Posts by Ephrem Hugh Bensusan
«Welcome to today’s Trump Tyranny Tracker, where I’m breaking down the key news from the day alongside ongoing developments as Trump and his regime move swiftly to consolidate power, undermine democracy, and dismantle civil rights and freedoms.»
So much winning.
«Immigrant women say they were held "like animals" in ICE detention and subjected to conditions so extreme they feared for their lives.»
«In defending Trump, in celebrating him, in excusing his cruelty, his greed, his dishonesty, and his contempt for the vulnerable — you have traded something far more valuable than a few political victories. You have traded your witness.»
«I feel that anger spreading across what we once used to call the free world. From Canada to Europe to Japan to Australia – from sea to shining sea.»
Trump and the GOP Congress.
Real history, and real assessment of the situation of the authoritarian tyranny we are undergoing now.
«A month into Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s much-hyped efforts to root out fraudulent and wasteful spending by government agencies, not a single instance of fraud or waste has been discovered.»
As the sociologist Stuart Hall once wrote, “Those who produce the discourse also have the power to make it true.” Journalists, charged with reporting on and translating what is happening for the masses, must not become entrapped by this use of DEI as interchangeable with civil rights and/or Black.
Just saying.
«Between the Christianity of this land, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference—so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked.»
– Frederick Douglass
President Musk and his Nazi salute.
Also, www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...