The Republican Administration claims the right to arrest and “disappear” anyone to another state (or to another country), at any time, by masked men, without charging them with any crime. This is outrageous, illegal, and unconstitutional. The Republican Administration does not care. When ordered to stop the deportation of five named plaintiffs to a foreign … Read more
On January 24, 2017, Polish journalist and activist Martin Mycielsky published a piece on Twitter called “Year 1 Under Authoritarianism: What to Expect.” He did this warn Americans about what to expect during Trump’s first year in office, and to encourage us to fight back. (Interestingly, the document is still there, on Musk’s “X.”) Later … Read more
The veil is off. The pretense is gone. What has long been visible to the discerning is now blatantly obvious to all. Republican policy hurts people. It hurts them deliberately and mercilessly. If you cannot see it now, your sense of intellectual discernment and your moral compass are both severely compromised. You need to be … Read more
In 1961, psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton published Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism, which is a book on the psychology of brainwashing (which he called “thought reform”). Lifton’s research subjects included American servicemen who had been held captive during the Korean War, and Chinese people who had fled their homeland after having been indoctrinated … Read more
There are various theories about what happened to the 116 manuscript pages that were lost by Martin Harris. Harris apparently broke his promise to only show the pages to his family and they may have been stolen by one of those persons. There has been speculation that the pages were stolen by treasure hunters seeking … Read more
After his first month back in office, the direction that Trump plans to take our country is now frighteningly clear. His ignorant toxic narcissism has set us up for disaster on many fronts. National weakness The Donald has always been in thrall to the dictators and strongmen of the world. Now he is actively weakening … Read more
The Trump/Musk administration, under the direction of the wealthy fascists behind Project 2025, is going crazy trying to root “DEI” out of every part of the government. Actually, of course, they are just using “DEI” as a boogeyman phrase to hide what they are really doing – which is firing people they don’t like, freezing … Read more
The heart of the American experiment in democracy, indeed, the heart of civilization generally, is respect for law and order. Various empires throughout history have kept “law and order” through force or threat of force, but in a Constitutional democracy the law, and the scope of authority of those who make the laws, and limits … Read more