Category Archives: Politics

Is Science Partisan? How Could It Not Be?

Posted on Wednesday 19 March 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

The astronauts have returned, and Trump and Musk lie about what actually happened; The idea of blaming Mexico for the overdose epidemic is wrong, and will not work; Short items about eating less, globalism, cutting aid to the poor to … Continue reading →

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How MAGA folks don’t actually believe in traditional American values

Posted on Tuesday 18 March 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Rather, they embody the essence of primitive tribalism. A Ben Shapiro host renounces the Statue of Liberty and its “stupid” poem; The disappearance of Navajo Code Talkers on government websites suggests again that MAGA is a white supremacy movement; Shameless … Continue reading →

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More Ticks Off the Dictator Playbook List

Posted on Monday 17 March 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

There will be no calm still point. Trump defying the Court; a Constitutional crisis, perhaps; The next phase of Trump’s dictatorship era; Following the dictator playbook; Concern about discrimination against whites, and how MAGA is about white supremacy; How narratives … Continue reading →

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Pi Day Rationalizations

Posted on Friday 14 March 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

How MAGA rationalizes downturns in the economy; How scam artists prey on gullible old religious people; How the Family Research Council is anxious to replace education with religious indoctrination; How repeating a lie (“tariffs are tax cuts!”) often enough will … Continue reading →

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Here We Are: Stupid America

Posted on Thursday 13 March 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Frank Bruni on the Trump administration’s undercutting of America’s superpower; How the current secretary of defense thinks climate change is “crap”; Facts about the 19 programs dismissed as “waste”; Blast from the past: how Indiana tried to redefine Pi, to … Continue reading →

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So Much for Free Speech

Posted on Tuesday 11 March 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Now the Trump team is arresting people simply for expressing opinions the administration doesn’t like, from Robert Reich and Adam Serwer; That list of forbidden words; Egg prices are because Easter?!; Fox blames stock market plunge on Biden; Heather Cox … Continue reading →

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An Actual Reason to be Against Education

Posted on Monday 10 March 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Robert Reich warns that universities will be the next target; Amanda Marcotte wonders why Pete Hegseth’s paranoia would ban “Enola Gay”. Robert Reich’s first post today echoes my topic yesterday. But let’s ask again: is this only about federal control … Continue reading →

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Why Are Conservatives Against Education?

Posted on Sunday 9 March 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Two pieces about the Department of Education; Trump’s contradictions are a feature, not a bug? Musk doesn’t understand government (it’s not a business); Trump doesn’t criticize Putin because he’s planning his own invasion? Tom Nichols on the Pentagon’s DEI panic; … Continue reading →

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Simplicity and Idiocy

Posted on Friday 7 March 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

American idiocy; War images flagged for removal in Pentagon DEI purge; Why are conservatives obsessed with the debunked link between vaccines and autism? Trump and Musk are ungoverning; I admit that I follow a Facebook group called America’s Cultural Decline … Continue reading →

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Many Lies, No Coherent Plan

Posted on Wednesday 5 March 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Commentaries and fact-checks about Trump’s speech to Congress last night. Dana Milbank on how Trump has set the country back 100 years; Fred Kaplan on Trump’s unhinged plans for the rest of the world; And Heather Digby Parton and David … Continue reading →

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