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I'm now back on track after a failed attempt to create my blog off-line, then paste it in. The whole post vanished in that failed experiment, forcing me to start all over from scratch last time. So, from now on, I'll just be posting here directly once again.
Matters may go suddenly awry anywhere in the world, so I'll try to keep current by making shorter posts, though perhaps more often. Dear readers, please stay with me.
Too many productive long-time residents with US-born offspring are feeling understandably apprehensive, unsure about what the Trump administration might do next. These are folks that we desperately need to remain living and working in our communities right now, not being summarily deported. Mr. Trump often works against national interests because of his twisted and erroneous ideology and his apparent lack of ordinary common sense.
Trump pressured the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian to close their diverisity offices. What might be the rationale? As a dictator, he doesn't need to explain. Should citizens let him get away with that without even offering a reason?
This is now being challenged.
CNBC, Judge pauses Trump funding freeze order until Feb. 3
We desperately need more workers, so, Mr. Trump, just stop deporting them! I only stopped working part-time myself 5 years ago at the start of the pandemic when I was already past 80. I felt pressed to reamain in the workforce.Our country is not producing enough working-age adults. Instead, our population has become top-heavy with oldsters like me. Working-age immigrants who might actually be useful are being deported. No one here of any age should be deported. We all need each other. Everyone should remain right here unless they pose a bonafide threat to public safety.
Mexican authorities have warned Donald Trump that their country is quite willing to take back deportees from Mexico, but not everyone else who might be dumped on their doorstep. Colombia tried to push back by refusing to allow deportation flights to land, but finally succummbed to Trump's strong-armed threats. Brazil claims deporteses have been routinely mistreated, transported in handcuffs like criminals. If a group of national leaders would actually come together to confront Trump face-to-face and to credibly threaten him, then he might be forced to back down. Trump is only as strong as others allow him to be and that includes you and me, his beleagured constiuents. We cannot afford to remain docile.
What would happen if Donald Trump suddenly did an about-face and became Mr. Nice Guy? Would his fawning supporters still have his back? We are unlikely to find out. as being petty and mean and engaging in flagrant lying have become his hallamrks and are his ingrained personal habits. He may be too old now to change. Let's hope his young son doesn't follow his example. Fortuately, those two apparently spend little time together.
BBC, Trump says he believes US will 'get Greenland'
Now that RFK Jr. has been busy making news, I'm recalling an encounter I had with his father, the original RFK, running for president at the time and campaigning in Sacramento, California, where I was living then. I went out carrying little Andrew, getting close enough for the candidate to place a hand on my baby. Soon after that, RFK was assassinated in Los Angeles. RFK Jr., unfortunately, seems nothing like his father.
A Miami-based nonprofit called
In Cultured Company is asking for support, both financial and political, on behalf of Haitian and Dominican migrants. Take a look at their website. Here's what they have to say:
"What we feared is here. The Trump administration is snatching our people, both Dominican and Haitian undocumented, documented & citizens, off our streets."
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