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The scroll ends here. A literary subpoena for the age of noise. UNSPUN delivers the essay as act of resistance—cultural dissection, political scalpel, and truth that doesn’t bend—it cuts.
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Jai The Gentleman
Daniel Brown
Dr Stacey Patton
Jelisha Jones
The Architecture of Denial
Faith in a Felon
They didn’t misunderstand him. They anointed him.
No Country for the Chronically Ill
How Trump’s 2025 budget trades survival for savings—and calls it reform
When the Cross Became a Mirror
How ‘White Christian Virtue’ Hollowed the Moral Spine of the West
The Coup d’état Was Just the Casting Call
They learned what didn’t work. Then rewrote the script. Now we’re watching the premiere of the real thing.
Ashli Babbitt and the Five-Million-Dollar Coup d’État
For every martyr minted by the state, the real cost is paid by history itself.
Martyrs for Sale: The Hair, The Hammer, and the Hallelujahs
Josh Hawley’s hair holds more shape than his principles. He screamed tyranny for a father with a rosary— but shrugged when a dead insurrectionist’s family got $5 million.
The Self-Rejection Doctrine
Clarence Thomas rose through the doors civil rights opened—then spent a lifetime closing them behind him. This is not legacy. It’s erasure wrapped in robes.
The Invention of the Dangerous Child
How Christian nationalism reframed Pride, Black history, and truth itself as a threat to innocence.
Seen, But Not Heard
When Empathy Has an Expiration Date
What “Black Fatigue” Reveals About the Limits of White Allyship
Too Much Woman to Win—Not Man Enough to Kill
America bans trans people from the field and the front lines—while shielding the institutions most guilty of harm.
Pro-Life Until Delivery. Then Pro-Oblivion.
They want the birth, not the burden. The symbol, not the soul.
The Mirror Was Always There
The White Victimhood Complex
The center cannot hold—and that was never the point
There Are No Designated Hours for Liberty
When rights are redrawn around the comfortable
The Lie of Both Sides
Why balance has become the most dangerous word in media
For Degrees of Ignorance – Mock the Doctor. Miss the Disease
A double entendre—Jill’s earned degree vs. Trump Jr.’s inherited stupidity.
Face/Off: We Blocked a Dangerous Mind. Then We Elected an Empty One
How America once interrogated ideas—and now surrenders to incoherence.
The Glamour of the Gutless
Kristi Noem, Constitutional Illiteracy, and the Theater of American Decline
The Algorithm Ate Its God
When narcissists code the revolution, the crash writes itself.
Distraction as Strategy
Truth Social, Lies Eternal
The country didn’t need a tantrum. But Trump did.
Birds of a Feather, Checks of a Fraud
The louder Trump yells “unlawful,” the more time he buys to do the next unlawful thing.
The Footnote Strategy: Harvard vs. the Hundred-Seven
The assault on higher education isn’t random—it’s rehearsed. And HBCUs are the next institutions in the line of fire.
Signed, Sealed, Screwed—The Rich Got Relief. You Got a Deadline
Permanent tax breaks for the rich. Six-month survival tests for the rest of us.
The Memory of My Blood Will Not Be Quiet
A Black Gay American on Gaza, U.S. Weapons, and the Moral Cost of Cowardice.
The Playbook Was Always on the Nightstand
A man who once kept Hitler’s writings by his bed is now writing new chapters in American democracy’s erosion—one Guard order, one federal raid, one visible spectacle at a time.
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Taylor's Psalms
The Silence You Fed Will One Day Starve You.
We Carried the Water While You Lit the Match. But even mercy has a limit. And even breath runs out.
For Malcolm. For Memory. For the Moment That Keeps Repeating.
100 years after the birth of El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz—Malcolm X—the performance continues.
Charlatan Kirk: Where Volume Drowns Value
He speaks with the certainty of a man who’s never been challenged—only celebrated for his refusal to learn.
This Body Is the Pride
A follow-up to The Diction of Desire—because survival, too, has a language.
The Distance Between My Voice and My Heart
Some things are too sacred for casual air. So I wrote them down.
The Miseducation of Black Brilliance
Articulation is the threat. Not volume—but vocabulary. Not noise—but rhythm. To speak well, and be Black, is to be called threatening for sounding like freedom.
The Grammar of Grief, The Geometry of Care
I learned to write what I was too scared to say. But every sentence held the shape of my heart.
Swallow, Then Breathe
Cole Schmidtknecht, 22, couldn’t. One pill is all that separates me from the same fate.
