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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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#25 – Sage Against The Machine Podcast
Here’s the audio: [buzzsprout episode=’2556196′ player=’true’] Here is the video:
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The Force Is In All of Us
I now believe that religion is nothing more than a tool. It is a tool to help guide your life. A religion is a tool that helps you connect ever so slightly with the “All”. I believe in nearly everything: heaven, hell, reincarnation, nothing, afterlife. It’s all true. And because it’s all true, none of…
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#24 – Sage Against the Machine Podcast. There is nothing in the world you can do that isn’t going to piss people off.
Here’s the audio version: [buzzsprout episode=’2499223′ player=’true’] Here’s the video version: This is what Malcolm X said about the March on Washington: ” Yes, I was there. I observed that circus. Who ever heard of angry revolutionists all harmonizing “We Shall Overcome. . .Suum Day. . .” while tripping and swaying along arm-in-arm with the…
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#23 Sage Against the Machine Podcast. Believe in someone
Here’s the audio version: [buzzsprout episode=’2465126′ player=’true’] Here’s the video version: Here’s the Kofi Made in Akron video I mentioned:
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Focusing on the May 2023 Akron Mayoral Primary Election
I just want to write this down so we don’t forget. In May 2019 these were the numbers: Akron mayor (Democratic): Incumbent Daniel Horrigan claims victory with 10,839 votes; Greg Harrison has 2,955. In 2015 these were the primary numbers: Daniel Horrigan . . . . . . . . 10,647 Michael D. Williams .…
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#22 – Be yourself no matter what ANYONE tells you.
Here it is in audio format: [buzzsprout episode=’2411237′ player=’true’] You watch it in video format here:
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United State and Canada 2020 Homeless Point-in-Time (PIT) Dates and Web site links #pitcount
(Use the hashtag #pitcount and take pictures of the new friends you meet during this count. People getting to spend a little time with homeless people is probably the best and most important part of this otherwise absurd exercise. I’d LOVE to see your pictures.) HUD requires that the Homeless Point-in-Time (PIT) count be held…
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The Point-in-Time (PIT) Count is Complete and Total Bullshit!
If ever there was a more appropriate use of the word “bullshit” in describing something I’ve never seen it. The HUD mandated homeless Point-in-Time (PIT) count is complete and total bullshit. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires communities to complete the count in order to receive federal funding for homeless programs. Some…
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#21 – Be yourself. Trust yourself. Sage Against The Machine Podcast.
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#20 – Traumatic States of America
[buzzsprout episode=’2363960′ player=’true’] Mental health is a MAJOR problem in the United States. If you are thinking about suicide please give these people a call: You aren’t alone: National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Call 1-800-273-8255 Available 24 hours everyday
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Meet Patty – #19 Sage Against The Machine Podcast
[buzzsprout episode=’2360750′ player=’true’] Check out more episodes here: SAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE PODCAST
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Dorothy Day | Alan Graham | Sage Lewis – A communist, a real estate developer and an entrepreneur.
There is a very clear thread that runs through the work of the 3 of us. If you aren’t familiar, Dorothy Day founded the Catholic Workers Movement. She, among other things, created “houses of hospitality” and then a series of farms for people to live together on communes. These were created for the homeless and…
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#18 – A Freezing Homeless Veteran
[buzzsprout episode=’2360609′ player=’true’] Check out more podcasts here: Sage Against The Machine Podcast Archives
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What Akron’s Extreme Evictions Actually Mean To Us All
I was driving a man across town to a friend’s house. He had stayed at our tent village for a time. But I didn’t recall him very clearly. He is deep in the throws of a hard core Fentanyl addiction. Fentanyl is 50 times more addictive than heroin and 100 times more addictive than morphine.…
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The Great Calling
I am repeatedly pulled in by Catholic thinkers. Thomas Merton Richard Rohr Dorothy Day And there are others that I haven’t gotten to yet simply because I’m so taken by these 3. Their connections with God are mystical and deeply spiritual. Our Protestant friends are a little too structured and rules-based for my free-spirited mind.…
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Akron won’t open warming centers until ZERO degrees Fahrenheit
A supporter of ours, Eva Buhite, called the Akron Mayor’s office at 330-375-2256. They told her that they will not open any homeless warming centers until the temperature gets to ZERO degrees. (They also told her that we are NOT allowed to say the mayor needs to open warming centers. So check your freedom of…
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#17 – Substitute Teaching Day 1
[buzzsprout episode=’2360603′ player=’true’] Check out more podcasts here: Sage Against The Machine Podcast Archives
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Defining Akron: Poor. Hard Working. Addicted.
Knight Foundation gave Akron $104,000 to create new Office of Integrated Development. I’m pretty sure what we mostly got for that money was this shiny 61 page full color brochure. I have a copy of the printed version. It’s fancy. From this article, our mayor, Dan Horrigan writes: Vision-driven, community-focused development is not just the…
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#16 – Community
[buzzsprout episode=’2360597′ player=’true’] Check out more podcasts here: Sage Against The Machine Podcast Archives
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Intravenous Drug Users: This is for you.
If you are “shocked” by swear words or just actual life in general, this post is not for you. This post is for people that shoot drugs. Look… I don’t give a shit that you shoot drugs. I’d probably shoot my shit too. It looks like a really powerful way to go. But a lot…
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#15 – Meet Lysa
[buzzsprout episode=’2360585′ player=’true’] Check out more podcasts here: Sage Against The Machine Podcast Archives
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#14 – Where our charity goes from here
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Accepting American Slums
Do you know that phrase, “like a bat out of hell?” I don’t think you can truly appreciate a phrase like that until you have actually gone “like a bat out of hell.” We were screaming east on I-20 trying to make the 120 mile trip from Dallas to Kilgore Texas in as close to…
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Protected: So you think I’m slandering Dan Horrigan
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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The Lamb and The Tyger
The problem with me is that I take things seriously. I don’t read the history of a man like Akronite John Brown and just say, “Aw that’s nice.” No. “John Brown advocated the use of armed insurrection to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States.” Let me say it another way: John Brown…
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Dear Governor DeWine – Please Help Us.
Dear Governor DeWine, I am writing because I don’t know where else to turn. Perhaps you have heard about the mulit-year fight we have been having with the city of Akron over the right to shelter our homeless citizens. Here are a couple articles that do a good job of covering the issue at hand:…
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Churches: Please have mercy on the homeless.
I’m at a point where I don’t know what else to do. I am certainly not quitting. But it feels like every single thing I do is inadequate and not enough. So I’m just going to beg and plead with you to PLEASE help these people. Tomorrow night it is going to be 15 degrees…
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I am a wuss
I am a wuss. I’m in Austin Texas for a symposium at the Community First Village. A sold out group of people from as far away as Australia converged here to discuss the truly revolutionary concepts of this master planned village for the chronically homeless. The only way to get a home here as a…
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America Hates Poor People
Murderers. Rapists. Pedophiles. Thieves. They all slept inside last night. They play board games. They watch tv. They eat every day. I know it’s prison and people hate being there. But at least, as a society, we take care of these people. But homeless people. At 8am today in Akron Ohio it is 35 degrees.…
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Dan Horrigan is losing jobs for Akron
Did you catch the Crain’s Cleveland Business article that came out yesterday? OuterBox Solutions Inc., a digital marketing agency and web design company, is set to move from downtown Akron to a new location in Copley Township on Dec. 1, founder and CEO Justin Smith told Crain’s on Wednesday, Oct. 30. OuterBox currently employs 40…
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