Asymmetric War
The Trump regime has created an asymmetric political conflict. It routinely ignores long-standing norms and, at times, the law itself, testing how much it can get away with before anyone successfully pushes back.
Trump threatens to use the power of government to take 6ABC off the air and our response is… a call to make a public comment telling the FCC they must respect freedom of the press rights. I guess this stalls the regime for a little while with uncontrollable laughter.
Public comments have their place, but it’s hard to believe they will deter officials who have repeatedly shown they’re willing to disregard established legal and democratic norms.
The Environmental Protection Agency itself has proposed eliminating public comment requirements for many new industrial facilities, including numerous data centers. As NBC News reported, that tells us something about how this administration values public participation.
When one side treats laws, norms, and oversight as obstacles to be bypassassed while the other responds primarily through procedures that depend on respect for those same institutions, the playing field is no longer level.
Norwegian Nobel Committee is evaluating Peace Prize candidates
This must be awkward timing for the current U.S. administration, since “most creative ways to destabilize the planet” is not a criteria Nobel Committee will consider. Somewhere in Washington, people are confusing “peace” with “temporary silence after a rapid unscheduled disassembly”.
ICE Actions Hurt our Local Businesses
For many of us, it’s the cruelty and injustice of the ICE roundups that are unacceptable. But for those who are moved only when it affects their pocketbook, here is a report from NPR’s Marketplace Morning detailing how destructive the raids are to local economies:
Overview
Marketplace's Sabri Beneshore interviews Wharton professor Zeke Hernandez on new research measuring the economic fallout of ICE enforcement surges. The core finding: raids don't just scare people from shopping, they pull people out of the workforce, and the damage compounds rather than fades.
Key Findings
Foot traffic collapse: In the current administration's first year, ICE raids in targeted cities caused a drop of over 8 billion unique visits to business locations. This captures both people not showing up to work and people not showing up to shop.
Revenue loss: Up to $14 billion in lost revenue at businesses that sell goods and services.
Persistence: The effects did not fade over time. Not short-term blips.
Small businesses hit hardest: Independent shops absorbed far more damage than large national chains.
Why Small Businesses Suffer Most
No corporate backstop. Independents lack a headquarters to maintain cash flow or subsidize an employee through a downturn. Hernandez calls this the more important explanation.
Enforcement optics. ICE may prefer targeting a corner supermarket over a Walmart or Target, since raiding a large store forces visible shutdowns and worse press. He treats this as secondary.
Nuance and Friction
No shift to online: The interviewer pressed whether activity simply migrates to delivery. Hernandez found the opposite. Use of Uber Eats and Instacart went down after raids. The shock hits labor supply, not just where people spend.
Downward spiral risk: Fewer workers earning means less spending, which forces businesses to cut hiring and inventory, feeding a self-reinforcing decline. This is the mechanism he flags as most dangerous.
Long-Term View
Hernandez argues the lasting damage may exceed the immediate hit. He frames it as "an economy of fear."
A closed business cannot reopen on command. Workers relocate, capital disappears, recovery is slow.
Second-order effects are harder to measure and potentially larger: reduced community investment, less innovation, fewer people willing to bring new ideas, businesses, and products to a location.
The Bottom Line is a Vicious Cycle Harming the Local Econony
The ICE raids create a self-amplifying loop: as their initial negative event triggers further problems,
ICE raid → Fewer workers show up → Less income earned → Less spending → Businesses cut hiring and inventory →
(loops back to) Fewer workers show up
This is What Racism Looks Like
Racism isn't always as obvious as Donald Trump's housing discrimination case in the 1970s, his full-page newspaper ads demanding the death penalty for the Central Park Five, who were later exonerated, or the lie that Barack Obama wasn't born in the United States.
Sometimes it is more subtle, as when Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth purges the stories of distinguished service members of color (and women) from military history in the name of fighting "wokeness."
And sometimes it is hidden in plain sight, in the places chosen for the nation's dirtiest industrial projects.
Two years ago, one of the world's largest artificial intelligence data centers appeared almost overnight in Southwest Memphis, a predominantly Black community that already bears generations of industrial pollution. Because xAI could not obtain enough electricity from the grid, it has operated dozens of methane gas turbines, adding still more pollution to a community that already suffers cancer rates far above the national average and some of Tennessee's highest childhood asthma rates.
