Will Democrats actually do something, or just send emails? — Nancy Pelosi’s response to the death of Roe vs. Wade has been weighing on my mind heavily lately. A poem. She actually read a poem. In response to the loss of our right to bodily autonomy, Nancy Pelosi, the most powerful person in the House of Representatives, just stood in…

An open letter to the cheerleading conservatives. — I just want to talk. Not to Republican lawmakers right now, who have spent fifty years crafting, waiting, and planning for the moment that Roe vs. Wade would be overturned. Not to Democratic lawmakers either, whose borderline criminal, absolutely infuriating incompetence and inability to get anything done— in this instance…

They won’t stop with leaving it up to the states. — As I’ve mentioned before, I was baptized and “confirmed” Catholic. Looking back, it really has everything to do with my grandmother. Apparently, my grandmother on my Dad’s side had a really, really hard life before she met my grandpa. Her grandparents immigrated here around World War One shortly after they…

I have never been more tired of the optics. — Roe vs. Wade is dead. In an instant, five men and one woman stripped us of our rights to bodily autonomy, privacy for healthcare decisions that should be between us an our doctors, and effectively declared that a uterus is the property of the state. Tens of millions of women…

The Supreme Court just took away the right to bodily autonomy. — And just like that, on a warm June Friday morning as Americans look forward to a summer weekend, the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade. In an instant, five men and one woman made the most consequential decision that’s been handed down by a U.S. court in decades, and stripped…

They cannot wait for violence. — At this point, as necessary as it is, it almost feels cliche to bring up the fact that the right wing loves violence. But, we’re inundated with reminders on such a frequent basis it’s impossible to ignore, isn’t it? At this point there’s virtually no arguing the fact that the…

That’s how long it should have taken for the shooter to be stopped. — Since the slaughter of nineteen ten-year-olds and their two school teachers in Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, not a detail has emerged about the shooting that wasn’t worse than the last one. As often as the families of the victims and their stories of their unimaginable, horrific pain crosses…

What else is she good for? — There’s really not much that Hillary Clinton is good for, at least politically. It never ceases to amaze me that she’s not seen as a pariah in Democratic politics, considering the fact that she literally elevated the campaign of Donald Trump and then managed to lose to him. One of…

Violence is coming, and 2024 is going to be a nightmare. — The Republican Party is not a very friendly place to be for lawmakers who haven’t fallen in line behind former President Donald Trump. It’s been clear since he won the nomination in 2016 that the base would expect nothing but loyalty to the man they deemed their leader, and anyone…