Culture Warriors category archive
The ICEmen Cometh 0
Thom predicts that worse is yet to come.
Suffer the Children 0
One more time, that’s not scripture. That’s Republican policy.
Establishmentarians 0
Proposed new reading in Ohio schools: The Handmaid’s Handbook.
The ICEmen Cometh 0
At ProPublica, J. David McSwane and Hannah Allam make a case that the Trump maladministration is attempting to turn ICE into their own secret police. Here’s a tiny bit from their article:
Going Rogue State, Reprise 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Jim Jones, who served as Idaho Attorney-General and then on the state Supreme Court, looks at the Trump maladministration’s practice of blowing up boats because (to cut through the crapola) their crews are brown. Here’s a tiny bit from his article:
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Mary Trump discusses how Donald Trump’s behavior has given permission to racists, bigots, and haters to act out in public.
The ICEman Cometh, Tales of the Trumping Dept. 0
TYT Sports reports on civilians who are masquerading as ICE agents so as to harass brown people.
I do not think it’s a stretch to suggest that Donald Trump and today’s Republican Party have given haters permission to hate or to suggest that haters are taking full advantage of said permission.
Establishmentarians 0
Rebecca Watson discusses the techniques Texas is using to turn public schools into perpetrators of proselytism.
Republican Thought Police 0
Via Above the Law, a law professor responds to Republicans’ efforts to turn the United States into an indoctrination nation.
True Colors 0
Joe Conason looks at the racist and bigoted texts sent by Young Republicans and says, “No surprises here.” Here’s a bit from his article:
Follow the link for context.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
It appears that the Trump maladministration is getting even meaner for the sake of mean.
For some fool reason, I find myself thinking of a book I read a long time ago.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Rick Strom suggests that “Maddox” rhymes with “MAGA.”
Aside:
As Rick notes, half a century later, Jim Brown himself failed to parse the rhyme and supported Trump in 2016. The Nation’s Dave Zirin offers some thoughts as to why,
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*Mark Twain.
No Surprises Here . . . 0
. . . even though the Squeaker of the House seems to think there are.