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While the rest of the world stares agape at the Trump administration's foreign adventures—its continuing and evidence-free attacks on suspected drug boats, its violent and legally dubious nabbing of Nicolas Maduro, and its lip-flapping about invading Greenland—columnist Mitchell S. Jackson has been thinking about what they might lead to within our own borders. Long before he was a distinguished professor, Pulitzer Prize-winner, and Esquire contributor, Jackson made money selling drugs. Not a lot, but enough to buy him a stay in a federal prison. Today, in a sharp and alarming essay, he wonders whether the same messed-up logic the administration uses to justify blowing up boats might one day be employed to firebomb cars on the I-70 freeway, or an apartment in your town, or some young version of him. —Ryan D'Agostino, editorial director of projects Plus: |
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Bombing suspected drug traffickers without proof or accountability is not the start of a good trend. |
The maxim "All money ain't good money" ain't just words to me. And here's prime proof: During my dunderheaded age of copping several ounces (we called them zips) of crack cocaine at a time, my then plug offered that instead of my regular re-up, I could pool cash with his homeboys who drove to L.A. and bought several kilos (we called them birds) at a time. While the prospective profits of turning interstate trafficker—I lived in Portland, Oregon—were an enticement, I declined on account of loathing to deepen my ties from a part-time pedestrian D-boy—an aspiring kingpin I've never been—to dude fated with hustlers committed to gettin' it how they lived. The average drug dealer is not an enemy combatant of the state. Drug dealers are fathers and brothers and uncles and cousins and husbands and mothers and sisters and aunts and cousins and wives. They are students and caretakers and regular nine-to-fivers. For fact drug dealers too—drug dealers aren't born, they're forged—dreamed of becoming doctors or lawyers or scientists or teachers or pro athletes or maybe even writers. The average drug dealer is not a drug dealer for life. And please know that nothing I wrote is an excuse for dealing drugs, but it is a reminder that drug dealers are human beings with backstories and mitigating circumstances, people who deserve, at the very least, the justice of defending themselves in court. What they don't deserve is an extralegal execution. |
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It has been five years since a violent insurrection successfully overthrew the American Republic. The events of January 6, 2021 injected slow acting poison into the political immune system. And when its time came in November 2025, the poison was able to core out every institution of Republican government. Now, we have fallen into a state of corporate thugocracy. The events have become so perverted and twisted in the public mind that it seems entirely possible that the president may have accidentally pardoned the person arrested for leaving pipe bombs in front of the two national party headquarters in the early hours of January 6 five years ago. There's no better symbolic example of how the perpetrators of the insurrection have managed to alter history into something unrecognizable than the tale of the memorial plaque dedicated to the Capitol's defenders, a memorial mandated by a 2022 law. |
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