Tuesday, March 24, 2026

F Is for Fascist

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You may have heard that a new coin has been approved to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Rather than port...
Monday, March 23, 2026

Jamelle, Talking

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I love Jamelle Bouie. And in addition to his writing, I love that he makes videos and doesn't try to make them perfect. This 8.5 minute ...
Sunday, March 22, 2026

Talking About Immigration

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Lately, I've gotten very selective about which of the few podcasts I have in my phone that I ever get around to listening to. Ostensibly...
Saturday, March 21, 2026

Billion with a B

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So Trump is asking for $200 billion dollars on top of whatever the regime is already spending to bomb the hell out of Iran for no clear purp...
Friday, March 20, 2026

Hermetically Sealed

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It's too soon to breathe easy, but it looks like the voter-suppressing SAVE Act will not pass the U.S. Senate.  I wrote about it a few d...
Thursday, March 19, 2026

The Emperor's New Clothes

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For quite some time — off and on since the Republican Party became the structural support for carrying out any delusion Donald Trump wishes ...
Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Metro Surge by the Numbers

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Minnesota 50501 recently gave us Operation Metro Surge by the numbers . As they put it: Overall, not a very effective operation and these d...
Tuesday, March 17, 2026

The Cost of Trump's War

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Over the course of the first 15 days of March 2026, there were continuing reports of how much the U.S. was spending on the war in Iran. I ex...
Monday, March 16, 2026

BlueSky, March 2026 Part 1

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The month of March 2026 started as February ended: with the U.S. illegally bombing the hell out of Iran, and Iran firing back. U.S. missiles...