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My parents divorced when I was just 13 years old and I was sent to live with my father in an upscale community in Minnesota. My only freedom that summer when I stayed with him was to walk to the 7-11 convenience store with my friends after swimming. It was …

“I will use my power as president to get them out of the way.”   The follow up question from the press should be “Excuse me, how will you get ‘them’ out of the way?” This phrase uttered by America’s increasingly authoritarian POTUS perfectly describes the current administration’s approach.  The neoliberal …

The world is on fire, literally, even Siberia. In Australia, they shot rescue dogs and their gruesome reason was so that people would not venture out breaking Covid lockdown to pick them up. In the late August heat, in Afghanistan, people are being left behind desperate at an airport, getting …

Like everyone else in America, and around the world, I watched the images of the airport in Kabul as people lost their lives desperately clinging to an American transport plane with horror. The American political machine’s indifference to suffering is nothing new, and I have experienced the steam roll emotionally, …

I was on a call with a reporter asking me for a comment on Cuomo as he resigned as New York governor. After I hung up, I read through the meticulous Ronan Farrow piece in the New Yorker that not so coincidentally was followed by his resignation. Ronan provided the …

The Democratic party is rife with wolves in sheep’s clothing and the more they prowl the more power they seem to achieve. Boylan supported me before her story was known to the public.  The recent findings of the New York Attorney General’s office find that Cuomo sexually harassed at least …

There has been a great deal of talk recently about mental health awareness. There should be no stigma attached to difficulties of this kind, especially for victims of crime. When you break your arm, you see a physician and fix it. When someone breaks your spirit, a different kind of …

This month, billionaires launched their obscenely expensive metal phalluses into space at the cost of multimillions and the mainstream press toadies to them like obsequious little lap dogs.  However, the always entertaining congresswoman from Hawaii, Tulsi Gabbard, was widely praised on social media after dragging Jeff Bezos as he rocketed …

When I was a child, I had a record player. It was my escape and pleasure. I had versions of classical ballets, Shakespeare spoken records, Sesame Street, and comedy albums by stand ups like Steve Martin and Bill Cosby. My younger brother (who became a professional comedian) and I would …

In 2019, after the media began their onslaught against me, I woke up to my friend texting me she had left me a present to cheer me up outside my door. It was a copy of Anna Karenina and a note to stay away from train tracks. I smiled at …