Trump, the supermassive black hole
Dahlia Lithwick, on Slate,Mary Trump’s Book Shows How Donald Trump Gets Away With ItThe problem with a fraud as big as this president is that once you start collaborating with him, it’s impossible to...
View ArticleI just lost my trust in the U.S. Census. How about you?
So: a very nice, masked, U.S. Census worker came by today. “I filled out our form in March,” I said. “It’s not in the system.”“Oh. Well, I filled it out on line, got a receipt. I do have to say, I’ve...
View ArticleBiscuits and gravy, with a side of Spoon River
Gentle Reader: what’s your favorite breakfast mom-and-pop? Share the savor!There is a local restaurant, in Roseburg, named Casey's. It's been in the news recently because they violated health...
View ArticlePlease help retire an Indian "mascot" right now
Please help retire an Indian "mascot" right now. Click on this link:docs.google.com/…Roseburg, Oregon, is no stranger to controversy, and it has suffered exposure here on Daily Kos. We've been home to...
View ArticlePlagiarists welcome. My LTE is your LTE, with any upgrades you want.
The extended Child Tax Credit kicks in tomorrow. This is a big, big BFD. We need to message on two fronts: first, to be sure everyone knows about it, because there are families who have not filed...
View ArticleNighttime bombing runs, blackout curtains, and useful idiots.
Below is a letter to the editor I just submitted to our local newspaper. Feel free to do with it whatever you want. It clocks in at 299 words on our newspaper’s website, but results will vary. The...
View ArticleFluvoxamine: a game, uh, modifier
It's not going to be a game changer, but fluvoxamine may become a game modifier in this pandemic. The antidepressant is cheap, generic, and shows promising early studies at reducing hospitalization...
View ArticleI just stopped supporting Greenwashing. Maybe you should, too. Pacific...
We’ve had Pacific Power as our power company for almost 14 years. As soon as we signed up, we also signed up for their Blue Sky program, in which we’d pay more for our electricity, but a high...
View ArticleBring Democracy--and the Democratic Party--into schools. Join today. Build...
Ever since 2008, I’ve been going into schools to give presentations about our Democratic Party. It’s a delightful opportunity to carry our values and message to young people. Wanna join?I encourage...
View ArticleDJT hires accounting firm with "100% deficiency" record
So, I keep hitting refresh on DJT stock. We all have our guilty pleasures, eh? Anyway: up pops a nice Bloomberg piece:Trump Media’s Accounting Firm Has History of Audit Deficiencies(Bloomberg) --...
View ArticleSexual Choking. Dangerous, deadly, and on the rise.
Sexual choking is on a rapid rise. It kills. It is a threat to human brains, human minds and human dignity. We need to stop it in its tracks, whether as parents and grandparents, members of school...
View ArticleProject 2025: Need for an indexed, annotated, and linked document to fight...
I haven’t read all of Project 2025. I’ll bet you haven’t either. Nevertheless, I consider running against it second only in importance to running against a specific immoral authoritarian felon.The...
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