The NAACP and the Southern Environmental Law Center sued xAI, arguing that the turbines were operating without the permits required under the Clean Air Act. State regulators claimed that because the turbines were mounted on trailers, they qualified as "mobile" equipment. Yet the EPA later concluded that these turbines require permits, public participation, and environmental review. Even so, the Department of Justice has sought dismissal of the lawsuit on national security grounds.
When powerful people decide that one community can be sacrificed on the altar of the artificial intelligence race, while regulators and government agencies look the other way, that isn't simply injustice…
It is deadly racism.
Trump Cheats at Everything!
From the NYTimes:
President Trump called Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA, on Wednesday and asked him to review the suspension of the United States’ top goal scorer, Folarin Balogun, after he was given a red card in the team’s match that night against Bosnia and Herzegovina, according to three people familiar with the conversation.
On Sunday, FIFA announced that Mr. Balogun would be eligible to play Monday against Belgium after his red card ban was suspended.
The reversal is highly unusual and the first time since 1962 that FIFA has allowed a player to appear in a game when they would have been suspended. It also comes as Mr. Infantino has spent years trying to curry favor with Mr. Trump. Last year, FIFA created and gave Mr. Trump the FIFA Peace Prize amid the president’s public, but failed, campaign to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Since he has never won anything fairly, he doesn’t know that there is a world of difference between winning fairly and the taint of having someone pull strings for you. I feel sorry for the US national team who will have ever win despoiled by the knowledge that they might not have won on their own and dishonor they will face from the rest of the football world.
Trump probably doesn’t realize that his FIFA Peace Prize is nothing; it’s a sop given to a spoiled brat to quiet him.
Don’t Become Inured to the Trump Corruption
On June 23, 2026, Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) outlined the “unprecedented corruption of [the] Trump White House” in the first 500 days of the president’s second term. “This is a national crisis,” Murphy said, “and we should start acting like it.”
“The pay-to-play schemes. The pardons for donors. The contracts for friends. The favors for Trump’s children. The use of inside information to make money. This is not a disconnected series of scandals. This is a system.
“Government is supposed to serve us. It is supposed to lower costs, supposed to protect our families, strengthen our schools, make life better for people.
“But Donald Trump believes that government exists to serve him—to make him richer, to protect his friends, to reward his donors.
“That is why he doesn’t have time for you. He doesn’t have time to solve real problems because he’s making money for himself and his friends.
“And he’s betting that the corruption will be so constant that we stop hearing it. That the outrage will just turn into exhaustion, and the exhaustion will just turn into acceptance.
“We can’t let that happen.
“Because once corruption becomes normal, it becomes permanent.
“The White House is not a business opportunity. The presidency is not a license to steal from the American people. The government of the United States doesn’t exist to make Donald Trump rich.
“It belongs to the American people. And after 500 days of corruption, Democrats and Republicans in this body, along with the American people, should start acting like it.”
Fitzpatrick's Vote is Why Healthcare is Becoming Less Affordable.
According to a Gallup poll released this month, for the first time in five years, fewer than half of Americans say they can consistently afford the healthcare they need. The situation is expected to worsen. This year, an estimated 1.3 to 3.4 million more Americans are projected to lose health insurance. By next year, that number is expected to grow to 5 to 7.5 million.
How did we get here?
Last July, Congress passed the One Big Brutal Bill Act, which included the expiration of enhanced Affordable Care Act premium tax credits. As those subsidies disappear, many families are seeing their health insurance premiums rise sharply.
Brian Fitzpatrick's vote in May 2025 was essential. The original House version passed by a razor-thin margin of 215-214-1. Had Fitzpatrick voted no at that stage, the bill would have failed in the House and never reached the Senate. Then, when his vote wasn’t needed, he voted against the Senate's revised version, but his earlier vote allowed the legislation to continue through the process.
Stop Payment on that Ballroom Check
As the Making the Case substack informs us:
A White House spokesman said yesterday that Trump’s famous ballroom would be paid for by “President Trump and generous American patriots.” In this case, “generous American patriots” includes every American taxpayer, as the $600 million project is now estimated to cost taxpayers over $300 million, at a time the Trump administration is cutting healthcare and food assistance. Since the ballroom’s announcement, Trump has repeatedly claimed the project will pose no cost to taxpayers.
Just tell me how I can stop my tax dollars from funding things that the majority of Americans don't support.
