Mar 062026
 

Yesterday, Dose of Democracy reported that Kristi Noem is being fired and will be replaced with Markwayne Mullin (R-OK Senate). This is not an improvement. Yes, it suggests that pressure can be effective. But for every demon out there, there are ten more just as bad or worse. Mullin just has a lower profile. (And maybe we can get a special election for his Senate seat.) JoJo from Jerz knows more about the reason. Also. I tripped over a channel on YouTube for “Lauren the Mortician.” I’m not an authority, but the little I do know (not from intuition, but from science) aligns with her points. There are a lot of death and dead people related things that we don’t know and probably should. so if you are wondering about anything death-related, current or old, you might want to give her channel a look. Her communication style is rather whimsical. but the information is substantive.

Robert Reich looks at how much other NATO nations have already become involved with the Saffron Sauron’s illegal war of domination and a glance at the Constitution as to why it is so patently illegal.

John Pavlovitz being a pastor, much of what he writes is religious, so I try to avoid posting his work. But this is about something completely different – our apparent national inability to deal with complex issues. I’ve noticed this too, but have not (probably could not) discuss it so pointedly.

Don’t panic when you see the title. There may well be 1,001, but he only discusses four of them.

The Conversation has many thoughtful and well-researched articles which reflect on the current war. This is one of them. Remember that in 1953 McCarthy was still a Senator (and I was only 8). It was not the America most of us grew up in

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May 312025
 

Yesterday, Wonkette had a link to a site which tracks lower level elections all over the US – state level, of course, including primaries, but all the way down to city council level as well. I’m posting the link because I think we have learned the hard way that we ignore this information at our peril. Also, the ACLU emailed regarding four cases they are working on which will essentially affect everyone. I don’t have a link, so I’ll just list them. U.S. v. Skrmetti. Louisiana v. Callais. Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton. Mahmoud v. Taylor. All have been heard by the Supremes and decisions will start coming out next week. Finally, ACLU promises they will keep me (and some of you who are member-donors) updated on what the decisions mean for real people. Incidentally, has anyone heard from Freya? I haven’t and neither has Evelyn, who emailed to ask me if I had.

The F* News is on to something here that we should all latch on to. Granted that it’s nowhere near as easy to use for citizens as it is for foreign nations – that still needs work – but it should be something we can find a way to use.

What’s the point of learning history? Well, there are many reasons. One is that the truth is important in itself – another is to be able to accurately credit (and if appropriate discredit) those who preceded us for their accomplishments. But probably the best reason is in order to avoid making the same mistakes over and over. As a race, the human race is not very good at that. There are many ways in which we as a society have failed, and that failure has led to where we are now. Robert Reich here discusses just one of them.

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