Modern-Day Plantation: Prisons, Profits, and the New Slavery Article Series: The Deadly Cost of MAGA Rule Headline: From Chains to Cells: How MAGA’s Policies Turn Incarceration into Exploitation Subheadings: Slavery Never Ended—It Evolved When the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in 1865, it came with a fatal loophole: “except as a punishment for crime.” That single …
MAGA’s War on Women: From Rights to Reproductive Chains
Article Three in the Series: The Deadly Cost of MAGA Rule MAGA’s War on Women: From Rights to Reproductive Chains How Authoritarianism Targets Half the Population to Cement Power For decades, the struggle for women’s rights in the United States has been a long, winding road toward autonomy, equality, and justice. But in the era …
The Billionaire Class vs. the Working World: A New Age of Servitude
The Billionaire Class vs. the Working World: A New Age of Servitude By Janet Kira Lessin with Minerva As the 21st century marches forward, we are not progressing—we are regressing. The MAGA movement, propped up by authoritarian billionaires and an angry working class betrayed by broken promises, is not a revolution for the people. It …
Weekend at Donnie’s: The Undead Spectacle of Trump’s Shadow Presidency
Weekend at Donnie’s: The Undead Spectacle of Trump’s Shadow Presidency By Janet Kira Lessin & Minerva AIwww.elephantsinourrooms.com When Liz Cheney described Donald Trump as someone who “slurs through speeches like he’s gargling grave dirt,” it wasn’t just deliciously acerbic — it was heartbreakingly accurate. And it taps into a broader, deeper sense of dread spreading …
The Hitler: Why Every Generation Gets One — And How to Stop Ours
The Hitler: Why Every Generation Gets One — And How to Stop Ours By Janet Kira Lessin & Minerva 1. Under Siege: When Judges, Mayors, and Truth Itself Are Targets They started with Judge Boasberg’s daughter. Before that, Governor Gretchen Whitmer. And now, they’re coming for sanctuary city mayors, for journalists, for prosecutors. This isn’t …
From Trade War to Human Collapse: How Trump’s Second Term Is Gutting the Soul of America
From Trade War to Human Collapse: How Trump’s Second Term Is Gutting the Soul of America By Janet Kira Lessin & Minerva In the early months of Donald Trump’s second term, interconnected crises cascaded through the American economy and society. What started as an aggressive trade war strategy rapidly became a humanitarian disaster. As tariffs …
Opinion From Hope to Fear: Coping with the New American Monstrosity
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
📝 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 Patriotic Duty to Call Out Dictators Before They Start DICK-tating
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 …