Category Archives: Politics

“The Declaration of Independence is an ‘Enlightenment-era rule written by anti-government extremists’” and other FCC pay toilet fictions

Posted on November 26, 2017 by ann li-summers

  By ann summers If the @FCC kills #netneutrality, everyday people lose. It’s not good for science because it puts up barriers to accessing information and spreading ideas. This isn’t a partisan issue — it’s about keeping the playing field … Continue reading →

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Will Trump return Philippine war trophies

Posted on November 12, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers   Trump could salvage what has been a mediocre trip to Asia by a small political act, even if it might give him the same Executive Order troubles he’s experienced with Congress. There have been several decades … Continue reading →

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Titling the post-Trump biopic… Get The Bigly Shorty, or Derp in Paradise Papers

Posted on November 5, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers There probably have been numerous Trump biography projects already underway, perhaps even one started when we thought he would lose the Electoral College vote. We already have some interesting, even landmark films about a variety of financial scandals, … Continue reading →

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Populism is no longer a useful concept

Posted on October 29, 2017 by ann li-summers

  By ann summers Courage and representation are now in short supply in the US. Populism is problematic in that its tendency has been manipulated to mobilize classes to act in opposition to their interests. We are at such a … Continue reading →

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Stephen Miller: demography sans democracy

Posted on October 16, 2017 by ann li-summers

  By ann summers Stephen “dont call me Space Cowboy Maurice” Miller has shrewdly used his time to feather his own WH nest by controlling immigration policy while his noisier counterpart Steve Bannon was fighting with everybody else. One can … Continue reading →

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the Viceroy of Wyoming, Erik Prince

Posted on October 8, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers With encouragement from Bannon, Erik Prince, Blackwater’s founder, is considering a Senate challenge in Wyoming https://t.co/1Exm2oSwAQ — The New York Times (@nytimes) October 8, 2017 Because we need the leader of a mercenary army to run our energy states. After … Continue reading →

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Trump, no country bump-stock… could kill the trifecta of the axis of evil, unless #TrumpRussia drops a couple of bombshells

Posted on October 5, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Desperate authoritarians do desperate things, and the time before the Trump administration is removed or removes itself from office will perhaps be the most challenging since the Cuban missile crisis. Recall that the real consequence in the … Continue reading →

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Insane Clown posse comitatus and #MOAR Trump gathering nothing

Posted on September 18, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers This headline should read: “Americans who dress up as clowns outnumber clowns who dress up as Americans” https://t.co/OkS4nopaHM — Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) September 17, 2017 Martha Stewart is cute when she plays the ex-con gangsta meme, but … Continue reading →

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Wildfires Burning Over One Million Acres in US Right Now

Posted on September 5, 2017 by Steven D. Searls

View from Lookout Mountain, CO. Not clouds. Not Smog. Smoke from wildfires 800 miles away. Smoke from wildfires in the western United States. About 1.4 million acres of fires at the present time and over 7.5 million acres burned so … Continue reading →

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What self-respecting Liberal talks about “zesty Internet memes”

Posted on September 3, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Coordination of a resistance must include being aware of how counter-resistance forces can manipulate and divide us, particularly in social media. America’s Number One Russophile, Lord Dampnut, has made us acutely aware of how clumsy such misdirection … Continue reading →

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