Culture Warriors category archive
The Past as Prologue 0
Phenix S Halley steps into the Wayback Machine and offers a glimpse of the America that the Trump maladministration would make great again.
Afterthought:
It’s the America I grew up in.
I don’t want to go back.
Republican Thought Police 0
Via SFgate, a federal judge has ruled in favor of a coalition of groups suing to stop the Trump maladministration’s attempt to erase those portions of American history that it doesn’t like. Here’s a bit from the ruling:
The story goes on the report that (no surprises here) the Trump maladministration is consdiering an appeal.
Stray Thought 0
Nethinks one clear warning sign of a rule of lawless is “a secretive police.”
American Stasi, Republican Family Values Dept. 0
Thom discusses the Trump maladministration’s “concentration camps for children.”
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Methinks my local rag makes a good point when they conclude that
Follow the link for the evidence.
Republican Thought Police 0
It appears that the Trump maladministration is trying a new tactic so as to supporess academic freedom and control curricula. A snippet:
(snip)
The shift comes after federal judges blocked Trump’s administration from making crippling cuts at Harvard and the University of California, Los Angeles. It also follows a mass exodus in civil rights lawyers who traditionally guide investigations against universities. Still, Trump hasn’t backed down from his campaign to end what he calls “wokeness” run amok in academia.
Republican Family Values 0
Alabama Republican wants to protect the polity from the poisonous plague known as the Muppets.
The stupid. It burns.
Afterthought:
Wonder if he’s ever seen Mrs. Doubtfire?
American Stasi 0
Rick Strom reports on ICE agents who are confessing to investigative journalists under promise of anonymity that, under the Trump maladministration, it’s all about the color of the skin.
American Stasi 0
NJ.com reports on a nurse who gpt ICEd was treated roughly because she was trying to, well, be a nurse:
Bowe said that’s when an officer grabbed the back of her shirt and threw her onto the sidewalk.
More mean for the sake of mean at the link.
The Rule of Lawless 0
At Above the Law, Kathryn Rubino reports on DOJ attorneys fired by the Trump maladministration. A snippet:
The prosecutors fired were doing their jobs. That is, apparently, the problem.
Follow the link for context.
American Stasi 0
As far as I can tell, this is little more than KKK v. 2.0.
American Stasi 0
Retired ATF agent David Ziegler contrasts the behavior of Donald Trump’s secretive police with the standards he was expected to comply with when he was on active duty and issues a warning:
For those who believed, “It can’t happen here,” it already has.
Follow the link for his reasoing.
There’s a Price Tag on Prejudice 0
Farron runs the numbers.
Republican Family Values, American Stasi Dept. 0
In the midst of a longer article about conditions at a privately-owned ICE detention center concentration camp, New Jersey Congressman Rob Menendez offers his theory as to why the Republican-controlled House and Senate are resisting efforrs to look into conditions at said locations:
Methinks he may be onto something. Follow the link for the context of his comment.
And, while we’re on the subject . . . .
Establishmentarians 0
Michael in Norfolk looks at Republicans’ flouting of the Constitutional mandate for separation of church and state.