Erasing Black and Blackness

Trump will do his best to make black and blackness disappear. He’ll find that Black Americans are not returning to the back of the bus, LGBTQ Americans aren’t going back to the closet and American women are not going back to the kitchen.

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Apologies to Niemoller

First they came for the undocumented, with armed soldiers guarding the border although 3/4 of all foreigners who violate their visas fly here from all over the world. Then they came for all Muslim-Americans under the false and immoral pretense they were defending American Jews. Then they came for universities, independent thinkers and scholars whose […]

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An Open Letter to Jake Tapper on Biden Bashing

Jake! My man! I am right next door, in a place I like to call the Mutilation Room. You believe you struck a blow for truth and freedom with a book shining a bright light on Biden’s aging and associated mental decline. You haven’t really illuminated anything we did not know, but you got another […]

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Monumental Cruelty, by the Numbers

Contemporary fascism is usually described with words, but numbers will also work. Trump’s proposed budget is remarkable for quantifying cruelty, shifting the tax burden from the rich to everyone else and offering hopes and prayers rather than food and shelter for the neediest among us.  Of the $1.6T total budget fully $1.2B goes to the […]

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Fewer Mass Shootings: Rightwing Wackos Stand Down

The number of mass shootings has diminished since Trump took office because the vanguards of racist violence are thrilled with him.  It is not mere chance that right wing murderers are cultivated in online fascist hothouses.  They seek the approval of their peers for their heinous acts, where they rightly expect to be praised for […]

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