I'm not okay
Country star Jelly Roll has a 2024 song called "I'm Not Okay." It's being played over and over on my country station these days because, judging from comments I've read online, it's how a lot of people are feeling since the Trump authoritarian revolution began January 20th. I know too that many individuals who voted for Trump are happy with the way things are going because, as Kristi Noem, the US Secretary of Homeland Security, said when speaking about arresting illegal (and sometimes legal) Hispanic immigrants: "Dirtbags like this will continue to be removed from our streets." How lovely. It seems to me that Republicans in general don't see the humans behind the labels, the stats -- the lives torn apart, upended, with no warning, like what happened to the federal employees. You get fired through a form email that doesn't even have your name on it or you can't get into the office building in the morning because your credentials have been...