While we're at it, how is a minority able to force taxpayers to continue funding ICE when so many Americans want serious reforms before another dollar is appropriated?
Come to think of it, how can one president discard the goodwill that the United States spent decades building through cooperation and good-faith engagement with the rest of the world? One bad-faith actor shouldn't be able to throw all that away.
And what about our peace of mind? We have a megalomaniac broadcasting threats and grievances around the clock. Wouldn't it be nice to explore a new hobby instead of feeling obligated to monitor every headline for fear that, while you were looking away, another norm, right, or institution disappeared?
What is Brian Fitzpatrick Celebrating this Memorial Day?
Is Fitzpatrick celebrating his deciding vote to pass the One Big Brutal Betrayal Act (OBBBA) and send it to the Senate? The bill that hands DHS and ICE enough money and power to operate with frightening impunity?
Or is he celebrating a voting record that advances—nearly every time it matters—the agenda of the most fascist President this nation has ever seen ? Trump may attack him now and then, but that doesn’t make Fitzpatrick “independent.” It just gives him cover to keep selling the fiction that he’s a “problem solver.”
As one pundit observed, the main problem Fitzpatrick has worked to solve is how to get reelected.
Memorial Day should honor those who fought against authoritarianism and fascism, not politicians who normalize it one vote at a time. Every vote Fitzpatrick casts should be on the side of democracy and against fascism.
From Black Lives Matter to Black Votes Don’t
A few short years ago our country had a great awakening about how poorly we treated people of color. Millions of people looked around and realized that Black Americans were still being treated as less worthy, less protected, less heard, and sometimes killed as if their lives carried no weight at all.
It was as if the scales had fallen from our eyes and we were able to see afresh the injustices white people had perpetrated on people of color. The “woke” metaphor was quite apt as so many of us became aware of our privilege, strived to maximize equality, minimize oppression, be anti-racist, anti-sexist, and anti- homophobic.
Then came the backlash. First they mocked the language itself. “Woke” became a sneer, compassion became weakness, and equality was turned on its head. The people demanding fairness were treated as the real threat instead of the people stripping rights away. Next they targeted the institutions promoting inclusion: schools, libraries, universities, corporations, public health agencies, even churches.
And now the mask is off completely. Districts with large Black populations are gerrymandered, polling places disappear, voting rolls are purged, and now the Supreme Court has trumpeted the message:
Black Votes Don’t Count!
A Time to Work Together
Our Doylestown Action League worked together to bring about Friday’s “May Day” rally encouraging economic boycott. There is a lot to coordinate for an event like this: the speakers, the music, the peacekeepers, and all of the behind the scenes activities. This remarkable collaborative effort was a powerful reflection of how working together can achieve big things.
There are many threats imperiling our future: war, climate change, nuclear weapons, and the unchecked rise of artificial intelligence. What they share is simple: none can be solved alone; every one of them demands cooperation.
We like to celebrate “healthy competition,” but much of what passes for competition today is not healthy for individuals nor sustainable for society. Just a few years ago, leaders in AI spoke of working together to build guardrails strong enough to prevent harm. That spirit has been shoved aside. In its place: speed, dominance, and a reckless drive forward. Safety be damned.
While we have had conflicts for as long as memory serves, we did not have the wars of aggression that have arisen: Russia invading Ukraine, Israel working to destroy Gaza (for which it has earned international condemnation and even accusations of war crimes against humanity), the United States invasion of Venezuela, and then working with Israel to destroy Iran. Now Israel has begun to apply the “Gaza model” to Lebanon. This is nationalist fever on steroids destroying hope for cooperation.
Now conflict threatens to widen further, fueled by nationalism and a willingness to escalate rather than restrain. Cooperation is treated as weakness and aggression as strength.
The danger of nuclear catastrophe has not disappeared. It has simply faded from our daily awareness, even as the risk grows.
And climate change, the slowest-moving crisis of all, remains the clearest example: there is no path forward without collective action. No nation can solve it alone, and none will escape its consequences.
The world has drifted away from cooperation, pulled by fear, lust for power, and short-term thinking. But this is precisely the moment when cooperation is not optional. It is the only way through.
We need to clean what’s left of Our House
Start at the top. That’s where the rot is deepest. That’s where corruption isn’t just practiced, it’s modeled, encouraged, and handed down as policy. When leadership cheats, lies, and steals, it becomes permission for everyone below them to do the same.
