Your reminder that kidding on the square is central to fascist discourse: He's Only Joking, until he's not. It would be extremely foolish to ignore this.
It was widely known that this was happening, but this administration doesn't try to hide it: As President Trump fumed late last year over Colorado’s imprisonment of Tina Peters, a convicted election.
The NYT was doing an in-depth look at the Jason Arday story at the time he apparently killed himself yesterday. They published it this morning. (gift link) Some thoughts: (1).
This is the grave of Edward Poynter. Born in 1836 in Paris, Poynter was a rich kid, as one might suspect of an Englishmen born on the Continent. His father.
Since the Trump administration and its ICE shock troops can kill with impunity, it's worth remembering just how horrible this is for the family members of the martyrs for justice,.
The conditions for members of the Navy on long deployments for Trump's counterproductive war remain dire: Families are coming forward with reports about poor conditions their relatives are facing on.
As I might have mentioned at some point I'm writing a book on the Trump era entitled The Triumph of Stupidity. It occurred to me that it might be useful.
Bob Webster, deputy Los Alamos National Laboratory director for Weapons (far right); Mike Furlanetto, Scorpius Advanced Sources and Detection project director (center); and Geoffrey Zehnder, project engineer (far left); discuss.
