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DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS – MAY 20, 2025  
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May 20, 2025
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* From Conservatism to Resistance
* Library of Congress Staff 86 DOJ
* Post-Roe Witch Hunt
* Sports Break
* Buying American is a Sucker’s Game
* What is an Asian-American?
* Big Law Takes a Dive
* Copaganda
* Cancel Culture and Politics
* Hands Across Chicagoland

FROM CONSERVATISM TO RESISTANCE
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By Everett Rudolph
Waging Nonviolence

Within the first few months after the inauguration, I became aware of
the rapidly developing uncertainty facing not only my life, but the
lives of everyone in this country. I knew that stricter immigration
laws would mean increased deportations, but I didn’t understand what
that would look like until being told by a teacher that her
students’ parents were too afraid to set foot on the school
property.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS STAFF 86 DOJ
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By Yasmeen Hamadeh
The Daily Beast 

Two Justice Department officials were denied access to the Library of
Congress, causing a brief standoff on Capitol Hill. Paul Perkins, an
associate deputy attorney general, and Brian Nieves, a deputy chief of
staff, brought a letter from the White House declaring that they would
be serving in two top positions at the library. They were turned away
by General Counsel Meg Williams. 

POST-ROE WITCH HUNT
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By Jessica Valenti
Abortion, Every Day

Conservative lawmakers and prosecutors lie about abortion easily and
often. Consider what happened when Dr. Maggie Carpenter was targeted
in a civil suit brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Paxton
claimed a Texas woman suffered “serious complications” after
taking abortion pills sent by Carpenter. The truth? His suit showed no
such thing.

SPORTS BREAK
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By Robert Lipsyte
Common Dreams

Here are eight topics currently lost in the sauce to take our minds
and emotions off the Trump-backed whale. Then it’s time to get back
in the game and face down the bullies.

BUYING AMERICAN IS A SUCKER’S GAME
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By Dana Frank
Boston Review

Promises to reinvigorate American manufacturing and bring back
American jobs have featured in nearly every presidential campaign in
recent memory, but Donald Trump, with his first election in 2017,
twisted those ideas into a dark, resentful fusion of economic
nationalism and unqualified hostility toward immigrants.

WHAT IS AN ASIAN-AMERICAN?
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By Jennifer Ho
The Conversation

There are nearly 25 million people of Asian descent who live in the
United States, but the term Asian American remains shrouded by
cultural misunderstanding and contested as a term among Asians
themselves.

BIG LAW TAKES A DIVE
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By John Teufel
The Indypendent 

Perceiving my common reaction to the Democrats and Big Law opened my
eyes. Both of them, under Trump, abandoned the one last thing that was
supposed to make them different: that, on some level, they were going
to be a counterweight to fascism. It was all branding. In the highest
firmaments of society, there really is only bad, a big dark cloud of
menace; Trump is just one molecule.

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By Alec Karakatsanis
Common Dreams

Copaganda is a specific type of propaganda in which the punishment
bureaucracy and the powerful interests behind it influence how we
think about crime and safety. “Punishment bureaucracy” is a more
accurate and less deceptive way than “criminal justice
system”, to describe the constellation of public and private
institutions that develop, enforce, and profit from criminal law. 

CANCEL CULTURE AND POLITICS
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By Ben Burgis
Jacobin

NYU’s decision to withhold Logan Rozos’s degree for denouncing
genocide in Gaza in his graduation speech is the latest example of
right-wing cancel culture. After criticizing it on the Left,
conservatives have learned to rally “woke” mobs of their own.

HANDS ACROSS CHICAGOLAND
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By Michelle Gallardo
ABC7 Eyewitness News

People protested new policies from President Donald Trump on Sunday in
a rally called “Hands Across Chicagoland.” The protestors lined
streets while wearing black. From the Chicago to Aurora and
everywhere in between, the protest was billed as a 30-mile long human
chain that began in Aurora and ended in Chicago’s Little Village. 

 

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