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Although President Donald Trump has claimed that “every policy” of his administration was “designed to lift up the American worker,” he has acted consistently, since returning to office in January 2025, to undermine workers’ chosen representatives,...

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What’s behind that kind of reasoning? What’s the deal?

Just when you thought you’ve seen everything there is to see about upcycling, recycling, and otherwise managing the mountain of waste generated by modern society, on November 30 DrFlora post a great article about upcycling men’s cotton shirts to make...

I champion the 'not us' who bring richness to the tapestry of our lives. Who among us is 1st nations? The President has a stated goal of ending birthright citizenship, but if you have 1,000,000 to toss about you can get in by getting a Trump Gold Card....

Short-Attention-Span Security Theatre. Installing a toll plaza on the “cocaine superhighway to the United States” Donald Trump has said he will grant a pardon to Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras who is serving a 45-year prison...

Recreating obsolete technology.� A nerd journey.� � Vanity mirrors have a curve to them.� It allows you to see yourself bigger than you are.� Ideal for grooming.� Three thousand years ago everyone ...

Sleep Maybe it’s my age, but I�hear complaints about sleep problems from most of the people with whom I speak. It’s recommended that adults get 7-8 hours of sleep per day. Cats should get ...

“E Pluribus Unum” (Latin: “Out of many, one”) — once the US’ official motto, which still appears in a wavy scroll near the eagle, in the Great Seal on the back of every dollar bill. What makes us us? What makes us “America”? What makes us...

The story broke several days ago and NPR “U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces” wrote this in part: U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning for the military to sever all ties with Scouting...

First it was to kill just anyone on 5th Avenue, then protesters in Lafayette Park, then criminal illegal aliens, then FTOs (Foreign Terrorist Organizations,) then DTOs (Domestic Terrorist Organizations,) then any illegal aliens, then entire countries...

We like our stories to have beginnings, middles, ends. History gives us none of these. It provides instead repetition, variations on a theme, and something we might�call entanglement. --Brandy ...

WELCOME TO THE EVENING SHADE A SANCTUARY OF SANITY AFTER A LONG HARD DAY OF FIGHTING FASCISM YOU WILL FIND in the DIARIES a LOT of POLITICS (Or NOT As the CASE MAY BE) AND EVEN MORE ...

Republican pollster Frank Luntz on ABC ‘This Week With George Stephanopolus’ roundtable says republicans have caved on Ukraine. Republicans support for strong aggressive action in Ukraine has melted from 75 percent to 30 percent. Chris Christy says...

The diary�for today’s meeting didn’t manifest, so I’m throwing this together and asking you a�basic question to give us a place to hang comments. It’s�one of the top five basic questions for ...

The Autopen Gambit: When Political Theater Costs Billions President Trump just announced he's canceling "all Executive Orders, and anything else that was not directly signed by Crooked Joe Biden, because the people who operated the Autopen did so...

The Google A.I. Gemini sucked up to me as I applied it to this page. That's an insightful connection, and the web page you are viewing directly addresses both Karl Marx's concept of General ...

Though not considered to be film noir, which is one of my favourite genres, 1944's To Have and Have Not is one of my fav films from that period. Though it is considered to be derivative of Casablanca, that doesn't take much if anything away from it,...