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, […]
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 […]
Everything I Needed to Know I Learned from PBS… Including How to Take Over the World
Mr. Rogers taught me kindness.Sesame Street taught me acceptance.Barney taught me how to lie through a toothy purple grin. Together, they built the blueprint for world domination. Ah, PBS. The network that raised us on calm voices, puppets with emotional depth, and theme songs engineered to colonize our brainstems forever. While other kids were getting […]
Kakistocracy and the Crisis of Democratic Engagement:
A Reflection on Obama’s Remarks Welcome to the dystopian sitcom we’re all trapped in, where the government is run by the least qualified people in the room and the rest of us are the studio audience trying not to scream during the laugh track. This is kakistocracy—the art of elevating the absolute worst to positions […]
Historical Amnesia Is Not a Strategy
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”Yeah, that quote’s been floating around like a ghost with a grievance. But the problem isn’t just forgetting the past—it’s rewriting it. Worse, we’re grading kids on how well they memorize the edited script. History, they say, is written by the victors. These days, it’s […]
Boundaries vs. Rules: How to Protect Your Peace When Everything’s on Fire
Welcome to America in 2025, where the economy is one missed paycheck away from cannibalism, basic rights are evaporating faster than ice caps, and the news cycle is a relentless doom scroll of “What fresh hell is this?” When the people in power are treating democracy like a piñata stuffed with civil liberties, it’s easy […]
Liberal Wyoming
Part 2… Voter ID Wyoming is undeniably conservative and deeply Republican – it has been since before it became a state. But there’s another side to its history, one shaped by frontier life and a culture of cooperation, which gave rise to both the ‘rugged individualism’ we associate with modern conservatism and a strong streak […]
The Not-So-Conservative Cowboy State
I’m not here to gaslight anyone—Wyoming is conservative. Deeply, historically, and institutionally conservative. It’s been that way since before we had stars on the flag. But what’s also true, and less often said, is that Wyoming’s frontier history gave rise to two seemingly contradictory values: the “rugged individualism” beloved by modern conservatives, and a culture […]
The Rise of Skeptical Hedonism: How Emotional Survivalism Broke American Politics
By Dr. Jess | Cult of Brighter Days Psychological Arsonist (also licensed) Picture this: You wake up in a world where every institution is a slot machine rigged by a drunken god, every news cycle is a psychological assault, and the concept of “future” feels like a scam pulled by a motivational speaker with dead […]