'ICE Murdered a Woman in Broad Daylight' - JoJofromJerz

"We’re seven days into the year 2026, and time already feels warped, distended, as though the calendar itself has buckled under the strain. The distance between New Year’s Eve and now can’t be measured in days; it feels more like years of attrition, years of accumulated shock and sorrow compressed into a single week. The onslaught has been unrelenting, a gauntlet of images and pronouncements and violations that refuse to stop."

"And still—astonishingly, obscenely—many of us continue to wake, to pour coffee, to pack lunches, to answer emails, to move through the rote choreography of daily life as though habit might insulate us from the damage radiating outward."

"There’s something profoundly unsettling about that coexistence. A quiet cognitive dissonance. A split consciousness. The warmth of our kitchens exists alongside a widening national cruelty, and the two realities brush up against one another without fully colliding. Routine persists even as the moral ground beneath it erodes. You can feel that fracture if you pause long enough, a low-grade vertigo that never quite dissipates."

"Living this way feels like traversing a terrain seeded with dormant explosives, each step taken with unconscious calculation. You sense the danger everywhere, humming beneath the surface, yet because no blast has erupted directly beneath your own feet, you keep moving. Not because you’re indifferent, not because you lack compassion, but because the human nervous system has limits, and unceasing alarm isn’t survivable. Much of this brutality has been engineered with that knowledge in mind. It isn’t meant to arrive as a single, undeniable catastrophe. It’s meant to leach slowly into the landscape, to normalize itself, to blur into the background until endurance begins to masquerade as acquiescence."

Continued at link:

https://open.substack.com/pub/jojofromjerz/p/ice-murdered-a-woman-in-broad-daylight?r=r38w4&utm_medium=ios