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DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS – MARCH 25, 2025
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March 25, 2025
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* More Than Just Conservative
* Midwife Arrested in Texas
* AAUP Organizes for Academic Freedom
* Behind the Case Against Mahmoud Khalil
* Montana: Trans House Members Sock it to GOP
* The Successful Extortion of a White Shoe Law Firm
* The (First) Big Boycott of 2025
* Privatization on Steroids
* Here Comes Trump’s Kennedy Center
* A Sociologist Explains ComicCon Culture
MORE THAN JUST CONSERVATIVE
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By Craig Johnson
Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung
Trump’s new coalition marks uncharted territory both for the
Republicans and the US as a whole, making it hard to predict how it
will wield state power over the medium term. Rifts between the
different factions began forming even before Trump took office. There
is no telling how long the coalition can hold. Should it blow up, how
great the fallout could be is anybody’s guess.
MIDWIFE ARRESTED IN TEXAS
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By Schuyler Mitchell
_Truthout_
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the arrest of Maria
Margarita Rojas on March 17. The Houston-area midwife faces up to 20
years in prison for allegedly performing illegal abortions — a
second-degree felony — and practicing medicine without a license.
The announcement marks Texas’s first criminal case against a health
care provider since _Roe v. Wade_ was overturned in 2022.
AAUP ORGANIZES FOR ACADEMIC FREEDOM
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By Eleanor J. Bader
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Project 2025 put forward an agenda that includes broadscale book bans
and curricular limitations on classes in African American, Latinx,
LGBTQ+, Feminist, Ethnic, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. In
addition, they support the cancellation of the federal student loan
program. Now unions, including the 110-year-old American Association
of University Professors (AAUP), are fighting back.
BEHIND THE CASE AGAINST MAHMOUD KHALIL
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By Debbie Nathan
_Boston Review_
The plenary power doctrine has created a situation in which the mere
mention of the word “immigration” “has been enough to propel the
Court into a cataleptic trance.” How did this trance originate? And
how does it affect Mahmoud Khalil—and the many other immigrant
critics of Zionism whom Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have
promised to go after next?
MONTANA: TRANS HOUSE MEMBERS SOCK IT TO GOP
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By Arin Waller
_LGBTQ Nation_
In a shocking turn of events, Republican House representatives in
Montana decided to cross the aisle and vote against two
anti-transgender bills, following powerful speeches delivered by
transgender Reps. Zooey Zephyr and SJ Howell. These votes would’ve
been remarkable in their own right, but this wasn’t the only
occurrence of aisle-crossing on trans issues this session.
THE SUCCESSFUL EXTORTION OF A WHITE SHOE LAW FIRM
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By Paul Blumenthal
_Huffpost_
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison, a nearly 150-year-old law
firm, bent the knee to President Donald Trump Thursday evening
when it struck a deal to get rid of the president’s executive order
apparently punishing the firm for once employing a lawyer who worked
on a case targeting the president.
THE (FIRST) BIG BOYCOTT OF 2025
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By Daniel Hunter
_Waging Nonviolence_
The economic blackout on February 28 was an important first step. But
to have a greater impact, future boycotts will require more organizing
grounded in real strategy. The event was called by one person and
organized nearly entirely online through memes and varying
descriptions of its goals.
PRIVATIZATION ON STEROIDS
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By Nathan Meyers
_Common Dreams_
Since returning to office, President Donald Trump has aggressively
moved to shrink the federal government. While certainly dramatic,
these actions reflect a longer trend of privatizing government. The
government has steadily withdrawn from economic production for
decades, outsourcing many responsibilities to the private sector.
HERE COMES TRUMP’S KENNEDY CENTER
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By Rebecca Ritzel
_MSNBC News_
Most Kennedy Center audiences are in the middle of these demographics:
They are federal workers who enjoy classical music, NGO lobbyists with
undergraduate theater degrees and labor leaders with affinities for
modern dance. And they are exactly the people now weighing whether to
boycott Kennedy Center performances, because they are laid off, they
oppose Trump’s takeover, or both.
A SOCIOLOGIST EXPLAINS COMICCON CULTURE
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By Michael Elliott
_The Conversation_
Die-hard fans tend to have a detailed, intricate knowledge. They
collect, display and cherish memorabilia. They flock to iconic
“pilgrimage” places: King’s Cross Train Station in London for
“Harry Potter” fans, or Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee, for
Elvis devotees. This level of devotion seems to go well beyond
entertainment. Indeed, it may seem, well, almost religious.
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