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Pour me another, Demands the beast. Until the daylight breaks over the horizon, I shall stay here For a while at least. And so the bartender, With flourish and grace, Decants the next chalice And sets it out to drink. The beast downs the brew, Then bows his head twice. I thank you so kindly The day has been long, So too the night. Where are you going? The bartend inquired, It must not be…
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Stop Calling It Normal — Part V The Local Lever: Where People Still Have Power Federal power likes to present itself as inevitable. Unstoppable. Uniform. Final. It isn’t. What television teaches us to miss—and what power prefers we forget—is that authority in the United States is fractured by design. Federal agencies do not operate in a vacuum. They move through cities, counties, courtrooms, and state constitutions that still have teeth if they’re used. This is where…
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Ghosted I keep rereading the last line, like it’s a door I can still open if I touch the handle the right way. A sentence. A smile in punctuation. A normal goodbye that wasn’t a goodbye. Then—nothing. At first it’s small, almost polite. A pause that could mean busy, tired, distracted, anything that doesn’t bruise. So I become generous. I rewrite your silence into excuses, build you a life where you’re simply caught up in…
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Stop Calling It Normal — Part IV Why “Just Follow the Law” Fails When the Law Is Bent Every time state violence is questioned, someone offers the same refrain, polished and hollow: just follow the law. It sounds reasonable. Calm. Adult.It’s also a lie—at least the way it’s used now. “Just follow the law” assumes the law is clear, stable, and applied evenly. It assumes enforcement is neutral and accountability is real. It assumes the…
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Stop Calling It Normal — Part III The Language That Makes Killing Sound Administrative Pay attention to the words that appear when power harms someone. They don’t say killed.They say incident. They don’t say responsibility.They say protocol. They don’t say who did what.They say events unfolded. This isn’t accidental. It’s design.
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