thus always to tyrants
Every Fourth of July, Americans light fireworks to celebrate a piece of paper. It is wise remembering what that paper was. The Declaration of Independence was not a legal filing. It was fifty-six men committing treason against the Crown, in writing, names attached, knowing failure meant the gallows. Jefferson did not hedge. He signed his […]
The Great American State Fair opened on June 25th on the National Mall. It was supposed to run sixteen days and celebrate the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding. It was supposed to be a world’s fair, a unifying spectacle, a moment that transcended the noise. It lasted about forty minutes before the Ferris wheel […]
In Act 2 of Macbeth, the king lies murdered upstairs and a drunk man is laughing at the gate. Roused by knocking he can barely hear over his own hangover, the Porter imagines himself the doorman of hell, sorting souls before he lets anyone through. One arrival amuses him more than the rest. Knock, knock! […]
On June 14, the White House South Lawn hosted a UFC card, the first professional sporting event ever held on the grounds of the presidential residence. The marketing was thick. 250 years of America. Flag Day. The president’s 80th birthday. All stacked into one broadcast. Then heavyweight Josh Hokit beat Derrick Lewis by TKO in […]
Today, Donald Trump turns eighty. The White House marked the occasion this weekend the way it marks everything now: with spectacle, with a growing bill for We the People, and with no apparent awareness of how any of this looks to everyone not on the MAGA cult. Saturday night, the South Lawn hosted the U.S. […]
On the mental servitude of MAGA There is a kind of slavery that leaves no marks on the body. No chains. No auction block. No overseer with a whip. The enslaved party moves freely, speaks freely, votes freely. They hold jobs and own property and even wave flags that say the word “freedom” in bold […]
On Laura Loomer and the Cruelty of Fake Concern Three people were murdered at the Islamic Center of San Diego. Shot while going about their lives. Investigators confirmed what was already obvious: hate rhetoric drove the killers through that door. Laura Loomer wanted you to know she is worried about the safety and well being […]
Let us be precise about what happened. The New York Times and the Washington Post reported that classified American intelligence assessments show Iran has retained roughly 70 percent of its prewar missile stockpile, roughly 75 percent of its mobile missile launchers, operational access to 30 of its 33 missile sites along the Strait of Hormuz, […]
They call it Don Colossus. A 22-foot bronze statue at Trump National Doral golf course in Miami, draped in gold leaf and surrounded by palm trees, dedicated with prayers and tears by evangelical pastors who held a phone to a microphone so the president could bless his own monument by speakerphone. Truly, we live in […]
On a beach in North Carolina, a man photographed some seashells arranged to spell out a number. He posted the photo to Instagram with the caption, “Cool shell formation on my beach walk.” Then he deleted it.That man is now facing federal indictment for threatening the life of the President of the United States.The man […]
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