Postcards from America (02.05.25)

Postcards from America (02.05.25) February 5, 2025

We’re not acting like we want to know the answer to this question.”

“I feel liberated. We can say ‘retard’ and ‘pussy’ without the fear of getting cancelled. … It’s a new dawn.”

Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work. Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities.”

“If you told me now that the issue would be using the debt ceiling to justify spending cuts, I would breathe such a sigh of relief. That is just a normal five-alarm fire constitutional crisis.”

“It’s akin to deciding that you don’t like the destination of the plane, so you’re just going to turn the engine off and crash it into the ground.”

“If the president wanted to cause airline disasters, it’s hard to imagine what he would have done differently.”

“It’s another Trump tantrum, to be sure, but it’s also an economic time bomb wrapped in a basic, high-school-level misunderstanding of what tariffs actually are.”

This move away from vaccines worries health care workers.”

“It’s unclear when the website, which lists mostly Black employees who work in agencies primarily within the Department of Health and Human Services, first appeared.”

“A worker at an intelligence agency says unidentified outside staffers arrived to sweep the office of anything they felt was related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, a target of a Trump executive order. That included a plaque, confiscated from a supervisor’s desk, that read, ‘Be kind to everyone.’

“Among Trump’s former and now reinstated [Title IX] guidelines is an especially cruel requirement that mandates schools hold live hearings for accused students to cross-examine their accusers, which can be highly traumatic for rape survivors.”

“Lawyers may not have been consulted and whoever in the budget office decided to say, ‘Do what you can and see what you can get away with.'”

I would hope even some red states want lead out of their drinking water but who knows?”

“Ulbricht was convicted of distributing narcotics, distributing narcotics by means of the Internet, conspiring to distribute narcotics, engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiring to commit computer hacking, conspiring to traffic in false identity documents, and conspiring to commit money laundering.”

“A Houston man, who was pardoned for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol, is wanted by authorities for online solicitation of a minor.”

“One of the employees detained and questioned by ICE at a seafood wholesaler during an immigration raid in Newark, New Jersey, was a U.S. citizen and military veteran.”

“At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement and asked to produce proof of citizenship during immigration raids since Wednesday, according to Navajo Nation officials.”

“Box by box, the Nicaraguans who milk the cows and clean the pens on Wisconsin’s dairy farms, who wash dishes at its restaurants and fill lines on its factory floors, are sending home their most prized possessions, bracing for the impact of President Donald Trump’s mass deportations.”

“Nothing was presented, no paperwork, nothing, my dad said. They immediately started apprehending people. They even made customers stand by their cars, and they were checking their papers as well.”

This does have greater implications for religious life than just whether some undocumented people are arrested in a church setting.”

“The legislation would require the vast majority of Americans to rely on a passport or birth certificate to prove their citizenship. … More than 140 million American citizens do not possess a passport and as many as 69 million women who have taken their spouse’s name do not have a birth certificate matching their legal name.”

This isn’t enforcing ‘law’ so much as prosecutorial cosplay. His tenure as interim U.S. Attorney is a taxpayer-funded performance piece.”

“United States President Donald Trump said he would like to ‘just clean out’ the Gaza Strip, with the population moving to other countries in the Middle East.”

“Yes of course he’s not going to do anything like that, until he does.”

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