Maybe we shouldn't be surprised. A sitting Republican senator, Lisa Murkowski, has voiced her own fear that the Trump administration, or the domestic terrorists who support it, might do her harm.
We are all afraid. It’s quite a statement. But we are in a time and a place where I certainly have not been here before. And I’ll tell ya, I’m oftentimes very anxious myself about using my voice, because retaliation is real. And that’s not right.
Pretty damn chilling.
We know why this is the case. Our own government has singled out universities, lawyers, and former employees for what he calls retaliation--as if they ever did anything to him!--extorting schools and legal firms for money and services, and threatening to prosecute people simply for speaking the truth. They've gone after legal firms simply for taking cases Trump doesn't like. Not only has it deported undocumented residents to a torture prison in El Salvador, Trump has spoken openly of doing the same to American citizens. And now a federal judge, backed by a Supreme Court decision, is considering pressing charges of contempt against government officials because they have defied his order to return one deportee the government itself has acknowledged should not have been deported.
The list of awful defies accounting.
Elon Musk is so confident that his genetic code is far superior to everyone else's that he's fathering a "legion" of his own offspring. According to the Wall Street Journal, "Multiple sources close to the tech entrepreneur said they believe the true number of Musk’s children is much higher than publicly known." The "publicly known" number is 14. Musk texted to one of the mothers, "To reach legion-level before the apocalypse, we will need to use surrogates.” That same woman describes ongoing "harem drama." And it's well known that Musk is estranged from his transgender daughter because he rejects her gender identity.
One other note. A Japanese doctoral student at BYU on a student visa has been given 15 days to return to Japan because of a supposed criminal record. The crimes, according to his attorney? "two speeding tickets on his record, as well as a catch and release violation from a fishing trip in 2019, which was dismissed with prejudice in court."
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