No. 7 of 108
June 20 2025
Mahmoud Kahlil, the first arrested, becomes the latest student ordered released, apparently by another “rogue judge”. Another judge blocked the block to Harvard hosting international students. Another judge blocked the block of federal transportation funds to force compliance with immigration edicts. Another judge’s block of the President’s control of National Guard troops was blocked by the next set of judges. Though rarely successful in entirety, many ordinary citizens are attempting to block the detention of their neighbors and friends. And more officials and candidates are blocked from entering, or speaking, or…
What are we to make of the back and forth, the wins which are losses to others, and the losses which are wins to others? How do we make sense of the emerging pattern of blocking the block intended to block? Should we be disheartened? Should we be heartened? This is what it looks like when opposing forces meet, each unable to move forward and determined to not allow the other to move forward, when what is backward for one side is forward for the other. This is how it will be for a while. A scrum. (Go ahead. Find a picture of a scrum. It will make you feel better… as long as you are not in the scrum.) This is how it will be for a while. Don’t give up! Don’t look down! Don’t tire yourself in the scrum.
