2025 Archives

The Best of the Rest of the News. — TRUMP LOST. Vote Suppression Won. (Greg Palast) — GOP introduces an Amendment allowing Trump to run for a third term — but not Obama. Say What?! — Trump threatens to "get rid" of emergency agency FEMA and tells states to "take care" of disasters themselves. — "Shove it": Canadians revolt after Trump says they'd have better health care as 51st state. — How the 2 percent of bitcoin owners who own 90% of all bitcoin in circulation are planning to use Trump to make a killing. — Hakeem Jefferies says Democrats won't help Republicans raise the debt ceiling or cut taxes even more on billionaires. Will they hold the line? — A Black kid — a school shooter this week — decided to kill a classmate (and wound another) and then himself after watching Candice Owens' online rightwing propaganda convincing him that he's no good cause he's Black. — A Mississippi legislator just introduced legislation outlawing male masturbation unless it is done specifically for the purpose of producing a baby (like for artificial insemination). — Hunter in a Farmer's World: Living Outside the Box: ADHD, Identity, and Resilience — Wisdom School: Telepathy: Coincidence or Consciousness?

Get ready for investigations, arrests, and show trials of the people who've tried to hold Trump accountable for his crimes and traitorous behavior… By repealing President Lyndon Johnson's 1965 executive order (EO) banning racial discrimination in hiring for the federal government, Donald Trump has proudly proclaimed his intention of Making America White Again, at least with regard to political power and economic opportunity. Another EO Trump signed this week proclaims that our sex identity begins at "fertilization" when, in fact, sexual development doesn't begin to start until at least the sixth week after fertilization. In addition to attacking transgender individuals and setting them up for rank persecution (this EO's main goal), it's also a way of laying the groundwork for fetal personhood, a doctrine that will ultimately lead to a total ban on abortion and several methods of birth control. But the most troubling of his executive orders is the one with the Orwellian name of "Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government."

Restoring power to the richest, whitest men in the room. How long can democracy survive under Trump's iron grip? Welcome to your first full day in the new Confederate States of America. Much like the old CSA, the new CSA (also known as MAGA America) is devoted to: — Making American as white as possible, — Stripping women and minorities of political and economic power, — Gutting workers' rights, — Rigging election outcomes, — Leaders nakedly taking bribes, — Using a phony veneer of Christianity to justify brutal policies, — Making queer people invisible, — Reconfiguring schools for indoctrination, — Having militias terrorize minorities and their opponents, and, — Maintaining a government of, by, and for rich white men.

The idea of democracy is simple: issues are put to voters, each person gets one vote, and whatever position gets the most votes becomes law. Our country was not established as a direct democracy, though, and citizens aren’t given an affirmative right to vote in the US Constitution; the issue is placed in the hands of our “laboratories of democracy,” the states. When people think of voting, they tend to think of the presidential election every four years. Many people don’t pay attention to local elections, and more and more Americans have found the political landscape so divisive that they’ve simply tuned out.