23 Mar 2025 in: Politics And blame the facilitators, too Every awful thing done because Trump, and his enablers, demands it of you is still an action on your conscience, in your name, and on your soul.
22 Mar 2025 in: Politics Let's blame the enablers Not everyone is operating from a place of fear — enough are, certainly, but enough are just chickenshit, or self-serving, or gleeful collaborators.
17 Feb 2025 in: Politics On the deplorable actions by the National Park Service Erasing queer history requires more than deleting text on a website, but capitulation here will lead to more extensive reality retcons.
06 Feb 2025 in: Politics Smash and dash I'm not really sure how the situation in the US right now can be described as anything but dire.
30 Jan 2025 in: Politics Clowns and their clown cars Two excellent pieces of writing about disappointing dudes who could have been so much more, and one repellent demon overshadowing both.
29 Jan 2025 in: Politics Democracy dies in laziness, too The historic examples of fascism I learned about are always framed in a good vs evil kind of way that really failed to show how selfish and self-serving it actually all is.
23 Jan 2025 in: Politics On shock, and awe Facebook was never good at fact checking anything, anyway — quelle surprise — and on the subject of choosing to actively disengage.
22 Jan 2025 in: Politics "History will judge the complicit" "It takes time to persuade people to abandon their existing value systems. The process usually begins slowly, with small changes."
21 Jan 2025 in: Politics Sometimes, the bad guys win History always feels like an abstract, distant thing — until you're in the middle of it.