Every Good Morning

We are 11 days into his Presidency and after the blizzard of executive orders, after the appointment of the moronic and the malicious to lead government offices, after the first wave of lies, after the consolidation of billionaires in his support, after the gleeful cruelty, after the earliest wave of power grabbing, after his assertion of monarchical power, one point is clear. Nothing is going back to what it once […]

In a letter written in 1942, Bayard Rustin, a Quaker, and the man who organized Dr. King’s March On Washington in 1963, wrote that “the primary social function of a religious society is to speak the truth to power.” This appears to have been the first time that idea was written down in the form of which we have become familiar. It means that those of the cloth, especially, ministers, priests, nuns, rabbis, […]

On his first day, Trump said this: “Recalling the day in Butler, Pa., in July when “an assassin’s bullet ripped through my ear,” Trump said that “I felt then, and believe even more so now, that my life was saved for a reason. I was saved by God to make America great again.” * On his first day, Trump pardoned over 1500 people who tried to overturn the government on […]

Trump becomes President tomorrow. What can one person do to fight against his administration and its allies in the media and in the American Oligarchy? First, do not accommodate yourself to his actions. Do not back away even one step from the corruption and depravity of his policies. Do not be intimidated. Do not lose yourself in twisting this way and that to find something good in what he does. […]