A war briefing is not a pulpit. The Pentagon is not a church. And Pete Hegseth is not a minister of anything except the art of humiliation — his own, the military’s, and now, apparently, the Lord’s. On Thursday, at what was supposed to be an update on the ongoing U.S. military campaign against Iran, […]
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He started a war nobody asked for, and now he’s angry that nobody wants to finish it for him. Let that sink in. Roll it around. Hold it up to the light. A man who spent years telling NATO it was worthless, who stood before cameras and informed the alliance that American troops had carried […]
There is a sentence that should chill every citizen to the bone: A combat-unit commander allegedly told troops that the war with Iran is part of God’s plan, and that President Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon.” Armageddon. That is not strategy.That is not deterrence.That […]
“He who is the author of war, lets loose the whole contagion of hell, and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.”— Thomas Paine, 1778 These are not merely times that try men’s souls. These are times that test whether we possess souls at all. We were promised an end to regime change. […]
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A View From the Near Future It began, as these things always do, with a reasonable nod. Fraud, we were told, lurked in the margins. Not everywhere. Not often. But somewhere. A statistical ghost. And so, in the name of confidence, clarity, cleanliness, we forged the National ID. A tidy little talisman of belonging. A […]
Under Donald Trump officials and media surrogates have reached for a familiar incantation: domestic terrorism. It has been applied not only to protestors, but to movements, to gatherings, to grief itself. In some cases, it has been applied to people who are now dead. That detail matters. When someone is killed during a protest and […]
Last night, people gathered in Brockport, New York. A small college town. Hundreds of miles from Minnesota. Candles in gloved hands. Silence broken only by breath and resolve. That distance is important. It’s the detail the mockers trip over. “What does Brockport have to do with Minnesota?” “What a waste of time.” “Do you really […]
The government is gaslighting us. Not metaphorically. Not rhetorically. Literally. We are being told not to believe what we saw, not to trust witnesses, not to trust video, not to trust journalists who were assaulted for doing their jobs. We are told the problem is our perception, our tone, our lack of patience. Fine. If […]
It is too common a scenario. They come at night, because daylight invites witnesses. The officers move through the neighborhood with practiced ease. Potential areas to investigate have been noted in advance. The orders are clear, the papers are already signed. This is not a search. It is a hunt. The illegal runs when he […]
There is something profoundly unwell about a president who sees rebellion in every raised voice, treason in every crowd, and enemies in the governed themselves. This week, Donald Trump once again demonstrated that his presidency is not merely authoritarian in instinct, but unstable in execution. In response to protests in Minneapolis following an aggressive federal […]