Blowouts, Blowback, and Border Control America's newest gatekeeper comes with hair extensions and an ideology.
Donald Trump has appointed Mora Namdar, a Texas beauty salon owner and Project 2025 alum, as Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs—the office that oversees visas, passports, approvals, denials, and revocations for the entire planet. Every journalist, student, researcher, dissident, activist, aid worker, and ordinary traveler who wants to enter the United States? Yeah. Her desk. Her call.
And no, before the “elitism” chorus starts warming up their vocal cords: this isn’t about hair. This is about power, ideology, and the deliberate conversion of U.S. border control into a political weapon.
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Mora Namdar didn’t wander into this job by accident. She helped write the playbook. In Project 2025 materials, she framed U.S.-funded broadcasters like Voice of America and Radio Free Europe as national security threats—accusing them of pushing “anti-U.S. talking points” and calling for the agencies overseeing them to be gutted or shut down entirely.
That alone should have disqualified her from any role touching press freedom. Instead, it functioned as a résumé highlight.
Now, the same ideological operator who wanted to kneecap America’s global information apparatus is in charge of deciding who gets to enter the country at all.
https://theunredactedbastard.substack.com/p/blowouts-blowback-and-border-control