From tear gas near a Chicago school to live bombs at a presidential “celebration,” today’s headlines show a pattern—fear over facts, cruelty over compassion. We can do better, and we must.
Tag: Civil Liberties
Project 2025, Faith, and Power: A Plain-English Christian Take
Project 2025 isn’t just another policy plan. It’s a blueprint to centralize power, sideline opponents, and impose one faction’s will on the entire country. As a Christian and a citizen, I find this vision both politically dangerous and theologically wrong. Democracy depends on people naming what’s happening and speaking up.
Why Calling “Antifa” Terrorist Threatens Protest Rights
I’m against violence at protests. Full stop. But branding a broad, leaderless idea like “antifa” as “terrorism” blurs the line between crimes and protected speech, chills lawful protest, and hands any administration a tool to target dissent. We can condemn violence and still protect the right to protest.
Department of War or Department of Defense? The America We Choose Trump’s rebranding of the Pentagon as the “Department of War” and his threats against Chicago and Baltimore aren’t just rhetoric—they’re a dangerous slide toward authoritarianism. Crime must be addressed, but turning troops on our own cities is not the answer. Americans must choose: do we want a country that protects its people, or one that wages war against them?
Trump’s rebranding of the Pentagon as the “Department of War” and his threats against Chicago and Baltimore aren’t just rhetoric—they’re a dangerous slide toward authoritarianism. Crime must be addressed, but turning troops on our own cities is not the answer. Americans must choose: do we want a country that protects its people, or one that wages war against them?
Notes from the edge of the system 