Randall Stephens

The US Embassy London posted this some hours ago. One more checked box on the authoritarian card.

The Cracking of the Trump Coalition

“…I think that Trump has been one of the most pro-Israel presidents we’ve seen. On the other hand, has at no point denounced Fuentes, nor, for that matter, has VP J. D. Vance, despite the fact that Fuentes has routinely insulted not only Vance, but Vance’s wife and her family, who are from India.”

"Do you think we peaked too soon...?" Paul Conrad, October 1968. Former Alabama governor George Wallace won 13.5% of the popular vote (over 9 million). He also carried five states in the former Confederacy: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi.

Paul Conrad's cartoon on George Wallace's violent authoritarian rhetoric, October 1968. Louis Heren in 1968: "Sinclair Lewis wrote his tale of American fascism, 'It Can't Happen Here,' in 1935...many Americans are now looking apprehensively at George Wallace, the former governor of Alabama."

Is this Trump's Gettysburg Address? Mt Airy Casino, Dec 9: "I haven't read practically anything off the stupid teleprompter...You can give up certain products. You can give up pencils…You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter...I said, 'Why is it we only take people from shithole countries,' right?"

Paul Conrad on George Wallace's "running mate," 9/20/1968. “One of the issues confronting the people is the breakdown of law and order,” Wallace said. “The average man on the street in this country knows that it comes about because of activists, militants, revolutionaries, anarchists, & communists.”

"We're gonna make history, Hubert...!" Paul Conrad on Vietnam War escalation, September 1968.

The liquor and beer situation in Dec 1934, one year after the repeal of prohibition. (The camels in Kansas and Alabama symbolized the bone-dry element.)

US foreign trade, exports and imports by months, 1929-1935. President Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in June 1930.

Gold Star for Robot Boy

The status of prohibition six months after repeal, NY Daily News, 5/20/1934.

A 1934 map showing New Deal federal drought relief by county ($750 million, or, over $18 billion in 2025), Indianapolis Times, 8/24/1934.

Detail from Dorothea Lange, Church near Blythe, California, 1936.

Jim Lange on the broader harm McCarthyism did, Daily Oklahoman, May 5, 1954.

'Remigration,' once a fringe idea, becomes a mantra for the Trump administration The recent shooting of two National Guardsmen in D.C. has revived calls from the Trump administration for "reverse migration," or "remigration." But those ideas trace back to European extremists.

“…these were fringe ideas earlier this century, but they are now associated with a movement that cuts across Europe known as the identitarian movement and which has increasingly informed party politics there and here….Well, years later, remigration has been operationalized.”

Grinch reboot just dropped

The old campus in Oslo

The other Peace Prize

Newcastle and Sunderland fans celebrating after Gary Busey won the 2013 FIFA Peace Prize.

Colbert: “Last night [Trump] hosted the Kennedy Center Honors. And, I gotta say, I don’t know if he was there, but Will Smith had the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever.”

A year from now, planning the invasion of Greenland

Dennis Renault's December 1980 cartoon, following John Lennon's assassination.

Jim Morin's comment on conservative gun policies after John Lennon's murder, December 1980.

Watching a short musical sketch about the horrors of low-water toilets

Pedagogy model vs premillennial chart

Anyone using the term "deliverables" should be required by law to change it to "lunchables."

It sounds like a lot of this pressure comes from the Trump admin’s eliminating federal science funding.

Has the Graduate-School Collapse Begun? The Trump administration’s policies, and institutional budget cuts, are straining the delivery of master’s and doctoral degrees.

“The University of Chicago plans to reduce the number of internally funded doctoral students by 30% by the 2030-31 academic year. Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts & Sciences will admit fewer than half of its usual number of students across the next two admissions cycles.“