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| 📚 The Inoculation Project: Success List VIII In our new success list diary, The Inoculation Project (TIP) � will track science and math projects #1201+ that have been fully funded through DonorsChoose after being featured by our group and ... |
nomandates | 12/06/2025 | 7 |
| Black poetry written in the shadows of the Scottsboro trials: Street Prophets Coffee Hour Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour, where politics meets up with religion, art, science, and life. Come in, have a cuppa, and join us. |
Aashirs nani | 12/06/2025 | 14 |
| Speculation on Top: Oh Where Have You Gone Homo sapiens sapiens? — 2025 Update “There is no magic wand, invisible hand, or strong and brilliant leader that can save us from our folly. If we believe that there is, then Pogo was right when he said so long ago, “We have met the enemy and he is us” “Trenz Pruca (Updated from my May... |
Trenz Pruca | 12/06/2025 | 10 |
| Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Trump's approval slide continues apace New York Times:
Trump’s Approval Rating Dips as Views of His Handling of the Economy Sour
The shift, while small, is notable after months of stability in President Trump’s approval rating. |
Greg Dworkin | 12/06/2025 | 338 |
| Earth Matters: Fuel economy retreat feeds Trump's energy bonfire; plus a Stewart & Kolbert convo Crossposted from The Journal of Uncharted Blue Places You can also catch me at meteorblades.bsky.social The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration unveiled its plan Wednesday to slash Biden-era fuel-economy standards for passenger cars from... |
Meteor Blades | 12/05/2025 | 30 |
| The Privatization of Everything—A 2025 Reassessment “The outsourcing of governmental services is the road to tyranny.” Trenz Pruca (A TPJ Update and Critique of My 2022 Review) By Trenz Pruca Introduction: Revisiting an Old Warning Several years ago—back in the summer of 2022—I wrote a post on Trenz... |
Trenz Pruca | 12/05/2025 | 7 |
| Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Trump losing both independents and his own voters POLITICO :
Poll: Trump's own voters begin blaming him for affordability crisis
Americans continue to say affordability is out of control, and they place the responsibility on Trump, The ... |
Greg Dworkin | 12/05/2025 | 404 |
| Renewable Friday: I Get E-Mails I have mostly been getting Global Warming news from Bluesky lately, and I have been preoccupied with COP30. I find that I have a backlog of climate-related e-mails. So today I am giving you the best of what I have received in the last month, with links... |
Mokurai | 12/05/2025 | 9 |
| The Hierarchy of American Belief in Equality — 2025 Update “Humans are not rational animals, but rationalizing ones.” Trenz Pruca I. Introduction: America’s Favorite Fairy Tale America loves to pretend it came into the world already dressed for the costume ball—powdered wig straight, Declaration crisp as... |
Trenz Pruca | 12/04/2025 | 14 |
| Community Needs List: Helping Humpday at Street Prophets Coffee Hour Welcome to Street Prophets Coffee Hour’s Helping Humpday, where people wanting to lend a hand can connect with community members in need. Have a cuppa and join us. |
Aashirs nani | 12/03/2025 | 8 |
| AI Without Work: Elon Musk’s Feudal Future and the Return of the Lords “The outsourcing of governmental services is the road to tyranny.” Trenz Pruca Every few months, usually after a spaceship launch or a media tantrum, Elon Musk appears on a stage somewhere and predicts that Artificial Intelligence will soon make work... |
Trenz Pruca | 12/03/2025 | 13 |
| Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: A weak Mike Johnson attacked by his own leadership team TN-07 comes in strong for Democrats. No upset, not strong enough to overcome a 22 point Trump district with the Republicans winning by single digits, but an excellent showing for Aftyn Behn (D) and an embarrassing one for Matt Van Epps (R). Good news... |
Greg Dworkin | 12/03/2025 | 276 |
| Trump’s Popularity: A 4-Week Snapshot — November 2025 You must be a republican if you believe that: Public schools are an unnecessary government expense but prisons are not. A minimum wage is a governmental intrusion in the private market but the oil depletion allowance for corporations to drill for oil... |
Trenz Pruca | 12/02/2025 | 1 |
| When Dealing with an Area’s Natural Resources a Little Nationalization Can Go a Long Way “The only country that a corporation has allegiance to is its own management.” Trenz Pruca When Dealing with an Area’s Natural Resources a Little Nationalization and Mercantilism Can Go a Long Way — 2025 Update In 2012, I wrote that Argentina and... |
Trenz Pruca | 12/02/2025 | 8 |
| Renewable Tuesday: A COP30 Reckoning is Coming Far too many around the world consider that if the COP process does not immediately and totally condemn fossil fuels and order the end of their use, then the whole process is a failure. This is not ... |
Mokurai | 12/02/2025 | 23 |
| Mutual Aid or as I say Community Mutual Aid groups have been growing since the Pandemic and the #Snap shut down really showed what they can do. So much that AP news is covering them. When formal systems stop working, neighbors turn to each other in what many call ‘mutual aid’ “One of... |
Smurf | 12/01/2025 | 4 |
| The First Time America Treated Epidemics Like Military Threats— Trump Administration Kills It. “Why would anyone be morally bound or wish to be morally bound to a civil society that does not share the goal that it’s citizens deserve a fair distribution of wealth, income and power? If the civil society is not dedicated to that end what else could... |
Trenz Pruca | 12/01/2025 | 5 |
| Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: The high seas murders are not being overlooked New York Times :
Lawmakers Suggest Follow-Up Boat Strike Could Be a War Crime
Top Republicans have joined Democrats in demanding answers about the escalating military campaign the Trump ... |
Greg Dworkin | 12/01/2025 | 352 |
| A call for help from 10 Gems Greetings fellow Kossacks. I’m putting out a call for�help. 10 Gems is faltering as @eeff no longer has a desktop computer, @Colonel Nicholson can’t contribute anymore, and I have a severe ... |
OzPerspective | 11/30/2025 | 22 |
| 📚LGBTQIA+ Literature: The Intermediaries, by Brandy Schillace (Pt. 1)🏳️🌈; 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 ... |
Clio2 | 11/30/2025 | 11 |
| Opting to be on the leading edge: Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris's missed opportunity Yes, some will label a Democrat “radical” if they’re on the leading edge of an issue. And? Will a Democrat be immune from criticism from the right or from the chattering class if they take a more middle-of-the-road position? Not likely! But they’ll get... |
Rob in Vermont | 11/30/2025 | 64 |
| Forgotton Women of History: Tomyris of the Massagetae Speech to a man is not an invitation to a dialog as it is with women but the declaration, in a simple laconic statement, of their world view at the moment as uncontested fact — even if no one else either agrees or has any idea what he is talking about.... |
Trenz Pruca | 11/30/2025 | 10 |
| Second Stage; Born Again Rocketeer Misadventures 1994 On.... The second part and sequel to the Talk about "go"! My 50th anniversary in model rocketry this time from the ‘90s on…. I find myself on a weekend deep in the middle of sunniest June 1994 on a daylight savings evening. I’m down in the basement of Mom’s... |
Stude Dude | 11/30/2025 | 5 |
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