This is funny, but remember that, until he left office, Trump was conducting a purge alarmingly close to this. We all saw this coming early in his term when he asked then-FBI Director James Comey, “Do I have your loyalty?” …
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This Campaign Platform Is Doomed To Failure
It’s always amazing how people who aspire to political greatness got there. One thing I can tell you: this senatorial hopeful is going to go down like a dog. Why?
Lawyers Who Filed “Big Lie” Lawsuits Punished by Federal Judge
From this: The wheels of justice may take a while to get moving, but moving they are. Attorneys who filed a lawsuit in Colorado seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election have been sanctioned (legalese for punished) by the …
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Science and Religion
Through the centuries, science and religion have had a tumultuous relationship. There have been numerous attempts to unite the two, e.g., Thomas Aquinas’s 13th Century attempt to prove the existence of God with unaided reason, Descartes’s 17th Century five different …
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Is the Progressives’ Platform Really “Far-Left?”
The rest of the first world has free healthcare, education, and a variety of social programs that their citizens highly value. But the progressives’ platform in the U.S. is called the “far-left” by Trump supporters, most of whom have no …
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What’s “Normality,” And When Will We Have It?
We often hear discussion on normality. When will we have it? Will things ever be the same? If not, is that necessarily a bad thing? Cynics see what’s happening in the U.S. vis-à-vis the loud minority of anti-vaxxers and infer …
Understanding Vaccinations
From a reader: Ever heard, “You can’t fix stupid”? Well, I think there’s definitely a level of stupidity that is incurable and that is to such an extent that it is endangering Humankind. It really is and that’s a gigantic …
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Describing Trump
You’re confusing stupidity with manslaughter. He didn’t mean we’d have fewer cases per se, but fewer known cases. He wanted to improve his image by sending hundreds of thousands of Americans to agonizing deaths. Ranks in the top ten worst …
Norway Hard To Beat in Electric Transportation
From this: Last month in Norway, new passenger plug-in electric cars were 84.7% of the total car market. Other types of vehicles fraught for the remaining 15% (8.4% ICEs, 6.9% HEVs) before they will entirely fade in the coming years. …
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Americans’ Aggressions with One Another Are Anything But Micro
As suggested in the “welcome” mat here, these aren’t particularly amiable time in the U.S. The right-wing’s position on things like COVID-19, climate change, the insurrection, and the legitimacy of Trump has us progressives in a snit.
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