SEEKING A WAY FORWARD ... since it has happened here
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We're off to see the world until late August. This isn't politics; it's curiosity. The destination is Mongolia, visiting sheep herders and yurts and the vast steppe. Hope to come back invigorated and somewhat rested and ready for a vigorous fall season.
Tonight -- the first Tuesday in August -- we'll find out who won the Michigan Democratic Party primary for the chance to contest an open US Senate seat in November. Polls and tea leaves tell us it will be a win for Dr. Abdul El-Sayed over Rep. Haley Stevens. If it comes out as expected, the good Doc with the fighting agenda will have knocked off the perfectly adequate candidate of the professional…
The British opinionater Timothy Garton Ash is not one to hold back his thoughts. He seems to have been on a visit to our shores. A long time observer of the condition of democracy in Europe, he has summed up where he thinks the US stands under the rule of the Orange Toddler. We don't look very promising... but just maybe ... The respected Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at Gothenburg…
Like all human endeavors, the American experience is complicated; MAGA responds to complexity with fear and fury. New York Times opinion-monger Jamelle Bouie derives much of his understanding of Trumpian follies from looking back at what we come through as a people and nation. [ Gift link. ] ... You can understand the two Trump presidencies as attempts to relive and re-enact the most atrocious…
Nope -- he's not one of ours. Though we have a similar looking one, perhaps even larger. This one keeps guard on a nearby street and didn't bother to move when a big stranger pointed a camera at him.
What I appreciate about Paul Krugman is that the Nobel Prize winner in economics is willing to go out ahead of the consensus of the wise and important. Today's contribution is a humdinger: Reality is a Communist Plot: Of MAGA and the totalitarian mindset The Covid vaccine didn’t work, and vaccines cause autism . But hydroxychloroquine worked, and so did ivermectin. Anthony Fauci killed millions of…
Transgender folk are fleeing to blue states. This didn't begin with Trump coming back into office; aggressive persecution in red states revved up the push out at the beginning of this decade. Silvaria Lysandra Zemaitis provides a statistical picture. The American Transgender Refugee Crisis If this were occurring abroad, to an ethnic minority, we would call it ethnic cleansing. ... Annualized, what…
You have to love Marc Rosenblum's parting shot on leaving federal employment: “I’m thrilled to end my relationship with the current administration,” Rosenblum said in a LinkedIn post over the weekend. “Between the war on immigrants, the war on feds, and the war on facts (not to mention the crazy war in Iran and the brazen corruption), I just need a change.” Rosenblum served as executive director…
Here's another San Francisco action from Saturday. I had thought to attend this one also, but accepted that getting to two had to be good enough. Do turn the sound on and listen when you open. The Human Banner crew has done it again!
San Franciscans gathered Saturday outside the Tesla dealership on Van Ness Avenue. The national movement follows two recent, horrific killings by ICE agents. On July 7, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a beloved father and worker, was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Houston, Texas, while driving a work van. On July 13, ICE agents killed 26-year-old Johan Sebastian Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine, in front…
