July, 2025 archive
DOGE Bull 0
Sam and the crew talk with journalist Brandon Roberts about some of the havoc caused by DOGE and how AI was used to abet the destruction.
Suffer the Children 0
As we know, that’s not scripture. That’s Republican policy: Nathaniel Ross Kelly, who ran an orphanage in Sudan for five years, writes of the how the Trump maladministration’s decision to destroy USAID is likely to affect needy children arouond the world.
Extra-Special Bonus QOTD 0
Jim Bachus, in the voice of Thurston Howell III:
The writers of Gilligan’s Island meant this as a joke.
They did not anticipate that it would come to be the guiding principle of the Chicago School and of today’s Republican Party.
Republican Thought Police 0
I mentioned yesterday that today’s Republican Party seems to fear the educated.
Here’s another bit of circumstantial evidence in support of that position.
Republican Thought Police 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Leonard Hitchcock wonders why today’s Republican Party fears the educated.
Influencer Idiocy 0
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
Trump and the Watergates 0
Emma and the crew discuss how the Trump maladministration’s actions helped stall FEMA’s response to the floods in Texas, how said maladministration is attempting to wiggle out from under the facts, and how FEMA money was misappropriated diverted to pay for Trump’s Florida concentration camp “Alligator Alcatraz.”
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another case of politeness on the pavement.
Here’s a snippet from the report:
“It’s a very serious issue,” (Shelby County Chief Deputy District Attorney Ben–ed.) Fuller said. “Folks get behind the wheel of a car, they think they’re invincible.”
Fuller said prosecutors have seen an increase in road rage-related violence, and the consequences can be severe.
The Apostate 0
Via The Japan Times, Steve Pincus argues the Trump maladministration is busily abandoning America’s founders’ principles. Here’s how he opens his article:
As the United States celebrated its 249th birthday on July 4, the determination of President Donald Trump’s administration to abandon these founding principles has become starkly apparent.
Follow the link for his evidence.