6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (760+ words) That thought runs through my head more than I’d like to admit these days. As someone who has navigated the past three decades with a mental illness, I’ve gotten used to the crushing despair that visits from time to time,…...

1+ week, 12+ hour ago   (679+ words) The message they’re sending is unmistakable. With every panicked, desperate move, they are speaking with absolute clarity. There is only one reason they continually gerrymander themselves a more favorable playing field.It’s the same reason they eliminate voting sites.The…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (448+ words) Maybe it’s just me. Maybe you’re fine with it all; maybe this is good enough for you; maybe you’ve resigned yourself to this dystopian white nationalist fever dream as inevitable. I sure as hell haven’t. I’ve had enough of this…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (764+ words) I know what I’m supposed to believe. I’m supposed to believe that America is still in its infancy, that it is a beautiful but complicated idea, that we simply haven’t become what we can and will become. I’m supposed to…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (380+ words) As we find ourselves fully engulfed in the Category 5 shit storm that is a second Trump term, two things are irrefutably clear: it’s much worse than we thought it would be, and it’s gonna get much worse before it gets…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (542+ words) For decades they tried to tell us that the sky was falling, that devils and demons were walking among us, that the end of all we love was so very nigh. For decades they lamented our imminent moral devastation, trying…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (706+ words) We’re a decade into this madness. This just isn’t acceptable anymore. There isn’t a sufficient excuse for being an adult so sheltered from facts and so truth-deprived that you can’t see Trump’s complete sociopathy and you can’t discern the existential…...