The One about Concentration Camps: Acts of Empathy for Cruel Times
I’ve been mulling over what to say about this for at least a week now. There’s no arguing, at this point, that the United States is running concentr...
Tag: politics
Fight with your Dollars: Alabama Abortion Ban Edition
This week, the Alabama State Senate voted for a complete abortion ban that makes no exceptions for rape or incest. The law would penalize women who get abortion...
Figuring out How to Vote: California 2018 Midterm Elections Edition
I’ve started listening to Gaslit Nation, an excellent podcast by two journalists who are experts in authoritarianism. The hosts have been emphasizing the ...
When Nothing Happens
I consider myself extremely fortunate to have never been the victim of sexual assault or abuse. That doesn’t mean I have always felt safe. There have been...
What to Expect When You’re Divesting
I said in my last post that I would write about divesting from Bank of America. I am here to deliver. I had never really thought about where my money goes when ...
What Do We Want? Divestment
I had never gone to a protest before, until last Saturday. Things being what they are, I went to my second rally in the same week. Yesterday, I went to a “...
Blogging Through the Anger
I’m not an angry person. At least, I don’t think of myself that way. Some of my family members flare up with white-hot rage, a pyroclasticflow of ma...
Welcome to Crazy Land
Book Review: Over the Cliff: How Obama’s Election Drove the American Right Insane I know I am not the only person to ask themselves “Why are these people comple...