Congress is on “vacation” while workers go unpaid, airports run partisan videos, and health care hangs in the balance. It’s time to fix the rules.
Tag: Project 2025
From a Moonlit Beach to Quantico: Why Gutting the Rules of War (Project 2025, Trump) Endangers Us
A scene from a WWII film about captured U.S. Army nurses shaped how I think about the rules of war. As Trump and Project 2025 push a harder-edged military agenda—including using American cities as “training grounds”—we need to remember why the Geneva Conventions exist and what happens when nations abandon them.
Raids, History, and the Lines We Refuse to Cross
I’m just getting this down. After reading Heather Delaney Reese—and seeing reporting on the Chicago raid—I’m thinking hard about how cruelty gets normalized: raids that humiliate families, detention buildouts, and civil-rights rollbacks. We’re not Weimar, but the warning lights are on. Here’s why, what research says, and where my line is.
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.
When One Party Wants It All: Why Shutting Out Democrats Is Anti-Democracy
Donald Trump’s call to “not deal with Democrats” goes beyond tough politics — it challenges the very idea of democracy. If we accept that one party should rule while the other is silenced, we’ve abandoned what makes this country a democracy. Here’s why that matters, and why respecting opposition is essential to keeping our system alive.
When Warnings Go Silent: The Real Cost of Cutting the National Weather Service
What happens when lifesaving weather alerts and forecasts are weakened or go silent altogether? As budget cuts hit the National Weather Service, every community—whether facing hurricanes, tornadoes, or everyday storms—stands to lose. This post explores how these cuts affect real people, the history behind our warning systems, and why protecting weather services is vital for everyone’s safety.
Who’s Really in Control? The Threat Behind AI and American Democracy
The Real Danger Isn’t AI—It’s Who’s Trying to Control It As I write this blog post, I’m actively researching something I heard earlier today on historian Heather Cox Richardson’s livestream. She had a guest on named Gil Duran, and he talked about someone I had never heard of until now—a man named Curtis Yarvin. The… Continue reading Who’s Really in Control? The Threat Behind AI and American Democracy
Notes from the edge of the system 