by Isaac Cubillos | Apr 13, 2025 | Journal
You can write all the executive orders you want. You can form task forces, launch action plans, and declare a new era of American shipbuilding. But before we start pouring steel and painting hulls red, white, and blue—we’ve got to ask a basic question: Where the hell...
by Isaac Cubillos | Apr 13, 2025 | Journal
On April 9, the Trump administration signed an executive order promising to “restore America’s maritime dominance.” A grand idea—if your definition of dominance includes spreadsheets, interagency working groups, and rebuilding shipyards that have long since been paved...
by Isaac Cubillos | Apr 12, 2025 | Journal
They’re not bringing back poll taxes or literacy tests. Not out loud, anyway. No, these days voter suppression shows up in a suit and tie, carrying a stack of papers and shouting about “election integrity.” Case in point: the SAVE Act—a bill passed by the...
by Isaac Cubillos | Apr 11, 2025 | Brown Eyes, Clear Truth, Journal
They say justice is blind. Maybe. But in America, justice sure as heck knows how to squint—especially when a brown face walks into view. Case in point: Paul Akeo and his wife Christy, two nice folks from Michigan who got nabbed south of the border after a resort tiff...
by Isaac Cubillos | Apr 10, 2025 | Journal
Donald Trump is finally getting the one thing he’s always wanted for his birthday—a military parade, with tanks and troops and all the bells and ballistic whistles. June 14. Not only is it Flag Day, but it’s also Trump’s birthday, which is fitting because the...
by Isaac Cubillos | Apr 9, 2025 | Journal
Well now. We’ve officially reached the part of the movie where the script runs off the rails, the hero starts speaking in riddles, and the economy clutches its chest and reaches for the aspirin. The week began with President Trump pulling out his big, shiny tariff...
