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Groups: California Environment, Economics, and Indigenous Issues

Diaries published: 459 (64 days since last diary on Sat Nov 29, 2025 at 10:05 AM PST)

Comments posted: 2006 (63 days since last comment on Sat Nov 29, 2025 at 06:22 PM PST)

Diary frequency: often

Comment frequency: frequent

Total Recommends: 1150

Total Comment Ratings: 272

Most Recommended Diary: Beware the Reichstag Fire in America, 19 comments, 36 recommends

People Following Trenz Pruca: 77

Trenz Pruca's Most Recent Diaries:

Updated 2025 Version of a TPJ Post Originally Published September 26, 2015 https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12/30/2004983/-Who-is-secure-What-does-it-mean-to-be-safe-if-you-are-a-refugee-migrant-or-poor "Why would anyone be morally bound or wish...
by Trenz Pruca
Comment Count 3 comments on Sat Nov 29, 2025 at 10:05 AM PST with 4 Recommends
Updated and expanded from the 2014 TPJ post (https://trenzpruca.wordpress.com/2014/08/11/el-topo-and-jeanne/) In my never-ending quest for something—anything—to do in suburban El Dorado Hills, I recently decided to revisit Alejandro Jodorowsky’s early...
by Trenz Pruca
Comment Count 3 comments on Fri Nov 28, 2025 at 08:49 AM PST with 10 Recommends
In late February of 1933, a confused Dutch drifter named Marinus van der Lubbe stumbled into world history by setting fire to the Reichstag building in Berlin. His motives were debated, his politics uncertain, and his mental stability questionable. But...
by Trenz Pruca
Comment Count 19 comments on Wed Nov 26, 2025 at 08:49 PM PST with 36 Recommends
A Trenz Pruca’s Journal Reflection and 2025 Update I. What I Wrote Back in 2012 In 2012 in Trenz Pruca’s Journal I wrote (https://trenzpruca.wordpress.com/2012/07/22/adam-smith-and-the-rich/) Adam Smith, way back in the 18th Century, while he was busy...
by Trenz Pruca
Comment Count 16 comments on Wed Nov 26, 2025 at 09:13 AM PST with 15 Recommends
Among my favorite movies — a list that includes The Princess Bride, The Iron Crown, Diva, Fabulous Fabiola, Blazing Saddles, and of course The Godfather — sits a little, radiant, mutant of a film called Radioactive Dreams. It is not an A-movie. It is...
by Trenz Pruca
Comment Count 6 comments on Tue Nov 25, 2025 at 11:16 AM PST with 9 Recommends
By Trenz Pruca (Your faithful chronicler of human folly, political taxonomy, and the occasional well-timed sigh.) If political systems were animals, the modern world would look like an overfunded zoo run by a particularly careless graduate student....
by Trenz Pruca
Comment Count 8 comments on Mon Nov 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM PST with 15 Recommends

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