politics
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Update 04/30/2025
So, Trump arrested a judge. First time ever for a president? A harbinger of things to come? A Constitutional crisis, or not? ………………………….. A wise expenditure of government funds? Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) plans to launch hearings into “what actually happened” in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attack, adding another conspiracy theory to his portfolio. … Continue reading
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Update 04/27/2025
Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency fired around 280 staffers and reassigned around 175 others — on Earth Day. How appropriate. …………………………….. Actor Jimmy Stewart was rejected by the military after he was drafted—he was too thin. As a show of patriotism, Stewart went on a weight-gaining diet, hoping to reverse the decision. He was accepted by… Continue reading
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Update 04/23/2025
As Bloomberg reported, about 90% of the alleged “terrorists” and “gang members” who’ve been sent by the Trump administration to El Salvador’s notorious foreign prison without due process have no U.S. criminal record. Ah, but Trump doesn’t like your tattoo, or hoodie, or accent, or . . . you get it. ………………………………… In his Easter… Continue reading
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Update 04/20/2025
Happy Easter, Earth Day, and whatever else it is. …………………………………….. At the most extreme, Trump and his allies tried to claim that his victory — the third-narrowest since World War II — represented a sweeping “mandate.” – Somehow this reminds me of when George Bush got re-elected and said he had a mandate to privatize… Continue reading
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Update 04/13/2025
After the stock rise on Wednesday, after the tariff reversal announcement, From Robert Reich: “The reversal prompted the S&P 500 stock index to climb over 7 percent in just minutes. Traders with inside information about what Trump was about to do — some of them, presumably, Trump family members and cronies — just made a… Continue reading
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