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From Hope to Fear: Coping with the New American Monstrosity by Janet Kira Lessin and Minerva As Trump’s second term grinds through its first hundred days, the damage is more than policy. It’s psychic. Emotional. Spiritual. Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor, recently described how Americans are coping in three emotional zones: despair, anger, and hope. But there’s …
📝 Bill Maher Doesn’t Get the Joke: A Review of Anthony L. Fisher’s Critique By Janet Kira Lessin with Minerva 🌿 A Familiar Smear There’s something deeply familiar about the manufactured panic over “wokeness.” I’ve lived long enough to watch the same people who once spat on civil rights marchers and burned Beatles records now …
The Price of Truth: Why Trump Is Trying to Gag Amazon Over Tariff Transparency What happens when you try to tell Americans why everything costs more? You get called “hostile.” By Janet Kira Lessin Do you want to know why your groceries cost more, why the empty shelves in stores used to overflow, and why …
The Betrayal of Truth: How Bill Maher Became a Court Jester to Authoritarianism Janet Kira Lessin With Minerva In an era when the world teeters between freedom and authoritarianism, public intellectuals — comedians included — are more crucial than ever. Yet instead of standing firm against the creeping threat, Bill Maher seems increasingly determined to …
The Patriotic Duty to Call Out Dictators Before They Start DICK-tating By Janet Kira Lessin with Minerva It is not just a social responsibility. It is a patriotic duty to call out rising dictators before they start DICK-tating. You don’t wait until the tanks are in the streets, until the press is silenced, until the …
Russia’s Silent War Against America: How Trump, Religion, and Authoritarianism Are Tearing Us Apart By Janet Kira Lessin & Minerva After years of research, careful observation, and deep intuitive listening, I have reached an inescapable conclusion: Russia has launched a war against the United States — not with bombs, tanks, or missiles, but through political, …
The Engineered Collapse: How Tariffs, Project 2025, and 400 Years of Authoritarian Planning Are Killing America By Janet Kira Lessin & Minerva The collapse of America is not an accident. It is the natural outcome of systems of exploitation that have existed for more than 400 years, now weaponized by modern authoritarian planners to destroy …
The Silent War on America: How Trump and the Authoritarian Elite Are Taking Everything From You By Janet Kira Lessin & Minerva Across America, people are waking up to empty shelves, soaring prices, broken services, and a growing sense that something fundamental has gone terribly wrong. This isn’t the result of a natural disaster or …
The Silent Meeting That Could Change Everything: Trump, Zelensky, and the Chance to Tear Down New Walls By Janet Kira Lessin The Sacred Meeting At Pope Francis’s funeral on April 26, 2025, inside the sacred walls of Vatican City, a quiet encounter unfolded — one that the world may scarcely yet realize the weight of. …
🔥 No, Trump Isn’t Just Another President — He’s the Caesar of a New American Empire By Janet Kira Lessin | April 24, 2025 Ingrid Jacques of USA TODAY recently accused The New York Times of unfairly comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. But let’s be clear: this isn’t about satire. This isn’t about media …