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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