To everyone who told me to “calm down” in 2016 -
The sociopathic sexual predator business fraud felon you put back in the office he tried to steal just stood in the White House & said that he wants to send American citizens to concentration camps in El Salvador.
So, fuck you.
Chasten and I are relieved that Governor Shapiro and his family are safe. While we wait to learn more, this much is clear: the targeting of a public official and his family - especially a prominent Jewish official on a major Jewish holiday - is unconscionable and has no place in our country.
1. Abrego Garcia was in the United States legally.
2. A federal court ruled that he CANNOT be deported.
3. Trump defied the court and deported him to an El Salvador prison.
4. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Trump must bring him back to the U.S.
5. Trump said no.
We’re either a nation of laws or not. What say you America?
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If the Trump administration truly cared about the real problem of antisemitism (and not just as a ruse to bludgeon universities to curb academic freedom) how about starting by condemning the violence against PA Governor Shapiro and his family on Passover.
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BREAKING: Federal Judge Slams Department of Justice and Orders Two Weeks of Intensive Expedited Discovery in Abrego Garcia Case. Buckle up, folks. aaronparnas.substack.co…
Thanks for another great history lesson. When Ezra Klein did a podcast the other day suggesting that Biden should bow out of seeking re-election for the good of the country because of public concerns over his fitness for the job, I immediately thought of Lincoln's standing in 1864, and how the punditry of that time was declaring him politically feeble and not up to the task before him, much as they are doing with Biden now (albeit for different reasons). Klein even used the 1860 Republican conv…
From an interview with Marilynne Robinson today in the NYT:
“Frankly, I’m less than a year younger than Joe Biden, so I believe utterly in his competence, his brilliance, his worldview. I really do. You have to live to be 80 to find this out: Anybody under 50 feels they’re in a position to condescend to you. You get boxed into this position where people who deal with you are making assumptions about your intellect. It’s very disturbing. Most people my age are just fine. What can I say? It’s a kind of good fortune that America is categorically incapable of accepting: that someone with a strong institutional memory, who knows how things are supposed to work, who was habituated to their appropriate functioning is president. I consider him a gift of God. All 81 years of him.”
Marilynne Robinson
