Lest anyone start to think MAGA is suddenly interested in our justice system or "the children" as they claim, think again. Read More

The same Republicans who voted no on child tax credits and no for legislation to make health care and prescriptions more affordable because they said it’d explode the deficit now have no problem supporting a budget bill that will add $3.1 trillion to the US deficit to subsidize tax breaks for the ultra wealthy. Meanwhile, nearly 1 in 6 Americans can’t afford to pay their bills on time, and about 30% say they are worse off now than in 2024. Read More

How big and beautiful is this bill? It’s big. It includes a $5 trillion increase in the national debt, which makes even fiscally conservative Republicans twitch. Read More

A Aguilas del Desierto volunteer says while walking around the desert “Every bone has a story in these hostile and treacherous lands, our migrant brothers die trying to give their families a better future.” Think about it. Wouldn’t you do the same for your family? Read More

Voter suppression undermines democracy. Normalizing sedition undermines democracy. Accepting the Big Lie of a “stolen election” undermines democracy. Read More

But most New Jersey citizens decided to vote for apathy. And they do this at a time when voters in at least 18 other states, governed by Republicans, are fighting new laws that restrict the right to vote. Read More

There’s been much political labeling during this last tumultuous decade, much of it due to the false narratives and conspiracy theories kept alive on social media and selected news networks. Read More

There are many ways for the work that many of us have done against right wing hate to continue, and this is just one example, but I hope that when the dust settles, we remember that there are people locked up in our own county who need people of conscience to volunteer to help. Read More

I am writing to call on the press to stop covering Mr. Trump’s hate-filled speech because it gets you advertisers. Call out the lies. Call out the crimes. Read More

They characterize protest as inexcusable lawlessness, and forget that the largely peaceful protests, protected by the First Amendment, that have happened recently pale in comparison to the lawlessness of our Founding Fathers, who, when signing the Declaration of Independence, were reminded by Ben Franklin that they all risked being hanged as traitors, because their revolutionary protest was, in fact, breaking the law. Read More