When a nation chooses what to honor, it tells the world who it really is. Symbols matter of course, symbols like flags, statues, and medals. And sometimes the symbols we cling to are not signs of bravery, but scars of shame. This week, Pete Hegseth, Trump’s Secretary of War, announced that the United States will […]
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Donald Trump has always had a flair for spectacle. But in yesterday’s U.N. address, he managed not just spectacle, but created something like performance art in public humiliation. The U.N. Circus Arriving for the 80th-session General Assembly, Trump wasted no time launching into the same familiar grandiosity and paranoia. He denounced the U.N. as complicit […]
The latest trick of America’s ruling blowhards is branding the most obvious human decency as terrorism. Say you’re anti-fascist and suddenly you’re a threat to national security. Antifa! they shriek, as if the word itself has fangs. Let’s be clear. Antifa means anti-fascist. If you aren’t anti-fascist, then what exactly are you? Pro-fascist? Neutral on […]
I grieved when I saw the footage. I did not like Charlie Kirk. I despised his politics, his methods, and the damage he caused. But watching him gunned down on a college campus filled me with horror. No one deserves that. Not him, not anyone. To see a man murdered for exercising his right to […]
There is no escape from hate in America. It is the air we breathe, the food we eat, the slogans we repeat without thought. Hate is unconditional here. You don’t have to earn it, you don’t have to provoke it, you don’t even have to open your mouth — it will find you. Hate comes […]
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 […]
There’s no need to soften it: Donald Trump is a cuckold. Politically. Morally. Spiritually. His relationship to Vladimir Putin is not one of equal statesmen, not even of wary adversaries. It is the posture of a broken man, bent low, with his pride shoved into the dirt, waiting for the approval of a tyrant. And […]
Pete Hegseth, the U.S. Secretary of Defense, recently shared a video that featured pastors advocating two remarkable “solutions” to America’s supposed moral decline: repeal women’s right to vote and re-criminalize homosexuality. He reposted this video without criticism, pairing it with the approving slogan: “All of Christ for All of Life.” For anyone tempted to dismiss […]
Isn’t it just so refreshing to finally have a president who tells it like it is? No more of that sneaky backroom politics, no more moral ambiguity or carefully worded statements. No, with Donald Trump, what you see is exactly what you get. Forget all those politicians who hide their malice behind complex policy or […]
Donald Trump’s latest “retruth” wasn’t just a social media post—it was a history lesson written in the language of hate. The image he amplified showed an inverted pink triangle, the very symbol the Nazis used to brand gay men and some transgender women in concentration camps. Slashing over that triangle is a bright red prohibition […]