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Forgotten by the Flag

Once a year, in Jewish tradition, the people gather for Yom Kippur — the Day of Atonement. Together, they confess not just individual wrongs, but collective ones.  “We have sinned,”  they say, not  “I have sinned.” Because in a true community, the failure of one is felt by all. I personally think it’s time we look at our broken nation in that same light.  It’s time to see the situation  as it is , not as we wish it were or as he promised... No spin. No slogans. No more pretending. We are not here to tear each other apart. We are here to  repair , to  rebuild , and to  renew  what has been so badly damaged. And we have to admit, he is not through dismantling our nation yet.  There is no need for endless blame — though the pain many feel is real, deep, and will not vanish overnight. Some of us need time to mourn the betrayal, the division, the cruelty we witnessed from neighbors, leaders, and even family. And yet — we move forward. To thos...
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The Cage Has No Door — Just a Design

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At first, they said Guantánamo Bay was for the worst of the worst. Terrorists. Foreigners. Threats to “our way of life.” So the law took a vacation.  And we built cages offshore, so we wouldn’t have to feel the cold steel of hate on our soil. We called it safety. But it was only silence.  Then came the blueprints — for a new version of horror. Now, the United States is talking up (testing the rebuke) and preparing to send its own citizens — uncharged, unconvicted — to rot inside El Salvador’s mega-prison,  a brutal fortress where inmates are stripped of names, dignity, and light. Not tried. Not heard.  Just gone. This is not about justice. This is about power.  And leading the charge? A convicted felon turned president — Donald Trump — and his second in command, Vance, nodding along like a bobblehead with a microphone. This isn’t about safety.  It’s about submission.  They’re next in line.  And if you stay quiet now,  one day the trai...
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