POST 1300 Via a quick AI search I found that Trump and his brain-free and reverse named DOGE chainsaw hackers mangled America like this: ο Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): Cut roughly 20,000 positions, slashed $4 billion in medical research funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and saw major workforce reductions… [read more]
Policy
POST 1299 The insightful, prolific and clever singer-songwriter Jesse Welles has done it again: He’s told the truth. Listen to his song, There’s a Hole. After you’ve heard it, remind yourself that we attacked Iran for no specific reason, fueled by no coherent strategy, we lusted after vague and wandering, inconsistent goals, all entirely without… [read more]
More Understanding
POST 1298 My post last Sunday, Now You Know-V2.0, zeroed in on Trump’s key nefarious, un-constitutional strategy: massive voter suppression of everyone who won’t vote for him and his sycophants. Here’s more, this from Marc Elias of Democracy Docket. It was only 15 words. And it wasn’t what the legacy media focused on. But in… [read more]
Now You Know-V2.0*
POST 1297 Trump’s speech last Thursday was a collection of lies that eclipsed all such collections ever assembled anywhere in the world – like nothing you’ve ever seen. Except . . . you hear his lies, idiotic claims of victimhood, fear mongering and demands for retribution every time he speaks, so it isn’t like nothing… [read more]
An Open Letter to Mainers and Clarity From Our Founders
POST 1296 An Open Letter To Mainers Oops! You got caught going brainless in public. Don’t tell me you’re practical, no nonsense people with a fine tuned BS meter now that you gave your vote to a guy with a Nazi tattoo. Get serious. Nobody gets a Nazi tattoo because it’s Thursday. They do it… [read more]
Sundays Only
POST 1295 I’ve omitted a number of posts over the past weeks due to the overwhelming gift of caring for my wife in her last months.You may be assured that our 58 years together – 60 if you count our time dating – went by in an unfathomable flash, both in real time and lately… [read more]
What Smart People Are Saying
POST 1294 Your Sunday Review of Commentary From Inae Oh of Mother Jones: Anyway, back to negotiations with Iran—and the Obama-era inspections that Trump broke and are now apparently returning. Anyone else see a theme here? The big mouth spews his demeaning accusations, he spews his lies, then he at last finds out he really… [read more]
Who Owns the Constitution?
POST 1293 Quote Of The Week This is from Jamelle Bouie’s essay, The Supreme Court Doesn’t Own the Constitution. But if we hope to recover and revitalize our democracy, we must start to think as citizens with duties, obligations and the sovereign power to make our world anew. This Supreme Court, with its black robed,… [read more]
