John A. Farrell

So much for “All politics is local.” For the Republicans, today’s war demonstrates, all politics is Il Duce.

both joe rogan and megyn kelly—two of the biggest podcasts out there—had guests today who argued that it’s unnatural for women to work outside the home. so that’s how that’s going

Lost in the chaos. Historians will mark this moment when AI firms with half a conscience were bullied by the Department of War and its craven leaders to discard even modest guardrails on surveillance and weaponry. So liberty dies. Next No Kings is March 28.

Epstein Files Are Missing Records About Woman Who Made Claim Against Trump

The 18 minute gap!

Epstein Files Are Missing Records About Woman Who Made Claim Against Trump

The AI boys should have named it something safe like Super-Google, kept expectations reasonable and maintained a low profile like other billionaires. But they seem stuck in adolescence, thinking with their dicks, intent on being Ozymandias.

But AOC said "um...uh" before giving the right answer.

Ah....the endnotes weekend. Second only to "doing my taxes" weekend.

These are the guys and gals that Trump is counting on - in fact ordered - to vote for him. Now he is chiseling them and pitting them against each other, but that's what he's good at.

We are all sinners, but if you are a celebrity podcaster, talk radio host, cable news panelist or anchor, concocting excuses for Epstein, Trump and this crowd, you've told us all we need to know. You've made your stand. Brand. No walking back. It's who you are. How does the face in the mirror look?

A take heart message from JFK.

"Our problems are manmade--therefore, they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. Man's reason and spirit have often solved the seemingly unsolvable--and we believe they can do it again."

Absolutely. A gold medal assist.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor ...it cannot save the few who are rich.

My latest sporadic mini-essay on substack.

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notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

The right wing media criticism of AOC and Newsom is good news for Democrats. It confirms Trump's lame duck status a year earlier than two-term presidents, traditionally, have become afterthoughts. He will still have awesome statutory powers, and lash out for attention, but we are moving on.

So wrong. Posing doesn’t get you through an eight year war.

The “brilliant”nerds of Sunnyvale have screwed up the rollout, big time, for AI. Maybe they were not so bright when they put all their chips on Trump. But history (Ludlow, Homestead, Pullman) says they won’t learn the lesson. They will double down on force and corruption and Vance.

Obama Presidency Oral History The Obama Presidency as told by 450+ officials, activists, organizers, and extraordinary people from all walks of life.

So the Obama administration oral history project went live today. An extraordinary resource for historians and teachers, and a great credit to the team of folks who compiled them all, including Evan McCormick, @pastpunditry.bsky.social and many others.

Picking fights with the US Coast Guard, shrugging at missing servicemen, demeaning Coast Guard pilots over your own comfy status, and wasting taxpayer funds on luxury aircraft so you can fly around like the Epstein Elite. Fire her. She is a liability for GOP and noxious for the rest of us.

“Not one third of the inhabitants, even of this province, are of English descent,” Thomas Paine noted in Common Sense, "This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe."

YouTube video by CBS President John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address

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A remarkable speech, with eternal verities - patriotism, human rights, statecraft, equality, liberty - that resonate today, when the enemies of freedom are empowered in Washington (and Davos and Sunnyvale) as well as Moscow. Take 15 minutes to listen in that context.

AOC is being mentioned as a 2028 candidate for President. (I would vote for her.) So the vetting process has begun. It ain't beanbag, as Mr. Dunne said. She will further learn and grow - or fail. The Times quibble about a very minor stumble is a compliment. She is being taken seriously.

Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates how is it possible to cram so much ignorance--"English-Scott-Irish origin" -- into such a small space? miracle of a person said to be "world's richest man" has no more grasp of US history than a crumpled paper tissue underfoot in a men's restroom not recently cleaned.

joyce is going after elon again

Vote, argue, donate, march. Run for office. Read Paine. Recall Lincoln: no foreign power can track our land or sip from our rivers; It is in our power, only, to save this last hope on earth. And JFK: it's a privilege to defend democracy in its moment of maximum peril. Tiring? No. What better life?

You Know What? Maybe the Time Is Right for an AOC Presidential Bid She’s only 36, and there’s a good argument that she should run for Senate and bide her time. But she also could be a formidable White House candidate.

You Know What? Maybe the Time Is Right for an AOC Presidential Bid newrepublic.com/article/2065... via @newrepublic.com
Ted Kennedy told Sen. Barack Obama all he knew about timing, which was more than anyone: You will have your time. You must seize it.
“There is a tide in the affairs of men…”

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Ahhh. The Gordie Howe hat trick. This one aged well.

With their Nationalist Socialist "white christian" drivel, Musk and Vance and Rubio helpfully reveal who they are while stroking MAGA haters. But it's a diversion. The real choice for younger generations: ride the galaxy aboard the multicultural Enterprise, or drudge for the corp on the Nostromo?

Our unifying "Christian faith" glosses over the Reformation and the Inquisition, Cromwell and the Huguenots, Pope Night and the 30 Years War. Now that Rubio has erased the contributions of Jews, non-believers, Africans and Asians we'll see if pale skinned papists join the Latin ones as targets.

When nobody was looking, Steve Bannon, in the Epstein files, called the Southern elite a bunch of "crackers." And JD Vance said, when no one was looking, "I hate the police."
But her emails....

Watergate pales before this.