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The real world and…that other one
The June 22, 2026 New Yorker has a marvel of an article by Ben Taub entitled, “Allies On Ice: How the secret plans to take over Greenland have ruptured transatlantic relations.” That lede is the serious journalistic description of Taub’s … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Journalism, MAGA, News media, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged "Make America Go Away", Andy Ogles, Ben Taub, Bikers for Trump, Charlie Kirk, Congress, Danish Prime Minister, Denmark, Department of Homeland Security, Dr Phil, Greenland, Inuits, Jeff Landry, Maga hats, Mercator, Mette Frederiksen, Miles Taylor, NATO, New York Times, Nuuk Greenland, polar bears, Puerto Rico, Rachel Maddow, Republicans, Russia, Stockholm syndrome, The New Yorker, Trump, Twitter
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The eternal liberal wisdom of PlantyPall
I wasn’t thinking about politics when recently I re-read Anthony Trollope’s Palliser novels. I was considering the emotional risk in revisiting favorite fiction. To wit: I was in turbulent adolescence when I first read Wuthering Heights, so naturally Heathcliff became … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, Culture, Government, Politics, The Facts of Life, The War On Workers, War
Tagged "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda", "The Prime Minister", Anthony Trollope, Congress, conservatism, Duke of Omnium, Eric Bogle, Gallipoli, Heathcliff, June Tabor, liberalism, Parliament, Plantagenet Palliser, PlantyPall, The Duke's Children, The Palliser Novels, World War I, Wuthering Heights
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Upset about those million pages on the Epstein Affair?
Worried that the volume (and DOJ redactions) make it impossibly burdensome for Congress’s investigative units to get through them, let alone find the smoking guns? Instead of worrying, watch Dark Waters, a brilliant legal thriller from 2019, starring Mark Ruffalo … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, climate change, Consumer boycott, Crime & Punishment, DOJ, Government, Journalism, Law, suits and order, Lawyers, News media, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged Congress, Dark Waters, discovery documents, DuPont, Elon Musk, Environmental Protection Agency, Epstein, Mark Ruffalo, PFOA, Robert Bilott, Teflon, timelines, Trump, Trump's Department of Justice
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