Month February 2023

Stop Honoring People For Stopping Thinking

The one thing that is dangerous in many religions is that it gives people a gold-plated excuse to stop thinking. To say, “I don’t have to think about that because my religion says this is right, this is wrong, it’s…

A New Pledge From Congressman Maxwell Frost

A new pledge from a speech given by Congressman Maxwell Frost: This is about all of us. Please put your hand over your heart and repeat after me. I pledge that I will be civically engaged to fight for a…

Republican Politicians. First They Came.

With all the extreme republican bills that continue to oppress the American people and degrade the United States, this poem is still relevant in 2023 as it was in 1946. It’s about the silence from all of us, just like…

Republicans Are Banning Everything

By banning abortions in red states, those states are going to create a bottleneck of OBGYNS. Because they won’t be able to get residencies in red states. If people can’t finish their OBGYN residency, those states will end up with…

The U.S. Is A Constitutional Republic Right?

No. Conservatives like to say that the United States is not a democracy, but a constitutional republic. Here’s what they mean: It’s an excuse for conservatives to install people who they want in power, in power.

Republicans Said They Wouldn’t Punish Women

For years, republicans have said they would never arrest or target or prosecute women for abortion. We knew it was a lie because they were doing that. They were arresting and prosecuting women for abortion even before Roe was overturned.…

Teachers Teach. They Don’t Indoctrinate.

As republican politicians across the United States ban books and dictate how and what teachers are going to teach, teachers are being vilified as indoctrinating students. It’s not the public school teacher’s job to tell their students what to think.…

Neighborhoods and Policing

We view neighborhoods with high rates of illegal behavior as dangerous or high crime. But what if we started to frame these communities as high need? Every action is a reaction to something else. It doesn’t justify or excuse the…

Pushing Back on LGBTQ+ Hate

The verbal and physical attacks on our LGBTQ+ brothers and sisters are increasing. The thugs doing this are encouraged by republican politicians. These politicians are pushing anti-LGBTQ+ bills across the country. For example, in 2022, 315 anti-LGBTQ+ bills were introduced,…

Flipping A State From Red To Blue

What happens when a state flips from red (republican) to blue (democrat)? Let’s take a look at Minnesota. In 2022, Minnesota flipped the state legislature from republican control to democratic control. In the chamber, two seats flipped by the slimmest…