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Eulogies with Erasers: Why I Won’t Lie at Charlie Kirk’s Funeral

By Desi Cortez Columnist

If you must eulogize, eulogize correctly: a skilled political entrepreneur, beloved by his base, slain in a nation where violence is too easy and certainty is cheap - who also spent his career punching down and selling hierarchies as hope.

As King Trump bangs the war drums on Americans of color, here’s the script I’m handed: hush my voice, cork my rage, pin a tasteful black…

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MAGA at the NFL Roundtable: The Scariest Huddle in America

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Together, they turn the NFL into a cultural superweapon: the ultimate crossover event between politics and sports.

The Giants have sold a piece of their pigskin soul to the soulless Koch family. It allowed them to buy into America’s #1 Sunday religion. One…

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How Democrats Keep Selling Us Out

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Will they replay the Compromise of 1877 and watch America slide back into White nationalist control?

The capitulation of White America is one for the Ripley’s file - believe it or don’t, but from backyard BBQs to sports bars to Saturday salons,…

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Trump and His Gang of Despicables Are Above the Law – They Are the Untouchables

By Desi Cortez Columnist

The Trump administration has turned ICE into a federally funded street gang with badges, hunting for melanin like it’s contraband.

Trump and his squad of swaggering sycophants aren’t just above the law - they’ve gentrified lawlessness, franchised it, slapped their names on the side, and sold…

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A Sincere-ish Thank You Note to Donald Trump

By Desi Cortez Columnist

He didn’t light racism’s bonfire; he revved a leaf-blower, doused everything in jet fuel, and cackled like a frat bro torching the couch after homecoming.

Nothing announces “post-racial utopia” quite like a trust-fund TV landlord - bronzed to Slim-Jim brilliance - digging through Jim Crow’s attic for literacy tests, poll-tax receipts,…

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The Great White Get-Back: MAGA’s March Toward American Authoritarianism

By Desi Cortez Columnist

It’s yesteryear’s slow-cooked Yankee Pot Roast stew of resentment finally boiling over, and now they’re spooning it onto the nation’s dinner plate and calling it a “return to greatness.”

Fascism has finally made its grand entrance into America - stomping in with jackboots like a villain in a 1957 B-movie, while also sashaying through Blue…

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The Definitive Ten Commandments of MAGA America

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Step to the microphone, sob about having “fallen short,” announce that Jesus stamped paid in full on your invoice, and accuse the Deep State of planting both the temptress and the lipstick on your collar.

Here’s a new version of the Ten Commandments for MAGA America - etched not in stone, but on the back of a Cracker Barrel menu, right…

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“Operation Wetback” 2.0 — Now With Extra Hatred

By Desi Cortez Columnist

The architects of this new era of terror are mainstream, buttoned-up, Bible-waving, regulation-cutting, golf-club Republicans.

Why doesn’t Trump just cut the crap, rip off the red hat, and call it what they really call it behind closed MAGA doors? Operation Wetback…

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United States of White People: Just Give Them the Damn Country Already

By Desi Cortez Columnist

America talks of liberty and justice, but most of its history is one long, vicious walk in the other direction.

Please recognize this commentary is penned by a Weary Witness to White Fragility who is sick n’ tired of being sick n’ tired of White folks’…

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