"Lou Antonellis, the business manager of the Massachusetts International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 103, added that the cuts to renewable energy projects in the U.S. [by Trump and Republicans and Project 2025] were not just cuts to funding. “[Y]ou’re pulling paychecks from working families, you’re pulling apprentices out of training facilities, you’re pulling opportunity straight out of our communities. Every solar panel installed, every wind turbine wired, every EV charger connected, that’s a job with wages, healthcare, and a pension that stands for dignity for the American worker. You don’t kill that kind of progress: you build on it.”
Letters from an American Historian
Trump recently issued an order to the FBI to focus on anti-immigrant policing and drop the "White Collar" cases.
I know Maga like the anti-immigrant part and this is NOT even close to the first time Trump has shown his contempt for really existing Blue Collar working people, wage workers, stiffing them, trashing unions, scoffing at cost of living concerns with his War by Tariffs shakedowns, shutting down the one department of government devoted to actually protecting consumers, slashing the IRS's ability to reduce tax evasion by lawyered up richies, etc.
I've seen polls for taxing the rich nearing super majorities while Trump is pardoning all White Collar crime. I really wish working class voters would figure this out. He may share your stupid bigotry but he is not on the side of your pocket book or bank account, as you apparently believe.
I never bought the bs about being a post-racial society but did think we were beyond this kind of openly racist/bigot fascist gov; beyond yet another episode of How The South Won The Civil War. I was wrong.
The videos coming out about ICE takedowns aren't popular. Some bystander lady in a hat in California wonders, "Where's the paperwork? This is crazy." Apparently, Trumpers voted for forced deportations but thought all of the people rounded up were going to be violent gang members, rapists, and murderers. Turns out there are not nearly so many bad guys out there as they made out on Fox and police intelligence about tattoo gang symbols is ridiculously crude and cruel ethnic profiling.
The civic education failures of social media and online culture and Fox and all corporate mainstream media is no small part of the polycrisis we're mired in. And Big Tech standing behind Grump at the inauguration is a handy police lineup for most these charges; just inventory for yourself a few of the gov actions they have endorsed: stopping green energy projects already started, abandoning public health and scientific research, slashing the gov workforce with DOGE.
A very old aunt, 90-something, and who I only wish peace and happiness for (and, well, maybe that she stop voting), told me she watched the news about the mass shooting in Minneapolis yesterday on Fox because they tell it like is. Yeah, I thought, they'll be sure to tell you that the killer was Trans but probably fail to mention they were also another Hitler fan, like several in the current regime she supports, and a big gun nut for the Sandy Hook mass shooter. The social pathologies we are now engulfed in are stunning and traumatizing, just like Russ Vought and Project 2025 called for.
Anyway, I maintain we have problems, big problems, many of them, if you like, but turning immigration into a humanitarian crisis, concentration camps and forced deportations without any legal protections, police state crackdowns in cities no one wants, funding genocide in Gaza, etc, are sadistic and tragic distractions and only make matters worse.
And, my point, they are being unbelievably shitty to some more poor working people again. Or put it this way: A lot of working class people might like Trump and the Republicans but Trump and the Republicans sure don't show much love for working class people.
Labor Day Protests, September 1st, 2025.
In the spirit of the newsletter ending videos, don't forget Massive Attack, trip hop, electronic, 1991, drops of multicultural working class bohemia, the diverse margins of peak 1990s hiphop, "Daydreaming":
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