politics
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I don’t see how I can post about politics anymore
I don’t have the heart to say I told you so. The last few days I’ve been getting the same old pleas to call my Senators and Representatives if I live in a Republican state or district, and tell them to oppose the bill that will cut taxes for the rich, slash funding for Medicaid, Continue reading
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Juneteenth
The other day, I was picking my wife up from work at the library. I arrived on the periphery of her conversation with a coworker, who was exasperated by a recent interaction with a patron. This patron was a person I have never knowingly laid eyes upon, but I understand her to be a white Continue reading
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No Kings
The President is attempting a military occupation of Los Angeles; his secretary of Homeland Security is calling it a “liberation” from their duly elected mayor and governor. Her goons put handcuffs on a United States Senator and wrestled him to the ground for daring to confront her with questions. I understand the President’s poll numbers Continue reading
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Stopgap
There won’t be a significant post this weekend, except for this one. There are a couple of reasons for this, and I’ll start with the one that would seem to be the most important: my computer is in the shop! Recently I purchased a new computer to replace the one I’ve had since 2011 or Continue reading
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The Squares of Squares
Counting by the squares of squares,an escalation:One idea, the exception;Sixteen strokes of a pento sign essential orders for security;Eighty one minutes of sleepdivided by exhausted nightmares;Two hundred and fifty six accounts takenof extenuating circumstances;Six hundred and twenty five descriptions pulledfrom all existing manuscripts in storage;A thousand hopes extinguished,two hundred and ninety six deferrals;Two thousand, four Continue reading
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The National Parks Conservation Association
I began supporting this organization in 2017, when I perceived an increasing danger to the safety and integrity of America’s public lands and natural environment. It’s 2025, and as you may have observed in some of my writings, I am still perceiving mightily. The policies of the present administration create too many threats to our Continue reading
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Sick to my stomach
The vast majority of people living under an arbitrary and authoritarian government are never disappeared from their homes, or herded into concentration camps, or stripped of their property and due process rights. If I could grant the people of the United States an understanding of anything, it is that it is still a moral and Continue reading
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Scenes from the capitol today
Let the Trumpists know that we will not submit to their fascism, and we will not pretend that it isn’t real when it is happening right before our eyes. The Resistance encompasses all of American history. It will not stop its demand for justice now, or ever. Continue reading
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I’m not calling it that
So yeah. The Gulf of Mexico has been in the news. Not because anything happened there, but because of a baby’s fit of pique. I’m on the record in multiple forums stating that Donald Trump is a fascist, that we’ve had reason to believe this for well over a decade, that we’ve known it for Continue reading
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January Sixth
I wasn’t actually planning on writing anything to commemorate this anniversary. The media is full of commemorations and condemnations of what happened at the U.S. Capitol, just as surely as the Republican party is attempting to distort the true record of events into anything except their own complicity in an attempted coup d’état. This blog Continue reading
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