Tongue of Fire

After just a few days offline, the headlines hit like an arctic wind: another school shooting, a young Black student found hanging, free speech under fire. We are not okay—and pretending otherwise only deepens the fracture.

Policies that target homelessness, addiction, and mental illness are being used to criminalize poverty and expand authoritarian control. This post unpacks how civil commitment orders, media manipulation, and coded language are leading us down a dangerous path—with echoes of the past we can't afford to ignore.