‘Laughing our way to hell’: Of moral injury, dehumanizing your neighbor and a whiff of fascist iconograpy in Trump’s AI slop

Public domain, rpt. Steve Rose, ‘Slopaganda,’ The Guardian, Jan. 29, 2026. Over the Labor Day weekend, I was kind of nervous during the final edit on a blog post about moral injury. (Yes, I realize my posts read like a first draft, typos and run-on sentences included. But as an old newspaper guy, I luxuriate … Continue reading ‘Laughing our way to hell’: Of moral injury, dehumanizing your neighbor and a whiff of fascist iconograpy in Trump’s AI slop

What can you do when Trump’s ein Volk ein Reich cruelty to Haitian immigrants violates one’s deeply held moral values?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IgEivUOJO4Y Monsanto Maler (YouTube). It’s been three weeks now, and I can’t get the picture of Monsanto Maler out of my mind. A Haitian immigrant of Springfield, Ohio, Maler was ordered to report to an ICE facility 70 miles away in the Cincinnati suburbs after his Temporary Protected Status expired at the end of July. … Continue reading What can you do when Trump’s ein Volk ein Reich cruelty to Haitian immigrants violates one’s deeply held moral values?