Category Archives: News media

How nutso is the Trumpery/Texas administration? This nuts: they’re deleting Buddy Holly’s glasses

Posted on November 17, 2025 by Naomi

Where did I see this news item? Don’t recall but boy do I recall the item. Indeed, it’s an Item. Like bolded. I can’t copy ‘n’ paste the photo of a crossroads in Lubbock, Texas — either because someone won’t let … Continue reading →

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Think Trump is crazy and stupid? Well, yeah, he is…but these guys are catching up!

Posted on November 12, 2025 by Naomi

From Harper’s Weekly Review: [T]he Taliban imposed a nationwide telecommunications shutdown in Afghanistan, cutting off the nation’s nearly 43 million inhabitants’ access to internet and telephone services for two days. “This measure was taken to prevent vice,” wrote Balkh province’s … Continue reading →

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We are watching a “heavy element of make-believe…”

Posted on October 31, 2025 by Naomi

In the New Yorker’s October 13, 2025* Talk of the Town, Benjamin Wallace-Wells wrote about Trump and his “military theatrics” in a wise column appropriately entitled, “War Games.” In describing Trump’s ballyhooed commission to National Guard troops, Wallace-Wells writes: In … Continue reading →

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