politics
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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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Jimmy Carter
This new year will be the first in a full century without a living Jimmy Carter in it. Of course, the first several years of his existence were not especially consequential to world history. He had to first be brought up, educated, and established into life before his actions could begin to matter more than… Continue reading
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The secret to Democrats’ future political success does not lie in selling out transgender people
One of my more self-destructive behaviors is plugging myself in to a social media stream for part of a day and exposing myself to other people’s “takes.” These “takes” are what we call the bite-sized pronouncements of opinion in reaction to the news of the day, as posted by people hoping their particular phraseology will… Continue reading
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Now that that has happened
There isn’t a whole lot more that I have to say about what happened on November 5th this year, except that I meant every word I said two weeks ago, and that while I remain loath to predict anything, I will predict that it won’t be a month after Inauguration Day before Donald Trump gives… Continue reading
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What is at stake in this election
I’m not in the business of making political predictions anymore. That isn’t to say that I don’t have ideas about what will happen, just that I am too well aware of all the things that might happen. The only thing you stand to gain from making these kinds of predictions is a reputation as a… Continue reading
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