Manuel Cárdenas
jmcardenas.bsky.social
Manuel Cárdenas
@jmcardenas.bsky.social
assistant professor of renaissance / early modern literature, uAlberta.
17th-century poetry, knowledge, self representation.
Reposted by Manuel Cárdenas
What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.
December 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Does anyone remember when Clinton said *some* of Trump’s constituency went into the “basket of deplorables” and it was the biggest news since the atomic bombs? Meanwhile, the Press Secretary:
Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."
October 16, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Monstrous:

"They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying....The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."
ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court. His family is suing.
A Honduran mother and her two children — ages 6 and 9 — sued the Trump administration over their arrest at Los Angeles Immigration Court, the first lawsuit challenging the arrests of children under a ...
www.tpr.org
June 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM