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It’s the planet’s continued ability to sustain human life. The planet will continue to exist no matter how totally we destroy our climate systems. 

while Trump seems to be laying the groundwork for extremely aggressive action toward anyone individual or group whom he deems insufficiently loyal–to him. Tonight he was at it again, making ugly attacks on Jews he deems bad–the ones who don’t … Continue reading →

Outrage against The New York Times’ shameless protectionism concerning Trump has accelerated as A.G. Sulzberger tried a straw-man dodge while allowing the paper to keep doing  the same shoddy and skewed sleight-of-hand things right before our newsprint-scanning eyes. Today, protesters … Continue reading →

His glowering facial gyrations, hyperventilated manufactured outrage, and ridiculous paddycake gestural gibberish are all pure sham and pure Trumpism.

His Supreme Court majority, the most corrupt in our nation’s history (and Roberts himself and his wife are part of the self-dealing orruption), has–at his urging–worked to upend democracy and give Trump carte blanche. He will not rest until the United … Continue reading →

J.D. Vance preaches Hitlerian demonization of Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, knowing full well that every word he says is a lie, and then Springfield  schoolchildren must be evacuated because an attack on their school is threatened. Vance, Trump and … Continue reading →

Now Trump says he’ll only debate again if human pacifier Jesse Watters is the moderator.

Nuclear power is the most apocalyptically dangerous non-solution to the climate crisis we could imagine.  One nuclear accident could take out most of a continent. Germany knows this, and that’s why they’re winding it down together with fossil fuels. Trump’s … Continue reading →

Trump was less manic at the debate than I expected–although he did descend into hysteria toward the end. Which leads me to believe that on this occasion he had been given sedatives rather than stimulants in the vain hope that … Continue reading →

Trump will be drugged at tonight’s debate. Higher than a kite, he will be a study in obstreperous mania. He won’t answer any of the rmoderators’ questions, but will steer everything back to his two or three talking points: The … Continue reading →