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The GOP and the White House may be hoping Rahmanullah Lakanwal is a Marinus van der Lubbe? Too soon to tell, as long as he’s not dead, because the ICE cosplay death squads need their continuing anonymity in the service of mass deportation and migration...

Welcome to the New Day Cafe! This is an open thread. Via my favorite BBC 6�host, Cerys Matthews, I was introduced to an album I’m loving right now. It’s a collaboration between the British ...

The Daily Bucket is a regular series from the Backyard Science group. Here we talk about Mother Nature in all her glory, especially the parts that live nearby. So let us know (as close as you are ...

Today is World AIDS Day. It was first observed on December 1, 1988 to raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic and to provide information concerning it. It was a WHO prohect until 1996 when the newly founded Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS...

________________________________________________________ “The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life...

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...

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 ...

Note: I plan on reposting my diary daily/near-daily until next November. If you have a problem with that, you could simply, y’know, ignore the diaries. As many of you may know, for the past several election cycles I’ve been running a Democratic...

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How do oligarchies and their crony capitalists manage to dominate our lives: Five points on the current treachery First, the WSJ story highlights all of the downsides to Trump’s brand of start-up diplomacy. Both Witkoff and the Russians had little...

Humans— Homo sapiens —first evolved in Africa and were biologically adapted to life in a warm climate. When humans left Africa and began their migrations north into Europe and Asia, they had to ...

This is an important story published by the WSJ of the story behind the Ukraine/Russia “peace deal” and how it is driven by the self-dealing grifters in the White House and its extended group of megadonors working to maximize their spoils of war....

Hmm, where to start? A modern definition, American Psychological Association n. benevolent and helpful action intentionally directed toward another person. Kindness is often considered to be motivated by the desire to help another, not to gain explicit...

It’s always about the money, unfortunately US/Russian money. The war will end when Russia leaves. And crony capitalism will be all the more wealthier. Trump, Kushner, and Witkoff tried to sell out Ukraine, the U.S., and Europe for money. It's so bad...