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Facts of Life: the world is going crazy
I perused Harper’s Weekly Report several times, searching for either weird animal news or a central theme. And the only one I’ve come up with is (above post title). (The bolding is mine.) To wit. Or to witless, in our … Continue reading
Posted in COVID-19, Law, suits and order, Politics, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged "super duper missile", Brazil, COVID 19, Department of Homeland Security, Didymoon, Donald Trump, Harper's Weekly Report, Hong Kong, Iran, Jair Bolsonaro, NASA, Netherlands, Pentagon, Siberia, tear-gas-flavored ice cream, Tony Evers, US federal government, US Secret Service, white terrorists
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The Trump (absent) administration, in one devastating article
Not many of us can keep track of all the mediocrities who are fully dysfunctional in the Trump administration. Not many of us want to keep track of how Trump and his mediocrities have emptied the federal government of the … Continue reading
Posted in Koch Bros Final Solution to Democracy, Politics, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chad Wolf, Department of Homeland Security, federal government agencies, Food and Drug Administration, Internal Revenue Service, Jennifer Steinhauer, John Bolton, National Park Service, National Security Council, Pentagon, Robert Wilkie, Scott Gottlieb, Senator John Kennedy, Stephen M. Hahn, Steve Mnuchin, Tom Bossert, Treasury Department, Trump administration, Veterans Affairs, Zolan Kanno-Youngs
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Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a hero for our time
Remember when Sally Yates was fired for defying a president and news media figures immediately invoked Richard Nixon’s “Saturday night massacre?” I, too, thought of Nixon, for a moment. But then it was another man, a radiant embodiment of resistance … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, The Facts of Life
Tagged Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Austrian Hapsburg family, Bordeaux France in 1940, Border Control, Chaim Kruger, Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, John Kelly, Maurice Papon, Portugal Salazar government, Portuguese consulate in Bordeaux, Robert Montgomery, Salazar's Circular 14, Sally Yates, Saturday night massacre, Trump Executive Orders, Vichy government, Yad Vashem Righteous
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