Ken Burns thinks there have been “glorious” chapters in US history. I’d like to ask him which chapters he considers to be “glorious”.

I mean, you can make all of these excuses but Christmas is actually about an empire genociding Indigenous peoples and forcing monotheist extremist patriarchy on them.

To all my Hindu ancestors and elders forced to fight and die and pay for Britain’s World Wars, I remember you.

So I know you're all celebrating Biden cancelling the keystone pipeline but while Grandpa Biden was cancelling the Keystone pipeline, he was sending US troops into Syria to continue stealing their oil.

I am always disturbed by how easily people believe whatever the media tells them about whatever current war is being waged.

If you want to know which media to believe, look for the ones who are attacked by the right, the center, and the left.

Does no one see how classist and racist that term is? It's literally calling people "third class". Back in the day, trains had different carriages for different classes. Planes STILL have that system except we call it First, Business, and Coach. (Coach means "Third Class" for those of you who don't get it.)

We have to understand that the reason #45 is able to say "Fake News" and be believed by so many people is that for decades we HAVE had fake news.

The US military is the world's largest user of oil.

This is how the world transitions from one supremacist empire to the next. It's happened before. It'll happen again. It's already happening.

National parks have a deeply problematic history in the USA in that they were created by the white supremacist empire to throw Indigenous peoples off their traditional sacred lands while using those sacred lands to create hunting playgrounds for rich white men.

Did you know that the British burned many empire papers when India attained Independence? They did it to hide all their past criminals acts, and also to hide all the plans they'd already put in motion to continue to harm us, plots and deceptions that still to bleed India to this day.

I’m not going to use the imperialist talking point referring to the Middle East as "west Asia" because I’m not an imperialist and also because EUROPE IS WEST ASIA.

A 200 hour yoga teacher training cannot make you a yoga teacher.

The truth is that there is no such thing as an “idol worshipper”. It literally doesn’t exist. Nowhere in the world does someone pick up a random object and say out of the blue: “This is God.”

I tried sharing Veterans Today’s link about PressTV’s website being seized by the US government. Facebook wouldn’t let me post it. I wasn’t even putting the link in a post, I was typing a comment in reply to someone, and FB blocked me from posting the comment by saying that it violated their community guidelines.

An empire is the macro level of a domestic violence situation.

The abuser targets someone they want to exploit, stalks them, gaslights them, pressures them, forces them into a relationship that's unsafe, and isolates them from anyone who would help them.

Remember waterboarding? Abu Ghraib? The violation of habeas corpus? Guantanamo Bay? Remember how Bush and Cheney presided over the detainment without trial of brown people around the world as well as US citizens? Remember how they justified it as necessary for “national security”? Remember how TV networks put out shows like ‘24’ that brainwashed people into believing that torture was normal and necessary — even justified — despite how torture has been proven again and again to lead to faulty information, vengeful enemies, and even more death and destruction in the creation of extremist groups?

I don’t follow politicians. I’m on record for regularly stating that no one should trust politicians even if they call themselves progressives. I’ve also been following your career since the middle of last year because I saw the Hinduphobia you were subjected to as a Samoan Hindu woman and how that reflected on the wider Hindu-American community, particularly Hindu youth.

I address this letter to you because I have a strange feeling that you might want to hear what I have to say.