Progressives of Alcona

07/07/2025

Very sad that what should have been a memorable summer turned tragic because this stretch of river—part of Texas’s notorious “Flash Flood Alley”—surged over 26 feet in under an hour, overwhelming Camp Mystic. Despite flash‑flood warnings, there were no sirens, river gauges, or sensors on-site—the kind of relatively inexpensive prevention tools that exist elsewhere in Texas.

Federal and state funding cuts—like the slashing of FEMA’s BRIC programs—meant these essential protections weren’t implemented. That’s not “unpredictable nature,” it’s a policy and budget failure. So instead of prayer stopping the water, shouldn’t we demand that political leaders fund early-warning systems and flood infrastructure? And shouldn’t public officials stick to promoting science-based prevention rather than implying prayer is sufficient?

In an update regarding Kerr County’s deadly floods on Saturday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott credited “prayer” as a possible “reason why the water stopped rising.”

Let’s be clear: relying on invisible higher powers in times of disaster while also supporting budgetary/staffing cuts from federal emergency relief programs is cognitive dissonance of the highest order.

Texans deserve better first response resources, not thoughts and prayers.

07/07/2025

“You want to understand why America is like this, why Trump happened, why the rot keeps spreading, why cruelty isn’t a bug but the feature?

It’s not a mystery. It’s the oldest story we’ve never told honestly. And until we face it, we will keep collapsing into darker versions of ourselves.

This country was not founded on freedom.
It was founded on stolen land, cleared by slaughter, and built by stolen people, broken by force.
That is the foundational transaction.
Everything else is decoration.

We did not reckon with the genocide of Native peoples.
We mythologized it. We made Westerns about it.
We named football teams after the dead.
We paved over bones and called it destiny.

We did not reckon with slavery.
We declared it over, and then immediately wrote new laws to replace chains with prison bars.
We never paid for the centuries of free labor, for the children sold, for the torture, for the theft of time and breath and lineage.
We made a new America, but left the engine intact.

The Confederacy lost the war but won the memory.
We let them rewrite history in marble.
The monuments didn’t go up in 1865.
They went up in the 1950s.
Not as remembrance, but as warning.

We never cleansed the institutions.
The racists became sheriffs.
The sheriffs became senators.
And the logic of white supremacy adapted, changing shape, changing code, but never losing its grip.

That’s why America elects racists.
Not in spite of our history, but because of it.
When the mask slips and the candidate says the quiet part out loud, it doesn’t alienate the country.
It clarifies it.

Trump didn’t invent any of this.
He just said it without shame.
And for millions, that was the fantasy: a man who would take every buried cruelty and wear it like a crown.

This is why they’re banning books.
Why they’re rewriting curricula.
Why the very mention of “racism” or “history” now sets off alarms.
Because they know what we’d find if we looked too closely:
A country terrified of its own reflection.

Reparations aren’t radical. They’re overdue.
Truth telling isn’t divisive. It’s the only way out.
And if we don’t learn from Germany, if we don’t enshrine what happened, criminalize its symbols, and build laws that make it unrepeatable, then we are telling the future exactly what we’re willing to tolerate again.

America doesn’t confront its breaking points.
It buries them.
Calls it pride. Wraps it in anthem and flag.
But buried things don’t disappear, they grow back meaner.
And we are running out of time to break the cycle.”

~Lyle Fass

07/05/2025

78.3% voter turn out of registered voters in Alcona County.
If some one could find a way to motavate the 21.7% it could make a difference
I know in the research I have done in the past with the van list shows that Alcona County could very well possibly be a Democratic county.
We need new ideas of an aging county.

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06/30/2025

Health officials warn that the ultra-potent drug has been linked to 11 overdose deaths across six counties this year

06/25/2025

Very interesting

Retired Michigan FBI Agent: Trump’s Friday Night Massacres and the Compromising of the DOJ
https://deadlinedetroit.com/articles/33342/retired_michigan_fbi_agent_trump_s_friday_night_massacres_and_the_compromising_of_the_doj

06/20/2025

We’ve seen this before. And every time, it ends in regret.

Mass deportation isn’t some bold new idea—it’s a recycled failure from America’s past.

We locked up over 120,000 Japanese Americans—most of them U.S. citizens—because they looked like the enemy. No trials. No charges.

We passed the Chinese Exclusion Act and targeted an entire race of people to protect jobs that were never theirs to begin with.

We hunted “communists” during the Red Scare, blacklisting people without evidence. Careers ruined. Lives destroyed.

Now the same fear is being used again. Talk of rounding up millions, of mass deportations, of military force. It’s not about justice. It’s a distraction. A sleight of hand to cover the real problems.

And here’s the truth:
When they run out of so-called “illegals” to go after, who’s next?
Because once you give the government the power to pull people off the streets without due process…
you better believe that power doesn’t stop with someone else.

Don’t let fear make us forget what it means to be American. Or human.

06/10/2025

Is it time?

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06/09/2025

After watching what’s happening in L.A. and listening to that Homeland Security official on TV this morning (lucky my foot didn’t go through the screen), I have to say—I’m embarrassed to call myself an American right now.

This feels less like the United States and more like Russia—or any number of authoritarian regimes—where people are left wondering what comes next, where fear, surveillance, and confusion are used to keep everyone in line.

Were the ICE raids in L.A. timed deliberately for a Friday, hoping the weekend news cycle would bury it—just like the dirty tricks we’ve seen in D.C., where Congress slips something past us while we’re distracted?

Is this what “making America great again” looks like? Because it sure doesn’t feel like freedom, justice, or democracy.

Whatever happened to the words carved into the Statue of Liberty?
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

My grandfather came to this country in the 1930s, and he—along with so many others like him—is what truly made America great. Not some shyster wannabe king squatting in the White House, playing dictator like he’s running Russia or some third-rate banana republic.

We’re supposed to be the golden door—not the gate that slams shut.

06/03/2025

Arab American News: Farmington Hills Restaurateur's Name Pops Up in Hamtramck Police Chief Controversy
https://deadlinedetroit.com/articles/33240/arab_american_news_farmington_hills_restaurateur_s_name_pops_up_in_hamtramck_police_chief_controversy

06/02/2025

06/02/2025

Very worthy service.

Congress must REJECT efforts to cut funding for PBS and NPR – which Americans consistently rank as the most trustworthy networks for news and public affairs.