Stories I Wanted to Share (#130): Trump appoints White Nationalist Chief of Staff; Democrats can’t let Trump get off the metaphorical canvas this time; the brain drain of top scientists leaving the United States; and how Trump “Pete Wilson-ing” the United States.
Stories I Wanted to Share (#129): The humans are the problem with AI; midterm projections give me hope; wishing Dem consultants would stop defending tech; Hegseth’s Iran War cover-up; EPA capitulates to the forced-birth lobby; Congress needs to hire tech staff; and 17 minutes that changed America.
Stories I Wanted to Share (#128): Asking Democrats to fight the real threat, Continuity of Government challenges revealed by Trump’s secret airplane change; Natalie Harp’s real power; let’s stop taking bad-faith advice from enemies; Speaker Johnson pushes deicide; and why Flock needs to die.
Stories I Wanted to Share (#127): An ICE killing in Maine; my frustration with Democrats’ praise of Lindsey Graham; Chuck Schumer spreads falsehood about God and our founders; Trump’s red scare; ICE’s intimidation of critics; and that time Tracy Chapman played NESCAC women’s soccer.
Stories I Wanted to Share (#126): ICE attempts to cover up its murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo; the Trump regime criminalizes protests; we need a fighting Project 2029; telling the truth about Alan Greenspan’s failures, and is Elon Musk still a trillionaire?
The postmark crisis and elections; Arkansas endangers women’s lives; redistricting horrors could lead to dummymanders; proportional representation and multi-member districts; Senate Democrats vote to confirm corrupt judicial nominees; Stephen Colbert; and what Rothko represents your current weather.
In this edition: nine stories with 15 links I’ve recently found interesting about where things stand in our long, twilight struggle to defeat authoritarianism. The Supreme Court guts the Voting Rights Act—and why Democrats need to be ruthless in their response; Democrats should sue CBS for editing their
In this edition: nine stories with 13 links I’ve recently found interesting about where things stand in our long, twilight struggle to defeat authoritarianism. Celebrating Hungary’s victory for democracy; Trump is helping Iran become a global power; using inside information to make profits on war or national security
In this edition: six stories with 10 links I’ve recently found interesting about where things stand in our long, twilight struggle to defeat authoritarianism. Please contact your Senators and Representatives to ask them to call for President Trump’s removal from office; the president’s Iran War threats demonstrate
In this edition: five stories with 13 links I’ve recently found interesting about where things stand in our long, twilight struggle to defeat authoritarianism. Why No Kings matters; Trump’s incoherent thoughts about Iran; a UC-Irvine professor wins her profession’s top honor for research Americans refuse to
Nine stories, 16 links. New from me: The Trump regime is the latest this millennium to fail to create reality; how I learned about the Strait of Hormuz in 1984; Iran was not close to having a nuclear bomb; Iran tries to destroy petrodollar exclusivity; the Orbánization of the US
President Trump demonstrates how little he cares about our safety; so many justifications for the Iran war; Trump lies about bombing a school; Iran, Armageddon, and Trump supporters who want to start the end times; and congestion pricing demonstrates why we have No Kings here. Here we go. I’m