“Let Them Dance:” Marie Trump Proceeds with Ballroom Construction While Soldiers Go Without Pay and People Starve

A common quote misattributed to Marie Antoinette in Pre Revolutionary France was “Let them eat cake.” Today, on the first day of a government shutdown instigated by Republicans refusing to restore subsidies for people enrolled in the Affordable Care Marketplace, the White House acknowledged that the construction of the new White House Ballroom, funded by … Read more

Department of War: Full Bluster and Bray

In Quantico’s halls with the flags all in rows, They summoned the generals. Why? Hell, no one knows. No agenda, no outline, no brief to prepare Just “Get here, all leaders. Park it right there.” First, we heard Hegseth, his scowl and scoff: “Your bellies are bulging, your standards are off! No beards, no woke, … Read more

Let’s Call Mass Deportation What It Is: Ethnic Cleansing

The Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policies and mass deportation strategies are not an immigration issue; that’s just a smokescreen for what’s really happening, which is “Ethnic Cleansing”. A literal translation of the Serbo-Croatian phrase etnicko ciscenje, ethnic cleansing, was widely deployed in the 1990s in Yugoslavia. The targets included Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims), Serbs in Croatia, … Read more