Excerpt: “I was born and raised here in Washington DC,” she said. “My parents fortunately have documents… But I’m always on the edge thinking ‘where are they going to hit next? Is it going to be us, even though we have documents?’”

“Even people with documents are hiding because they’re scared.”

Me again: That’s the point — if you’re not white, they want you afraid, or gone.

The United Nations is in New York City because once upon a time America was considered the leader of the free world, but part of the deal for hosting the UN must’ve been international access. If the UN’s host country can bar foreigners from participating in UN functions, Trump could ban the Canadian ambassador next. And he probably will.

I’ll bravely predict some severe COVID illness and death across America, probably this winter, but definitely long-term.

A perfect illustration of Trump & the Republicans: Stand with the fire, not the firefighters.

What could possibly go wrong?

Excerpt: Eight months ago, those of us actually paying attention—not just scrolling outrage bait about Biden’s age or the latest campus controversy, but genuinely tracking the systematic preparation for authoritarian rule—warned that Trump represented an existential threat to democratic governance. We were diagnosed with “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” The reasonable people explained, with infinite patience, that we were being hysterical. That institutions would hold. That checks and balances would constrain him. That we were catastrophizing over mean tweets and rough rhetoric.

I might have assumed Cracker Barrel’s shittiness was in the past, but this right-wing uproar over re-designed branding is an announcement that they’re still shitty. The friggin’ President of the United States demans they switch back to the old logo, and Cracker Barrel immediately follows orders. Obviously, Cracker Barrel is a restaurant for fascists.