2025 Archives

From Jefferson’s era to today, history proves democracy’s defenders can still win… Yesterday was probably, politically and spiritually, the darkest Thanksgiving for our nation in our lifetimes. So how about a quick story out of America’s earliest history that eerily echoes this moment and may give us some hope? Donald Trump has told us he’s going to use the 1807 Insurrection Act to declare a state of emergency, which will allow him to round up not only undocumented immigrants but also his political opponents, who he refers to as “the enemy within.” He came to power using Willie Horton-style ads trashing trans people and is happy to demonize anybody else who stands up to his hunger for absolute power. In an age-old technique usually employed during wartime, Trump regularly uses the rhetoric America has employed against foreign enemies to characterize Americans who disagree with him and his policies. Remember the “raghead” slurs against Arabs from the Afghan and Iraqi wars? Or politicians referring to Vietnamese in the 1970s as “slants” and “gooks”?

When this bubble bursts, the collapse won't hit Google's coders — it'll hit the electricians, nurses, teachers, retirees, renters, and low-income families who never got a penny from the boom… The number one most-read story in the Financial Times yesterday was headlined, "Nvidia shares fall on signs Google gaining upper hand in AI." It turns out that Google's AI software/product is doing about as well as its competitors but isn't using Nvidia's "must have" AI super-chips, shocking the market. But even with that, we ain't seen nothing yet: get ready for the Moores' Law shock and a few others that seem increasingly inevitable.

Trump has attacked the American Way and Congress MUST proceed with investigations and impeachment; rightwingers on SCOTUS notwithstanding, no one is above the law in a functioning democracy... I’ve been feeling something unusual these past few weeks: optimism. Not naïve optimism or the kind that ignores danger, but the real kind that arrives when you see people waking up, standing up, and refusing to bow before a lawless president who believes rules are for suckers and the Constitution is a mere suggestion rather than the foundation of our republic. We’re now governed by a man who treats legal limits as personal insults. Donald Trump doesn’t just violate our nation’s norms and laws: like every wannabe third-world tinpot dictator before him, he despises the idea that any law can constrain him at all. Trump and the spineless sycophants in his administration have rejected the entire idea of a rules-based society. He and his lickspittles are turning the presidency into a throne, trying to transform you and me into its subjects, and painting as enemies anyone who insists soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen (and others in government) should follow the law.

The Best of the Rest of the News. — Marjorie Taylor Greene, after being attacked by the man-child in the White House, pulls the plug on her congressional career saying she refuses to be a "battered wife." — After Trump called for the death of military and CIA veterans now serving in Congress who defended the Constitution in a video, they're predictably getting death threats. — Shocking Gallup Poll: 80% of Americans want what Democrats are working for. — A rightwing billionaire reportedly considering buying CNN was reportedly in discussions with Trump's people about firing Erin Burnett and Brianna Keilar. — Hegseth hearts the swastika? — Another Texas woman has died because of that state's abortion ban; this is becoming shockingly routine in Republican-controlled formerly Confederate Red States. — Trump is preparing to give Putin everything he wants in Ukraine; is it because Putin has the Epstein files, as we learned from the recent email release? Or just because he hates democracy? Or is he still hoping for a billion-dollar Trump hotel in Moscow? — Crazy Alert! Who's "Piggy?"