Doug Wilcox

A Wealth Tax Just Won't Cut It Breaking up monopolies, taxing billionaires, all good. All too little.

We are borrowing from our grandchildren to build yesterday.”

—Corbin Trent

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... We’re building more oil wells. We’re building more drilling. We’re building more financialization. We’re building more bankers. We’re not building more doctors. We’re not building more factories that produce the tools and the components of the future....

A Wealth Tax Just Won't Cut It Breaking up monopolies, taxing billionaires, all good. All too little.

“People love to talk about generational harm when it comes to the national debt. And the debt is bad, I’m not going to pretend otherwise. But the generational harm that we’re doing right now isn’t just the debt. It’s what we’re building with the debt. ...

Dagnabbit. I forgot one:

You disgust me, you Christ-eschewing evangelical Christian nationalists.

You disgust me, you racist MAGA followers. You disgust me, you spineless members of Congress. You disgust me, you kowtowing news agencies. All of you could have stopped this long, long ago.

Photo cropped from HodgePodge Images.

I continue to watch the people who taught me over and over and over and over that, "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing," DO absolutely NOTHING against, and everything in support of, the daily destruction of democracy and rule of law in these United States.

A photo of a hand-lettered protest sign that says, "I.C.E.: Stop Violation Constitution Rights, and which lists the specific rights being violated (1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, and 10th Amendments in the Bill of Rights).

This is why we protest, and why we are cheesed off.
ICE is explicitly violating the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, and 10th Amendments in the Bill of Rights of the Constitution. That's JUST ICE—one single agency.

Live Updates: Millions of Pages of Epstein Documents Released

Gift article. Enjoy.

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

From @brucespringsteen.net :

Now they say they're here to uphold the law
But they trample on our rights
If your skin is black or brown, my friend
You can be questioned or deported on sight
In our chants of ICE out now
Our city's heart and soul persists
...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKS...

Mark your calendars. If you thought the one *before* Minneapolis was big, just wait.

Court Removes Restrictions on ICE’s Use of Pepper Spray, for Now

Free to read. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...

Wait, wait.

The Post rolled over to the tRump administration and the administration CAME AFTER THEM ANYWAY?

Such face-eating-leopards. Who would have thought?

I am The Post’s ‘federal government whisperer.’ It’s been brutal. One reporter’s effort to show how Trump was transforming government brought her 1,168 new sources — and nearly broke her.

Gift link to FBI-targeted Post reporter Hannah Natanson's sweeping look at how federal workers have been targeted by Trump. wapo.st/49BQBrh

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson The Week the US Formally Embraced Fascism

Well, sports fans, it's official. Historian Heather Cox Richardson is now using the F word. Dr. Richardson, who has been very reluctant to label these United States as fascist, despite the fascism of the Trump administration, now confirms we have gotten there.

www.youtube.com/shorts/4iCiU...

Christianity has adjusted itself much too easily to the worship of power…. Christianity should take a much more definite stand for the weak than consider the potential moral right of the strong.”

—Dietrich Bonhoeffer

(DBWE 13:402)

“Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness, and pride of power and with its defense of the weak. I feel that Christianity is rather doing too little in showing these points than too much. (continued)

A wonderfully dark glimpse of our backyard. In a dark, black-and-white photo, two stuffed dog-toy Lamb Chop characters lie ominously out on the lawn. It looks like a small massacre has occurred.

A wonderfully dark glimpse of our backyard.

A typical MAGA lawn sign is shown. It reads, "At least she wasn't 8." in large white letters on a blue background, and underneath says, "Make America Great Again!" There is a year of 2026 on the sign.

Mientras tanto, en los Estados Estúpidos Americanos ...

This influential climate scientist says global warming is like a human fever Hayhoe has one of the world's largest social media followings of climate scientists.

Global warming is like a human fever, @katharinehayhoe.com says www.axios.com/2025/11/19/g... via @axios.com

1. I was always a dork and obsessed with R2-D2.
2. This is 5th grade. Probably 1978.
3. My father helped create the cardboard base. I did the decorating and added a 6v red light.
4. My best friend Chuck was C3P0.
5. I used this the next year, adding a data probe behind a cutout door on to the front.

The image shows 3 people in American Colonial-era clothing being force marched by three British soldiers. The caption includes words from the Schoolhouse Rock number, "No More Kings," first aired in 1975. "Anything I say, do it my way, now; anything I say, do it my way. Don't you get to feelin' independent, 'Cuz I'm gonna force you to obey."

I pose in an inflatable dinosaur costume within a New York City subway car, somewhere near the 42nd Street station. The dinosaur, a cartoonish tyrannosaurus rex, has a large, wide mouth, which is open.

A very handsome dinosaur on the subway, somewhere near 42nd Street! (Did he get a senior citizen fare reduction for being 66 to 69 million years old?)

#dinosfordemocracy

Curious: Why are people's pets all adherents to Norse religions?

They all seem to cross the rainbow bridge.

It's not a presidency – it's an organized crime takeover of your government.

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Obviously, it wouldn't hurt to surpass their goal, which is getting closer to being met.
youtu.be/-g-NuZuOTWw

YouTube video by CBS Boston Boston Dance Studios calling on community to help keep the lights on

www.bostondance.org/support

Well, look who “Keeps the flame of democracy burning amidst a growing darkness.”

Maria Corina Machado
Nobel Peace Prize 2025

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...