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 […]
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A Christmas Reckoning The Christmas story is about a frightened family, a hunted child, and a desperate flight to safety. Christmas is not about comfort. It is about a scared and desperate family who crossed a border to save their child. It is about love, mercy, and devotion to one another. The family’s allegiance was […]
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TEMPORAL COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE (TCO) Inter-Era Transmission Authorization: GRANTEDFAX TRANSMISSION — NON-RETRACTABLE Origin Date: December 19, 2027 Destination Date: [REDACTED] Chronological Drift Tolerance: ± 6 Months Causality Waiver on File SUBJECT: MORALE COMMUNIQUÉ Greetings from the future. With the recent perfection of temporal facsimile created by the great Elon […]
Before Rob Reiner became a director whose films taught us how to fall in love, how to remember childhood, how to stand by one another when the world turns cruel, he was something else entirely. He was Meathead. On All in the Family, Michael Stivic wasn’t a hero in the classical sense. He wasn’t a […]
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 […]
Even a civilian like me knows this: following illegal orders is not required in any public service. It’s one of the foundational principles separating a republic from a tyranny. And somehow, that idea has become controversial. A Quick Recap of How We Got Here It began with a simple, sober video: six Democratic lawmakers calmly […]
I am not nor have I ever been in the military. But even a civilian like me knows that following illegal orders is not required in any form of public service. Not in the military. Not in law enforcement. Not in the intelligence community. Nowhere. This is basic civic literacy. It is embedded in the […]