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| 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 |
| Cartoon: Under the rug A cartoon by Pedro Molina.
Related |� Border czar admits ICE sees all immigrants as ... |
Pedro Molina | 12/05/2025 | 22 |
| 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 |
| Cartoon: Going after drug traffickers A cartoon by Pedro Molina.
Related |� Nothing says 'tough on drugs' like Trump pardoning a ... |
Pedro Molina | 12/04/2025 | 14 |
| 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 |
| Don't threaten us with a good time, Mike Johnson Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson faced questions Wednesday over his party’s disastrous underperformance in Tuesday’s special election in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District—one that ... |
kos | 12/03/2025 | 118 |
| 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 |
| Given the Tennessee special election result, the GOP is so f'd in 2026 How do you win an election, yet still lose the night? While votes are still being counted, Republicans have held on to their House seat in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District by a ridiculously slim margin—single digits. This is a district Donald... |
kos | 12/02/2025 | 339 |
| 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 |
| Spot the AI in this Diary - UPDATED I Use AI to Help Me Write. That's Not What's Happening Here. I've been writing here on Daily Kos for a while now, and yes, I started using AI to help. Claude helps me fact-check death tolls in genocides. It helps me smooth a clunky transition. It finds... |
LilBoyBlu | 12/01/2025 | 48 |
| Oligarchs pissing me off, yet again Once again, something online is driving me nuts. Today it’s an oligarch is making billions off a service, and there's not a damn thing I can do about it. In this case it's Meta. It's always one of the top few. Their product Facebook Messenger is... |
LilBoyBlu | 12/01/2025 | 7 |
| 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 |
| GOP goes all-in on culture war—and it's not going great In yet another sign the electorate is rejecting MAGA’s culture-war politics, Democrats swept school board elections in Texas, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. “From Texas to Pennsylvania to Ohio, ... |
kos | 11/30/2025 | 232 |
| 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 |
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