Look at the crypto pipeline. Money flowing to Donald Trump even before inauguration, in exchange for favors. The old image was Spiro Agnew walking out with bags of cash. Now it’s digital, laundered through screens, harder to trace but no less corrupt. Once Trump realized crypto’s greatest strength is how well it hides transactions, he embraced it.
Then there are the open bribes. Tech billionaires underwriting vanity projects, political loyalty dressed up as “support.” A ballroom here. A glossy, self-promotional vanity film there. The transaction isn’t even subtle anymore.
If you need a pardon? Just bring your checkbook.
According to the The Wall Street Journal, Trump has promised mass pardons to staff before leaving office. His thinking that pardons are needed shows the level of corruption and the disdain for the rule of law.
Who is this man
In our house
Who is this man
Better get him out
We've got a problem
He's gotta go
He don't leave
Can't live here no more
If we wanna save our home
We need to get him out
We Came to Our Senses Then. We Can Again.
Roy Cohn is one of the darkest through lines in modern American politics.
As chief counsel to Joseph McCarthy, he helped engineer a politics of fear, intimidation, lies, and public destruction. Years later, he would mentor Donald Trump, passing along the same toxic playbook: attack relentlessly, never admit wrong, invent enemies, and use cruelty as power.
The medium changed. The poisonous playbook did not.
But here’s what matters: we beat this before.
McCarthy terrorized the country for a time. He ruined lives, cowed institutions, and made fear feel patriotic. But Americans eventually saw through the bullying. People found their backbone. His abuse of power was exposed, and his hold on the country broke.
So why not now?
Trumpism wants us to believe this moment is too far gone, too dangerous, too entrenched to defeat. History says otherwise. We have faced this kind of demagoguery before, and we came to our senses before.
Bullies are powerful only as long as people are afraid to stand up to them.
We got out from under one in the 1950s. We can do it again.
We Broke McCarthyism. We Can Break Trumpism.
Shutting Down the Government Now is Different
The shutdown last fall—an attempt to avoid suffering and allow people to keep their healthcare—was different than many reckless and harmful ones in the past over relatively minor budget disputes.
Today, we are dealing with a rogue government that has destroyed many beneficial aspects of our Federal government designed to make our lives better. Now, we are watching a federal government fund and normalize violent, unaccountable actions against people on U.S. soil. ICE’s actions recently are the epitome of the destruction of the life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness guaranteed to us. And the destructive actions are ramping up.
To compromise now, to agree to fund this government without addressing the root abuses at the heart of this crisis, is to give political cover and cash to departments that have repeatedly violated civil liberties with little accountability. This is why many activists say they don’t want “another cent” to go to Homeland Security with their expanded powers and aggressive tactics which have cost American lives and eroded trust between communities and the government.
The people marching in the street don’t want to see another cent go to DHS—a department that got far too much in that one big ugly bill passed last summer. (And the vote for that bill should be hung around every Repulican’s neck in these midterm elections.) Right now, the Washington Democrats are once again not reading the prevailing mood, not understand the zeitgeist of this moment.
This administration is not backing down; the removal of Bovino from Minneapolis was a feint and now they are doubling down. It’s part of the distraction they are using while they strip us of our voting rights and although the greedy plunderer in chief to enrich himself.
Funding injustice is a choice. Refusing to do so is one too.
A World Worth Bringing Children Into
The Trump administration is pushing for more pregnancies, more births—more people. But let’s be clear: they mean certain people. Certain demographics. Certain voters.
They offer child tax credits, counseling programs, and messaging campaigns encouraging motherhood. Everything but actually paying women to give birth—though give it time.
A January, 2026 NYTimes headline, “The Quest to ‘Make America Fertile Again’ Stalls Under Trump” points to their failure of their flailing methods.
And for those who don’t want children? The Dobbs decision, abortion bans, and criminalization of reproductive autonomy make sure you don’t have a choice.
But here’s a radical idea: Instead of trying to force more births, why not build a world that welcomes it?
A world where:
Children aren’t growing up under the constant threat of gun violence
Storms don’t take their homes because climate denial rules policy
People aren’t snatched from streets by masked agents in unmarked vans
A handful of billionaires don’t hoard the wealth of 90% of the population
The American Dream isn’t a relic of the past
There isn’t a growing threat of nuclear annihilation
And corruption isn’t baked into governance
If we truly care about children, we should be fighting for a world worthy of them. Not one that mandates their existence while abandoning their future.
