1. United States
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Today, on Holocaust Day of Remembrance, we remember the horror of the Holocaust. How less than 7% of a country's citizens convinced the rest that LGBTQ, differently abled, neurodivergent, and Jews were less than, were the cause of all of their problems, and that their imprisonment and death would improve the life of all. Some citizens resisted but the majority were silent. The majority were silent and complicit. The reason we remember this day and hold it up, while also writing books, building museums, creating memorials, and attempting to educate the world is in a hope that it would never happen again. And yet here we are. In what is supposed to be the most free country in the world. Kidnapping children, beating citizens, ripping elderly from their homes, demanding papers, and with more than 3x the people in custody. Our cries of "Never Again" have changed to silence and we need to change them back. We should be screaming in the streets. This is the moment, this is the time to end this. We know the history. We know what happens if we let it continue. Congress has the power to act. Congress has the power to stop this. Providing funding to ICE is permission and compliance. Is this the history you want for the US? This is NOT a history we want to repeat.