The Handmaid's Tale is a work of fiction. But fictions can give rise to imaginings that can become the kind of future horror the show describes, if we allow it.
Marty Kassowitz
The posturing outrage of the former guy tells us a lot more than the fact that he's pissed about the FBI taking away his secret document stash. It tells us that he has more to hide—a lot more.
Propaganda by incomplete sentences and outright lies isn't limited to politics. It has been used in business and by Madison Avenue for decades.
Imagine what would happen if every media outlet said, "Today we carry nothing about the former guy." The actual power to bring about that scenario rests with us, the wielders of wallets, votes and clicks.
As legal experts have indicated, Trump is scared. He's been caught and knows it. He was provided with an inventory of what the FBI took in their search at Mar-a-Lago—and apparently it was a lot.
Alex Jones is just one example of the people who prey on others through lies, harassment, bullying and subterfuge and who do so because they are not competent enough to operate out in the open with the rest of us.
Nichelle Nichols almost left Star Trek during the original seasons due to racist harassment at the studio. But a fan, Dr. Martin Luther King, saying that Star Trek was the only TV show he approved of—because of her role—convinced her to stay.
A new element has been needed for some time to break the deadlock of bicameral opposition. Politics has been a constant game of tic-tac-toe for far too long and this binary wall has to end sooner or later.
Josh Hawley has gone viral on social media in ways he never expected and will probably never live down, replete with a variety of sound tracks.
John Bolton, by his own admission, is a coup plotter. What does this mean? He has blood on his hands. As we know from our own experience on January 6th, coups, even failed ones, lead to violence and death.
The story of Rosie Greenstein, The Redhead of Auschwitz shows the power of a single person's decision to survive no matter what.
People like Patriot Front are basically cowards. Sure, they are a "hate" group. But that hate has at its core a terror of others. This is one of the reasons these people are masked.
Trump's criminal conspiracy attempted to overthrow our government with a violent insurrection as well as fraud and forgery. Ironically the actual conspirators also relied on fake conspiracy theories to distract attention from their crimes.
Now that we have witnessed the demise of Roe v. Wade at the hands of a Trump-stacked Supreme Court, the story of The Handmaid's Tale begins to loom large again.
The big question is why would anyone listen to Ginni Thomas or give her the time of day. Oh, yeah. She's married to Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas.
It is as plain as the shape of the White House, even after just this first hearing, that Trump committed treason. While the Department of Justice plods forward with their work, the American public is already seeing the truth.