This President and each man and woman currently collaborating with him are something of the gravest violence, something fully inhuman, something worthy of disdain.
John Pavlovitz
If Nazis marching through town squares and supremacist politicians and election interference fall beneath your radar, you either intentionally have your head in the sand or it isn’t on straight to begin with—and either is a problem.
Even if the full release of the Epstein files never happens, they have already revealed so much about the leaders and voters and occupants of this nation, and that damage simply cannot be fathomed or redacted.
The children at Sandy Hook and Parkland and Uvalde and Brown University, and hundreds of other schools in America, deserve better than to become faceless, nameless, storyless numbers added to our perpetual national failure.
Underlying Conservative opposition to universal healthcare is ultimately selfishness: the belief that they are forever living in scarcity, that someone else’s gain must automatically be their loss.
Republicans could have single-handedly emancipated this nation from a ten-year Constitutional crisis, but they chose to bend the knee, kiss the ring, and give a middle finger to our forbears and to the entire planet.
MAGAs never tire of saying they love God and love Country, but those are hollow declarations that exist only in theory and their Facebook bios.
We usually try to survive relational challenges and family gatherings during the holidays by picking one of three less-than-ideal options.
Every tiny concession paves the way for the next, and each capitulation preps the ground. With each passing moment, shame subsides, guilt slowly evaporates, and the abhorrent begins to feel normal.
"For Caucasian God did not so love the world, He so loved America—so much so, that he sent White Jesus to build walls, take away health insurance, ignore climate change, protect sexual predators, and make the one percent richer."
We are not cooked unless we who are here stop feeling and caring and working and fighting.
For decent, faithful, patriotic human beings who call this place home and who want to leave this place more compassionate and just than they found it, today is No Kings Day.
The current state of Republicans: no words are too repugnant, no violence is beyond the pale, and everything is excusable, as long as you keep the power you need to dismantle democracy.
We’re anti-fascist because fascism is a mortal threat to free speech, to freedom of expression, to body autonomy, to cultural diversity, to life, liberty, and to the pursuit of happiness.
Bad Bunny is the literal embodiment of the American Dream that the GOP has spent decades waving in our faces. So, what’s the problem?
Congratulations, Trump supporters, you’ve thoroughly and completely owned the Libs—and all it’s cost you is a functioning government, a working democracy, human rights, national peace, economic stability and prosperity.
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