Culture Warriors category archive
The Privatization Scam 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Randy Stapilus voices his opposition to a bill designed to use public money under the guise of “tax credits” to support private schools. In the course of it, almost as an aside, he makes this observation. Methinks it an important point often overlooked in dis coarse discourse:
Private schools are there for private purposes, not public ones.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
It seems that the Trump maladministration is committed to exercising undue process of lawless.
And we are again reminded that mean for the sake of mean is a Republican family value.
(Syntax error fixed.)
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At the Washington Monthly, Richard D. Kahlenberg peers behind the sheets of a recent action of the Trump maladministration and concludes that
Trump’s new enemy appears to be racial diversity itself . . . .
Follow the link to find out why he reached that conclusion.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At the Detroit Free-Press, Randy Essex reminds us that
He goes on to argue that this, well, let’s call it “Southern Strategy,” is still being pursued and that Donald Trump’s bogus claims that cities are rife with crime (which is Trumpian code for “full of black and brown persons”) is an updated tactic of said “Southern Strategy.”
I commend his article to your attention.
Stray Thought 0
Who other persons idolize can tell you a lot about the character and beliefs of said idolators. Indeed, they may even be said to hold up a mirror to said idolators.
For example, what can you induce about those who find this person to be admired?
Signs of the Times 0
When you don’t want to face factual reality, you can always remove any signs of the truth.
Honest to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up.
Iced by ICE 0
Sam and the crew find themselves–er–somewhat taken aback by the brutality of Donald Trump’s secret police ICE agents.
Still Rising Again after All These Years, Notion of Immigrants Dept. 0
At SFGate, Paula Mejía writes of Angie ‘the ICE Chaser’ Vargas, a health care professional who has made an avocation of documenting the antics of Donald Trump’s secret police ICE agents in the Los Angeles area on her TikTok account.
In the course of the interview, she gets to the crux of what’s going on (emphasis added).
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Rick Strom discusses ICE’s detention of legal workers at a Hyundai plant in Georgia. (Warning: The first couple of minutes are a chilling vision of what this nation is becoming under the Trump maladministration.)
From the Youtube page (emphasis added):
By her own admission, MAGA supporter and Congressional candidate Tori Branum was supposedly responsible for calling ICE on the Hyundai plant in Georgia that saw hundreds of workers, including South Korean nationals there for business purposes, rounded up and held in ICE custody, effectively costing the country billions of dollars in investments in the process.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
- I know this you don’t want to hear,
But realize, please, it can happen here.
Indeed, some would even say
It’s already well under way.
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*Mark Twain.
Truth . . . 0
. . . has consequences.
When persons are punished for voicing truth in a civilized manner, it is difficult to escape the conclusion that we are a broken polity.
Republican Thought Police, One More Time 0
Rick Strom tries to make sense of the senselessness.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Farron reports on a voter who got what he voted for.
And now regrets it.
Today’s Republican Party is a vile and loathsome thing.
Republican Family Values 0
Brian Kilmeade apologizes for letting the mask slip saying homeless persons should be executed.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Yastreblyansky hears a rhyme goose-stepping down the path of history.
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*Mark Twain.
A Notion of Immigrants, Rule of Lawless Dept. 0
Der Spiegel reports on the release of Andry Romero from the El Salvadoran prison to which the Trump maladministration had renditioned him because he spoke with an accent and had innocent tattoos and notes that
The article is a painful and disheartening read, but, unfortunately, a necessary one in these Trumpled times.