We've fallen down the rabbit hole. A Mad Red Hatter throws a Tea party; a Dodo caucuses a Mock Congress; a diapered Queen of Golf Carts screams for heads from the royal green. If this is Wonderland, there's no place I'd rather be than Portland.

An autoimmune disorder occurs when a body attacks its own healthy tissue. When a state mistakes dissent for disease and targets its own citizens, the result is a self-inflicted and all too often fatal wound. The end is not cure, but collapse.

The American eagle is a perfect system evolved for flight. So to believe you can sever the left wing mid-air and still return with a bigger nest egg is catastrophic lunacy. We are all likely to learn a brutal, spiraling lesson in gravity.

A disturbing paradox emerges when speech condemning hate is punished more severely than hate speech itself, or when hatred is offered up as an essential part of religious or national identity. Not only does this invert legal principles, it shatters society's moral compass and undermines democracy.

A runaway limousine is barreling toward 340 million people. You can pull a lever to end the ride, thereby saving a nation, but sending the driver to Florida who would have otherwise been safe. What would you do? The problem explores the conflict between utilitarianism and deontological ethics.

The Founders forged an aspirational vision of self-government; to be perfected by future generations. Lincoln reminded us that America is an idea, not simply a collection of tribes. To undo that is not to make America great again, but to unravel everything that America ever was. And for what?

Remember what words truly mean.
Remember what principles actually cost.
Remember what common sense once was.
And most of all, remember who we promised we would be, to and for each other.

Those in power often believe they can control outcomes indefinitely. They assume they can outsmart history, suppress dissent, or co-opt opposition. The perennial error is believing this time will be different, and forgetting that when human dignity reaches its breaking point, reality is reimagined.

Decree by Tweet. 🙄

Empathy is now ‘civilizational suicide’? Father, forgive them, for they know not they are sociopaths. Behold their works: foreign aid gutted, children unfed, medicine withheld, civilians bombed, dissent silenced. All decreed in meme commandments & punctuated with the daemon emoji of Skibidi empire.

Reminder to refresh myself on the details of Watergate -another 'nothingburger' that ate a presidency the way code now eats the world.

The VP calls it ‘bailing out Europe’, but arguably $1T+ in repatriated profits suggests otherwise. The Marshall Plan wasn’t charity; it was a joint venture with Uncle Sam as majority partner, and where Europe paid for its own security in open markets, not groveling gratitude.

Yes, there is a Gulf of America—but you won’t find it on any map, nor see it from any shore stretching from Florida to Texas. It is, rather, that ever-widening void of understanding that is growing between us, we who once called each other neighbor, and now 'enemy within'.

Imagine a post-Federalist, post-McKinsey world. It’s easy if you try.