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Category Archives: Creeping Totalitarianism

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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Predictions for the coming year

Tuesday, December 31, 2024

I’ve done this before. Sometimes my predictions have come true, and sometimes I’ve been spectacularly wrong, such as when I predicted in 2020 that Republicans would consign Trump to the same memory hole into which they dumped George W. Here’s hoping I’m spectacularly wrong again. First, some predictions about very recent events. Trump has asked […]

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Who ever said a (Democratic) president could pardon someone?

Saturday, December 7, 2024

There’s a lot of talk out there about Biden preemptively pardoning people like Jack Smith, Liz Cheney and Fauci, people who have committed no crimes but would still be on the hit list of the Department of Injustice once Trump gets in. Biden should do it, without question. The only question is whether the pardons […]

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