Thursday, March 12, 2026

What’s happened to ‘America the Beautiful?’ Autocracy, MAGA, ICE, heartless cruelty

It’s now become a country that seems to have lost its heart and soul, and is like a barren likeness of its former self.

US-Russia talks: The choice between peace and Escalation 

As negotiations progress, U.S. officials must be honest about the U.S. role in provoking this crisis.

Cults, cults, everywhere—raring to bash majority rule, pluralism, justice, science and rationality. Isn’t that...

Thanks to its own greed, egotism, buffoonery, incompetence, and ruthlessness, the MAGA cult is already splitting apart, squandering its overweening power.

No nukes for power, posturing or destruction

“In a world rife with geopolitical tensions and mistrust, this is a recipe for annihilation."

Trump’s IgNobel Peace Prize

As if these six victories are not enough, stay tuned for new peace treaties that will end the Wars on Science, Education, Rational Thought, a Free Press, and "the big one"!—Habeas Corpus.

Cosmic irony, cosmic con job: MAGA Trump, hatched in savage distrust of government, now...

The biggest, worst Trump Lie: that good governance that serves the majority is impossible and that burning all down is superior to reforming structures.

The hidden cost of AI: How energy-hungry algorithms are fueling the climate crisis

As AI adoption accelerates, its soaring energy demands and carbon footprint raise urgent concerns about sustainability, highlighting the need for greener technologies and policies to mitigate its environmental impact.

How the Trump administration wields the federal government’s power over public education

With the help of the U.S. Supreme Court and congressional Republicans, Trump is turning public education into the great unequalizer.

The genocidal partnership of Israel and the United States

Are the two countries function as accomplices while methodical killing continues in Gaza?

A putz at fascism, too! Trump’s feral, libertarian despotism ordains oligarchy, not centralized dominance...

Trumpist extremism turns out to be a particularly noxious, authoritarian brew better called “oligarchic, authoritarian libertarianism.”