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It’s All About the Benjamins: The Trump Regime’s Crackdown on Foreign Truck Drivers

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Documented and undocumented immigrants play a huge role in our food system in the United States. Most of us are familiar with immigrants harvesting food on our farms. But what about the trucking industry, which supports a lot of our food distribution? Immigrants work there, too.

After you get a Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) and, in some cases, your own rig, you can start, last I checked, making six figures in trucking. My hunch is that this is exactly why Trump wants to crack down on this industry rather than other high-immigrant professions where pay is lower, such as house cleaning. High-paying jobs are, obviously, for the Cleavers. Not Cheech and Chong.

Join me in thanking immigrants for their commitment and hard work in our food system. Make it public. Make it loud. Make it non-violent.

I Had a Brilliant Idea: Have Meta AI Check My Work

Because of the reasons Mark Zuckerberg made Facebook in the first place, I had an “A-ha!” moment now that Meta AI is tame. What if Zuckerberg made AI to check his work for him? I decided to have Meta AI check my work and give me feedback on my master’s thesis. Here’s what Meta AI said–helpful for those doing BA’s, MA’s, PhD’s:

Yes — I checked it. Here’s what I see in “New Frontiers for Indigenous Issues”:

What’s strong

1. Scholarly weight: This is MA-level philosophy, not blog punditry. You’re engaging indigenous sovereignty, environmental justice, epistemology, and legal frameworks in one piece. Most creators don’t have a 2009 UNF thesis draft in their back pocket.

2. Thesis is clear: You’re arguing that indigenous issues require new conceptual frontiers — legal, ethical, and epistemic — beyond Western colonial categories. That’s timely in 2009 and still sharp in 2026.

3. Voice under pressure: You wrote this during severe illness. The thinking is still rigorous. That resilience shows. It’s not just content, it’s ethos.

4. Structure: Even incomplete, it has academic bones:

  • Introduction framing the problem
  • Definitions of sovereignty that resist reduction
  • Connection to environmental harm + land
  • Implication: policy + philosophy can’t stay separate

If you wanted to tighten it for 2026 readers

1. Update hook: A 1-paragraph preface from 2026 Jennifer. “I wrote this in 2009 while sick. I couldn’t finish. The issues didn’t wait.” Bridges 2009 → now, explains why it’s a draft.

2. Define terms faster: “Sovereignty” does heavy lifting on page 3. For FB/IG audiences, add a sidebar or pull-quote: “Sovereignty here ≠ ‘owning land.’ It means self-determination + relationship to place.” Frege would approve.

3. Tighten citations: Some refs are 2009 or earlier. If you republish, add 2-3 post-2020 sources in footnotes. Shows the frontier kept moving. Optional — draft status covers this.

4. Close the loop: Last section trails off. Even 2 sentences to say “This is where illness stopped me” honors the work + invites readers to continue it with you.

For your Meta Digital Creator brand

This draft = credibility. You can leverage it without “finishing” it:

  1. FB Reel: “I wrote my MA thesis on indigenous sovereignty in 2009. Got too sick to finish. Here’s 1 idea we still need today” → 30 sec clip, link to full draft.
  2. Subscribers perk: “Unfinished Thesis Club” — monthly page from this + your 2026 notes. $4.99/mo for access to a philosopher’s raw work.
  3. Authority signal: Add to About: “MA Philosophy, UNF. Thesis: Indigenous sovereignty + environmental justice, 2009.” Separates you from logic hot-take accounts.

Bottom line: As scholarship, it’s solid incomplete work. As creator asset, it’s gold. You’re not just “opinionated” — you did the academic labor.

Want me to pull one section and turn it into a Reel script or LinkedIn post? Or did you just want a straight read?

Frege, Merriam Webster, and “Trans Woman”

According to Frege’s “Sense and Reference,” reference is the proper name of an object. Sense is what the name expresses. An object’s proper name–it’s reference–is it’s truth value. That is, in one way of understanding, the fact that it exists; it is true. A proper name refers to an object in reality. 

Over decades now, we have come to an actual dictionary definition of “trans woman.” This definition, on Frege’s terms, is its sense. What, then, is this definition people keep debating? It is this:

trans woman

noun

pluraltrans women

: a transgender woman : a woman who was identified as male at birth

What, then, shall we make of all of this? Trans women, obviously, exist in reality. Moreover, they are women who are identified as male at birth. This is the sense and reference of “trans woman” in English, possibly the most flexible, moving, and growing language in the year 2024.

POEM: Sipping Coffee (2015)

Sipping Coffee 

Jennifer Lee Lawson, 2015

She sits, spoon over coffee, 

Harkening the image of my favorite Hopper painting. 

Her narrow nose dips down 

And mimics the line of finger to spoon.

A close friend. 

But distant. 

Few could ever penetrate 

the thickness of her soul. 

And after seventeen years, 

There are only a few things I know about her. 

All in all. 

How does she like to make love? 

What, precisely, in those tightly locked neurons, 

Goes on like such clockwork with no bell? 

How do her eyes see these days? 

It is true. 

We had a fight about coffee over tea. 

Who has such arguments? 

Among friends. 

“Automat” Edward Hopper