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The Butterfly and The Bloviator
Trump made a Pearl Harbor joke to the Japanese PM’s face. Hegseth declared war on religious extremism while sporting a Crusades battle-cry tattoo. Bondi’s DOJ dropped the Breonna Taylor charges. And my friend Morgan told me karma would sort it all out. This week’s post is part political autopsy, part philosophy, and ends — improbably — with a butterfly. Continue reading
Washington Knew. (Trump, Not So Much.
Which brings us to our current journey of historical dementia, perpetrated by a president who is no doubt psychologically altered, a secretary of defense who is more concerned about bringing on the rapture than the consequences of war, and a Congress that is vertabraically challenged. These are the men who not only forgot history but are now rediscovering it at a cost to the American taxpayer of roughly $1 billion a day. Continue reading
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Photographs and Memories
During a visit with my cousins in São Paulo, a worn folder of old photographs opened a doorway into my family’s past. Inside were images spanning continents and generations—from Vienna and Hungary to Brazil and the United States.
One photograph from 1922 showed two young sisters about to be separated by an ocean. Others revealed relatives shaped by immigration, war, and survival in the twentieth century.
Then one image stopped me cold: a young lieutenant in the United States Army.
It was the first photograph I had ever seen of my father as an army officer Continue reading
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This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Democracies.
Once released, feathers scatter.
Once amplified, lies scale.
What made sense in the dial-up era may not make sense in the age of monetized outrage.
Read: This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Democracies. Continue reading
How Many Donald Trumps Does It Take To Change A Lightbulb?
Fear demands attention. It always has. Some express it in tears, some in anger, some in power. But laughter is the one response fear cannot survive, because it refuses to grant fear authority over the moment Continue reading
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How Many Donald Trump’s Does It Take To Change A Light Bulb?
A routine medical visit becomes a reflection on public life: fear, noise, and why humor may be the only response that refuses to play the same game as power. Continue reading
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The Pomeranian Presidency.
Just before falling asleep on Tuesday night, my phone — resting peacefully on my night table — chirped. Then chirped again. Then again. I have a rule about checking my phone before bed. The phone at that hour is a … Continue reading
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Not A Mistake: Donald Trump and the Politics of “Not a Mistake”
It is not a mistake… When federal prosecutors in Minneapolis sought a warrant to collect evidence from Renee Goods’ vehicle after the shooting, they were told to stand down. They were told by senior officials in the White House, including … Continue reading
The Discombobulator in Chief
The man currently residing in the White House announced this week that the U.S. used a secret weapon when we attacked Venezuela. He called it the “discombulator.” He said he wasn’t allowed to talk about it — which meant, of … Continue reading
No, ICE Please. A Proposal for Beverage-Based Resistance
“No ICE please!” There’s a moment that happens dozens of times a day across America.A barista asks, “Would you like that iced?”A server says, “Ice with your water?” It’s such an ordinary exchange that it barely registers. Pure autopilot. But … Continue reading
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Blame it on Rio 