Friday, July 10, 2026

Welcome to the Martians!

Or will we truly find ourselves living in Trumptopia?

Will Voter Suppression Skew Wisconsin Primary Results?

How many voters will be turned away? How long will the voting lines extend? Which candidate will have her or his voters suppressed the most?

Two roads diverge in a very dark wood: vengeance vs. stability 

Behold Trump as fully sadistic,/ Damocles sword going ballistic.

Clooney, Holt, and others push ageist tropes against Biden instead of addressing Project 2025

George Clooney pushed ageist tropes against Biden in New York Times. Then Lester Holt and others piled up as well, instead of whistleblowing Project 2025.

‘Escalation dominance’. . . and the prospect of more than 1,000 Holocausts

Daniel Ellsberg was shown a document calculating that a U.S. nuclear attack on communist countries would result in 600 million dead. As he put it later: “A hundred Holocausts.”

Staffing Up for Corruption

There was a new category of staffing added to Big Money in politics. Campaigns are now hiring “donor maintenance managers” as personal concierges to millionaire supporters—another example of plutocratic corruption of our democratic elections.

Kalief Browder, Albert Woodfox and the Torture of Solitary Confinement

There are an estimated 80,000-100,000 prisoners held in some form of solitary confinement in the United States. The United Nations says the practice often amounts to torture. It is cruel and unusual punishment, and must be abolished, once and for all.

The progressive resistance: “Woke” on politics, comatose on marketing

Advocates of progressive truth need to realize that we are a savagely outgunned faction.