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? …

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. …

Big brain libertarian billionaires will always show their true colors. — As more and more of us are coming to realize, we’re rapidly reaching the point where here in the United States, people can no longer afford to exist. There are not-so-subtle reminders everywhere. We see the clues on social media. I recently came across a tweet from Sav Adler, who…

I mean, I’m not surprised. — As we all know, far right Republican lawmakers like Lauren Boebert and Madison Cawthorn have become the latest targets of PACs like American Muckrackers, who made it their mission to bring their political careers to an end. Personally, I hope Georgia’s Marjorie Greene is next. While there are a number…

We’re all just so used to being exploited. — As those who have been reading my writing regularly know, I work in healthcare. I’m a certified nursing assistant and activities aide in the local nursing home, and have been for going on almost five years now. Anyone who works in healthcare can attest to the fact that the last…