内容摘要：ZAUNER: My last record was also shelved for a year because of COVID, so I’m honestly used to that process now. I’ve actually found that I really love my records even more with time away from them.

ZAUNER: My last record was also shelved for a year because of COVID, so I’m honestly used to that process now. I’ve actually found that I really love my records even more with time away from them.

People were telling Rodriguez he should call his shop Fort Bragg Pawn & Gun even before Trump won the election. After all, it’s located on Fort Bragg Road.Then shortly before the grand opening in December, someone vandalized his sign.

“We came to work and we seen a yellow line across the `Liberty,’” he said.Rodriguez is used to catching flak for his Michigan roots or the peace sign tattoo on his right arm. And then there’s his wife’s crystal shop next door.“My customers call her side the `liberal containment center,’” he said with a chuckle.

And what do her customers call his?“`Trumpers,’” he said. “Or, you know, `mega gun nuts.’”

As a sop to her husband’s clientele, Hannah Rodriguez carries a few stones carved in the shape of pistols and hand grenades.

“Crystals and pistols,” she said with a giggle.“I spend my entire day doing nothing, and thinking,” he said, leaning against the home’s stucco walls, by the concrete parking spaces that used to be the front yard. “So I’m happy when it’s time to go to work and I have something to do.”

Haitian immigrant Kevenson Jean, a truck driver, checks his truck before a road trip, April 15, 2025, in Panhandle, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)Haitian immigrant Kevenson Jean, a truck driver, checks his truck before a road trip, April 15, 2025, in Panhandle, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

The sun was barely above the horizon when trucker Kevenson Jean packed a few clothes, zipped up his suitcase and got ready for what he thought would be his final run.He and his wife came to the U.S. in 2023, sponsored by a Panhandle family whose small nonprofit employed him to run a school and feeding center for children in rural Haiti.