Culture Warriors category archive
Republican Thought Police 0
The editorial board of the Las Vegas Sun finds it distressing that the Trump maladministration is coming after an honorably-discharged veteran for having the unmitigated gall to peacefully stand up to Donald Trump’s not-so-secret police. Here’s a tiny bit from their editorial:
Take note that Mavalwalla is not accused of striking officers, vandalizing vehicles or destroying property. While some other participants were arrested at the time of the protest, Mavalwalla wasn’t among them. Nor is he accused of participating in any violence or property destruction. Instead, weeks later, on the day he was moving into a new home with his girlfriend and children, the FBI arrived at dawn, shackled him in front of his family and charged him with “conspiracy to impede or injure officers.” He now faces the possibility of a $250,000 fine, up to six years in prison and an additional three years of supervised release.
Establishmentarians 0
The man who is arguably the most irreligous person in America has now come out as an establishmentarian.
So we should ask that question that should always be asked of establishmentarians: What’s in it for him?
Because establishmentarianism is always, when you boil it down, about power and control, never about souls.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Writing at the Inky, Jenice Armstrong finds herself dismayed the Trump maladministration’s attempts to retaliate against Congresswoman LaMonica McIver for trying to do her job.
No summary of excerpt can capture the scope and nuance of Armstrong’s piece. Just go read it.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Sam talks with Ari Berman about how John Roberts’s Supreme Supremacist Court has been working to gut the Voting Rights Act that, per the Encyclopedia Britannica, “aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) to the Constitution of the United States.”
America’s original sin of chattel slavery continues to take its toll.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Michael in Norfolk hears a rhyme. Here’s a couplet:
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Via The Charlotte Observer, University of Kansas professor Robert C. Schwaller points out that today’s Confederate sympathizers are redoubling their efforts to whitewash–I use that term advisedly–the legacy of chattel slavery.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Michael in Norfolk decodes de code. A snippet:
America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the myth of racial superiority fabricated to justify it continue to take their toll.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Via Above the Law, Techdirt hears something that sounds a lot like “McCarthyism.”
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*Mark Twain.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Another tale of mean for the sake of mean.
Suffer the Children 0
As we know, that’s a Republican family value, even as they vociferously claim to be “pro-life.”
Farron runs the numbers that put the lie to that claim.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Dark Brandon debunks de bunk about the “great replacement theory.”
Republican Thought Police 0
Trump maladministration to California cities:
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*Such as (quoting from the report) “any mention of gender, abortion and other inclusive” terminology.
Establishmentarians 0
Mrs. Betty Bowers discusses how the Trump maladministration is trying to proselytize the U. S. Armed Forces and how we can help in the resistance.
