There’s something painfully familiar about the MAGA crowd. Strip away the flags, the slogans, the cosplay militias and merch tables, and what you’re left with is a high school clique. Not the kind bound by principle or vision, but the kind built on exclusion, insecurity, and a deep fear of standing alone. It’s the same […]
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Not just now, but in recent years, the streets of America were filled with protest signs, raised fists, and chants for justice. Black Lives Matter wasn’t just a slogan; it was a desperate cry for recognition, for basic human dignity. It was a plea to be seen, to be heard, to be treated as equal […]
You’ll be a god to them. Jor-El Superman is back. And predictably, the American Right is furious. Before a single frame of James Gunn’s new Superman hit theaters, the usual suspects began frothing about how “woke” it had become. Dean Cain — the Clark Kent of the Clinton years — preemptively whined that Hollywood was […]
“Were You Educated?”: Trump’s Shameful Racist Comment to Liberia’s President
Donald Trump, with all the subtlety of a falling anvil, has once again reminded us who he is—not just a fool, not just a narcissist, but a racist. A loud, lazy, performative bigot caked in pancake makeup and fortified by decades of unearned applause. Trump’s shameful racist comment was pathetic and historically ignorant. This time […]
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) will not take my food stamps. I don’t have any. I’ve never applied for them. I buy my groceries with my own income, and I’m fortunate enough not to worry whether I’ll have dinner tonight. But for millions of Americans—mothers, veterans, seniors, and disabled citizens—those benefits are the […]
An Independence Day Letter to a Country I No Longer Recognize How proud are you to be an American today? This Fourth of July, millions of Americans will eat their hot dogs, watch their fireworks, and wave their little flags like nothing is wrong. They’ll call it Independence Day. But what are we celebrating, exactly? […]
They have a baby on our land, the baby becomes a citizen… It’s ridiculous. Donald Trump, Axios on HBO, October 2018 It sounds reasonable, maybe even responsible. At first glance, it’s a call to order, just a little policy tweak, they say, to ensure the integrity of the nation. A system where being born here […]
Fast tyranny depends on slow justice In a quiet opinion buried in the noise of summer headlines, the Supreme Court has struck a blow against the very idea of emergency resistance. No fireworks. No marches. Just one more tool of liberty snapped clean in half. The Court has ruled that federal district judges may no […]
In an administration overflowing with cruelty, incompetence, and unchecked ambition, Stephen Miller stands alone. Not because he’s the loudest. Not because he’s the most powerful. But because he is the most ideologically committed to the destruction of democracy and the rise of a cold, ethnonationalist autocracy. He was dangerous before. He’s even more dangerous now. […]
So much for the peace president. Donald Trump, the self-anointed anti-war messiah, the man who puffed up his chest and barked through every rally about how only he could stop World War III—has now done the one thing he screamed Kamala Harris would do: he bombed Iran. This is the same man who claimed that […]