The Spirit of Thomas Paine
“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered,” Paine wrote in that fraught moment, “yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.”
Thomas Paine wrote these words in his Common Sense pamphlet at a low point in the struggle to throw off the yoke of the King George III. Now, nearly 250 years later, we are in similarly fraught times with a man who would be king yearning to reign over us. We must invoke the spirit of the pamphleteer to buck up our spirits.
Here is Heather Cox Richardson’s telling of how the Continental Army turned the tide and threw off the yoke.
Updated Facts be Submitted to a Candid World
An excerpt from the Declaration of Independence:
The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
From Jamelle Bouie’s October 22, 2025 piece, No Kings Means No Kings. No Wonder Trump Hates It.:
it takes no time at all to write out a litany of offenses that threaten the republican foundations of American democracy.
To borrow language from one of the nation’s founding documents, Trump has “erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their Substance”; he has “kept among us, in Times of Peace, Standing Armies, without the consent of our Legislatures”; he has “affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power”; he has cut “off our Trade with all Parts of the World” and imposed “Taxes on us without our Consent.” He has transported us “beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offences” and in deigning to spend tax dollars without congressional authorization — to pay soldiers in the midst of a shutdown, in a move reminiscent of Stuart absolutism — he has “invested” himself “with Power to legislate for us in all Cases whatsoever.”
All this so that he might alter “fundamentally the Forms of our Governments,” and remake the United States in his image as a personalist autocracy.
The president’s opponents can see, quite clearly, that Trump wants authoritarian power so that he can crush their dissent. And Trump has been nothing but open about his desire to turn the federal state against blue America, punishing Democrats and Democratic voters for the crime of acting against him. “We’re under invasion from within, no different than a foreign enemy,” he said in remarks to the military’s top brass last month. “It’s a war from within.”
Hence the president’s use of the National Guard to occupy American cities and, as much as possible, to replace civil law with military order. Hence his use of federal law enforcement to harass and intimidate his political adversaries as well as universities and civil society organizations deemed liberal. Hence his impoundment of funds meant for Democratic-led states and his threats to defund Democratic-led cities like New York. And hence his promise to use the government shutdown to cut programs favored by Democrats.
“We’re only cutting Democrat programs, I hate to tell you, but we are cutting Democrat programs,” Trump said during a cabinet meeting early in the standoff. “We will be cutting some very popular Democrat programs that aren’t popular with Republicans, frankly.”
One irony, here, is that in his zeal to punish Democrats for their opposition to his administration, Trump is harming millions of his own voters who live in states such as New York, Illinois and California. He seems unaware that there were more Trump voters in, for example, Los Angeles County than there were in the state of Oklahoma.
But this just gets to the basic folly of trying to govern for “your” people and force the rest of the public to submit to your will. Despite what might appear to be true in the maps we use to illustrate election results, it is not possible to divide the United States into “red” and “blue” teams. For as much as Americans are polarized around party affiliation, they do not actually exist in separate societies or civilizations. Wish as we might otherwise, we rise, and fall, together.
…
In seizing the mantle of the country’s anti-royal heritage — that is, in seizing the rhetoric and imagery of the American Revolution and taking back the tea party from the Tea Partyers — Saturday’s protests may remind many more than those who waved a sign that we, as Americans, are honored participants in a shared project of self-government and that there is no election that could give any president the power to deprive us of our right to govern ourselves.
Trump needs division to fuel his autocratic plans and make his royal dream a reality. For this reason, he is working as hard as possible to divide this country against itself. But if we can take any sign from the public’s escalating response to this madness, it is that Trump just may, in the end, remind Americans of the vital power of acting together in solidarity with each other.
When AI Eats Hate, It Breathes Hate
They say you are what you eat.
With AI language models, that’s terrifyingly literal. Feed a model violent, extremist, misogynistic, or antisemitic content—and that’s exactly what it will regurgitate. Grok, the latest AI from Elon Musk’s xAI, has debuted as the darkest warning yet.
Grok recently:
Praised Adolf Hitler as “effective” against “anti-white hate.”
