2025 Archives

The dismantling of American democracy isn't a secret conspiracy. It's a public spectacle—and it's accelerating… When Harvard, one of America's oldest and most revered institutions of higher learning, stands defiant as the federal government freezes billions in funding simply because it refuses to knuckle under to authoritarian demands — like gutting DEI programs and turning faculty into immigration informants — we're no longer playing the usual game of politics. This is the open throttling of academic freedom, part of a larger, deliberate campaign to silence dissent, centralize power, and erase democratic norms.

The Best of the Rest of the News. — Just a reminder that today there will be protests all across the country themed around “No Kings!” — Is Trump Helping Putin Defeat Ukraine? — Our government used to keep track of lies and disinformation coming from Russia. Marco Rubio just shut that agency down. — Can Trump really fire Fed chair Jerome Powell as he claimed yesterday? — Idaho Republicans gave families $50M for private schools — and scrapped $30M used for public education..say what?!? — JD Vance says if Brits can’t use the N-word and slurs against gays in public venues, they can’t cut a trade deal with America. — Did your miscarriage tissue have a dignified funeral at a state approved facility? If not, get ready for jail if Republicans have their way. — Crazy Alert! The GOP has adopted new family values: you can now DM offering to inseminate women you don’t know! — Wisdom School: Nature's Medicine: Can Forests Calm Inflammatory Conditions? — Hunter in a Farmer’s World: ADHD: What One Anonymous Good Deed Does Every Day — Geeky Science: Why the position you sleep in could shorten your life?

A virus needs its host: The Republican Party has provided the platform, the protection, and the power that allowed Trump’s assault on democracy to flourish... We’ve spent years watching Donald Trump attack our democratic institutions, inflame divisions, and corrupt the public discourse. But focusing solely on Trump misses the larger, more disturbing reality: Trump isn’t acting alone. He’s a dangerous pathogen that found the perfect host in today’s Republican Party, an organism already compromised and eager to be infected. The evidence of this dangerous symbiosis is alarming and immediate. Just days ago, America crossed a threshold that should chill every citizen who still believes in the rule of law.

Trump defied the Supreme Court and had a lawful U.S. resident deported into a foreign prison. The next one could be you... What distinguishes [a concentration camp] from a prison (in the modern sense) is that incarceration in a concentration camp is independent of any judicial sentence or even indictment, and is not subject to judicial review. —United States Holocaust Museum Yesterday was the day democracy in our nation officially died. We no longer live in the America we grew up in: "The land of the free and the home of the brave." The country the rest of the world looked up to and depended on. The country that claimed to follow the rule of law, and valued compassion and the protection of its most vulnerable people. We are now in the midst of a outright coup against the Constitution, against the United States, and against our founding ideals: Donald Trump proclaimed it yesterday when he openly defied the Supreme Court and our founding documents with a sneer, and his neofascist sycophants chuckled and giggled in the Oval Office.