September 30, 2025 Last Thursday, September 25, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suddenly announced he was calling about 800 of the nation’s top military generals and admirals, along with their top enlisted advisors, to m...

The extravagant and bizarre Hegseth and Trump addresses to the Generals and Admirals is reported by Heather Cox Richardson in her September 30, 2025 newsletter. I urge those officers to stand firm in their commitment to uphold the US Constitution.
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September 19, 2025 Today U.S.

Rising income inequality threatens our democracy. No human being can work so hard that s/he deserves to be a billionaire. The failure of Congress to tax the too-rich and to spread wealth that working people create undermines America.
September 19, 2025
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The supreme court and members of Congress should read the whole 2nd amendment: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” The absence of “a well regulated militia” is killing us. StopGunViolence.

Sorry, Loser! As long as there's a First Amendment, I plan to enjoy it.

Here’s a much needed comment on the state of reporting about the assassination of Kirk: “Sorry, Loser!” By Borowitz Report
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September 14, 2025 At 10:22 on the morning of Sunday, September 15, 1963, a bomb ripped through the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.

Today is the anniversary of the terrible, racist bombing of the
16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Heather Cox Richardson tells the story and how protest and resistance by everyday people — even children — changed things:
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September 13, 2025 President Donald J.

False narratives instead of evidence based explanations and “rule by force” instead of “rule of law” typify the Trump administration and news editors should not assist them to broadcast their disinformation. Heather Cox Richardson, September 13, 2025, follows:
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I just finished reading Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson, 2023, 256 pages. A very helpful short history about America’s journey to the chaos of 2025 with examples of the kinds of people power action needed now to save our democracy.

September 3, 2025 [Please note that this post talks about sexual assault in the last four paragraphs.]

Trump does not believe in the Rule of Law, rather he believes that he should rule by his “law.”To hell with the US Constitution, he would take us back to monarchy. How can Congress allow him to wreck our democracy? People get ready to save it. September 3, 2025
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I just finished reading Constantine’s Sword: The Church and The Jews by James Carroll, 2001, 616 pp. I think this is an important and timely history, and, as they say, if you don’t know the history, you’re likely to repeat it. If “Never Again” means anything, maybe that includes know this history.

August 22, 2025 In these last days of August, with Congress on hiatus and the Epstein files looming, the Trump White House appears to be making a big move to consolidate power over the federal government, weaponize i...

I hope that all National Guard and other military troops will stand up for democracy by resisting Donald Trumps’ orders for an authoritarian take over of our cities. Saying “no” to Donald is saying “yes” to democracy. Courage! August 22, 2025
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August 20, 2025 President Donald J.

How Donald Trump and his crew seek to restore the Confederacy, a brief history by Heather Cox Richardson: August 20, 2025
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August 17, 2025 On the heels of President Donald J.

I’m a veteran of the US Army (MOS 11B10, grunt) with an honorable discharge, although I refused orders to Vietnam. I believe every soldier should have not only a right but a responsibility to refuse illegal unjust orders. Now’s the time troops. August 17, 2025
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August 16, 2025 Yesterday, military personnel from the United States of America literally rolled out a red carpet for a dictator who invaded a sovereign country and is wanted by the International Criminal Court for w...

Heather Cox Richardson summarizes the Trump Putin Summit in Alaska: August 16, 2025
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The US Bloated Military Budget Is the Mother of Fascism US military spending mocks global norms with such salacious excess that we might imagine our country as being in the throes of a perpetual addictive

US military spending threatens our democracy, not to mention a nuclear war catastrophe; restoring democracy will require big cuts to US military spending: znetwork.org/znetarticle/...

The Geopolitics of the “Great Man” - FPIF Will bromance turn to bruhpture in Alaska and Gaza?

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John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus, asks a challenging question in these times: fpif.org/is-a-state-t...

They’re rich. They’re anti-Trump. And they don’t want their big tax cut.

July 5, 2025 Yesterday afternoon, President Donald J.

July 4th 2025 was the day US democracy died when House Speaker Mike Johnson handed his Speakers gavel to President Trump as a gift. Months earlier, the Supreme Court had exempted Presidents from the rule of law. Goodbye checks & balances! July 5, 2025
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July 3, 2025 And on July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, declaring: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed...

What’s to celebrate and protect on the 4th of July?Heather Cox Richardson explains in her July 3, 2025 newsletter:
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The Peace Resource Center (PRC) at Wilmington College (OH) will have its 50th Anniversary this summer. Barbara Reynolds founded PRC in 1975. Here’s a link to the 50th anniversary programs. library.wilmington.edu/prc-50

Dear Donald and Members of Congress, the decision whether to go to war — this time with Iran — is the constitutional responsibility of Congress, not the President. So, Donald, when are you going to make your recommendation to Congress? Congress when are you going to take up your job?

Want an entertaining read? I listened to this novel on Audible: “Remarkably Bright Creatures,” a novel by Shelby Van Pelt, 2022. Basically, my book group made me read it, but I have to admit it was entertaining.

Last week I finished reading “Who on Earth was Jesus: The Modern Quest for the Jesus of History” by David Boulton, 2008, 406 pp. I found it a very readable survey of the historians’ — not theologians’ — searches for the young man called Jesus.

June 15, 2025 Yesterday began with the horrific news that a gunman had shot two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses in what Minnesota governor Tim Walz said appeared to be a “politically motivated assassination.”...

Power to the People or to the would be King? How it looks after Donald’s military parade and the No Kings demos: Heather Cox Richardson’s comments of June 15, 2025
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June 7, 2025 In April, John Phelan, the U.S.

June 7, 2025 Heather Cox Richardson and colleagues launch a series of short videos on the real history of the USA:
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June 2, 2025 The Republicans’ giant budget reconciliation bill has focused attention on the drastic cuts the Trump administration is making to the American government.

Ideology versus Science in the era of the Donald is today’s topic by Heather Cox Richardson. Donald and his gang put us all at risk for only one reason in my view, greed: taking from the masses to enrich the few. We need to join together to stop it. June 2, 2025
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Opinion | The Flashing Signals That I Just Saw in Israel

Thanks to Fran for pointing me to this opinion piece by Thomas Friedman about the growing anti-war sentiment in Israel and Gaza: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/o...

Just last night, I finished reading One State, Two States: Resolving the Israel/Palestine Conflict, by Israeli scholar of history Benny Morris.

May 23, 2025 I’m going to take an early night tonight, but I want to record three things that jumped out at me today because they seem to tell a story.

Donald, the Manipulator Extraordinaire or Art of the Deal Guy, doesn’t want to be on the record. Heather Cox Richardson explains:
May 23, 2025
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