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from NPR this morning: “U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'” Pentagon Pete doesn’t seems to think Scouting teaches “masculine values” any more, and lost its way when it became coed a few years ago, and...

Andrew Cuomo lost two mayoral elections by hiding from progressive Democrats like all of us. Today he came out of hiding and told us exactly how much he hates us an in “Open Letter From Andrew M. Cuomo, the 56th Governor of the State of New York” Of...

Published by official Russian news sources. (Isveztia) This is how economies collapse. Bank runs get out of control from people pulling their deposits because they worry if their money is safe. People wonder if their bank deposits can be seized by the...

Yet another staggeringly humiliating defeat for this remarkably incompetent, corrupt, and yes, almost certainly criminal Department of Justice. Their historic ineptitude, towering arrogance, and ravidly extreme and blind partisanship are some of the...

All that work Steve Witkoff did to appease Putin and it’s all getting carved up. Poor Steve. Trump isn’t a details guy — unless it involves putting gold-plated crap all over the Oval Office. Trump was in a damn hurry to force Ukraine to accept by...

Social Media's version of stochastic counterterrorism in X is Rentier Capitalism amok Translation of Mister Orange ‘accordion hands’ Krasnov killing the Department of Education (or putting it on life-support) demoting ‘professional’ college degrees:...

Mother Jones dropped a crucial analysis this week: Lede: Hours after being sworn in for a second term, President Donald Trump used his constitutionally vested powers to define “man” and “woman.” In an executive order, he said his administration would...

So COP30 just wrapped up. Those of us who were expecting next to nothing are unsurprised. Here’s a quick quip from the BBC, from a piece published just before the shindig wrapped up: Host Brazil had hoped countries would agree to set out how to move...

As we speak, U.S., Ukrainian and European officials are meeting in Geneva to discuss the disastrous "28-point peace deal." From www.nytimes.com/… Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff, Mr. Trump’s special envoy, were meeting on Sunday with...

The Myth of “Lost National Innocence” The assassination of John F. Kennedy is often remembered as the moment America “lost its innocence.” That phrase has become a fixture of white middle class liberal Baby Boomer memory. Yet as history, it collapses...