The roots of Trumpism – Historian Stephen Hahn
Trump ain’t no anomaly. USA has always had an ugly underbelly.
Steven Hahn is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian at New York University and the author of “Illiberal America.” In this conversation, he discusses some of the most illiberal periods in American history: Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act of 1830, Jim Crow, the Red Scare, Japanese American internment, Operation Wetback.
April 19
Protest & March – Saturday, April 19, 12-2pm. Parking lot on Hamilton between Water St. & NE Washington.
More detail here: https://events.pol-rev.com/events/9a622c2b-0a6a-4e4b-9d14-79b53bb8cbe1
grow . . .
. . . some balls, some ovaries, a spine, a conscious – anything. Republicans could stop this at anytime.
Murphy: Trump Is Dismantling Our Democracy. We Must Come Together And Act Before It’s Too Late.
Ruth Ben-Ghiat
How Donald Trump’s Authoritarianism Is Creating Instability Around the World
Peoria turned out
Orange Stain protest April 2025
Norman Finkelstein – Palestinian Advocate
Several good points here.
You actually have to have an existing Left to have Fascism. We don’t have that in USA.
Like Germany in early last century, USA has the veneer of a high civilization but underneath there is a huge swath of ugliness. Trump and the red hats have ripped off that veneer as Hitler did in that country.
Liberal cancel culture contributed to the rise of the red hats by shutting down discussion. Example: puberty blockers.
corruption in first 6 weeks laid out
how fascism works
we’re on the bullet train now – important insight from George Conway
Election Truth Alliance
What is the Election Truth Alliance?
The Election Truth Alliance is a non-profit, non-partisan organization founded in December of 2024 when multiple individuals came together to share independent data, analysis, and research into the results of the 2024 US Presidential Election. As concerning trends emerged from our shared data we moved quickly, at the speed of trust, to make our findings more accessible and understandable to the broader public.
We are a non-profit corporation.
the way we never were
One guy pointed out that this isn’t the way the USA treats human beings, regarding the shipment of humans in the middle of the night to El Salvador. Human trafficking.
Yes. It’s what USA does. The orange stain has just brought all of it out in the open. While good is mixed with the bad in this country, we were NEVER truly a role model for human rights.
The School of Americas trained dictators in torture techniques for years.
it worked
Russia’s propaganda machine uses a calculated strategy—dismiss, distort, distract, and dismay—to manipulate perceptions and erode trust in truth worldwide.
Four Key Instruments of Russian Propaganda: Dismiss, Distort, Distract, Dismay
the precariat
This did not age well as it ended on an optimistic note— most non-fiction books do. It was 2011. But this guy was/is onto something….
The first faction of this trifecta certainly paved the way for the orange stain and the chainsaw wielding robber baron.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1536504214558209
The precariat is the new dangerous class, because all elements in it reject mainstream political establishments.
he’s a gift to the world
Chompsky is relevant now more than ever…
women’s history month
One half of the species preys on the other half. Violence against females is such a common and global occurrence that it’s become blase. We are living in the Upside Down.
complicit
Former presidents and secretaries of state are completely silent on the betrayal of Ukraine by King Orange and his court jester. This is how we got here. Complicity. Biz as usual. Absolutely shameful.
“self care” after the bills get paid
Facebook contributed to genocide
Abstract: Facebook contributed to a genocide in Myanmar. Scholars, reporters, and United Nations investigators agree that the social media giant played a role in an explosion of ethnic conflict in 2017 that led to the death and displacement of hundreds of thousands Rohingya Muslims in Northern Myanmar.
I ain’t got time for feminism lite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_feminism
Know the difference between liberal feminism and radical feminism. Radical as in – root (think mathematically). Females are a class of people and must organize as such. Liberal feminism works within the framework of patriarchy and, therefore, will never achieve complete liberation for women. Liberal feminism also focuses on the individual, which conveniently aligns with American exceptionalism and capitalism.
Being female isn’t something you wear. It isn’t a feeling. It’s the material realty that has been used to oppress the People of Women.
Radfems are politically homeless. We don’t align with liberal feminism and we don’t align with the red hat conservatives. And so I’m a silent and solitary practitioner.
Ernest Becker
a parking lot in Seattle
God put a call in my life at an airport, in parking lot, in Seattle. He said, “I’m calling you to holiness.” And I said, “But, Lord, aren’t I holy? I mean, but, people have told me I’m holy. I must be holy.”
But there wasn’t any answer.
Naw, I wasn’t holy. I was serving myself.
I was serving myself…
I was serving myself…
“Just stay calm. It will go away.”
From Congressman Lloyd Doggett's website: Timeline of Trump’s Coronavirus Responses
Scientific evidence for warming of the climate system is unequivocal.
See NASA's site: https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
Grammar, Identity, and the Dark Side of the Subjunctive
The subjunctive allows us look into the future and to see multiple, highly nuanced possibilities with just a little sprinkling of could’s, would’s or might’s. Similarly, it allows us to look into the past, and to imagine what didn’t happen, but could have happened. The subjunctive is the most powerful mood. It’s like a time-space dream machine that can conjure alternate realities with just the idea of could have or should have. But within this idea of should have is a Pandora’s box of hope and regret.
Phuc Tran