Immigration for mine, but not yours

Browser tabs have accumulated again as I spent time planning for my summer vacation. Just to be clear, for this retiree “vacation” means leaving home and going somewhere. I’m sure I’ll blog about it when the travel actually comes.

So, diving into those accumulated tabs:

Melissa McEwan of Shakesville has a couple items in her summary of things we need to resist. I’m working from McEwan’s excerpts, not the original article.

First, Zoe Tillman of BuzzFeed notes the overhaul of the manual the Department of Justice gives to federal prosecutors. In: tough-on-crime policies, focus on religious liberty, cracking down on gov’t leaks. Out: need for a free press and public trial, racial gerrymandering, limits on prosecutorial power,

Second, E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post says there is a price for the circus surrounding the nasty guy. Scandals take their turn in the headlines, usually not lasting for a day or two before pushed aside by another. But avoiding scrutiny is the nasty guy and his minions as they dismantle protections for workers, environment, and bank customers.



In another summary of resistance McEwan links to an article in the Guardian about 1,000 economists who sent a letter to the nasty guy saying the economic protectionism he is erecting is the same mistake that plunged the world into the Great Depression in the 1930s. McEwan adds that with the nasty guy an economic collapse might be the objective.

She McEwan also links to an article by Tina Vasquez in Rewire. Immigration enforcement laws had been guided by priorities, those who were a danger to the community were targeted for deportation. But ICE, unleashed by the nasty guy, is targeting everyone here illegally.

McEwan contrasts that with the news that Melania Trump’s parents are working their way through the citizenship process.



Thee was a shooting at a Waffle House that was disrupted when James Shaw yanked the gun out of the shooter’s hand during a reload. Daily Kos community member Bluestategreen says there is an important lesson:

A favorite saying of the gun crowd is, “Guns don’t kill people, people do.” Here’s the rebuttal. As soon as the shooter lost his gun, the carnage stopped.

I heard of a second lesson: Another favorite saying is, “To defeat a bad guy with a gun you need a good guy with a gun.” Again, nope. Shaw used his bare hand (and suffered a burn from the hot barrel).



Andy T, another Daily Kos member, notes that white supremacists aren’t displaying the swastika so much – we know what that means. With that on your chest or banner it is hard to deny you’re a supremacist. Instead, they’ve pulled out a few other symbols that don’t yet have modern meaning. Andy says these symbols are runes or letters from the Vikings. Why them? They’re the original and ultimate Aryan warrior culture. Several actual Nazis tied their cause to these Germanic warriors dominated Europe.



Democrats staged an heroic filibuster in the South Carolina Senate to defeat a bill to ban abortion. The Dems took turns talking, but nearly all of them had to remain on the Senate floor (some canceling travel plans) to avoid giving the GOP the three-fifths majority needed to end a filibuster.



But in Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer is about to sign a bill allowing adoption agencies to reject gay and lesbian couples. This is on behalf of Catholic Charities, who rank higher than we do. I’m confused by the claim, “… because it increases the opportunities for needy children to find loving homes.” Adoption agencies are more important than actual loving families?