Monthly Archives: June 2025

The Insurrectionists Within

Posted on Monday 9 June 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

No, Los Angeles is not burning down. Trump and his minions are lying. And whatever is happening recently, they started it. And apparently they have motives to start it. Also, Los Angeles is huge; David A. Graham in The Atlantic: … Continue reading →

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Clooney’s Murrow; Trump Calls Out the National Guard

Posted on Sunday 8 June 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck; Trump calls out the National Guard (what’s next? Martial Law?); Louisiana bans chemtrails; Trump’s big bill prioritizes the religious right (of course) – – – First of all. We watched the live stream of George … Continue reading →

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Meltdown; Reign of Errors; People Trump doesn’t want to exist; Harari on humans in 1000 years

Posted on Friday 6 June 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Details of the Trump/Musk meltdown; The Trump administration’s reign of errors; Such as DOGE firing people and quickly hiring them back; The people Trump doesn’t want to exist; Yuval Noah Harari on how humans won’t exist in 1000 years, perhaps … Continue reading →

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They Said It Wouldn’t Last, and It Hasn’t

Posted on Thursday 5 June 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

The Trump/Musk bromance implodes; Hannity lies about the impact of the “big beautiful bill”; Republicans try to discredit experts warning about the cost of tax cuts; David French on Joni Ernst, and how Christianity has become a vertical, not horizontal, … Continue reading →

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Harvey Milk, DEI, Lysenko, Jesus

Posted on Wednesday 4 June 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Pete Hegseth orders removal of Harvey Milk’s name from an oil tanker as part of reestablishing “the warrior culture”; Trump fires head of the National Portrait Gallery, because ridding the government of DEI is about “the mere presence of nonwhites … Continue reading →

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Feudalism, Suicide, Ignorance, Disease, Conservative DEI

Posted on Tuesday 3 June 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Quite a round of doom and gloom essays today. This is where we are. The drive toward privatization will lead to feudalism; Max Boot on the suicide of a superpower; Paul Krugman on how we’re no longer a serious country, … Continue reading →

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MAGA Stereotypes, Whataboutism, Monarchy

Posted on Monday 2 June 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Paul Krugman on MAGA hate on New York, and the reality; Beware “whataboutism,” which is easy and wrong; Long New Yorker piece about a reactionary blogger’s call for an American monarchy. – – – Let’s see…. is it fair to … Continue reading →

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Rubber-Stamps, Clones, Conformity, and Fate

Posted on Sunday 1 June 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

How Republicans loyal to Trump want Congress to rubber-stamp his every proposal, never mind America’s system of government; Trump thinks Biden was executed in 2020 and was replaced by a robotic clone; Trump has great ambitions to carve up the … Continue reading →

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