Another mass shooting. This time through the stained glass window of a church attached to a grammar school in Minnesota. Children dead and wounded, families and a community in trauma, horrifying grief. And once again, America reaches for its favorite placebo: thoughts and prayers. Politicians lower their voices, bow their heads, and hope the echo […]
Month: August 2025
It is easy to imagine a secret police force as something beyond the law: clandestine, illegal, operating in shadows. The horror of ICE is subtler and more insidious: it acts within the law, and that legality is the shield that allows its abuses to continue. ICE does not need to break the law; it is […]
There’s no need to soften it: Donald Trump is a cuckold. Politically. Morally. Spiritually. His relationship to Vladimir Putin is not one of equal statesmen, not even of wary adversaries. It is the posture of a broken man, bent low, with his pride shoved into the dirt, waiting for the approval of a tyrant. And […]
On August 11, 2025, President Trump did something no president has done in living memory: he took over a major American city’s police force. Not just any city—Washington, D.C., the nation’s capital. With the stroke of a pen and the unfurling of an “emergency” declaration, he deployed 800 National Guard troops and assumed direct control […]
Pete Hegseth, the U.S. Secretary of Defense, recently shared a video that featured pastors advocating two remarkable “solutions” to America’s supposed moral decline: repeal women’s right to vote and re-criminalize homosexuality. He reposted this video without criticism, pairing it with the approving slogan: “All of Christ for All of Life.” For anyone tempted to dismiss […]
Isn’t it just so refreshing to finally have a president who tells it like it is? No more of that sneaky backroom politics, no more moral ambiguity or carefully worded statements. No, with Donald Trump, what you see is exactly what you get. Forget all those politicians who hide their malice behind complex policy or […]