Politics of Hate category archive
Courting Disaster 0
The saying is that any prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich.
Except it seems for Trump’s prosecutors. Via Above the Law, TechDirt takes a deep dive into why the Trump maladministration’s DOJ keeps losing in court. A snippet:
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Via the Charlotte Observer, Bloomberg’s Andreas Kluth reminds us to watch what they do, not what they say. Here’s a tiny bit from the article:
Aside:
I would have put the word, “Christian,” in quotes. The only part of Christ’s words that these “white Christian nationalists” seem to have read is “Do unto others.”
American Stasi, Reprise 0
Speaking of the surveillance state . . . .
American Stasi and the Rule of Lawless 0
And it’s the right-wingers who keep harping on the “surveillance state,” except, natch, when they’re doing the surveilling.
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The ruling found that DHS did not follow the federal law requiring the agency requesting taypayer address from the IRS to have specifically identified the individual in question. The requesting agency must provide the IRS with the name and address of the person whose information it seeks to obtain. IRS failed to verify that this information had been provided in the majority of the 47,300 DHS requests.
The ICEmen Cometh, a Notion of Immigrants Dept. 0
NJ.com reports on a family whose husband got put on ICE for a decades old missed court appearance, one of which he was unaware.
They were taken aback, as the couple were both Trump supporters who had voted for him three times.
Here’s a bit:
Sandra voted for President Trump three times, believing enforcement would focus on people with criminal records — not individuals like her husband.
Asked what she would say to him now, she paused.
“You said you were going after the worst of the worst, but instead you ruined our life,” she said.
Fly the Fiendly Skies . . . 0
. . . and they are especially fiendly if you are flying ICE air. Grung_e_Gene explains.
A Notion of Immigrants Meets the Rule of Lawless 0
Kathryn Rubino reports at Above the Law. A snippet:
“The Constitution does not permit the government to arrest thousands of individuals and then disregard their constitutional rights because it would be too challenging to honor those rights,” Brasel wrote in what should be an uncontroversial statement of black-letter law but, well, 2026 makes fools of us all.
Republican Thought Police 0
LZ Granderson suggests that the way to understand the Trump maladministration’s “war on woke” is to remember that “woke” means to be alert and aware. Here’s a tiny bit from his article; follow the link for his reasoning.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
George Yancy makes a strong case that W. E. B. DuBois was correct when he wrote
Follow the link for his reasoning.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
State University of New York professor Richard F. Hamm hears a rhyme from an earlier time when poorly trained, poorly vetted federal agents were released unchecked upon the polity.
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*Mark Twain.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Writing at The Seattle Times, Mike Ishii reports that he is hearing a rhyme from his own family’s past. A snippet:
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*Mark Twain.
American Stasi 0
UNC law professor Gene Nichol tells the story of another victim of the Trump maladministration’s war on brown people.
Suffer the Children 0
Thanks to the Trump maladministration’s ICE, we are again reminded that that’s not scripture. That’s a Republican family value.
And, speaking of ICE, methinks Atrios is onto something.
American Stasi 0
Farron runs the numbers.
In related news, Thom talks with Mike Wriston about ways to fight back against Trump’s concentration campe.