Looks like someone is feeling patriotic this Independence Day.
Not I, though.
This is what my country looks like in 2025:
An accused Capitol-attack instigator is now serving in the U.S. Department of Justice.
And people in my city are still sleeping under freeways.
My wish as I blow out the candles on the country’s birthday cake: Fewer fireworks, zero jingoism, more humility.
And instead of anthems, atonement.
A longer lament from Talia Levin, author of Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America:
The new era is dawning on a phalanx of secret police, flush with cash and malice. Closing the borders to brilliant and necessary and wonderful people for no other reason than fear and hate. Closing the upper echelons to people who merit them far more than the scions of privilege.
And all of it presided over by a wretch of a man who takes his instructions from television, who can barely string a sentence together, in whose small hands the future of this country is being crushed. The ultimate Ugly American, the apotheosis and the downfall of the culture that spat him out.
From the archives:
The new New Colossus
President Trump said he is planning to introduce a new visa to attract rich foreigners to America — something he is calling a “gold card.”
Right with you.
Except my feelings vent themselves in a much more sweary way.
Yes, yes, you read my mind.
Our library has wild faith, thanks.