I have seen your beauty, America,and I have seen your cruelty.They live side by sideand I tread the road between them. brutus X I. Invocation: The Wound and the Wonder America, my beloved and bewildering country, you are forever suspended between the wound and the wonder. You are not an institution but a condition of […]
Month: October 2025 (Page 1 of 2)
Bare, reflective, and waiting for mercy to be restocked. On November 1st, the federal government is set to halt SNAP benefits for millions of Americans. It’s a quiet act of cruelty—bureaucratic, bloodless, and devastating. In response, online chatter has erupted with threats of coordinated shoplifting sprees, a kind of desperate revolt against hunger and neglect. […]
The filibuster is not a law of nature. It’s a self-inflicted wound used to turn cowardice into strategy and accountability into myth. Make no mistake, my friends: the Republican Senate majority wants the government shut down. They always did. Everything you are witnessing is a charade. Whatever nonsense you may have heard, the United States […]
“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” benjamin franklin In 1982, a man in Alabama named Willie Simmons stole nine dollars. It was a street-corner scuffle: a man knocked down, his wallet grabbed, a few crumpled bills taken. There was no weapon, no blood, no […]
Abstract Among captive primates, the act of feces-throwing is among the most persistent and misunderstood behaviors. Though often dismissed as comic or primitive, this act reveals the complex interplay between environment, social hierarchy, neurological stress, and the need for communicative control. Herein I examine the physiological, emotional, and symbolic dimensions of feces-throwing as documented in […]
Every tyrant fears a day when the people remember they are free.That is what No Kings Day is. It is not a tantrum, not “Hate America Day,” as the Trump administration sneers. It is a declaration that we still believe in self-government even when our government doesn’t. The regime has already shown its hand.Internal memos […]
The first duty of a public servant is moral clarity. When people under your banner praise Adolf Hitler, joke about gas chambers, and indulge in racial and antisemitic filth, the only acceptable response is condemnation—swift, unequivocal, and total. Instead, JD Vance chose to sneer. When reporters uncovered a torrent of vile messages from the Young […]
Anti-fascism did not begin as a movement of masked youth or street protests. It began as the most basic moral instinct of humankind: to resist domination, cruelty, and the worship of power. Long before anyone called it “Antifa,” it was the underground network smuggling Jews out of Germany, the Spanish Republicans fighting Franco’s troops, the […]
There is nothing accidental about the way Trump talks about American cities. He does not stumble into exaggeration; he crafts it. He calls Portland a “war zone” on a Monday and by Sunday the narrative is seeding itself across cable shows and social posts. He points a finger, the cameras magnify the finger, and then […]
Dear Friend, You don’t need to be ashamed. You don’t need to be afraid. You don’t need to carry the weight of Donald Trump’s lies one more day. I know you believed him. Millions did. You wore the hat, waved the flag, cheered the rallies. You believed you were standing up for America, protecting your […]