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12/17/2025

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11/02/2025

This Tuesday, Vote Yes!

10/14/2025

This evening I learned some disturbing news, the local fascist group is once again rearing its ugly head and going after the public library of Steubenville and Jefferson county. They have created a website full of lies and fear urging people to vote against the Levy Renewal for the library! They are still upset that there are books in a PUBLIC LIBRARY that don’t follow their particular religious beliefs, you know books written by or about LGBTQIA+ people! The first lie they put forth is if the levy doesn’t pass it’s not a big deal, it might just mean a cut in staffing ( I mean it’s so easy to find jobs nowadays, so if some librarians lose their jobs it’s no biggie), in truth it’s much worse than staff cuts if the levy doesn’t pass. The state has already changed the way libraries are funded through the state: Starting July 1, 2025, Ohio's Public Library Fund (PLF) transitioned from a guaranteed percentage of state revenue to a line-item appropriation, reducing available state funding by nearly $25 million compared to fiscal year 2025.
In an area like ours, rural and where almost 20% of families are living in poverty the library is essential! Not only can you check out books, dvds and cds, but also thanks to their library of things you can check out everything from a tool kit to a WiFi hotspot.
When you are trying to stretch every penny a local library is not a luxury but a necessity!
If everyone reading this could share it and urge 5 more people to share and to encourage everyone to VOTE YES ON THE LIBRARY RENEWAL LEVY, it would go a long way to stop these fascists from trying to take away the rights of others to have access to the vital services our local libraries and their staff provide for all citizens!
VOTE YES FOR THE LIBRARY!

Barb Davis, Director

10/09/2025

When the State Rejects God’s Covenant and Evangelicals Stay Silent

by River Hunter Wiley

Let me say this plainly, because the time for sugar-coating is over: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in a Presidential Cabinet Meeting, said that early circumcision has double the rate of autism. The federal government of the United States asserts that God’s Covenant, the Abrahamic practice of circumcision, is causing autism. And evangelical are silent, complicit.

The scientific consensus is that autism is a complex neuro-developmental condition with strong genetic underpinnings, along with possible, but still uncertain environmental factors. Claims linking vaccines or common medicines to autism has been studied and repeatedly found unsupported or speculative at best. If you choose to believe against vaccine used based on this, that is your right, no matter the science. But when RFK Jr. asserts that the Covenant of circumcision is causing autism, he’s building on a foundation of pseudoscience, and political theater, not evidence.

Evangelical Christians, the highest supporting group of this regime, claim allegiance to God’s Covenant, through Abraham, Isaac, Jacob. To be any denomination of the Christian faith is to believe that our first loyalty is to God; not Caesar, not a political party, not to a regime. Now the federal government of the United States is mocking this Covenant. It is saying the very ritual God, The Creator, commanded is “dangerous.” Yet, many Evangelicals will remain silent.

Christians must ask ourselves: If someone at the pulpit said, “Christian baptism causes brain damage,” would you quietly nod, or would you rise up against blasphemy? If a political leader claimed The Eucharist, or communion wafers, causes cancer, would you remain silent to protect their brand? Again, the regime is telling us that our sacred sign, our Covenant with God is suspect. Many Christians will remain submissive—that is Idolatry, the worship of state over covenant. All Christians, primarily Evangelicals, who continue to support this tyrannical regime are supporting blasphemy. You are telling God, The Creator, that your political identity is more important than your union with Him.

These claims encourage stigma. They will make parents feel guilt, shame, fear. They will drive pseudoscientific “treatments,” the kinds of things that harm disabled people under the guise of prevention. They give the regime license to regulate (or criminalize) religious practices. If the government can say “circumcision is dangerous,” what’s to stop them from banning or restricting it outright? Before you scoff, remember the military in our streets was also unthinkable. Once you accept that the state can interpret our sacred practices, you have surrendered territory. You have denied your faith.

Genesis tells us, “And every male among you who is eight days old shall be circumcised throughout your generations.” Romans, “If circumcision is God’s sign, you will not allow earthly power to mock or erase it.”

We are not safe, and we are not harmless. The regime is issuing threats against anti-fascists. There are soldiers in our streets, officers shooting mace at priests. This government will do whatever their hate and paranoia permit. And a Christian who allows their God-given covenant to be ridiculed by the regime has abdicated their faith. Do not be a Christian who prophets that God’s Covenant is dangerous, but the one who defends it. There is not gray between our faith and our actions. There is not immunity from God, The Creator, in the face of complacency. We are either Christian or we are not; a regime that mocks this is idolatrous. You can serve the alt-right regime or you can serve Christ—you cannot serve both.

