Last night, shots were fired at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, D.C. President Trump was rushed off the stage by Secret Service agents. Vice President JD Vance and members of the Cabinet were evacuated. A law enforcement officer was struck, saved only by his bulletproof vest. A suspect, identified as Cole Tomas Allen,Continue reading “We Cannot Call for Violence. Even Now. Especially Now.”
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Why I Care So Much About the Arson Attacks
Youâre probably thinking: why do you care this much about these arson attacks? Why keep talking about it? Why keep coming back to it? Alright. Iâll get a little personalânot too personal, just enough to explain where Iâm coming from. Iâve worked a few jobs at this point in my life. Iâm not going toContinue reading “Why I Care So Much About the Arson Attacks”
When Violence Gets Cheered, the Whole Spectrum Starts to Blur
These arson attacksâand the people cheering them onâkeep reminding me of something I canât shake. It feels eerily similar to the kind of political energy that came out of MAGA culture. And yeah, I know that alone is going to make people jump to conclusions. I know it might sound like Iâm âequating both sidesâContinue reading “When Violence Gets Cheered, the Whole Spectrum Starts to Blur”
How Did We Get Here? The Normalization of Violence Across the Spectrum
Thereâs something bigger going on underneath all of thisâthe arson, the copycats, the cheering, the excusesâand it needs to be said plainly: Violence has been getting normalized. Not overnight. Not because of one single incident. But over the last decade, piece by piece, moment by moment, weâve been pushed closer and closer to a pointContinue reading “How Did We Get Here? The Normalization of Violence Across the Spectrum”
The Weight of the World and the Dread That Never Ends
I hate that phrase â crashing out. Itâs a bit cringe, I know. But lately, honestly, thatâs the best way I can describe how Iâve been feeling. Like Iâve been slowly crashing the fuck out. My energy, my focus, my optimism â all of it. Just crashing. Itâs like the worldâs gotten so heavy thatContinue reading “The Weight of the World and the Dread That Never Ends”
Schrödinger’s Reality Crisis
In 1935, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger proposed a thought experiment to illustrate the paradoxes of quantum mechanics. In it, a cat placed inside a sealed box is simultaneously alive and dead until someone opens the box and observes the outcome. This concept, meant to expose the absurdity of applying quantum superposition to everyday objects, hasContinue reading “Schrödinger’s Reality Crisis”