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as explicated by Freud.

We need to demand from our politics and the media some truth-telling as well as psychological sophistication about why humanity is choosing to extinguish itself.

It’s part of Trump’s extinction agenda.

In the New Republic, Colin Jones explores the horrifying scenarios we’re seeing unfold.

Get ready for more nuclear accidents, America. And get ready to see more of your tax dollars flushed down the toilet to support this toxic, astronomically expensive industry.

The Democrats have to immediately spring into action and rebut this canard.

Paul Krugman describes on his Substack the astounding arrogance that powered the Iran misadventure. “Success in modern war depends crucially on out-thinking one’s enemies. But MAGA is all about deprecating hard thinking and valorizing belligerent ignorance.“

Bezos gets battier and more dishonest by the second. His drooling over Trump in order to win government subsidy for his loser space indulgenc is just the beginning. His mania about not paying taxes on a 200 billion fortune has now spurred him to advocate a further collapse of the economy by recommending that the bottom half of earners should be spared any tax obligation. He is so, so concerned about the financial struggle of “that nurse in Queens.”

No, Jeff Bezos: you should start paying taxes. And hire back all the Washington Post reporters you fired.

Call it a sign-up bonus for the foot soldiers whom Trump will command.

He is convening an army of mercenaries.

No wonder she almost lost to eco-arsonist Lee Zeldin.

As she eviscerates truly clean energy in this state, Hochul becomes a shill for toxic nuclear energy, the most dangerous, over-subdized, and expensive energy form of all.

No matter how crucial the issue, Democrats rarely evince any belief in their own power to persuade or inform the electorate. They sit on their hands until polling moves in their direction, thus disabling their own ability to move the needle. And thus their silence on Trump’s extinction agenda as evidenced by his deranged insistence that global warming is a hoax, his apocalyptic opposition to clean energy, his floor-the-accelerator approach to fossil fuels.

Katie Aronoff at The New Republic offers prescription: “Here’s How Democrats Should Talk About Climate Change.”

They’ve been reluctant to for years, in line with their refusal to confront most of the threats posed by the GOP and their reluctance to wield power when they have it.

The Dems can pass all the voting rights acts that they want to, but the lawless GOP Supreme Court will methodically strike them down.

We must have Supreme Court reform.

Shame on us for not shaking the Democratic establishment out of its torpor of denialism.