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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 …
By Kira and Minerva | May 4, 2025 | www.elephantsinourrooms.com When Donald J. Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself as Pope to his Truth Social account, it was more than a meme—it was a declaration. This self-anointed act of digital canonization, published shortly after the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, wasn’t just grotesque …
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 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 …
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 …