This is an alarming escalation by the Trump administration and it's campaign of eradication of trans people. Today, the FBI tweeted a call for the public to report hospitals or clinics performing gender-affirming surgeries on minors. Framing these treatments as "mutilation," the Bureau directed tips to
Trump’s double standard in justice isn’t hypocrisy—it’s strategy, drawn from America’s authoritarian past. While the Trump Administration loudly condemns antisemitism on an Ivy League campus, even threatening to pull federal funds in the name of protecting Jewish students, it is simultaneously importing antisemitic Afrikaners as
How Reactionary Centrists Enabled Authoritarianism and Helped Sell Liberal Democracy Down the River. Hannah Arendt, in The Origins of Totalitarianism, observed a startling partnership at the dawn of authoritarian movements: a “temporary alliance between the mob and the elite,” one fueled by the elite’s genuine delight in watching the
In the months after the 2024 election, America still felt fundamentally stable and familiar. I remember walking into class after the election and seeing my queer history professor with the look of having just seen a ghost. I too carried that same pallor in the weeks that followed. For far
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Ken Paxton and other Republican officials can access your prescription records without a warrant and use it to target you and your healthcare as he's done with gender affirming care. Early last fall, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Dallas pediatrician, Dr. May Lau for providing gender-affirming medical
Many in the international community are not ready for the US to abuse its hegemonic power in ways that directly destroy the ability for international NGO's and even liberal democratic governments to function. The little known ability for President Trump to issue economic sanctions has been and can
Americans have always been a paranoid people so it's incredibly surprising to see the ease at which bedrock privacy protections that protect the American people from an Orwellian surveillance state have been so easily torn down without meaningful pushback. In the last three months, President Trump unleashed a
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