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Category Archives: Creeping Totalitarianism

A lesson in the new constitutional law

Wednesday, July 30, 2025

The fascists currently running this country have decreed that government employees are now free to proselytize their fellow employees and members of the public with whom they come in contact. You know, because of freedom of religion and freedom of speech. The full memorandum issued by the Office of Personnel Management is available here. Among […]

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Worth looking into

Friday, July 11, 2025

I have gotten a number of posts on my Bluesky account stating that the 2024 election was stolen, and I’ve pretty much ignored them, though I continue to believe that it is quite possible that our future elections may become somewhat like those in Russia, with the outcome predetermined. But I give this story a […]

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Enabling fascism is not a good thing

Friday, July 11, 2025

At least neither of the Connecticut Senators were there.

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SCOTUS destroys public schools

Friday, June 27, 2025

Today the Supreme Court ruled that bigots can control what is taught in public schools by claiming that they don’t want to have their children exposed to ideas that contradict the “religious principles” that they themselves are inflicting on their children. As Justice Sotomayor put it: Today’s ruling ushers in a new reality. Casting aside […]

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1984 all over again

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

This happened a few days ago, but I was in Vermont this weekend and too busy to write right away. Since no one reads this blog anyway I’ll just go ahead. As the title to the post indicates, this is yet another Trump era event that makes one thing again that George Orwell knew what […]

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Another easy prediction

Friday, May 9, 2025

Yesterday I read a post by Dean Baker titled Productivity Tanks in the First Quarter. It’s behind a paywall so clicking on the link might not do you much good, though I do recommend becoming a Patreon subscriber of his, as he actually knows what he’s talking about. Anyway, the post begins as follows: The […]

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Where to they find these people?

Sunday, March 30, 2025

One of the truly amazing things about the current Republican Party is the number of people who have been elected (or appointed) to powerful positions who are amazingly stupid. I’m not just talking about the individual who currently holds the title of President while someone else is actually calling the shots. Consider this. Congresswoman Victoria […]

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A harbinger

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

I think the writer at Lawyers, Guns and Money is right about this case currently at the Supreme Court, where it should not have lasted a minute: Three weeks ago a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order to plaintiffs suing the Trump administration for freezing foreign aid funds that had already been appropriated by […]

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Yet another thing you couldn’t make up

Saturday, February 22, 2025

This is getting bizarre: Federal workers began receiving emails Saturday asking them to explain what work they did last week, as Elon Musk announced that “failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.” “Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager. Please do […]

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The dictator(s) steps up

Thursday, February 6, 2025

I just read that Trump has signed an executive order banning transgender athletes from women’s and girl’s sports. It goes without saying that there is no legal basis for such an order. It is possible that a state legislature and/or Congress could pass a bill that would pass constitutional muster but any reasonable court would […]

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