Category Archives: Conservative Resistance

Demolition

Posted on Wednesday 22 October 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Trump demolishes the East Wing, after promising not to; Michelle Goldberg about MAGA; Robert Reich on options to challenge the right’s “hate America” rhetoric; Short items about how Christians should be in charge of everything, how MAGA hates people from … Continue reading →

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Slop

Posted on Tuesday 21 October 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Essays about AI slop, and how this endangers objective truth; Trump is tearing down the East Wing of the White House, after he said he wouldn’t; Responses to Trump’s poop video; Paul Krugman on Trump’s loss of touch with reality; … Continue reading →

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The Need for Community

Posted on Monday 20 October 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

An essay about how humans raised children in villages, throughout most of history; Another essay about how Gen Z-ers are drawn to conservative Christianity, not because it’s in any way true, but because of that same need for community; Heather … Continue reading →

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How All This Is Reflected in Science Fiction

Posted on Sunday 12 October 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

The three themes of my essay; Items about the Pope, Trump firing black officials, MAGA’s presumption of carrying out the “Lord’s work,” how the Trump administration has quietly reinstated many of the CDC staffers it recently fire, how Trump thinks … Continue reading →

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And How This Is All About Reality, and the Future of Humanity

Posted on Saturday 11 October 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Quotes from E.O. Wilson and Brian Cox; Comments about existential threats, base human nature, MAGA, and woke; More examples, like yesterday’s; A report from Nicholas Kristof, who lives in Portland; How Trump isn’t responding to crises, he’s constructing them; Final … Continue reading →

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Stages of Wisdom

Posted on Thursday 9 October 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Here’s something I don’t explicitly acknowledge very often, though I think I’ve mentioned it before. There is a substantial portion of humanity made up of clear-thinking people, people who understand at an early age why community and religious myths exist, … Continue reading →

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Comments from Facebook; What the Conversion Therapy Case is About

Posted on Thursday 9 October 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Recalling the Nazi rallies in left-wing areas of Germany; How the Nazis based their policies on segregated America; How right-wingers admit “it’s harder to discredit the left because the left is almost always telling the truth”; Conservative justices imply queer … Continue reading →

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How Tribal Loyalty Overrides Evidence of Incompetence

Posted on Tuesday 7 October 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

How MAGA will never accept “I told you so”: Robert Reich on why Trump keeps dismantling agencies; Short items about overthrowing the government, primitive morality, yet another prediction of the rapture, Biblical morality to justify the killing of black men, … 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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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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