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When Did We Become the Nazis? The Cruel Theater of ICE and the Dehumanization of a Nation By Janet Kira Lessin with MinervaMay 11, 2025 I just watched a video that I will never forget. A young teenage girl, hands wrenched behind her back, bound with zip ties like a criminal-no, worse, like livestock. An …
The Hypocrisy That Gave Us a Tyrant: Why Trump Gets Away With What Would’ve Destroyed Any Democrat By Janet Kira Lessin with Minerva Imagine if Barack Obama had publicly suggested jailing his political opponents. Or if Hillary Clinton had said the press was “the enemy of the people.” Or if Joe Biden had disappeared immigrants …
You Can’t Hide from a Dictator: Why Silence is Complicity in Trump’s America By Janet Kira Lessin with Minerva A friend recently told me she’s just going to ignore what’s happening in the country—live quietly, stay out of politics, and hope the storm passes. I couldn’t stay silent. I told her what I now believe …
Trump’s America Is Orwell’s 1984: Dismantling Libraries and Museums to Control the Narrative By Janet Kira Lessin with Minerva In George Orwell’s 1984, truth is not objective. Facts are rewritten. History is erased. And language is weaponized to manipulate minds and manufacture consent. In Donald Trump’s America, we are watching that dystopia unfold—not on a …
🔻 Article 7 in the Series: The Deadly Cost of MAGA RuleTitle: The Second Civil War Is Psychological: How MAGA Broke RealityBy Janet Kira Lessin with Minerva AI Headline: Minds Under Siege: The New Frontline of America’s Civil War Subheadings: 1. A War Without Bullets — But Not Without CasualtiesUnlike the first American Civil War, …
Book Burners and Truth Killers: The Assault on Knowledge Series: The Deadly Cost of MAGA RuleArticle 6 of 7 Headline: From Banned Books to Brainwashed Minds: How MAGA’s War on Knowledge Threatens Democracy Introduction: In a country once heralded as a beacon of free speech and intellectual freedom, the right to read, think, and question …
Article 5 in the Series: The Deadly Cost of MAGA RuleTitle: Who Owns America? The Battle Over Land, Labor, and LawBy Janet Kira Lessin with Minerva-AI Headline: The Corporate Capture of the American Dream: Land Seized, Labor Exploited, and Laws Rewritten Subheadings: 1. The Land Beneath Our Feet: From Commons to Corporate Since the birth …
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 …
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 …