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The news is exhausting. My health is exhausting. My work is exhausting. I’m exhausted. AND there was the mass shooting in Jacksonville clearly tying Republican gun policies and violent and racist rhetoric up in a nice little bow in case anyone wasn’t sure of their motives. Man.
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Even while Trump fades into the criminal justice system, we still have the GOP gunning for our democracy, trying to saddle us with an oligarchy of elites. What is likely to happen as we continue down this road to rack and ruin?
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They tell us the economy is good, but everybody feels so bad. Trump is indicted, but everybody is so anxious. What is going to happen next? Peter Turchin’s Cliodynamics model helps us understand our current situation.
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The summer is wending its way to an end and Ye Olde Blogge is preparing to return to its more regularly scheduled programming. Here we share pictures of our Tuscany and Swiss Alps adventures and tell tales of kidney stones.
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I’ve re-blogged an editorial cartoon by Clay Jones about the Lahaina, Hawai’i fire and provided a link to an article that lists charitable organizations and links to their donations pages. Please help those displaced by these devastating fires.
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Why are reporters and pundits insisting that a conviction of Trump in the election case rests on whether Trump knew he was lying or not? Are they idiots? Are they useful idiots? Or are they victims of the framing effect?
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The conservatives of the country are all in for the #GOPDystopia and authoritarianism. The popular defense of Trump in the DC indictment as being a free speech violation is gaslighting and shows how badly they want Trump’s authoritarian regime.
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