that they're intended for distribution. Law: littlemissmartypants 6 hrs ago #16
Yep Cirsium 4 hrs ago #20
I figured you did. So, I posted for those who weren't sure. Thanks for the post, Cirsium. ❤️ littlemissmartypants 4 hrs ago #21
absolutely Cirsium 3 hrs ago #22
❤️🙏 littlemissmartypants 3 hrs ago #23
Once someone is in their claws, it's hard to get them to back down, BlueWaveNeverEnd 8 hrs ago #5
Link? Wednesdays 8 hrs ago #7
see reply 4 Amaryllis 7 hrs ago #10
I usually do provide links at least I try to put with blue sky it's Eliot Rosewater 7 hrs ago #11
it took me 10 seconds to find Cirsium 7 hrs ago #14
here Celerity 7 hrs ago #15
That's what we get with a criminal administration enabled by the not-so-supreme court. mdbl 8 hrs ago #9
Every.single.one.of.them are SADISTIC vapor2 7 hrs ago #12
They are psychopaths to take joy out of hurting people Eliot Rosewater 7 hrs ago #13
Another Leopard meal SamuelTheThird 5 hrs ago #19
That's the thing about free speech, you don't have to like what he says questionseverything 37 min ago #24

usonian

(21,054 posts)
2. Furious enough to make you forget about Epstein for a moment?
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 08:19 PM
8 hrs ago

He’s the founder of this entire shit-feast.

I believe that without this matter, Trump would sit back in his chair and enjoy hamberders all day long.

(And grift)

calimary

(87,951 posts)
17. Nope.
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 10:51 PM
5 hrs ago

Epstein occupies permanent residency in my brain (and my conscience). He will NEVER be forgotten.

NOT EVER!

usonian

(21,054 posts)
18. Someone created a montage with JE surrounded by the photos of 4 young girls.
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 11:19 PM
5 hrs ago

It's in this article, a very powerful indictment of a predator, by an abuse victim.


https://envisioningtheamericandream.com/2019/07/15/jeffrey-epstein-no-stranger-to-trouble/

I want every piece of shit who patronized or who abetted this monster, including banks, to be exposed and held accountable. No matter how high, holy, powerful or "supreme" if that's the case.

Cirsium

(2,926 posts)
4. Here
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 08:32 PM
8 hrs ago

This is from an ACLU press release, so republishing the entire trext would probably not be a copyright violation, but I kept it to 4 paragraphs anyway ("fair use.&quot

Mario Guevara To Be Deported After Appeals Court Denies Stay

ATLANTA – Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for his livestreaming of law enforcement activity, is being deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

On Tuesday, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals denied an emergency request for a stay on a final order of removal from the Board of Immigration Appeals. His family, including his wife and three children, were not given the opportunity to say goodbye to their father in person. Mario has been transferred to a facility in Louisiana after spending over 100 days in ICE detention and will go directly from detention onto a plane to El Salvador.

“Words cannot begin to describe the loss and devastation my family feels. I am in utter shock and disbelief the government has punished my father for simply doing his life’s work of journalism,” said Oscar Guevara, son of Mario Guevara. “My father should have never had to face over 100 days in detention. He is the center of our family. He is the reason our home feels like home. To me, he’s my rock, and I don’t know what life without him here will look like now that he will be deported. When I was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2021, it was my dad who centered me, who drove me to my medical appointments, and who lifted me up. Now, I will have to manage my health care on my own, and live thousands of miles away separated from him. My family has been torn apart for no good reason, and I can only hope that we can one day be reunited.”

Mr. Guevara was arrested by local law enforcement while reporting at a “No Kings” protest in June. Even though the charges were quickly dismissed and an immigration judge ordered his release on bond, ICE refused to release him on grounds that his reporting on law enforcement activity is dangerous. He spent over 100 days in ICE detention in retaliation for his journalism. He was the only journalist in detention in the United States for his reporting. As the founder and primary reporter of MG News, he frequently documented ICE raids and other law enforcement activity and had authorization to work in the United States.

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/mario-guevara-to-be-deported-after-appeals-court-denies-stay

Cirsium

(2,926 posts)
20. Yep
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 12:04 AM
4 hrs ago

Thanks. I knew that, but often on forums the strict 4 paragraph rule gets applied no matter what and the post gets removed.

littlemissmartypants

(29,912 posts)
21. I figured you did. So, I posted for those who weren't sure. Thanks for the post, Cirsium. ❤️
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 12:06 AM
4 hrs ago

Wednesdays

(20,865 posts)
7. Link?
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 08:44 PM
8 hrs ago


Not that I don't believe you, I really do. But a link would add a lot of clout if I were to pass this on.

Eliot Rosewater

(34,247 posts)
11. I usually do provide links at least I try to put with blue sky it's
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 08:59 PM
7 hrs ago

Often problematic, although that’s for Facebook maybe here it isn’t.

I will try it in the future.

Celerity

(52,221 posts)
15. here
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 09:23 PM
7 hrs ago

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

ACLU (@aclu.org) 2025-10-02T22:42:56.660Z

Eliot Rosewater

(34,247 posts)
13. They are psychopaths to take joy out of hurting people
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 09:19 PM
7 hrs ago

Especially innocent people, children etc.

Unfortunately this applies to most Republicans as well apparently, I remember being yelled at by a very liberal friend prior to 2016 on the Randi Rhodes message board for saying most Republicans are bad people who would show their true colors eventually. I apologized.

He died soon after of cancer, if he were alive today he’d be very upset

SamuelTheThird

(304 posts)
19. Another Leopard meal
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 11:21 PM
5 hrs ago

Guevara has spoken favorably of Republican candidates and policies. In 2022, he said that then-Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp's victory over Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams would prevent what he described as the Democratic Party's plan of "eradicating" the police in the state of Georgia, even though Abrams had in reality intended to increase police funding.[19]

He endorsed Republican insurance commissioner candidate John King, saying that "a lot of our Latino people are conservative" and wishing him four more years in office. In a Facebook live, Guevara said that "a lot of people talk about Republicans being racist... But frankly Georgia Republicans now aren’t the same" as before

questionseverything

(11,273 posts)
24. That's the thing about free speech, you don't have to like what he says
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 04:13 AM
37 min ago

He still has the right to say it

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