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09/27/2025

13 CREEKS STATEMENT ON THE COUP D’ÉTAT AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

The deployment of U.S. troops into cities, the designation of dissenters as “terrorists,” the targeting of journalists, and the expansion of ICE raids mark the open collapse of constitutional democracy. This is not governance, it is a coup d’état by a regime against its own people.

𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁

By labeling “leftists,” “anti-fascists,” and journalists as enemies of the state, the regime violates the rights of free speech, press, protest, and political association.

𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁

Military deployment and ICE raids on streets, homes, and workplaces without warrants or probable cause constitute unlawful searches and seizures.

𝗙𝗶𝗳𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 | 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁

Disappearing people into unmarked vans, denying hearings, due process, or equal protection, and arbitrarily branding citizens “terrorists” are direct violations of fundamental liberties.

𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗜, 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝟴

Congress alone holds war powers. The regime bypasses legislative authority by deploying troops domestically against civilians.

𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗜𝗩, 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝟰

The Constitution guarantees every state a republican form of government. Occupying cities with armed forces is not republican government, but authoritarian rule.

𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝘂𝘀 𝗔𝗰𝘁

Federal law prohibits the use of the military for domestic policing absent lawful authorization. No such lawful invocation has been made.

𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁

The regime’s petition to end birthright citizenship is an open assault on constitutional text, attempting to strip citizenship from those born in the U.S.

ICE raids now function as tools of political terror. People are taken off the streets, disappeared into detention centers, often without counsel, charges, or transparency. These are forced disappearances, acts condemned under international human rights law.

The threats of capital punishment for the homeless and so-called “domestic terrorists” signals a dangerous escalation: the regime is normalizing state-sanctioned political cleansing. This crosses from repression into state terror.

When the military is weaponized against civilians, when ICE disappears people without due process, when dissent is branded terrorism, and when capital punishment is openly touted as a political weapon, the Constitution is no longer functioning. Checks and balances have collapsed. The regime rules through fear.

As the Declaration of Independence warned in 1776:

“When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

This regime is illegitimate. Its actions are tyrannical. Its use of the military, ICE, and the threat of political cleansing is fascism.

This is a coup d’état. Our Democracy is failing. Tyranny is here.

07/22/2025

STATEMENT REGARDING THE WITHDRAWL FROM UNESCO

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13 Creeks Magazine condemns the United States’ renewed decision to withdraw from UNESCO, the global institution tasked with safeguarding cultural heritage, education, science, and peace. This decision is an act of terror.

UNESCO recently added the Adena Earthworks in Ohio to its prestigious list of World Heritage Sites, recognizing the significance of Indigenous innovation, resilience, and sacred landscape engineering in the heart of the Ohio Valley. These mounds, built thousands of years ago, reflect a deep understanding of astronomy, seasonal cycles, and sustainable living, wisdom that is increasingly vital in the face of our current climate crisis.

To withdraw from UNESCO at this moment is to turn our backs on that knowledge. It is a deliberate attempt to sever ties with institutions working to protect the very histories that could guide our survival. Designation as a World Heritage Site would and will drive tourism revenue for the state of Ohio. Without such, is to place less economic certainty on Ohioans and to choose ruin over remembrance.

We are further outraged by recent reports that the Ohio History Connection, a state-funded institution charged with protecting Indigenous sites, may have buried culturally significant artifacts in cement as acts of reparation to First Nations. 13 Creeks recognizes that the Adena and moundbuilders were not members or proven ancestors to any of the First Nations consulted. This act, if proven accurate, is not reparation, it is destruction and acts of cultural violence.

At 13 Creeks, we believe anthropology, archaeology, and the humanities are not optional luxuries. They are essential tools for understanding how people before us survived upheaval, displacement, and environmental change along the same creeks we now live. To silence those fields is to silence solutions, safety, and life.

Cultural heritage is not political. It is human, and when we dismantle the institutions that protect it, we dismantle the tools that could save us.

We call on all members of the American Anthropological Association, the Ohio Archaeological Council, educators, scholars, and members of all communities to speak boldly and clearly: We must resist this erasure and we must preserve and protect the legacies of those who lived here long before us.

If we fail to learn from the past, from the very people who endured the last great climate shift in the Ohio Valley, we risk not coming out the other side, as they did.

