Author Archives: Mark R. Kelly

MAGA Retribution?

Posted on Monday 6 October 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

News today about a South Carolina judge, who had ruled against Trump, who saw her house burned to the ground; How ICE goons welcome their jobs; Trump’s lies about murders in Portland, and Osama Bin Laden; Robert Reich on how … Continue reading →

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Shades of Autism

Posted on Sunday 5 October 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Andrew O’Hehir at Salon describes Trump’s war on reality, concerning Venezuela; Bits from JMG about Democrats, the Pope, a debate trophy named for Charlie Kirk; how Trump lies about Portland burning to the ground; and how the GOP doesn’t want … Continue reading →

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Tearing Down

Posted on Saturday 4 October 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

How the current administration loves to fire people; Trump’s license to kill, from a man who wants the Nobel Peace Prize; Heather Cox Richardson on Trump’s hate, and Russell Vought; A Trump memo that casts atheists as terrorists; how other … Continue reading →

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More on why what’s going on is going on

Posted on Friday 3 October 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Paul Krugman on the decline of American democracy, since Nixon; Francis Fukuyama blames social media and the internet as the prime cause, over eight others, for the global populist wave; Adam Frank on why young men are losing faith in … Continue reading →

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Sometimes They Really Are Out to Get You

Posted on Thursday 2 October 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Evidence of Republican hate of the Left; And evidence of their incompetence; And wondering when their “Two Minutes Hate” will appear. – – – Fortunately, in this case they’re not very bright. \\\ Ten days or so ago, at Charlie … Continue reading →

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Reactions to the Hegseth and Trump Speeches to the Military. And Christian Music.

Posted on Wednesday 1 October 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Reactions to the Hegseth and Trump speeches from Tom Nichols, David Ignatius, Paul Krugman, Heather Cox Richardson, and others; More examples of how the right, not the left, is promoting political violence; And Amanda Marcotte about how Christian music signals … Continue reading →

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Military Orders, and Coal Obsession

Posted on Tuesday 30 September 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

About the Trump/Hegseth speeches today to US military leaders; Short items about how psychotic drugs are to blame for Charlie Kirk’s killing; how the Rapture has been rescheduled; and how marriage equality is to blame for Charlie Kirk’s murder; Paul … Continue reading →

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Medbed Fantasies and Trump’s Dementia

Posted on Monday 29 September 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Slate, Heather Cox Richardson, and Robert Reich on Trump’s AI video about “medbeds”; Reich explicitly links it to Trump’s dementia; Short items about the Michigan mass shooter, government enforcement of Turning Point Clubs; tariffs on foreign-made movies; and banning the … Continue reading →

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Steven Pinker, Right-Wing Threats of Violence, and Ligeti’s Atmospheres

Posted on Sunday 28 September 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Steven Pinker’s new book, and how he applies its ideas to understand the Charlie Kirk matter; Right-wing The Daily Caller explicitly calls for violence; Trump seems to believe in “medbeds,” a science-fictional idea born of MAGA fantasies; And rumors about … Continue reading →

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The Crisis in War-Ravaged Portland, Oregon

Posted on Saturday 27 September 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Trump thinks Portland OR is ravaged by war, and presumably some of his followers believe him; Another example of threatened violence from the right; Trump is out for revenge, obviously; How Trump simply defines people who don’t like MAGA policies … Continue reading →

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