Jesse Welles Mini-Concert
Presidementia Trump
Epstein survivor who voted for Trump says she now fears 'we're not going to get justice' Jena Lisa Jones says she backed Trump in 2024 election because of his campaign promises to release Epstein files
Politics and Arts Dump: 26 March 2026
Paul Krugman: The War on Wind Continues (Excerpt)
Paul Krugman: Too Much Going On
Jesus was a peaceful radically nonviolent revolutionary who wasn't American and never spoke English; who hung around lepers, hookers, and crooks […]
Politics and Arts: WED 25 March 2026
HCR: "The SAVE America Act Trump wants is pretty openly a voter suppression measure: voting by undocumented immigrants is already virtually nonexistent, and it is already illegal."
HCR: Krugman goes on to make a major point: "Think about how much America's position in the world has been weakened, not just by apparent failure to subdue a fourth-rate power, but by the fact that everybody now knows that you cannot trust anything […]"
TRUMP AND MAGA SAY, “DON’T CELEBRATE BEING GAY.” BILL THE CAT HAS THE PERFECT RESPONSE.
Trump is Learning that Iran Puts Up a Bigger Fight Than a 14-Year-Old Girl
Paul Krugman: Talking With Robin Brooks. Trying to figure out the Hormuz shock (Excerpt)
HCR: U.S. military officials have kept Trump up to date on events in the war on Iran by showing him a two-minute montage video of “the biggest, most successful strikes on Iranian targets over the previous 48 hours,” or, as one put it: “stuff blowing up"
THE IMPORTANCE OF SCIENCE
“Extensive testimony documents that detained people were sprayed with antimicrobial sprays at toxic concentrations, exposed to a disabling carbon monoxide leak, and pepper-sprayed as punishment for asking for necessities like water and toilet paper.”
Paul Krugman: People close to Trump are trading based on national secrets (Excerpt)
ProAmerica Anti-Trump
The Cost of War is Measured in More Than Dollars [Copy and Share]
Nicholas Brendon, Buffy the VampireSlayer actor, dies at 54
WMNF: Defiant St. Pete lights up the sky as Winter Pride Saint Pete shines 60 miles strong
Paul. Krugman: Scenes from the Death of the Pax Americana (Excerpt)
Sarah Michelle Gellar: "I saw you Nicky. I know you are at peace, in that big rocking chair in thesky."
HRC: Maxwell Frost (D-FL), who has been key to untangling the released Epstein files, said: “[T]o me, it’s very clear that the purpose of this entire fake hearing, this fake deposition, is the attorney general trying to weasel herself out […]."
Heather Cox Richardson: "Silencing critics is the refuge of those who know what they are doing is unpopular and unjustifiable."
Trump and Big Brother Both Rewrite History
Paul Krugman: Donald Trump, Petropresident. Follow the Gulf oil money
HRC: "The shaping of the next era belonged not to [slavery-supporter Alexander Stephens], but to others with a clearer view ofboth the meaning of the United States of America, and of humanity."
Resist intellectual, artistic, and emotional death.
Be Kind. 24 March 2026
I hope there are days when your coffee tastes like magic …
Kansas Republicans pass law telling transgender people where they must go potty. [Copy and Share]
Heather Cox Richardson: President Donald J. Trump‘s behavior is increasingly erratic as he lashes out at those he perceives to be enemies.
Paul Krugman: How to Burn Less Oil (Part is Behind a Paywall)
Democrat Wins by FIVE Votes: Becomes Mayor of Boca Raton, Florida
CANADA: Currently Updating the Locks
Heather Cox: Richardson: "a ragtag bunch of countrymen and women, working together, could beat the military might of the British army and navy when it turned against its own people." (Excerpt)
Paul Krugman: “Slavery, Tariffs and the Dire Strait. Or, why America is on its own” (Excerpt)
Clever is the New Cool
Be Kind. 26 March 2026
Hate Will Not Make Us Great
THREE LITTLE WORDS
"We Need Separate Bathrooms for MAGA. I Don't Feel Comfortable with Them Around Women and Children." — Trent Reznor
Be Kind. 20 March 2026
HCR: Targeting crucial oil infrastructure is a significant escalation in the war. Iran responded by hitting energy targets in Qatar and Saudi Arabia. (Excerpt)
Be Kind. 25 March 2026
Paul Krugman: When Hyperglobalization Meets Chaos (excerpt)
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Paul Krugman: A Whiff of Stagflation. Inflation was rising and job growth stalled even beforethe Iran War. (Excerpt)
Be Kind. 17 March 2026
HCR: "The Republicans won the House, the Senate, and the presidency in 2024, making it hard to argue that Republicans cannot win without new voting rules […]"
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