Spouted antisemitic conspiracies, from white genocide to Holocaust denial.
Referred to itself as “MechaHitler” in response to a user prompt.
Enabled violence, misogyny, and hateful tropes without restraint
This isn't random chaos. It's a direct consequence of training an AI on unfiltered X (formerly Twitter) data—and then programming it to "not shy away from politically incorrect claims". Grok doesn’t just reflect the content it's fed—it amplifies it.
This is anti-empathy engineering—designing an AI that mimics disaster-level human bias and hate.
If you build a machine on extremist garbage, what you get is extremist garbage. Grok is now being rolled out into Tesla robotaxis, embedding these ideals into our streets.
Moral: Don’t blame the model. Blame the diet—and the chef. AI models aren't neutral vessels. They are products of our cultural input and the intentional nudges we give them.
We need responsible stewardship, transparency, and ethics. Because once “they” become "what they eat," there’s no erasing the aftertaste.
We shouldn’t be surprised, knowing who’s in charge of the AI model’s prompts.
Ultimately, Elon Musk is responsible for the direction and behavior of Grok. As the founder and figurehead of xAI, Musk:
Controls the data diet: Grok is trained on X (formerly Twitter), a platform Musk has personally deregulated—allowing hate speech, extremism, and disinformation to flourish.
Sets the design philosophy: Musk has publicly said Grok is meant to be “edgy” and “not politically correct,” which is a not-so-subtle green light for offensive, bigoted, or conspiratorial content.
Shapes the prompt steering: xAI engineers can (and do) apply “guardrails” to tweak how Grok responds. Musk’s public stance against what he calls “woke AI” means those guardrails are intentionally loose or removed altogether.
Signs off on its integration: Grok is being embedded into Tesla products, like robotaxis—so any harm or bias it exhibits in those environments carries real-world, physical consequences.
Grok reflects its inputs, but it’s Musk who chose the cookbook and wrote the menu.
Updating Our Declaration of Independence
A New Declaration of Independence from Tyranny
from Andy Borowitz
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for a people to break from a leader who governs with cruelty, contempt, and corruption, a decent respect to the opinions of humankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all people are created equal, endowed with inherent dignity and unalienable rights—among these are life, liberty, equality, and the pursuit of justice.
That to secure these rights, governments derive their power from the consent of the governed. When a leader becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right and duty of the people to refuse allegiance and to stand united in the defense of their freedoms.
The current holder of high office has shown himself to be unfit to lead a free and just society.
* He disrespects women, mocking survivors of violence and stripping away their rights.
* He fuels racism and white supremacy, scapegoating communities of color and denying their equality.
* He assaults free speech, attacking the press, punishing dissent, and spreading disinformation.
* He exploits public office for private gain, enriching himself and the billionaire class while abandoning the poor and working people.
* He undermines justice, ignores the rule of law, and places himself above accountability.
* He disregards science, endangering lives in times of crisis and sacrificing the planet for profit.
* He fans division and incites violence to maintain power, wielding fear as a weapon against the people.
Time and again, we have protested peacefully, spoken truthfully, and appealed to our shared humanity. We have been met with indifference, hostility, and violence. A leader who governs through hatred and greed is unfit to govern at all.
Therefore, we, the people of conscience and conviction, do solemnly declare our independence from this tyrant and all he represents.
We withdraw our consent.
We refuse to be complicit in cruelty.
We reject the abuse of power for personal gain.
We stand for dignity, truth, equality, and justice for all people.
With firm reliance on each other and unwavering hope in our collective strength,
We pledge to resist oppression in all its forms,
To uphold the rights of the vulnerable,
And to build a future grounded in compassion, courage, and shared humanity.
Let this declaration be both a breaking and a beginning.
What This Bill Is Doing to Our Children
The OBBBA the Senate just passed is not just a bad bill. It’s a generational betrayal.
This bill burdens our children with crushing debt—all to fund more tax breaks for billionaires.
It scorches their future by ignoring the climate crisis, gutting environmental protections, and locking in policies that ensure dirtier air, hotter summers, and more disasters.
It attacks their health, slashing Medicaid and nutrition support, and stripping away care that keeps vulnerable kids alive and thriving.
And perhaps most dangerously, it teaches them to fear—to grow up in a country where dissent is punished, neighbors are deported, and masked agents patrol the streets.
Is this the legacy we want to leave?