#1650

A lot of extravagant privilege allows for the possibility of this project. I try not to take that for granted and dedicate every 50th post to contextualizing the considerations of this blog within the current sociopolitical milieu.

I have to confess I’ve been doing a really godawful job keeping up with the news. As I have been essentially what I guess is termed a digital nomad for the last month and will remain so for the next 1.5 months or so: I find that I spend a lot less time consuming news media. (It makes me feel like a bad activist but it’s also been a boon to my mental health–as has been being in a locale where it’s chilly overnight but reaches into the low 70s during the day.)

As such, the stories I’ve noticed have been a little less all over the place than usual.

There was a solid opinion piece over at al-Jazeera about how while Obama would’ve never used such a term as ‘shithole’ to refer to other countries–he certainly treated them as if they were exactly that.

Then there’s the focus on immigration:

Currently, the US government is trying to hash out another short term stop gap to fund the government several more weeks so that some sort of consensus can be reached over the status of the so-called Dreamers, i.e. people who were brought her without the requisite legal documentation as children and who have participated in the system in good faith for a decade if not longer.

Numerous sources have reported that there is bipartisan support for dreamers and that if a vote was called for the decoupled Dreamers from being held hostage by budget negotiations–then it has the votes necessary to pass. However, Ryan is determined to carry water for President Shithole and refuses to allow such a vote.

There’s also the matter of President Shithole trying to insist that his wall be funded as part of the budget process–despite the fact that it’s a colossal boondoggle that has no bearing on the way undocumented crossing of borders most often happens.

Also: there’s been a lot of news about ICE recently–with the end of record keeping for the previous year, ICE arrests went up 30% over the previous non-President Shithole year.

They keep on exhibiting themselves as reprehensible shit licking scum fucks on the regular. (ACAB but there is a special place in hell for ICE agents.)

Oh and by the way: ICE is trying to muscle in on the intelligence community. If that doesn’t scare the fuck out of you then I’m betting your only marginally literate.