The absence of some old friends suggests growing MAGA divide.
After its policy recommendations contributed to record levels of disapproval for the Trump administration, the anti-immigrant movement has a message: Double down, Mr. President. Last week the Mass…
On March 24, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Senator Markwayne Mullin as President Trump’s next Secretary of Homeland Security, following the disastrous tenure of Kristi Noem.
Lessons from Minneapolis on Resisting Authoritarianism
With ICE agents kidnapping thousands and executing people in broad daylight, the Trump administration’s authoritarianism is on full display for all to see. But so is the power of everyday people.
What Martin Buber has to teach us about community, resistance, and survival
I watched federal agents disappear three people last week. I watched federal agents abduct three of my neighbors last Wednesday in South Burlington, VT, while members of our community surrounded and…
It's not about Anne Frank or her residency status — it's about neutralizing the Holocaust
When Minnesota Governor Tim Walz invoked Anne Frank while criticizing ICE deportations in his state, the backlash was immediate and fierce. Walz, who earned a master’s degree in Holocaust education…
The seeds of the misogyny are found in some of the most glittery places
Renee Nicole Good’s extraordinary award-winning poem, “On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs” contains a line I keep coming back to: i’ve donated bibles to thrift stores (mashed them in plastic trash bags…
On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that: If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while…
Trivializes Jewish history, reveals what this administration thinks of Jews
Last week, in an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, Vice President JD Vance accused critics of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of committing “blood libel” against ICE agents. As…
It’s not the first time we and others at Religion Dispatches have had to point out that Trump’s Department of Homeland Security is firehosing the internet with white supremacist propaganda . And it…
Last week was a bad week of social media posts from the Department of Homeland Security. Videos claiming a militarized Border Patrol is God’s will; memes about ICE funding assisting in mass…