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For years, I assumed the hate I received was personal. I thought it was an attempt to intimidate me simply because I am a woman. It’s the internet, it’s a cesspool, we know this. But then I started to really look at it. I tracked the repetition in my inbox. I analyzed the recurring attacks on 'liberal women.'
I asked myself why the insults felt so uniform, and why my male counterparts never received this degree of vitriol. Yes, everyone gets hate, but between myself and other leftist women we’ve had our lives threatened, rape threats, and even our families threatened on a regular basis. I needed to know, so I looked deeper.
What I discovered shattered my initial assumption. This wasn't just misogyny; it was strategy. I had stumbled onto a years-long, coordinated alt-right movement designed to break us, and I was looking right at the heart of it. I wasn't being bullied by a few angry guys in their basements. I was being targeted by a marketing campaign.
These are psuedo-clinical terms weaponized to describe a very specific condition that makes a woman a threat to society. And do you know what the symptoms of that condition are? Caring about others.
On this day, as we celebrate the life and legacy of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. federal agents are erasing his legacy, targeting people of color, going door-to-door, dragging people from their homes, disappearing them; randomly stopping brown and black people in cars and on the street, brandishing guns, demanding papers, arbitrarily arresting citizens, flagrantly violating long-established constitutional rights, attacking witnesses with pepper spray, toxic gas and, in the case of Renee Nicole Good, claiming impunity while murdering a US citizen witnessing ICE’s chaos and brutality.
We have gone from “I Have a Dream” to We Have a Nightmare.
On December 10, 2014, in recognition of my efforts to create a cabinet-level Department of Peace, I was invited to be a keynote speaker at the King Center in Atlanta, in celebration of Dr. King’s receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, an honor he accepted with the belief that “…unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.”
Trump aims to drop oil to $50 a barrel; Chavez offered that years ago.
The US press is confused. Nothing new there. They are confused about the Acting President of Venezuela, Delcy Rodriguez.
The New York Times says Rodriguez “Went From Revolutionary to Trump’s Orbit”
Oh no, she didn’t.
Rodriguez still attacks Trump as an outlaw kidnapper and imperialist invader. But, at the same time, she says she’s seeking the restoration of diplomatic relations with the US and offers tens of millions of barrels of oil to Trump.
I’ve known Rodriguez for years. Is she a militant Leftist or a moderate pragmatist?
The answer is, “Yes.” I’d call Rodriguez a “radical pragmatist.”
Though geographically it lies near Qom, Jamkaran (the site associated with the hidden imam, Mahdi) exists far beyond any mosque, shrine, or well. It is a psychological architecture— a way of relating to power, history, and responsibility. Jamkaran names the belief that salvation arrives from outside human agency, that redemption descends from above rather than being constructed through collective action. It is not theology per se, but a political imagination shaped by waiting.
Karl Marx described this condition as inverted consciousness: a world turned upside down, where material relations are masked by metaphysical fantasies. Michel Foucault would recognize it as internalized power, domination reproduced within the subject rather than imposed solely from without. Antonio Gramsci named it hegemony: the absorption of ruling ideas so deeply that they appear natural, inevitable, even desirable.
There’s a reason JD Vance converted to Catholicism right before entering politics and it had nothing to do with God. This is the same man who once wrote an article calling Trump “America’s Hitler,” and in a 2016 interview, said he’d rather vote for his dog than for Trump.
Now he’s Vice President of the United States, and he is just one blood clot away from taking control. While the legacy media and influencers fixate on Trump’s swollen ankles, slurred words, bruised hands, and mental decline they’re missing the real threat. Something worse is coming, and it’s wearing a crucifix.
“Trump is cultural heroin. He makes some feel better for a bit. But he cannot fix what ails them, and one day they’ll realize it.” — J.D. Vance.
It is always easier—and more profitable—to align oneself with existing wealth and power than to resist it on the principled grounds of justice, equity, or stewardship. While the pursuit of profit rewards speed, scale, and indifference, conservation demands restraint and the acceptance of limits. The incentives are fundamentally lopsided: on one side, the gains from exploitation are immediate, private, and compounding; on the other, the rewards of conservation are delayed, diffused, and socialized. Those who seek profit have the obvious motive and the ample means to dominate the discourse, while those who argue for restraint must expend their own time, resources, and credibility with no hope of reimbursement. It is asymmetrical warfare made personal.
On a Sunday afternoon in Minneapolis, Patty O’Keefe and Brandon Siguenza, both U.S. citizens who live there, were taking part in an ICE watch. This is a legal activity where people observe and record law enforcement actions in public. It is an activity long protected by the First Amendment. That afternoon ended with them in cuffs after agents moved on them without warning.
The agents who moved on them didn’t knock or even shout orders. The first agent to reach Patty’s side jams a canister nozzle against the air intake vents near the windshield wipers. Inside the car, the air instantly turns caustic. A high-dose stream of pepper spray flooded directly into the sealed cabin, weaponizing the car’s own ventilation system.
This is a tactic that mirrors the times that DHS agents have used pepper spray on the air intake valves of inflatable costumes worn during protests.
