Up until three months ago, the average white American never lived in fear of their government. The more enlightened white American understood that the government was unfair and unjust and treated marginalized people unfairly, but until Trump started his second term and the executive orders start to fly—and Elon Musk and the DOGE crew took a wrecking ball to the …
“Homegrown criminals next,” Trump said. “I said homegrowns are next, the homegrowns. You gotta build about five more places.” – Donald Trump speaking to El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, telling him he wanted to send “homegrown criminals” to his country next, according to a video posted by Bukele’s office on X. Six weeks ago, I received a text from one …
On April 5, 2025, millions of Americans took to the streets to protest myriad issues, ranging from wanting the unelected South African out of our government, the inhumane treat of immigrants, the tariffs, and the overall destruction of our societal framework. The protests were organized as part of the 50501 movement and promoted as Hands Off—telling Trump to keep his …
“The power of the people is greater than the people in power.” – Cory Booker, US Senator, as he spoke for 24 hours, breaking the record for the longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond. ———————- In less than three months, the United States as we once knew it has literally been decimated before our very eyes and …
Journalism has been a critical part of awareness and accountability in society, whether large media operations like CNN or The Guardian or The Wall Street Journal or The New York Times or smaller publications and media channels online or independent journalists who rely on social media to get the news and analysis of world events out. It has been slipping …
March 13, 2020. The day that the United States declared Covid a National Emergency and life as we knew it would change forever. I remember the day clearly; I had gone down to Boston earlier that week to shut down my office for a few weeks because of what we were then just calling the coronavirus. The week before the …
Between 2014 and 2020, I attended a number of protests in Boston; Portland, Maine; and Chicago. Of all the protests that I attended during that time, there are two in particular that I still remember in vivid detail. One was in Boston in 2017, in the aftermath of the Charlottesville white nationalist rally that left many injured and one dead. …
“And now, they are coming for your Social Security money. They want your f*cking retirement money. They want it back, so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street.” — George Carlin It has long been said that the late comedian George Carlin was a prophet when it came to matters of the social conditions of the …
Every day, more Americans start to realize that the gnawing sense of unease living daily in the pits of their stomachs is the embodied realization that things in our country are going very poorly. That our country no longer is the same nation it was before the Inauguration and that we are, in fact, living in the middle of a …
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Happy Friday! It’s a gorgeous day up in my corner of the world and way too beautiful to be writing a blog post today. So I present you with the Friday Round-Up a list of blog posts this week from other bloggers that blew my mind. Perhaps if you need to kill some time or have a quiet moment you can check them out. http://ravingblacklunatic.blogspot.com/ Check out this cat, I have been a fan of his work forever. http://www.whataboutourdaughters.com/ Good stuff here as well http://sweetersalt.com/ A Maine blogger who talks fashion and food…the best of both worlds http://paganchild-starmommy.blogspot.com/2011/03/keeping-focused.html A new blog that offers words of wisdom for all of us. http://mscleaver.com/ Another Mainer who for Lent is giving up pants, she is also a crafty gal If you have any links to good blogs, feel free to leave em. It’s my hope to make the Friday Round Up a regular feature at my new home specifically I would live to shine some light and love on smaller bloggers. It’s hard out here in this blogosphere with so many good blogs to choose from and so little time so let’s help everyone get a slice of the pie. I will be back on Monday, at that time I will unveil some ideas I have around monetizing things but You May Also Like: No related posts.
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The need for papers: An oversight 52 years ago and its impact today
As this administration makes it clear that we will all soon need to carry papers proving that we are citizens if we don’t want to be shuttled off to some random country for exercising First Amendment rights or something—and with the deadline looming for Real ID to finally go fully into effect after years of delay—I keep seeing people carrying …
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