Lisa Sasser

MAGA Makes Dramatic Shift After Identity of Killer Surfaces When the facts didn’t match their narrative, Trump and his allies scrambled to rewrite the story.

MAGA Makes Dramatic Shift After Identity of Killer Surfaces

Asymmetrical Decency September 13, 2025

We are experiencing an asymmetrical demand that people react with decency and decorum to the tragic, unforgivable killing of Charlie Kirk—decency and decorum that were missing after acts of violence directed at Democrats.

We Are Not Living Through the 1850s or Headed Toward Another Civil War Earlier this week, The New York Times reported a surge in references to “Civil War” on social media following the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

We Are Not Living Through the 1850s or Headed Toward Another Civil War

The Beheading of Stonewall Jackson Artist Kara Walker is using the decommissioned bronze equestrian statue of Confederate general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson from Charlottesville, Virginia, as material for a new art installation.

The Beheading of Stonewall Jackson

Why Trump Might Want ICE To Be His Private Militia Seeing ICE as a coup-proofing corps

Why Trump Might Want ICE To Be His Private Militia

The Trans Panic: How Conservatives Duped Their Phobic Base and Sacrificed a Vulnerable Minority When you understand what motivates people, you can easily manipulate them.

The Trans Panic: How Conservatives Duped Their Phobic Base and Sacrificed a Vulnerable Minority

Trump will restore a Confederate monument in the nation’s capital “A statue honoring a racist and a traitor has no place on the streets of DC,” the city’s congressional delegate said.

Since resuming office, President Donald Trump has sought to rewrite American history, rejecting any signs of historical division and exalting some of the nation’s most notorious oppressors.

Plan to Reinstall Controversial Confederate Statue Prompts Outrage The Trump Administration's decision to restore a controversial Albert Pike statue has provoked outrage and at least one opposition bill.

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New National Park Service Exhibit at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Temporarily Halted by Trump Administration My early morning runs in Washington, DC always include a swing around the tidal basin for a quick stop at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial. It’s one of my favorite memorials in our nation’s capital.

New National Park Service Exhibit at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Temporarily Halted by Trump Administration
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How Confederate Monuments Came Down in the Summer of 2020 and Why It Matters The Albert Pike statue, that President Trump has ordered to be returned to its pedestal in Washington, DC after being pulled down in the summer of 20202, honors a man, who served briefly in the Confed...

How Confederate Monuments Came Down in the Summer of 2020 and Why It Matters

The History and Community That We Stand To Lose A former ranger shares her National Park Service experience.

The History and Community That We Stand To Lose
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New A.I. Helps Historians Decode Ancient Roman Inscriptions | Artnet News Google has launched Aeneas, a new tool designed to help historians contextualize and restore ancient Roman texts.

This New A.I. Tool Could Help Historians Decode Ancient Roman Inscriptions

I’m on the No Kings: What's Next in the Fight? Call
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Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...

Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence

NO KINGS Rally today in Chestertown, Maryland, maybe as many as 400 very enthusiastic people attending. American flags everywhere, inspiring speakers and some very creative signs.

Trump Pursues Autocratic Consolidation and a Domestic “Forever War” Crisis time requires a permanent emergency with an enemy that is never defeated

Trump Pursues Autocratic Consolidation and a Domestic “Forever War”

Trump’s religious liberty commission is filled with right-wing Christian media figures with histories of extremist rhetoric President Donald Trump’s newly created Religious Liberty Commission and the three advisory boards designed to support it include multiple right-wing Christian media figures with histories of extremist rhetoric and advocacy.Trump has officially tasked the commission with producing a “comprehensive report” with “strategies to preserve and enhance religious liberty protections for future generations.” Advocates for the separation of church and state, however, argue that the commission is a “theocratic power grab masquerading as liberty and freedom,” and it “is not about religious liberty, but about advancing Christian nationalism.”Many of the commission and advisory board members have histories of pushing Christian nationalist, anti-Muslim, anti-LGBTQ, and anti-abortion rhetoric in right-wing media, both as guests and hosts. They include televangelist and current White House Faith Office adviser Paula White-Cain, who has advocated for right-wing Christians to impose fundamentalist values in government; radio host Eric Metaxas, who has labeled Islam a “death cult” and called for an “infiltration” of conservative Christians into government; FlashPoint host Gene Bailey, who has labeled himself a “Christo-fascist, Christian nationalist”; and attorney Kelly Shackelford, who has argued for right-wing Christians to “occupy” public life in the U.S.

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Week 31 - The Return Experts in authoritarianism advise to keep a list of things subtly changing around you, so you'll remember.

This week the country finds itself on the brink of the biggest crisis of Trump’s presidency, as he deployed both the California National Guard and U.S. Marines to the city of Los Angeles, amid anti-ICE protests

So now, not only can foreign students not come here to study and do research, Americans can’t travel abroad to study and do research? Welcome to the American North Korea