Not Unmindful weekly digest #7
It's been a busy week despite my limited schedule. New feature: starting the digest with the most recent story.
Here are links to what was published to Not Unmindful this week (ending 12 September 2025). It’s been a busy week on all fronts.
Friday
Supreme Court oks racial profiling in Los Angeles
The Supreme Court lifts restrictions on LA immigration stops set after agents swept up US citizens. The court’s ruling allows ICE to resume its indiscriminate roundups of LA’s Latino residents.
Thursday
Charlie Kirk, myth making, and violence
Political violence, memory, and the danger of historical revisionism.
Wednesday
Rejecting Lincoln's America
We live in Lincoln’s America as much as anyone else’s. Which makes it supremely ironic that Lincoln’s partisan political descendants, the modern Republican Party, wants to destroy it.
Tuesday
ICE opens detention center at Louisiana's notorious Angola Prison: and a dark history returns
Critics are questioning the decision to hold immigrants at the maximum-security facility known as Angola, which has a troubled and racist history.
The General's Redoubt weighs in again
In an article his blog, The Patron Saint of Superheroes, Professor Chris Gavalar breaks down the latest missive from that lot.
Monday
Senator declares America a "white homeland" in shocking national conference speech
A Senator just unapologetically declared that America isn’t an idea—and isn’t for everyone. Just certain types, Guess.
Sunday
Trump's dangerous plan to illegally deploy Texas troops in Illinois
Trump’s plan could tear apart the Union if it goes forward. Either way, it will plunge the country into an unprecedented constitutional crisis. Special off-cycle edition.
Non in cautus futuri.
