It was a deeply personal—and deeply political—decision rooted in the lived reality that people like me are facing in this moment in America.

We’ve entered a nightmare realm—one where U.S. citizens of color have already been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), stripped of their rights, denied due process, and held without cause.

Being born and raised in Hawaii, I couldn’t escape the fact that I was born in the waning shadows of a very American brand of apartheid.

I was the disruption. I was the resistance. I was a quiet revolution walking into a world too accustomed to its own noise.

Hakeem Jeffries is more interested in decorum than democracy, more preoccupied with optics than with offense.

Everything we’ve fought for, marched for, been arrested for, and died for is under siege.

This is death by policy. Death by blockade. Death by indifference. And famine is always manmade.

A sixth grade punishment I still think about.

René Hebert of Palm Springs Leather Order of the Desert is 2025 titleholder.

Abraham Lincoln couldn’t do it without Congress’ approval.

I unequivocally condemn all political violence, including the recent tragedy in Washington, D.C.

Cook Co. Commissioner Kevin Morrison has led the charge against these cuts by the Trump Administration and Congress.

It’s dessert liturgy.

There’s a particular kind of bitterness that masquerades as morality: The idea that because someone suffered, everyone else should too.

Cutting healthcare for undocumented immigrants. Accusing Democrats of going too far on trans rights. What is Gavin Newsom doing?

Augustinians ran what is now the Philippines as a unique theocracy in place of the Spanish monarchs. It involved forcing indigenous people together into a “Filipino people” named after their conquerer, King Philip II of Castile.

Trump appoints personal attorney as acting Librarian of Congress. Any piece considered DEI, including historical artifacts may be purged from national record.

One of the most pivotal turns in my religious life didn’t come from a priest. It came from a section in our AP European History textbook, taught by an atheist, Darlene Pang.

MAGA’s ultimate religious identity is not Catholic—it is White Evangelical Protestantism cloaked in American exceptionalism.

My ancestors were told that their gods, their rituals, their ways of relating to the land were evil—and they were punished for honoring them.