Author Archives: Daniel Little

UAW Stands With Our Members Against the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Higher Education, Immigrant & International Workers, & Our Freedom of Speech | UAW Region 9A https://share.google/WrA2txeuyWgeWcvaX

This careful piece documents the awful parallel between Hitler’s expansion of violent, unaccountable "security forces" in 1933 and Donald Trump’s shock troops of Homeland Security … Very much in line with Ernst Fraenkel’s dual state analysis. https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/trumps-ice-and-hitlers-brown-shirts?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=fzsj7

Scary parallels with the Trump state over the past twelve months … https://undsoc.org/2025/12/19/the-dual-state-1938/

It doesn’t get much more explicit than this … Trump equates the achievements of the Civil Rights movement with discrimination against whites … George Wallace and Lester Maddox back on the national stage. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/us/politics/trump-charlottesville-white-nationalists.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ElA.LYG4.y46hG_84ebBK&smid=nytcore-ios-share

[here is the Atlantic article without a paywall …] Stephen Miller is now acting as an accelerant for the president’s most incendiary impulses and shaping the lives of individual Americans in nearly every realm, @AshleyRParker, @michaelscherer and @NickMiroff report. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/stephen-miller-trump-white-house/685516/?gift=wJKU4MSSbaZAFRm84mZhD5x0TtuZN0tVUIjlNZPiOXA

This Atlantic piece sheds a lot of light on Stephen Miller’s hate-based advocacy and influence in the White House. What it doesn’t address is how he came to be the dangerous bigot he is today, and was at the age … Continue reading →

Enthusiastic turnout for ICE OUT rally in Ann Arbor this morning …

Opinion | Universities Need a New Defense https://share.google/uKToFompF8mG1QfcS A developed, serious, and complex effort to rethink the case for the independence of universities based on their crucial role in our democracy. Traditional arguments (scientific knowledge, education of the young, places … Continue reading →

Friends, Gary Krenz is right in his most recent post “We”. We face a truly dangerous crisis in our country because of the impetuous, irrational, and narcissistic decisions being made by Donald Trump. At the moment the most volatile of … Continue reading →