What the hell kind of country does that?

In 1946, “El Pendón Estrellado” became the official Spanish version of the U.S. national anthem.

Isn’t it heavy? Carrying that much rage around all day?

Our founding fathers insisted on displays of civilian rule rather than the pomp of kings and their soldiers.

They blame immigrants and LGBTQ for loss of individual and family wealth, and the failure of small businesses.

We haven’t seen the same unfold in Chicago because of the power of already deep-rooted grassroots networks that mobilized.

When the people rise up, when they “Storm the Bastille,” it’s because they’ve been pushed to the wall with no more choices left.

In 2017, Father Greg came out publicly as a gay man. It was a moment that reverberated far beyond his parish walls.

It means your data, your life, could be filtered through an opaque algorithm, then passed to law enforcement without you ever knowing why.

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.