I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
You always own your intellectual property, mailing list, and subscriber payments. With full editorial control and no gatekeepers, you can do the work you most believe in.
Although we can blame the elected officials in the Republican party for feeding the hate, fear, and death that motivates our poorly educated to become vigilantes, they are nothing more than expensive tools used by their corporate masters to perpetuate the greatest grifting in human history. It takes a certain kind of person to be willing to do whatever it takes to get reelected, (including genocide and treason) and that kind of person should not be in office. Until we can replace them with elected officials who pledge to promote our general welfare with best practice-based solutions and protect us from the oligarchs (and their toadies), our backsliding democracy is unlikely to recover. If only Someone knew how to fix it so money no longer equaled speech and corporations no longer enjoyed the rights of citizens.
Also, thanks for a new way to describe those who kill peacefully assembled citizens with their vehicles as drivers-into-crowd, or “DICs.” Certainly Ron DeSantis should be regarded as an honorary big DIC for the work he's done to perpetuate DICish behavior.