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When Up Becomes Down: Spotting DARVO Before It Traps You
This mind-bending experience has a name: DARVO—Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender. It's not just frustrating; it's a calculated manipulation tactic that warps reality and shifts blame with devastating effectiveness.
Gael MacLean
13 min read


Democrats are Playing Football - Republicans are Playing Chess
I am one of those who believe Chuck Schumer made the right decision. To equate a shutdown now with previous shutdowns is magical thinking.
Gael MacLean
4 min read


The Great Heist of 2025: Endgame
In this strategic simulation, players take on the role of a shadowy cabal working to orchestrate the greatest heist in human history.
Gael MacLean
5 min read


Is This the America You Want?
America just did the unthinkable — siding with Russia to block UN resolutions that condemned the Ukraine invasion.
Gael MacLean
7 min read


Speaking Truth to Power
Those of us who struggle to keep the light alive recognize what matters in our hearts, even when words fail.
Gael MacLean
2 min read


Hurting US Farmers Hurts Us All
Right now, thousands of American farmers are caught in a perfect storm of frozen funds, canceled programs, and uncertain futures.
Gael MacLean
3 min read


US Treasury’s Digital Fortress
Every cybersecurity expert I know is seriously freaked out. If the Treasury falls, America’s power falls with it.
Gael MacLean
4 min read


God Doesn't Live Here Anymore
The God I know says Do No Harm in thought, speech, or actions. Simple words.
Gael MacLean
4 min read


Beyond the Dream: The Unfinished Revolution
The Poor People's campaign wasn't a GoFundMe, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott wasn't a Twitter hashtag.
Gael MacLean
2 min read


How American Corporations Killed the Golden Goose
In 1886, J.C. Bancroft Davis, doing what we would now call data entry, wrote that corporations were "persons" under the 14th Amendment.
Gael MacLean
8 min read


The Truth About Wolves
They didn’t come for my sheep. They came for her. The white wolf. I felt her spirit leave. She went home. With her wolves. Her family.
Gael MacLean
3 min read


The Price of Perfection
What is it about our culture that makes us feel so inadequate? As women.
Gael MacLean
3 min read


Universal Principles for Ethical Living
They’re simple because hunger is simple, and profound because feeding another being is profound.
Gael MacLean
4 min read


Guardians of Earth and Truth
Each deportation cuts a channel through our community, like water carving through unprotected soil.
Gael MacLean
4 min read


American Inventory: A Field Guide to Resilience
We’ve survived worse than this. We’ve faced bigger threats than this. Every time, enough people stood up and did the necessary things.
Gael MacLean
3 min read


Climate Change Reality Check on a Sheep Farm in Idaho
Started about a mile from here as the crow flies and I was fortunate there was a ridge and a river between me and it. Ready, set, go.
Gael MacLean
6 min read


The Spinning of America: The Right-Wing Media Takeover
The story of right-wing media consolidation is not just a story about business or politics. It’s a story about us.
Gael MacLean
5 min read


Easy’s Gettin’ Harder Every Day
Think about the old days. Town picnics in the park. Fourth of July parades. Christmas lights on every house. People used to care.
Gael MacLean
5 min read


Sontag’s Ghost in Gaza
Gaza would have resisted any attempts at simplification. The layers of history, ideology, and trauma defy easy categorization.
Gael MacLean
4 min read


Fading Farmlands: The Weight of Seasons
I flip over another bale. And there it is—a rattlesnake, coiled and unmoving.
Gael MacLean
5 min read
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