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Pip: Big-Sarge.Blog is not a site that asks you to sit with comfortable questions. BigSarge writes about the places where democracy, service, and daily survival intersect — and none of those intersections are smooth.Mara: This episode covers a lot of ground: redistricting and what the post-Callais map war means for Black voting power, the erasure of Black military service from public memory, the…

Past the awareness graphics: ten places to turn for Black mental health Photo by Ron Lach on Pexels.com If you are Black in America, you know something is wrong long before anyone hands you a statistic or a proclamation about mental health awareness. You feel it in the tightness in your chest on payday, in the way your body goes rigid when a patrol car slides in behind you, in the silence after…

Daily writing promptIf you had an unlimited budget for 24 hours, what would you do?View all responses I am content and above the ground, so my focus on using an unlimited budget does not point inwards to myself but outwards. Hire an architect for 3 building projects. I would identify a local construction company; contractors mandating subcontracts with local community members to build a free and…

Patients and a nurse wait quietly in the emergency room at night. It’s two in the morning in an ER waiting room. Chest pain, sweat, the kind of fear that does not argue with you. The doctor on call walks the lab work down to a normal sinus rhythm and a clean troponin. The man in the next chair, whose teenage son is bleeding into a gauze pad, hears a word he does not like on the wall-mounted CNN…

Detailed 2024 legislative districts map of the State of Aurora with key cities marked. This piece is part of the 2026 Election War Room, my running file on voter suppression, the Trump coalition, and the fight for the 2026 election. Louisiana just gave America a clean look at how modern voter suppression works. I served 23 years in the United States Air Force. I swore an oath to the…

A scenic landscape features large, green, pillar-like formations resembling an abstract cityscape amid rolling hills. Pip: Welcome to Big-Sarge.Blog — where someone actually ran the numbers on what overseas military commitments cost at the kitchen table, not the Pentagon’s. Mara: BigSarge built a household economics model connecting fuel prices, inflation, and defense spending — and the data…

Most of us called it something else first. A bad temper. A rough patch. The inability to let things go. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is not a sign of weakness. It is what happens when a nervous system absorbs more than it was built to carry. Veterans are not uniquely fragile. They are uniquely exposed. Combat, military sexual trauma, the death of a teammate beside you, an IED blast, the moral…

This is where the writing happens. Not the polished final draft — the messy, honest, necessary act of putting words on paper when the world is loud and your own head is louder. Big-Sarge.Blog is a space for people who write to process, people who read to heal, and people who believe that personal voice is itself a form of resistance. Wayne A. Ince — Big Sarge — is a military veteran, thriller…

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is not a sign of weakness. It is the natural result of extraordinary exposure to trauma — and veterans are among those most profoundly affected. This guide provides a comprehensive look at veteran PTSD: what it is, why it affects so many who have served, how it manifests, what treatments work, and how veterans, families, and communities can move toward…