By the time this blog post is done and published (April 30th or May 1st, 2025), the United States will likely have started feeling the pinch of up to 145 % tariffs on Chinese imports, depending on volume and type of goods. Some people jokingly refer to this as punishment for
It is a matter of weeks, if not days, before new restrictions against American schools and libraries will be delivered by the Supreme Court. With a bench stacked deep with Trumpian appointees and stalwarts for expansive religious practices, legal analysts are expecting a ruling in favor of a coalition of
The question of children is a divisive one, and I don't expect it to be an issue that will ever be not divisive for the foreseeable future. We've seen the childfree movement weirdos that refer to them as "crotch droppings" for crying on a
Americans demand instant gratification from food, from internet speeds, from friend group texts, and often from their politics. The nature of how reporters keep their eyes glued to stock tickers and how politicians can draft up immigrant-blaming statements rewards this short attention span and feeds the need for rapidfire justification
At the time of this newsletter's drafting, several international scholars, students and academics sit in immigration detention after sudden, brutal arrests. The American state's rationale for their abrupt removal from their homes, careers and families are that these individuals aided the militant and political movement of
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