Last night, people gathered in Brockport, New York. A small college town. Hundreds of miles from Minnesota. Candles in gloved hands. Silence broken only by breath and resolve. That distance is important. It’s the detail the mockers trip over. “What does Brockport have to do with Minnesota?” “What a waste of time.” “Do you really […]
Month: January 2026
I am a fallen spirit. I was King of Denmark. I have not risen for spectacle. I am not summoned for theatrics. I rise because I recognize a familiar rot. Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing to what I shall unfold. I once ruled a kingdom. I learned early that power decays when it stops listening. When men stop asking what they owe and […]
The government is gaslighting us. Not metaphorically. Not rhetorically. Literally. We are being told not to believe what we saw, not to trust witnesses, not to trust video, not to trust journalists who were assaulted for doing their jobs. We are told the problem is our perception, our tone, our lack of patience. Fine. If […]
A short sermon on a Gospel of selective holiness There is a peculiar modern theological belief that insists Jesus Christ would absolutely approve of tearing children from their parents, warehousing human beings in concrete pens, and cracking a few ribs along the way, all in His holy name. But a buttercream rose on a cake […]
It is too common a scenario. They come at night, because daylight invites witnesses. The officers move through the neighborhood with practiced ease. Potential areas to investigate have been noted in advance. The orders are clear, the papers are already signed. This is not a search. It is a hunt. The illegal runs when he […]
There is something profoundly unwell about a president who sees rebellion in every raised voice, treason in every crowd, and enemies in the governed themselves. This week, Donald Trump once again demonstrated that his presidency is not merely authoritarian in instinct, but unstable in execution. In response to protests in Minneapolis following an aggressive federal […]
Kristy Noem’s approach to power has long been visible in practice rather than rhetoric. Time and again, she has chosen affirmation over accountability in roles that demand restraint and care. Her most recent public display follows the same course, offering praise (and lunch) to ICE while omitting criticism, analysis, or acknowledgment of those caught beneath […]
What frightens is not just this single moment of violence, but the machinery that made it foreseeable. Governments do not wake up one morning and discover they have thugs roaming their streets. They manufacture them. They take administrative agencies, arm them, strip away restraint, replace training with ideology, and aim them politically. When that process is complete, brutality is no longer a breakdown of the system. It is the system doing exactly what it was designed to do.
Every anniversary of January 6 arrives with the same demand: forget what you saw. Forget the broken windows of the United States Capitol.Forget the chants that rose like smoke inside the halls of power.Forget the officers crushed against doors, beaten with poles, sprayed, stomped, hunted.Forget the dead. Instead, we are offered a bedtime story. It […]
The Tyranny of Efficiency: AI, Art, and the End of Human Risk
Generative AI is not dangerous because it thinks. It is dangerous because it invites us not to. It offers fluency without struggle, synthesis without judgment, creation without risk. Power has always preferred subjects who mistake convenience for freedom and coherence for truth. Art once resisted tyranny by being inefficient, by wasting time, by refusing to scale. When expression becomes instant, smooth, and endlessly repeatable, rebellion is no longer crushed. It is diluted, softened, and made safe.