13 Creeks will continue to amplify the voices of those who protect memory, land, and truth. As long as we have breath in our lungs, we will speak this loudly.

06/01/2025

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05/22/2025

DATA IN**ST, SUPERCOMPUTING, AND DEEPFAKE CENSORSHIP

By River Hunter Wiley

The United States Congress is moving to ban AI regulation for the next ten years. Ten years of blindfolded acceleration. Ten years of open season for the most powerful corporations and surveillance states in history. Ten years where the public—the people who should be protected—have no seat at the table, no recourse, and no say.

This is not a policy.
This is a surrender.

——Synthetic Civilization: The Rise of Data Incest——

AI systems are hungry. They need data to grow, to predict, to perform. But we’ve reached the end of the buffet—human data is drying up. The answer? Synthetic data: AI systems learning from AI systems, a closed loop of machine-trained hallucinations.

We are birthing a culture with no reference to reality.

Data in**st is when models feed on their own outputs. What begins as convenience becomes contamination. Facts become blurred. Fiction metastasizes. Soon, your news, your history, even your memories may be generated by systems that have never touched the real world—but speak with perfect confidence.

When you can no longer tell the difference between real and generated, between lived truth and artificial mimicry, what happens to consent?
What happens to truth?

——Quantum Computing and the Death of Secrets——

By the time this ten-year blackout ends, quantum computing will likely be operational. These machines won’t just be faster—they will be fundamentally different, capable of breaking modern encryption and digesting impossibly complex datasets in seconds.

Pair that with unregulated AI and you get the most invasive surveillance apparatus ever conceived.
A predictive machine god with no leash.

With it, your entire life—texts, calls, movements, preferences, purchase history, medical records, even your thoughts as extrapolated from metadata—can be simulated, profiled, and controlled in real time.

Privacy will not just be violated.
It will be nonexistent.

——Deepfake Censorship: The Ministry of Truth 2.0——

Imagine a world where every photo, every video, every voice clip can be faked. Not just to lie—but to erase.
• Journalists discredited by footage they never filmed.
• Protest leaders silenced by AI-generated confessions.
• Whistleblowers replaced by “official” videos where they recant, weep, or disappear.

This is not science fiction.
This is tomorrow—with no regulation.

Without laws, there’s nothing to stop state actors or billion-dollar firms from creating the illusion of democratic consent, the appearance of public trust, and the destruction of dissent—all through synthetic media.

It’s not surveillance anymore.
It’s sculpted obedience.

——When Fascism Gets a Neural Network——

Let’s be clear: AI is the perfect tool for authoritarianism.
• No human oversight.
• No moral hesitation.
• No limit to scale.

Deploy it across immigration systems, prisons, welfare, voting systems, media feeds—and suddenly, the architecture of power is not just maintained by the state. It is the state.

A fascist regime doesn’t need jackboots when it has predictive models.
It doesn’t need book burnings when it can rewrite every page.

And without regulation, there is no defense.

——The End of Labor, the Birth of Feudalism——

With AI advancing unchecked, millions of jobs: writers, coders, lawyers, truckers, clerks—will vanish. There are no provisions for UBI. No laws for displacement. No worker rights under algorithmic management.

What happens when only the people who own AI survive—and everyone else becomes part of the training dataset?

We are not heading toward automation.
We’re heading toward a new class system, where your worth is measured by how profitable your data exhaust is to the machines you serve.

You won’t even get exploited by a boss.
You’ll get optimized by a black-box god you’ll never meet.

——This Is the Wake-Up Call——

This isn’t about innovation.
This is about invasion.

We are watching the rise of:
• A synthetic culture,
• A surveillance superpower,
• And a censorship machine that doesn’t need to kill journalists to silence them.

It just overwrites them.
Like a line of code.

What You Can Do — While You Still Can
• Speak: Say what needs to be said now. This may be the last decade where your voice hasn’t been filtered, deepfaked, or silenced by an algorithmic gatekeeper.
• Organize: Build networks outside the tech platforms. Use paper. Use phones. Use face-to-face meetings. Digital resistance must become physical.
• Demand legislation: A ban on regulation is a ban on rights. Call it what it is: anti-democracy by code.
• Educate: Train yourself and others. Learn how AI works, how it breaks, how to spot fakes, and how to fight back.
• Document: Start printing, screenshotting, archiving. The historical record may not survive what’s coming.

This isn’t just a tech story. This is the fight for reality itself.
Stand up. While you still know what standing means.