To the vandals, the looters and the fire-starters who come dressed for war but not for justice: You are not the resistance. You are not the movement. You are not fighting tyranny. You are feeding it, you ignorant baboons. I say this not as some wide-eyed pacifist or apologist for power. I’m not asking anyone […]
Category: Essays (Page 10 of 14)
This is not a warning. This is a report from the front. Authoritarianism is no longer some distant shadow on the edge of democracy. It’s not a hypothetical. It’s not a thinkpiece. It’s not the concern of academics or historians or hand-wringing moderates trying to predict “what could happen.” It’s here. Right now. On your […]
They call us enemies of the state. And they mean it as an insult. But if the “state” is what we have now—then you’re goddamn right we are. Because this isn’t the state of a republic anymore. It’s the bloated corpse of one, animated by flags, slogans, and the paranoid dreams of a man-child tyrant […]
There is no polite way to say this, and there shouldn’t be. We are becoming monsters. We laugh now. Not nervously, not uncomfortably, but with real pleasure. We laugh when migrants cry for their children. We cheer when ICE buses pull away. We forward memes that mock asylum seekers. We say “go back to where […]
Donald Trump has never met a white victim he didn’t want to rescue—or invent. This time, his crusade is in South Africa, where he’s reviving a long-debunked far-right conspiracy theory: that white farmers are being “systematically exterminated” in a state-sanctioned genocide. And he isn’t just repeating the lie. He’s using it to justify granting white […]
Michelle Rementeria Diaz has lived in the United States since she was 13 years old. She’s a wife (let’s not let it be lost on us the cruel irony that her married name is Free), a mother, a business owner, and a legal permanent resident. She pays her taxes. She works. She raises her child. […]
In 1933, Osip Mandelstam, a Russian poet already under scrutiny for his lack of obedience to Stalin and his sycophants, composed a poem. It was not a rousing anthem, a call to action, or a polemic screed. It was a quiet but venomous twelve-line verse passed in whispers among trusted friends.The poem was never published […]
There are some lines no leader should ever cross. Praising the enemy who kills your own troops is one of them. But on May 8, 2025, President Donald J. Trump crossed it with ease—and with pride. Standing before reporters, Trump praised the Houthis, a group officially designated by the United States as a terrorist organization. […]
There’s a new outlet in town for those who find Fox News too intellectually rigorous, who consider Newsmax too balanced, and who believe that reality itself has a liberal bias. It’s called The White House Wire (WHWire) and it’s not satire. It’s the White House’s personal “news” site—funded by taxpayers, branded by government, and built […]
“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them.” Frederick Douglass Imagine this: A group of heavily armed state agents kicks down the door of a private home before dawn. The mother is dragged onto the […]