Trump’s Day of Terror, Melania’s Peculiar Presser, & ICE Custody Assaults | The Lincoln Logue
There are times when it’s difficult to differentiate normal emotions from the chaos that we witness on a daily basis living under a madman. I was in therapy yesterday attempting to explain this and found myself in a sort of brain fog for the duration of the appointment, only to land on the conclusion I was grasping at the entire time. That’s sort of how life feels lately – like we’re slow walking through a dark fog and then suddenly finding ourselves on the other side of it. We get so enveloped in the day to day that it just sits on us, like the dense clouds on a coastal California morning.
And then, just as quickly, it burns off.
One minute, we’re being told that nuclear annihilation is on the table – that entire regions could be wiped off the map, that escalation is imminent, that the United States is ready to unleash hell – and the next, it’s “productive negotiations,” a “ceasefire,” a “great conversation” with the same people we were on the brink of sending to the afterlife. This week alone, we watched Donald Trump flirt with language that hinted at catastrophic escalation, only to quietly extend deadlines, soften his posture, go apeshit on social media, and send intermediaries scrambling to sell it as a win.
That’s the fog.
It’s not just the chaos, it’s the whiplash we experience. The constant shifting between existential threat and sudden de-escalation, between performative strength and his thirst for a win. It’s exhausting and we’re left trying to process whether what we just heard was real and the danger has actually passed, or whether it was just another cycle in the mind of a madman trying to keep everyone disoriented.
By the time it clears, by the time you feel like you can see straight again, the next wave is already rolling toward you in the form of a surprise press conference reintroducing the Epstein files.
Monday, 4/6 – 3-Year-Old Allegedly Suffers Sexual Abuse in ICE Custody
This is just horrifying, and almost worse that it hasn’t been a huge story in mainstream media. Despite Kristi Noem’s firing, DHS continues to terrorize both undocumented immigrants and American citizens alike.
In this instance, a 3-year-old girl spent five months in federal custody after being separated from her mother at the border. By the time her father finally got her back, it wasn’t just a delayed reunion, it was a nightmare he didn’t even know had happened.
According to court filings, the girl was allegedly sexually abused multiple times by an older child while placed in foster care by immigration officials in Texas. Her father wasn’t told the truth at the time and was told there had been an “accident.”
“She was so long in there,” he said. “I just think that if they would have moved faster, nothing like that would have happened.”
The delay was federal policy. Under new Trump administration rules, the process to release children to their families has slowed dramatically. The average time in custody has jumped from about 37 days to nearly 200. In this case, the father spent months trying to complete basic steps such as fingerprinting, only to be stalled again and again.
It wasn’t until attorneys filed an emergency habeas petition that the government moved, and his daughter was released within two days.
By then, the damage was done.
Her father says she now has nightmares, gets easily upset, and said, “she was never like that before.”
This is what happens when a system designed to protect children starts treating them like they don’t matter. Because for a 3-year-old, five months isn’t a delay – it’s everything.