He calls himself the peace president. It’s a tidy phrase. Polished. Market-tested. A dove yes, but clenched in Trump’s fist. Peace, apparently, now includes airstrikes launched on Christmas Day. Peace includes joking responses when asked what happens if Russia and Ukraine refuse a settlement imposed from above. Peace includes missiles fired at boats too small […]
Category: Defiance (Page 3 of 4)
There are two horrible stories this week. Two stories separated by a thousand miles but driven by the same engine: a government drunk on its own authority and a political movement cheering it on like spectators at a public stoning. The first story comes from Dilley, Texas. Under President Trump, ICE’s family detention regime has […]
The most terrifying authoritarian actions never arrive wearing jackboots and shouting decrees. They arrive in legal briefs, phrased in the language of “security,” “integrity,” and “national interest.” And now Donald Trump is preparing one of the most dangerous authoritarian projects in modern American history: the power to strip millions of naturalized Americans of their citizenship […]
We continue being challenged by Trump’s second administration as he pushes boundaries further and further from tradition. Personally, I am absolutely fine with challenging our traditions, but not when it comes to outright bigotry, xenophobia and pure racism. There have been some controversial statements made about our country, including: “If tyranny and oppression come to […]
Donald Trump has crossed every line a democracy can tolerate. Not bent, not strained. Obliterated. Now he’s again dragging Ilhan Omar through the sewer with the oldest trick in the fascist manual: invent a salacious lie, racialize it, sexualize it, weaponize it, and repeat it until the weakest minds mistake it for truth. Incest, immigration […]
Marjorie Taylor Greene is once again making the rounds with her “I have regrets” routine, a performance of reflection, gentleness, and Christian humility that materializes only when she’s politically cornered. She thinks we’ve forgotten. She thinks we don’t keep receipts. She thinks we’ll believe her simply because she whispers Jesus like it’s a magic word […]
Karoline Leavitt reminds us so often it practically counts as a devotional ritual: The Trump administration is the most transparent administration in American history. And who are we to question this gospel? Let us instead examine the brilliant examples of this legendary transparency, many examples drawn from just the past few weeks, where Trump’s openness […]
Forty days. Forty days of shutdown, fear, and uncertainty. Forty days of workers without pay, travelers stranded, and families wondering if their next doctor’s visit would be covered. And for what? For nothing. Absolutely nothing. The longest government shutdown in American history has ended not with victory, not with progress, but with surrender. A surrender […]
“All we want is voter ID. You go to a grocery store, you have to give ID. You go to a gas station, you give ID” — President Donald J. Trump It sounds simple — obvious, even. That’s the trick. Authoritarians have always loved the obvious answer because it disguises the malicious one. The United […]
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 […]