The Fourth

JC/ September 26, 2025/ history

I was going to write about the H1B controversy this week, but then a story broke that requires attention. The Trump regime disappeared 1,200 souls from an extrajudicial terror camp in a Florida swamp. From my non-lawyer perspective, this violates the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution which opens with the clause, “right of the people to be secure

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lies and fear and authoritarianism 

JC/ August 26, 2025/ history

“the jews are overcrowding our hospitals” – hitler“immigrants are a burden on medicare and medicaid” -trump These statements are both lies. They are lies that prey on our insecurities we have about life and death. Our insecure feelings about life and death give us the fear we need to rationalize the empowerment of this mass murdering child rapist. Get it?

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Familiar jargon

JC/ August 6, 2025/ biography

Sexual predators use a pattern of soothing jargon designed to pacify victims as they are stripped of their humanity, and hope is voided from their souls. We see similar patterns of language used by other abusers whose victims are resist their assault. These patterns extend into the business world by way of cowardly leadership afraid of, “rocking the boat.” “Look, let

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glass shards

JC/ July 29, 2025/ poetry

each of us isa jagged shardof broken glasswith razor sharpedges that cutdeep on all sidesinto the skin.we hurt each otherobserve the paingrateful that weare not the oneswho hurt today.