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Abby Zimet: ‘We Go As We Please’ | What the Fuck Is Wrong With Y’all?

The American Gestapo’s brutish, racist, unholy crusade rampages on.

November 21, 2025 · 11 Comments

H.G. Reza: Living While Brown in America

Walking through a Home Depot parking lot while being brown raises enough reasonable suspicion in an immigration agent’s mind to cause my detention for a citizenship check…

October 1, 2025 · 4 Comments

Abby Zimet: Dungeons and Aliens

People grabbed at court, guys chased and pummeled at Home Depot, women cuffed as their kids cry, crowds shouting in rage. A guy on the ground, piled on by thugs, screams, “I’m an American!” Brown workers at a car wash are dragged off past two dazed white workers.

July 17, 2025 · 7 Comments

Abby Zimet: Shame Shame Shame | What American Justice Looks Like

The mindless rupturing of families and communities soars. 

June 12, 2025 · 10 Comments

Brett Wilkins: Trump Cabinet Picks So Far Decried as ‘Nightmare Fuel’

The good news is, we can win these types of fights. We helped drive out three Cabinet secretaries from office last time, and we can do that kind of thing again.

November 13, 2024 · 5 Comments

C.J. Atkins: Trump turns to neo-Nazi symbols to attract racist votes

This pairing of a white supremacist mobilization with a robust voter suppression effort targeting people of color means Trump’s desperate bid to hold on to power is escalating dangerously.

July 22, 2020 · Leave a comment

Laura Flanders: Can it happen here?

White nationalists have been targeting bookstores and libraries across the country for a while, in one instance, going so far as to threaten to burn the store down. Elsewhere, progressive groups are facing threats of violence and intimidation on campus.

May 23, 2019 · Leave a comment

John E. Finn: How the alt-right corrupts the Constitution

Most observers think the alt-right are conservative extremists, defined chiefly by their loud and proud commitment to white racial superiority and privilege. But there’s much more to the alt-right.

May 15, 2019 · 1 Comment

Abby Zimet: The Torturers of Children

“These aren’t people. They are animals.” — Donald J. Trump

April 11, 2019 · Leave a comment

Abby Zimet: When you’re such a weasel, even your own siblings can’t stand to see you elected

. Between contemplating the sorry spectacle of world leaders laughing out loud at Dear Clown Leader and awaiting the latest Kavanaugh implosion of scandal and lies – best headline goes … Continue reading

September 29, 2018 · Leave a comment

Abby Zimet: On Genealogical Glass Houses

. The Racist-In-Chief continues to spout his pitiless rhetoric on immigration – aka don’t want no more brown-skinned people in my wannabe chaste white kingdom – even appropriating the memory … Continue reading

January 19, 2018 · 2 Comments

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