2025 Archives

We must call this what it is: a full-scale assault on our economy, our democracy, and the peaceful world order that's prevented a third world war for nearly 80 years… The headlines this week are wild: Trump is threatening nutso tariffs against America's traditional trading partners (although none for Russia, of course), demanding that our allies proclaim their willingness to go to war with China, and — along with his billionaire buddies — looting our government while immiserating small business and the American middle class. As a result, America stands today at an extraordinarily dangerous crossroads economically, politically, and geopolitically. We're talking a second Republican Great Depression, fascism, and the very real possibility of a third world war

The Best of the Rest of the News. — Killing them softly with criminal negligence — Trump's IRS now says that churches, contrary to Jesus's teachings and the law, can openly advocate political positions and hustle on behalf of politicians. — Democrats need to take a lesson from Republicans, like those who run the Lincoln project, about how to "take names and kick ass." — There are an estimated half million white undocumented immigrants in the US, most from Europe, particularly Ireland and the rest of the UK, but to date very few have been arrested or incarcerated at Alligator Alcatraz or any other ICE facilities. — Texas Governor Greg Abbott is trying to "fix" the midterms? — Work in the fields for $5/hour or lose your healthcare? — Red state Republicans won't discover how badly screwed they are until after the next years' midterm elections. — Billionaire wannabe dictators who try to loot their nations gotta stick together, or at least so says Trump. — Got a wacky conspiracy-nut theory? Trump's administration and the GOP is here to help!

Militia attacks on weather radars aren't just crimes: they're symptoms of a deeper sickness that rightwing media, foreign trolls, and the GOP are using to devastate our democracy via lies and hate... In Oklahoma, a domestic militia calling itself "Veterans on Patrol" is systematically targeting weather radars. Their leader, Michael Lewis Arthur Meyer, claims the military is controlling the weather through Doppler radar systems and that these machines are part of a divine affront—a "weather weapon" — that is "mocking God Himself." He's encouraging his followers to sabotage these radars under an operation he calls "Leaning Tower." This isn't just fringe paranoia: it's part of a growing anti-reality insurgency that threatens our democracy itself. Let's be blunt: this is insanity. Not just in its content, but in its consequences. And yet, it's not isolated. It's one of many conspiracy-fueled campaigns that now animate parts of American life, often backed by violence or intimidation. From QAnon to flat-earth nonsense to vaccine "skeptics" now within the FDA, we're watching a dangerous erosion of truth, a collapse of shared facts, and an outright assault on the institutions that protect life and liberty. What's happening here isn't just about weather radars: it's about reality itself.

If the Truth Is a Crime, Then We Are All Criminals, Because Silence Is What Tyranny Depends On Thom plus logo Now that Trump has threatened to prosecute CNN, what happens next will define the role of the press and the soul of this nation… History rarely announces itself. It creeps in quietly, cloaked in the language of "law and order," "national security," and "patriotism." But every now and then, it screams. Last week, it screamed.