Elon Musk Claims Nuclear Energy Is Safe Because Hiroshima & Nagasaki...
The much hyped interview of Donald Trump on X by Elon Musk started very late, supposedly due to a cyber attack by folks who wanted to sabotage the event. There may have been other reasons for the...
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Republican Attorneys General Seek Civil War
The headline of this article makes an extraordinary claim, and it demands extraordinary evidence. I think we have that, but it’s still a bit obscure. So first things first, listen to Marc Elias from...
View ArticleTrump is visiting a succession of 'Sundown Towns'
The amazing Jeff Tiedrich’s substack ‘Everyone is entitled to my Opinion’ is pretty much essential reading for anyone on the progressive side of the fence. So I’m guessing you’ve seen his latest...
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We are nowhere near the civil-war number, even if we get there /s
“When the subject appears somewhere as meaning, he's manifested elsewhere as fading, as disappearance”"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."This was an...
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Trump wants to restore the name of the Confederacy's worst and most hated...
Former President Donald Trump thinks he’s discovered the secret to winning the swing state of North Carolina by a big margin. He is pledging to restore the Confederate title of a military base that was...
View ArticleThe Weirdest Presidential Election in America’s History
Democratic countries across the globe have rules and standards that govern their elections. In these countries, elections are the hub around which democracy revolves. In nations without democracy,...
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Always There Are Two
Always There Are Two also appeared on my Substack … three months ago. I have not been on DK at all, things got busy for me around that time and have only now settled down. I’m letting this through...
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Okay, fine, let's break up the country then
Trump won. Things in this country are very likely to become bad, and they’re very likely to become worse than that for the most vulnerable and marginalized communities among us. It’s possible that they...
View ArticleI have a question and wonder how this new junk administration plays out.
I am not advocating, far from it but with the cabinet and president pick, how does a democratic America react. Medicaid and Food stamp cuts, getting rid of institutions, and military deployed on...
View ArticleCivil War Anyone?
From time to time on FoxNews, videos of 65+ men wearing "1776" shirts appear. Marjorie Taylor Greene keeps floating the idea of dividing the United States between Republicans and Dems. While I’m no...
View ArticleWhat Became Of That Impending Civil War?
It is likely that the January 6th Trump insurrection is when talk of political violence became widespread in the news biz. How much of this talk have we heard during the last four years? We were all...
View ArticleCivil War. Civil War! Civil War... Civil War?
I have been hearing nothing but talk about the “impending civil war” that is “definitely coming” and is “going to hit us at any second now.”What I have not heard is any consensus on what that Civil War...
View ArticleAssad's Syria on the Brink of Collapse?
Events in Syria appear to be accelerating at an astonishing rate. Just Wednesday, the Islamist HTS faction in de facto control of Syria’s NW province of Idlib (under Turkish “protection”) launched...
View ArticleSyria Civil War Updates -- Hama Falls to HTS, Assad Forces in Full Retreat!
UPDATE: Friday, Dec 6, 2024 · 1:02:47 AM +00:00·IrontortoiseInteresting profile of HTS leader al-Jolani in the Telegraph today:On Thursday, Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), the jihadist group leading the...
View ArticleMore Syria Updates -- the End is Approaching for the Assad Regime
For those following the rapidly unfolding events in the latest chapter of the Syrian Civil War, the above map from wikipedia is by far the best I've seen so far. The big news today is that the...
View ArticleThe Fall of Damascus and the End of the Assad Regime
UPDATE: Sunday, Dec 8, 2024 · 10:14:39 PM +00:00·IrontortoiseRussia confirms Assad and his family are now in Moscow.It’s now official — Assad’s own Prime Minister basically handed over what was left...
View ArticleOur Civil War is Not Done
Democrats have long been criticized for ignoring the working class. However, the disconnect is less political and more cultural, economic, and racial. While Democratic policies clearly favor 98% to 99%...
View Article"Republicans refuse to accept the voters’ choice."
The quote that comprises the diary title is from tonight’s Letter from an American by Heather Cox Richardson. She is talking specifically about North Carolina, where voters handed Democrats the state...
View ArticleThere is no doubt in my mind...Trump wants a war with Americans not loyal....
He is pushing the envelope and I truly believe that war is coming. Dragging people out of homes and ending sanctuary cities, putting tariffs on people to pay when it is hard to feed your family...
View ArticleA Letter to Hakeem Jeffries
The other day I had the chance to ask my congressman to have his office hand deliver a letter to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. I thought I’d share the text here.The Honorable Hakeem...
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