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 […]
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There is a particular kind of contempt in America that makes my blood boil. It isn’t the kind that comes from hate. Hate is at least honest. It’s the kind that comes from smugness, that quiet moral sneer reserved for those who rely on government assistance to eat, to live, to keep the lights on. […]
“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 […]
Congratulations to President Donald J. Trump on the greatest nine months in the history of the presidency. Truly, what a time to be alive — assuming, of course, you can still afford to be. Congratulations, Mr. President, even though inflation is at its highest since February. Prices are soaring like your poll numbers in your […]
I have seen your beauty, America,and I have seen your cruelty.They live side by sideand I tread the road between them. brutus X I. Invocation: The Wound and the Wonder America, my beloved and bewildering country, you are forever suspended between the wound and the wonder. You are not an institution but a condition of […]
Bare, reflective, and waiting for mercy to be restocked. On November 1st, the federal government is set to halt SNAP benefits for millions of Americans. It’s a quiet act of cruelty—bureaucratic, bloodless, and devastating. In response, online chatter has erupted with threats of coordinated shoplifting sprees, a kind of desperate revolt against hunger and neglect. […]
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 […]
The first duty of a public servant is moral clarity. When people under your banner praise Adolf Hitler, joke about gas chambers, and indulge in racial and antisemitic filth, the only acceptable response is condemnation—swift, unequivocal, and total. Instead, JD Vance chose to sneer. When reporters uncovered a torrent of vile messages from the Young […]
Anti-fascism did not begin as a movement of masked youth or street protests. It began as the most basic moral instinct of humankind: to resist domination, cruelty, and the worship of power. Long before anyone called it “Antifa,” it was the underground network smuggling Jews out of Germany, the Spanish Republicans fighting Franco’s troops, the […]
There is nothing accidental about the way Trump talks about American cities. He does not stumble into exaggeration; he crafts it. He calls Portland a “war zone” on a Monday and by Sunday the narrative is seeding itself across cable shows and social posts. He points a finger, the cameras magnify the finger, and then […]