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Sean Duffy once defended Congress’s power of the purse. Now he defies it.
As a congressman, Duffy made an impassioned legal case against executive overreach. A decade later, judges have used those same arguments to rebuke him for withholding billions in transportation ...
ProPublica 12/09/2025 0
Cartoon: Okay, grandpa ... let's get you to bed
A cartoon by Clay Jones. Related |� Watch this Trump Cabinet meeting devolve into ass-kissing ...
Clay Jones 12/09/2025 1
Oregon struggles to land federal counterterrorism money as Trump orders troops to stop 'terrorists'
A quiet battle has played out in court over money that “sanctuary” states say is needed to fight true extremist threats from both ends of the political spectrum. by � Tony Schick ,� Oregon ...
ProPublica 12/09/2025 0
Cartoon: Tick, tick, tick ...
A cartoon by Clay Bennett. Related |� 'Time is out’: Democrat rips GOP’s health care ...
Clay Bennett 12/09/2025 1
Cartoon: Off duty
A cartoon by Clay Bennett. Related |� Why can't Trump remember why he had an MRI?
Clay Bennett 12/06/2025 11
Vampire Billionaire Attacks Pope
Shortly after American-born Robert Prevost was elected Pope, J.D. Vance and his wife stopped in to visit with the new pontiff. In addition to a Chicago Bears shirt, Vance brought the American Pope two books by St. Augustine. This gift represented a...
Mark Sumner 12/06/2025 217
Samantha Fulnecky is the Riley Gaines of Charlie Kirks
A set-up by reactionaries who believe that sex is biological, gender is ideology, and that if they ask people what women are, they will advance Christian Nationalism. This “pre-med” student wrote a reactionary rather than a reaction paper to an...
annieli 12/06/2025 98
The highly unstable idiot from Mar-a-Lardo attacks Swiss universities
A Necessary Clarification on Swiss Sovereignty in the Face of Imperialist Ambitions Since its foundation in 1291, Switzerland has been built in opposition to the dominant powers of the era, whether imperial, royal, or Napoleonic. Today, in the face of...
Swissman 12/05/2025 23
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
Cartoon: Con job president
A cartoon by Clay Jones. Related |� Trump claims 'affordability' to be made-up Democratic ...
Clay Jones 12/04/2025 15
How Sick Is The President?
Donald J. Trump's not looking too well these days. Which is worrisome for a whole list of reasons. He's the president after all. Head of state and all that. His vice president, and presumed successor is J D Vance, who wears eyeliner and puts his foot...
MeJean 12/02/2025 371
Cartoon: Fixed it
A cartoon by Clay Bennett. Related |� Watch Mark Kelly drop a few bombs of his own on pathetic Pete ...
Clay Bennett 12/02/2025 25
Poetry of Dorothy Parker.
Last week my son brought home a special surprise- a book of poetry by Dorothy Parker.� Death and Taxes� was first published in 1931; this edition was dated 1939.� The title page.
A Pagan in Arizona 12/02/2025 20
Indians 201: Crow Indian migrations
When the first American explorers and fur traders began to move out onto the Northern Plains following the Corps of Discovery (i.e. Lewis and Clark) in the early nineteenth century, they encountered ...
Ojibwa 12/02/2025 4
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
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear Is Impressive
I saw Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear address a Nebraska Democratic Party fundraiser on November 7. I was very impressed with what I saw and heard. Beshear’s superb remarks were interrupted numerous times by applause. He is a rare political talent. I...
NebraskaDemocrat 12/01/2025 25
Cartoon: Kill him
A cartoon by Clay Jones. Related |� Trump threatened him with death. Now the Pentagon will probe him.
Clay Jones 12/01/2025 21
AntiCapitalist MeetUp - The A.I. Bubble: peak A.I. is not like 'peak oil' or peak tulip
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 ...
annieli 11/30/2025 15
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
Another Declaration of War on the Fourth Estate.
The Trump Administration has launched a website claiming to debunk/disprove biased media reports on it's actions. It doubles down on the claim that the American military veterans and intelligence service members who created the now famous "refuse...
A Pagan in Arizona 11/30/2025 7
Cartoon: Just like Jesus would have wanted
A cartoon by Clay Bennett. Related |� How Trump has exploited pardons and clemency to reward allies and ...
Clay Bennett 11/30/2025 25

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