The Dead Do Not Need Our Attention. The Living Do.

Recently, 10,000 pages tied to the JFK assassination were released. A fanfare of secrecy revealed. A convenient headline handed to a restless public.

And yet, here we are.

Still waiting for this administration to admit that senior officials discussed military operations over unsecured apps, putting lives at risk and compromising national security. Not through some rookie mistake, but a total disregard for established security protocols.

Still waiting for the government to produce concrete evidence supporting their claim that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a member of MS-13.

Still waiting for an explanation as to why records continue to vanish, some scrubbed from museums, some quietly removed from the White House website, because the people they honored were the wrong color, the wrong gender, the wrong kind of American for this regime's narrative.

We're not against history. But we are against distraction dressed as revelation.

This isn't about truth and transparency. It's a sideshow meant to redirect our gaze and make us chase yesterday's ghosts while today's corruption moves freely and without shame.

Even President Kennedy warned us: “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived, and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.”

And yet here we are, watching the myth take center stage while the truth starves in the wings.

They want us caught in the swirl of conspiracy theories and dusty archives while present-day rot deepens. They want us entertained, absorbed, suspicious of history, and too distracted to recognize the erosion unfolding in real time.

We don't need 10,000 pages about a dead president while our democracy bleeds out in daylight. We need accountability in the present tense.

We want the documents that show who deleted what under DOGE and why.

We want to see the records that justify targeting citizens without proof.

We want to see the files that help us understand how taking food, housing, and care away from the most vulnerable makes sense while billionaires receive tax cuts without question.

We want the truth, not embalmed but breathing.

History matters, but not as a circus act, not as a breadcrumb trail that leads nowhere while today's oppressions cement themselves in policy and silence.

If the government insists on releasing files, let it be the ones that show us what's happening now.

The dead are not the ones who need our attention.

The living do.