Politics of Hate category archive
Lemon Squash and the Power of Repress 0
At Above the Law, Joe Patrice dissects the Trump maladministration’s vendetta against news report Don Lemon. It’s a blistering send of duplicity and dissimulation on the part of Pam Bondi’s Department of you-can-no-long-call-it Jusstice.
A snippet:
This should have marked the end of a troubling campaign to punish a journalist for journalisming, but what this DOJ lacks in professionalism and legal acumen they more than make up for in creativity. Unable to secure a warrant, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that she directed federal agents to arrest the journalists.
American Stasi 0
Farron discusses a federal judge’s asking the Trump maladministration why the heck are you doing this to justify why ICE has invaded Minnesota.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
At NJ.com, Daysi Calavia-Robertson stands tells a tale of Republican mean for the sake of mean as she recounts the story of a legal immigrant who was snatched up by ICE and then moved from place to place, while his family and his attorney were kept in the dark as to his whereabouts.
Buried deep in the article is a plausible explanation for the mean for the sake of mean.
Harol agrees. He tells me he knows the transfers are meant to “break us down.” “To hurt us, one way or the other, to make us miss our court dates, to make us tired, or depressed, to make us want to self-deport,” he says.
The gratuitous cruelty would make the Marquis de Sade tumescent, as I’m sure it does its perpetrato–oh, never mind.
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At Above the Law, Joe Patrice analyzes the asininity.
American Stasi 0
Rick Strom argues that ICE should be abolished.
I’m not sure that I sure that I would go that far, but certainly those changes that have turned it into the official KKK of the USA need to be undone.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes’* 0
Thom recalls an experience from his past that rhymes with “Minneapolis.”
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*Mark Twain.
American Stasi 0
Grung_e_Gene, who has law enforcement training, shares his thoughts on ICE’s icing an ICU nurse in Ninneapolis.
Warning: He minces no words.
All the News that Fits 0
Steve M. points out that the inhabitants of Trump world can’t understand why all the fuss about Trump’s ICEcapades because their world is so bubblelicious.
A Tune for the Times 0
Warning: Mild language.
From the Youtube page:
“Make America Great Again, My Ass” is a sharp, unapologetic parody music video that takes aim at the hollow nostalgia behind MAGA politics. While politicians chant about a “better past,” this video highlights the very real ways America is failing people right now — from economic inequality and crumbling infrastructure to culture wars, book bans, and the erosion of basic rights.
Set to biting lyrics and uncomfortable imagery, this parody pulls back the curtain on performative patriotism and exposes the disconnect between political slogans and lived reality. If you’re tired of being told things are “great” while wages stagnate, healthcare collapses, and democracy feels fragile, this one’s for you.
Precedented 0
In a disturbing and unsettling article at AL.com, Kyle Whitimire addresses
(h)ow a Yale prof’s cruel experiment explains the ICE-y obedience breaking America.
No excerpt or summary can do his piece justice. Just go read it.
Suffer the Children 0
We are again reminded that that’s not scripture. That’s Republican policy.