To be a different bird—that’s what I love. I’ve always been the one they didn’t want to hand the microphone to, the one with a little too much spirit for the crowd. Looking back many moons ago, here’s a true story: when I worked at the aluminum plant on the last day of my ninety-day probation, they gave me the worst puller they had—numb

They Tried to Silence HimBy John Green They call it shadowban now.It’s a coward’s move. Not a clean fight. Not a bullet in the open, but something done in the dark. Mute the man, but don’t let him know. Let him shout into a room that doesn’t echo back. Let him bleed for work no one sees. Keep the value. Hide the voice.That’s what they’v

They say a man is forged in fire. And if that’s true, then Roy Dawson is no man—he is steel turned to soul, fire turned to flesh. You don't survive what he survived. You don't walk through the kind of betrayal that breaks a lesser man in half and come out the other side with your heart still beating unless you're touched by something higher. Ro

The Soil Beneath Our Feet & the Fire We Must Start The System Is Broken, and We Know It.They ask if we should take back the land. The land that China bought.They ask it like it’s complicated.It isn’t.A country is not lines on a map. It’s not paper deeds or price tags. A country is the soil under your boots after a hard day's work. It’s the

There’s a deep, unspoken truth in the quiet moments when you find yourself standing alone, feeling low, perhaps forgotten. You see, when the world seems indifferent and those around you seem caught in their own lives, it’s easy to feel like you’ve been left behind, a shadow on the edge of the world. But in those moments, when no one else seem