Jan 232026
 

Yesterday, Rethuglicans in the House defeated even so much as a toothless rebuke to the Saffron Sauron over Venezuela. I blame gerrymandering – polls show that well over half of us are strongly opposed to his unconstitutional and otherwise despicable actions there, and if we were truly proportionately represented in the House, Rethuglicans would not be able to do that. Also yesterday, the prediction for snow today had disappeared – they are still predicting some for tomorrow, but only an inch. Well, we’ll see.

Joyce Vance summarizes the year 2025. Not that there’s anything we don’t know, but there is so much that we may have forgotten some things. Personally, I think the month of January 2026 was “a very long year.”

Y’all probably don’t need any incentive from me or from Common Dreams to be upset with Democrats. (My rep isn’t a Democrat, so I am upset with him all the time anyway.) But – in case you did – here it is.(Apparently only 7Dems did vote with the Rs, but that was more than enough. Now it’s in the Senate.)

Robert Reich on axioms applying to the Apricot Antichrist. I like his use of the word “axiom” – something there’s no need to prove because it’s self-evident, nd can therefore be used to prove other things. So many similar words, like “postulate” and “assumption” are much weaker.

This with Heather Cox Richardson is long – but then, as she says, it was a fire hose of a day – and iI could find it all in writing (from different sources, too),I’d probably still be looking.

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