Author Archives: Mark R. Kelly

“Let the Country’s Weak and Vulnerable Suffer and Die.”

Posted on Thursday 29 January 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

David Wallace-Wells on the real reason MAGA hates vaccines; How ICE is about retribution against those who didn’t vote for Trump; How the title of a recent book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” applies to the … Continue reading →

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Streets of Minneapolis

Posted on Wednesday 28 January 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

A new song by Bruce Springsteen about Minneapolis; Why GOP voters love ICE — because their support for the Bible and the Constitution is only totemic, which is to say, hypocritical; Ruben Bolling on the MAGAs: Trump is always right, … Continue reading →

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The Conservative Resistance to Changing One’s Mind

Posted on Tuesday 27 January 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

Why can conservatives not admit they might have been wrong? Trump never admits to being wrong; he never apologizes; And yet the administration is softening its accusations against the people killed by ICE in Minneapolis; Trump contradicts the 2nd amendment; … Continue reading →

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Pulling Bolts Out of the Ferris Wheel

Posted on Monday 26 January 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

Train Dreams Republicans on the need to carry guns; How the truth in Minneapolis is whatever Trump says it is; And how the administration altered images and made false posts; Heather Cox Richardson on KQED Forum this morning; Brief items … Continue reading →

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The Latest ICE Killing

Posted on Sunday 25 January 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

Captured on cellphone video, a man on the ground shot in the back ten times, like an execution; his crime: helping a woman who’d been pushed down by ICE thugs; Takes by Heather Cox Richardson, Paul Krugman, Robert Reich, John … Continue reading →

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Disintegration

Posted on Saturday 24 January 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

Another killing by ICE in Minneapolis; Trump cedes leadership of the global economy to China; Now they want to make the polio vaccine optional; Trump’s EPA now places the value of a human life at zero dollars; Trump’s National Park … Continue reading →

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Is There a Coming Crackup? Can We Recover?

Posted on Friday 23 January 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

Maybe. And maybe. Jonathan Chait wonders why conservatives defend ICE; How the administration lies and alters evidence; Anne Applebaum on the administration’s attacks on science, medicine, culture, and education; Adam Lee offers some perspective on recovering from autocracy; David Brooks … Continue reading →

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A New World Order

Posted on Thursday 22 January 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

How Canada and Europe, in response to Trump and MAGA, are bringing about a new world order that sidelines the US; And how the US is sinking into totalitarianism; How Trump thinks he made a deal about Greenland while actually … Continue reading →

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Trump’s Lunacy and Conservative Regression

Posted on Wednesday 21 January 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

The Greenland obsession is a new level of madness for Trump; Time to impeach? Trump’s embarrassing Davos speech; MAGA Jesus is not the real Jesus, but evangelicals will never break with Trump; Tony Perkins says ICE protestors are God-haters; The … Continue reading →

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Conservative v. Progressive Projects, the Arc of History, and Autism

Posted on Tuesday 20 January 2026 by Mark R. Kelly

Recent thoughts. Inchoate conclusions. Provisional ideas. Things that have occurred to me. Promoting further explorations. Taking a day off from the news. No pics. \ About human nature and the arc of history. First, broadly, the conservative project is to … Continue reading →

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