Category: Activism
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The Season For War
I deeply believe this: A Time for Everything 1There is a time for everything,and a season for every activity under the heavens:2a time to be born and a time to die,a time to plant and a time to uproot,3a time to kill and a time to heal,a time to tear down and a time to…
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The Wrong Answer to Neglect: Why Forced Institutionalization Won’t Solve Homelessness
The neglect of our mentally ill, severely addicted, and extremely poor neighbors is one of the greatest moral failures of our time. In cities across the United States, people in crisis are left to suffer in the streets, in emergency rooms, and in jails — not because they cannot be helped, but because we have…
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Feudalism is Inevitable. American Democracy is Dead
I wish I had more time to write about this. But my life is wonderfully intense and exciting right now. This all became crystal clear when I watched this interview of Michigan Democrat Senator Slotkin on Breaking Points: She is the “young face” of the Democratic Party at age 49. You can see that the…
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What Happened When the Police Showed Up at the Nomadic Spirit
Yesterday, I had an interaction with the police that’s still sitting heavy in my chest. I didn’t film it—honestly, I didn’t think I’d need to. I was coming from a place of peace. I was showing up for our Sunday gathering with the Nomadic Spirit community—our version of church. We talk, eat, smoke, and if…
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Habeas Corpus Is the Line—And They’re Getting Ready to Cross It
In one of the most alarming developments yet, Stephen Miller—senior adviser to Donald Trump—has openly said the administration is “actively looking at” suspending habeas corpus. This isn’t just legal jargon. This is the right that prevents the government from locking you up indefinitely without a trial. It is the bedrock of civil liberty, the final…
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This Isn’t a War—But It Might Be the Prelude
We’re not in a civil war. We’re not in a revolution. But we’re not in peacetime either. What we’re in, right now, is something like the silence before the storm. The part where the government lays the groundwork, tightens its grip, and tests how far it can go before someone pushes back. This week, the…
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Project 2025: The Plan to Break Democracy and Crown a President King
Click here for the full Project 2025 document. – Mandate for Leadership – The Conservative Promise. What if I told you there’s already a detailed plan in motion to dismantle the U.S. government as we know it—and it’s 900 pages long? That’s not hyperbole. That’s Project 2025. Backed by the Heritage Foundation and over 140…
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First They Cut the Generals: The Quiet March Toward Authoritarianism
It didn’t start with tanks in the streets. It started with a press release about “efficiency.” On May 5, 2025, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a sweeping 20% cut to the U.S. military’s four-star generals — a move framed as bureaucratic streamlining. But look closer and you’ll see something else: a dangerous pattern of consolidation,…
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Master List: Authoritarian and Anti-Constitutional Actions by Donald Trump (2025)
The last update to this was on May 24, 2025. Let me know if I forget to add to it. This post is a rolling chronicle of executive orders, proclamations, federal memoranda, and allied state-level initiatives that legal scholars, journalists, and watchdog groups have flagged as authoritarian, unconstitutional, or corrosive to democratic norms since President…
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Cyber Self-Defense: STOP Before You Use Tor or a VPN
This is the second video in my Cyber Self-Defense series. And I had to make it right away, because as soon as I posted the first one, I realized something important: People are going to jump into tools like Tor and VPNs without understanding how they actually work. And if you’re trying to stay off…
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Spend Less Time Patting Yourself On The Back
Here’s an email I woke up to this morning: As someone that serves in this community, i would like to invite you to please spend less time patting yourself on the back and more time helping people make things work. Praying for a softening of your heart honey 🙂 I think it’s a good time…
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Slave Trade in Libya: A Mirror to Our Own Guilt
This is Naima Jamal from Ethiopia who is now being sold as a slave in Libya, this also applies to those behind her. Slave trade is happening in Libya in 2025. She was held by her abductors in Kufra, Libya, with a demand of $6000 ramson. Here is her photo in Ethiopia before she was…
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I Just Sold 15 Broad Street
December 19, 2024 For my wife… I just sold 15 Broad Street in Akron after owning it for 14 years. While it started as the home for my marketing company SageRock, its most meaningful chapter was hosting The Homeless Charity and Second Chance Village – a homeless-run day center and tent city that the city…
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Dear White Moderate: Your ‘Order’ Is Killing Us
MLK’s Warning to Today’s Liberal Elite I am going to begin my articles from now on with a new section called: “For my wife…” She gets the fire hydrant of me all the time and reading an overly wordy essay is not what she calls a good time. Consider it a tl;dr. For my wife…I…
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Is this Guardian Article Suggesting The Homeless Turn To Violence?
I just got a comic from the Guardian from First Dog on the Moon: “10,000 people are becoming homeless every month – you’d think the government would do something about it” This cell caught my attention: The comic has a powerful line: “As the kids all say these days – the purpose of a system…
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Why I Think It’s Important We Support The Brian Thompson Assassin
First, let me say that I don’t come to a state of radical love and acceptance naturally. I am not some aberration of humanity. I am not a natural-born saint. My blood thirst is as alive and well as the rest of humanity. I love vengeance and cold, hard, righteous justice as much as the…
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I Met With The Mayor Yesterday. Here’s How It Went
I walked out of that meeting exhausted. In my mind, it was a significant point of importance in this decade-long journey. My advocacy for this particular segment of homeless people has pushed me into realms of feeling, thinking, and “praying” in ways that no other work has ever challenged me to do before. This homeless…
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Finding Light in the Shadows: My Journey Through a Protest Camp
In a world that often feels dark, the smallest kindnesses reveal the light we carry within. As a person who experiences the suffering, hopelessness, and meaninglessness of life VERY deeply, it is absolutely critical for my mental well-being to acknowledge the WHOLE truth. I spent 2 nights living in this tent during my one-person protest…
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People First
I can’t lie. I’m excited about a Trump presidency. He will probably do some fun, interesting things. I’m hoping for more self-driving Teslas driving around, smashing into plate glass windows. I’m hoping for Amazon drones falling on old ladies walking to church. The deregulation that he’ll do for business should be entertaining and creative. But…
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The Well of Sadness
Finding Light in the Depths of Loss and Displacement (This was written the day after the November 5, 2024 presidential election where Donald Trump won his second term as president. Many Democrats had been told that he is a fascist and he is going to steal Democracy and go after “the enemy within” which are…