Law-and-order rebels. Freedom-loving fascists. What makes the far right tick?
“My daddy served in the Army, where he lost his right eye
But he flew a flag out in our yard ‘till the day that he died”
Toby Keith’s daddy isn’t the only one. I’m idling on a sun-baked Oregon interstate just south of Portland, surrounded by lifted trucks carrying…
The next few days are about a lot more than Congressional votes
In the next few days we will discover whether the US government as laid out by the American constitution exists in any meaningful sense any longer. …
Justice for J6: Of, By, and For the Media
At what point, when wagging the dog, does the dog just die?
It is September 18th, 11:15 AM. The Riot Industrial Complex circles like vultures, searching desperately for a single person to interview. The few confused boomers who bothered to show…
A Veteran Reflects on 20 Wasted Years
By the time you read this, the Taliban may already be in Kabul. If not now, then soon.
Nixon wanted — and got — his decent interval between the United States pullout of Vietnam and the inevitable North Vietnamese takeover. Afghanistan’s interval was…
One never wants to see the words “mass crematorium” in headlines, and yet here we are.
If the COVID numbers currently coming out of India were accurate, it would be terrifying. We’re looking at one of the worst upswings in cases in any country so far. People dying outside of…
Donald Trump remains firmly in control of the GOP
Imagine the sheer animal pleasure of calling Mitch McConnell a dumb son-of-a-bitch in front of a large audience of Republican donors wealthy beyond avarice.
This may be the first time I’ve ever actually envied Donald J Trump. I didn’t know I wanted to call the Senate minority leader a “stone-cold…
The Far Right Cannot Survive Surrender
By Laura Jedeed and M.C. Hawthorne
Remember when Trump’s refusal to concede was funny?
It wasn’t that long ago. Triumphant celebrations of a return to normalcy echoed through social media and across brunch tables everywhere. The fundamental absurdity of Trump’s election fraud claims seemed tailor-made to the specifically-liberal brand of…
I didn’t know JD when he walked up to me and threatened me on camera. But I knew, immediately, that I would.
I know more about JD than I ever wanted to.
I know he worked construction. Lives in Vancouver, Washington. I know what his wife looks like angry and what she looks like crying. I know what his breath smells like and what his eyes look like when he decides you’re…
If an officer beats you in the middle of Portland, and no one is there to see it, did it happen?
“I don’t know why I feel I’ve got to tell you this.”
Like most Portland protesters, she’s young and fully committed to fixing the broken world we’ve handed her. Brave enough to take to the streets despite the brutality of Portland Police and federal agents alike. …
This City Will Not Sleep
This article first appeared in It’s Going Down
In the beginning, we were many. We were thousands. Exploding into the street after watching a video of horror both strange and all-too-familiar: a video of a nine-minute murder, of a killer indifferent to the pleas of the bound man he choked…
