My Public Comment Regarding President Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission Which Has Released a Draft Report Claiming to Defend Religious Liberty

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I recieved this email from Interfaith Alliance this morning: Take Action: Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission Takes Aim at Church-State Separation Dear Gabi, President Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission released a draft report that claims to protect religious liberty. It does the opposite. The Commission’s report promotes one narrow version of faith, ignores the harm done by …

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Curiosity. Playing with ChatGPT

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I was curious about what ChatGPT would write about me and then Alec, so I asked.
Note: at the bottom of the ChatGPT page it says: “ChatGPT can make mistakes. Check important info.” True, there are some errors but this is unedited and not corrected. We may at some point after I post this comment about some errors. Or we may not. Consider that some of this may be a work of mechanical fiction.

House of Un-American Activities and RESIST by Gabi Clayton, 06-01-2025

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I first created “House of Un-American Activities on 02-06-2017” (see below) – less than three weeks into the first presidential term of Donald Trump. I updated it yesterday, June 1, 2025, for the ‘No Kings’ protest on June 14, 2025 and beyond. It is now on my Redbubble shop on t-shirts, coffee cups, and more …

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Ally? Says Who? by Wombat Cascadia

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I found the zine: SO YOU WANT TO BE AN ALLY! A zine on anti-oppression, allyship, and being a less shitty person – online around 2013, and I think it is excellent. Below is the part that has been posted in my quotes collection under its author Wombat Cascadia for many years because reading it gave me an important perspective on being an ally.

Stating the obvious?

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The United States doesn’t need to be the greatest country in the world. Being ‘the greatest’ means a constant power struggle, one up and one down, unless the other doesn’t care, has no hope. The greatest means everybody loses because being in competition may be fine for things like baseball but is not healthy in …

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Looking Toward Tomorrow and the Future of America

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Rising for me today: On January 18, 1997, one year, eight months, and ten days after our younger son Bill committed suicide after a bashing based on his sexual orientation, I published an essay “Too Many Kids Like My Bill” which is in part included here: There is so much grief with the death of …

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