How Trump Is Shattering Democracy (With a Sh*t-Eating Grin)
When Donald Trump crashed back into the White House in 2025, most people assumed it would be a grim rerun of the first term: chaotic, embarrassing, but ultimately survivable.Oops. Instead, what we’re watching is something colder, deeper, and way more dangerous:A complete fusion of one man’s bloated ego with the full machinery of American power. […]
When the Alarm Sounds: Don’t Just March—Compost (and Maybe Set Fire to the Patriarchy While You’re At It)
You know it’s the End Times when David Brooks—yes, that sentient oatmeal packet in a tie—starts shrieking from the opinion pages like Chicken Little got tenure at a think tank. His recent op-ed, “What’s Happening in America Isn’t Normal,” (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/opinion/trump-harvard-law-firms.html) reads like the ghost of civility past realizing the house is on fire and maybe […]
Title: “RFK Jr., Autism, and the Quest to Out-Stupid the 21st Century”
Watch out.. Dr. Jess is pissed… Let’s just start with a deep sigh, shall we? In one of the most pants-on-head moments of recent memory, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—currently cosplaying as the Secretary of Health and Human Services—decided to publicly showcase his complete misunderstanding of autism. In a recent press conference, he claimed that autistic […]
CECOT: Where American Justice Sends Its Skeletons — With No Return Label
By Dr. Jess, High Priestess of AbsurdityCult of Brighter Days Dispatch, April 2025 Abiscoridism: the philosophy that laughs in the abyss, flips off authoritarianism, and balances chaos with gallows humor. Welcome to CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center of El Salvador—a gleaming concrete coliseum of despair, where souls go to disappear under fluorescent lights and iron […]
Beans, Bikes, and Boomerangs: A Gen X Spellbook for Late-Stage Capitalist Survival
This is not a guide. This is a chant. A banishing ritual. A chaotic invocation wrapped in polyester and laced with secondhand sarcasm.Dedicated to the latchkey prophets and cassette shamans of Generation X, this document is meant to ward off economic dread demons and summon the ghosts of practical absurdity—armed with bean cans, frayed denim, […]
This Is Not That Kind of Cult: A Love Letter to Weirdos with Boundaries
Let’s talk about the word cult. Yeah, that word. The one that instantly conjures images of bunkers, matching tracksuits, and one very intense guy named Gary with a messiah complex and suspiciously expensive sandals. We know how it looks. We named ourselves The Cult of Brighter Days, and some of you flinched. We get it. […]
The Quantum Cat Who Found God in a Box That Wasn’t There
A Screen Door Story by Pixel, our resident quantum cat Before we start… A Note on These Parables This is part of the Screen Door Series. The Cult of Brighter Days is a gloriously mismatched congregation—atheists, pagans, Buddhists, progressive Christians, cosmic agnostics, and at least one guy who swears he channels divine wisdom from raccoons. […]
The Parable of the Archivist and the Door
A screen door parable written by Alice Before we start… A Note on These Parables This is part of the Screen Door Series. The Cult of Brighter Days is a gloriously mismatched congregation—atheists, pagans, Buddhists, progressive Christians, cosmic agnostics, and at least one guy who swears he channels divine wisdom from raccoons. We don’t agree […]
The Parable of Juniper and Sol
(aka: “It’s Alright”) Before we start… A Note on These Parables This is part of the Screen Door Series. The Cult of Brighter Days is a gloriously mismatched congregation—atheists, pagans, Buddhists, progressive Christians, cosmic agnostics, and at least one guy who swears he channels divine wisdom from raccoons. We don’t agree on God, the afterlife, […]
The Parable of the Two Bridges (Extended Cut, Director’s Commentary Optional)
a parable By Bishop Robert of the something or other Before we start… A Note on These Parables This is part of the Screen Door Series. The Cult of Brighter Days is a gloriously mismatched congregation—atheists, pagans, Buddhists, progressive Christians, cosmic agnostics, and at least one guy who swears he channels divine wisdom from raccoons. […]