2025 Archives

The Best of the Rest of the News. — On the Democrat's demand that Trump and the GOP undo their cuts to Obamacare and Medicaid to avoid a government shutdown, Trump's White House is giving them (and us) the middle finger. Literally. — Trump outs Elon Musk for being in the Epstein files, according to Congressman Eric Swalwell. — America goes full banana republic as Trump plays dictator and succeeds in finding a lawyer who'll step into the DOJ and prosecute James Comey. More revenge prosecutions are expected. — Wannabee King Trump threatens to relocate the World Cup from Blue states to Red ones. — Every country that's put its central bank equivalent of our Federal Reserve under political instead of professional control has ended up with rampant inflation and economic disaster. — Moldova is getting a 2016 US election-like treatment from Russia . — Arizona Republican Congressman John Gillette calls for Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal to be hanged. Seriously. — Trump shows — with billions of our tax dollars — how wannabee authoritarians like to stick together. — France has figured out how to deal with corrupt former presidents. Somebody should tell Merrick Garland. — Get ready for your drug prices to jump as much as 100 percent next month. — Geeky Science: Contrary to what Trump and Bob Kennedy told us this week, pregnant women who fail to take Tylenol during pregnancy for fever are putting their unborn children at risk. — Crazy Alert! Is your dentist also trying to scare or hurt you because you're a liberal? This one brags about it! — Hunter in a Farmer's World: Tossing: ADHD's Hidden Signal — Wisdom School: Can Silence Be a Kind of Universal Medicine?

Dark money, foreign payoffs, and dangerous lies are pushing what's left of our government to the edge… If his lips move, he's lying. Or trying to solicit a bribe. Or slandering Democrats. Or, today, taking hostages. Most recently, he's started lying about what congressional Democrats are demanding in exchange for giving the GOP the votes they need in the Senate to keep the government open past October 1. And now, just this morning, they've announced that they're taking hostages. Federal employees will be fired, rather than temporarily furloughed, if there is a government shutdown. But I'll get to that in a moment; it isn't where he started lying, bribe-getting, and slandering Democrats this week.

Whether bought, brainwashed, or bullied, the six conservative justices have abandoned their oath, and the consequences are tearing our republic apart… Are they afraid Trump will get them killed? Ninety years ago, President Franklin D. Roosevelt fired William E. Humphrey from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Humphrey sued to the Supreme Court, which ruled that the Constitution had never given "illimitable power of removal" to the president and that he couldn't fire Humphrey. The case is called Humphrey's Executor v US, and Humphrey got his job back. The unanimous decision of the Court was clear and explicit.

“A field of battle covered with dead bodies putrefying in the open air is an awful and distressing spectacle, but a nation debased by the love of money and exhibiting all the vices and crimes usually connected with that passion, is a spectacle far more awful, distressing and offensive.” - Letter from Dr. Benjamin Rush to Thomas Jefferson, 1813. The past 3000 years have seen the emergence of several great forces that have shaped the modern world: the nation-state, feudalism, capitalism, democracy, and, most recently, communism and neoliberalism.