SAM Frida

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Two Headlines. One Question

Two Headlines. One Question

Today, the Supreme Court handed down one of the most consequential rulings in recent memory. In a 6-3 decision, the court struck down President Trump’s sweeping emergency tariffs, ruling that he had no legal authority to unilaterally impose them on nearly every...

Humanity Is a Birthright, Not a Privilege

Humanity Is a Birthright, Not a Privilege

There is something deeply wrong with a world that makes people feel they have to earn the right to be treated as human.I have never understood monarchy. I respect history, and I understand how power structures evolve over centuries, but at its core, the idea that one...

The People Who Show You the Moon

The People Who Show You the Moon

There will be people that tell you to stop and look at the moon. They are important.Read that again. Not the people who hand you roadmaps or climb the ladder beside you. Not the ones who show up with solutions or strategies or five-year plans. The ones who grab your...

What’s Done in the Dark

What’s Done in the Dark

There is a particular kind of disillusionment that comes slowly at first, then all at once.It starts with a seed. Something someone says offhandedly, a detail that doesn’t quite fit the image you’ve held of a person. You brush it past. You might even feel a little...

The Unraveling Has Already Begun

The Unraveling Has Already Begun

This is not about politics. Stop making it about politics. That framing is keeping you in the dark, and I mean that literally. As long as you’re arguing left versus right, red versus blue, you are watching the wrong screen. You are being kept busy watching the wrong...

The Exhausting Performance of Being Fine

The Exhausting Performance of Being Fine

Most of us have mastered the answer to “How are you?” Good. Busy. Can’t complain. We deliver it smoothly, automatically, before the question has even finished landing. And the person asking exhales, relieved they don’t have to hold anything heavy today.We’ve built an...

Love Is Not a Calendar Event

Love Is Not a Calendar Event

February 14th. The day we’ve collectively agreed is the day to prove we love someone. But have you ever stopped to think about how we got here? Valentine’s Day traces back to one or more early Christian martyrs named Valentine. The romantic connection didn’t really...

A Different Kind of Fullness

A Different Kind of Fullness

There’s a video by Lovette Jallow that I keep thinking about. It’s about asexuality, but not in the clinical, checkbox way the topic is so often handled. Instead, it opens with an invitation to consider that what we’ve been taught to see as absence might actually be...

The T-Junction

The T-Junction

Every generation arrives at a fork in the road. A moment where the path splits, and what we choose reveals who we really are.Give ten people a hammer. Some will build a house. Others will tear one down. Give ten people money, power, influence, and the same split...