The Dystopian Dispatch – June 25, 2025
Yesterday’s headlines, today’s confirmation that the collapse remains right on schedule. Ceasefire as Spectacle President Trump opened Tuesday with a flourish: a declaration of a “complete and total ceasefire” between Israel and Iran. This came on the heels of U.S. airstrikes against Iranian nuclear sites—strikes which, according to early intelligence, mostly just disturbed the local […]
There Are No Winners Here
Why Life Isn’t a Board Game, a Poker Match, or a Football Field—It’s a Long-Running RPG With a Glitchy DM Let’s get this straight: life is not a board game.It’s not poker. It’s not football.It’s not even Monopoly—unless your version includes existential dread, vanishing healthcare, and a housing market shaped by Lovecraftian horror. We love […]
Flipping Off the System
How to Rage Against the Machine Without Becoming the Machine It was the kind of Tucson afternoon where the sun itself seemed complicit in climate injustice. Heat waves danced off the asphalt like a fever dream of better infrastructure. The “No Kings” protest pulsed through the city—a slow-moving river of civic-minded cars, cardboard signs, and […]
Neutrality Is Not Neutral: The Harm of Silence in a Time of Injustice
When my patient told me he chose not to wear a pronoun button at work, he framed it as neutrality. He just “wanted to stay out of it.” His coworkers were disappointed. His wife and kids were furious. He was bewildered. “I’m not against trans people,” he insisted. “I just don’t want to make a […]
The Crisis Is Not in Your Living Room
Media, Anxiety, and the Absurd Safety of Now There’s a certain comedy to it all: the world appears to be on fire, yet somehow your coffee is still brewing like nothing happened, your dog’s still whining for a walk, and your left foot is falling asleep because you’ve been doomscrolling on the couch for 90 […]
The Pushback Is Real: Trump Isn’t Winning—Even When He Thinks He Is
In a World on Fire, the Water Buckets Still Work In the inferno of politics, it’s tempting to ride the flames into despair. But guess what? Even blazing wildfires bow before a bucket brigade. Trump’s power play? Overrated. The real story: legal blowback, grassroots refusal, fracturing party lines. That’s not subtle—it’s a flood of resistance, […]
“You’re Imagining Things”
A Cult of Brighter Days Survival Guide to Gaslighting at Summer BBQs, Red Hat Plot Twists, and Maintaining Sanity Without Setting the Lawn Chairs on Fire Gaslighting isn’t just some niche psychological tactic anymore—it’s a national pastime. It’s emotional gas-powered leaf blower season, and your front yard is full of relatives quoting Facebook memes as […]
Executive Order Avalanche: Welcome to the Firehose of Democracy
There were supposed to be safeguards. Executive orders (EOs) were never meant to be this country’s default operating system. They were supposed to be the emergency hatch, not the whole damn plane. Yet as of June 2025, the current administration has issued 157 EOs—a number that reads less like a governing strategy and more like […]
Google’s Moral Vanishing Act—Doing the “Right” Thing While Letting Evil Slide
Once upon a time, Google stood proudly behind three deceptively simple words: Don’t be evil. It wasn’t just a slogan—it was a manifesto, a beacon for a new kind of corporate ethos in the tech world. But fast forward to the gleaming corridors of Alphabet Inc., and those three words are now buried in the […]
Why Feed Families When You Can Fund Another Gulfstream?
In a political moment defined by branding-as-bludgeon, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” might be the most Orwellian word salad since “Freedom Fries.” Pitched as a lifeline for working Americans, it’s actually a platinum-plated crowbar—used to pry open the last remnants of the social safety net while whispering sweet nothings about “growth.” If Congress were […]