At a December 2025 meeting at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump publicly aligned with Benjamin Netanyahu in endorsing a plan that would uproot the civilian population of the Gaza Strip. Reporting on related policy discussions cites proposals for voluntary relocation of Gaza’s population as part of postwar planning. Language matters. When starvation, blockade, and battered shelters leave […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” benjamin franklin In 1982, a man in Alabama named Willie Simmons stole nine dollars. It was a street-corner scuffle: a man knocked down, his wallet grabbed, a few crumpled bills taken. There was no weapon, no blood, no […]
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 […]
It is easy to imagine a secret police force as something beyond the law: clandestine, illegal, operating in shadows. The horror of ICE is subtler and more insidious: it acts within the law, and that legality is the shield that allows its abuses to continue. ICE does not need to break the law; it is […]