by John W. Whitehead, Rutherford Institute:
“Homegrowns are next. The homegrowns. You gotta build about five more places [like the CECOT prison]. It’s not big enough.”—President Trump on his desire to send American citizens to a megaprison in El Salvador, beyond the reach of U.S. courts and the Constitution
It has begun, just as we predicted, justified in the name of national security.
Mass roundups. Raids. Indefinite detentions in concentration camps. Martial law. The erosion of habeas corpus protections. The suspension of the Constitution, at least for select segments of the population. A hierarchy of rights, contingent on whether you belong to a favored political class.
This is what it looks like when the government makes itself the arbiter of who is deserving of rights and who isn’t.
The Israel Lobby group StandWithUs on Tuesday shared a new feature-length film hyping “campus antisemitism” as a five-alarm fire that can only be fixed with censorship and laws against antisemitism.
Lady Gaga’s performance at Coachella 2025 was lengthy, theatrical, and infused with powerful symbolism. More importantly, it was imbued with a spiritual meaning that turned the music festival into a full-on megaritual.