He started a war nobody asked for, and now he’s angry that nobody wants to finish it for him. Let that sink in. Roll it around. Hold it up to the light. A man who spent years telling NATO it was worthless, who stood before cameras and informed the alliance that American troops had carried […]
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The president of the United States stood in the Oval Office this week and announced that a person who admits to having a learning disability is, by that admission, dumb. He said it four times in less than a week. He said it at rallies. He said it on social media. He said it to […]
A Lie That Had to Invent Its Audience
Modern political lies rarely travel solo. They arrive accessorized with a happy crowd of fools ready to believe. The story circulating about Gavin Newsom and his interview with Andre Dickens, the mayor of Atlanta, is a perfect specimen. Newsom told a “largely Black audience” that he was just like them because he did poorly on […]
There is a sentence that should chill every citizen to the bone: A combat-unit commander allegedly told troops that the war with Iran is part of God’s plan, and that President Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon.” Armageddon. That is not strategy.That is not deterrence.That […]
“He who is the author of war, lets loose the whole contagion of hell, and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.”— Thomas Paine, 1778 These are not merely times that try men’s souls. These are times that test whether we possess souls at all. We were promised an end to regime change. […]
“The ice is tilted,” we hockey fans say when one team is so dominant it feels as though they are skating downhill while their opponent claws uphill for oxygen. One end of the rink becomes a siege. The puck rarely leaves it. Momentum is obvious. When the White House elevates the U.S. men’s hockey team […]
Friends. Americans. Countrymen: We were asked to stand. Stand, if we believe the first duty of government is to protect citizens before “illegals.” And many did stand. For who would not stand for safety?Who would not defend his child, his street, his own door? I am a citizen.I claim the protection of this nation gladly. […]
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A View From the Near Future It began, as these things always do, with a reasonable nod. Fraud, we were told, lurked in the margins. Not everywhere. Not often. But somewhere. A statistical ghost. And so, in the name of confidence, clarity, cleanliness, we forged the National ID. A tidy little talisman of belonging. A […]
Happy 65th birthday to Henry Rollins. There are rebels who wear costumes and rebels who shred them. Henry Rollins chooses subtraction. No chemical haze. No ironic smirk. No velvet rope between him and the audience. He built a life around discipline, confrontation, and the stubborn belief that thinking for yourself is a physical act. In […]
Under Donald Trump officials and media surrogates have reached for a familiar incantation: domestic terrorism. It has been applied not only to protestors, but to movements, to gatherings, to grief itself. In some cases, it has been applied to people who are now dead. That detail matters. When someone is killed during a protest and […]