Lucian K. Truscott IV
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MAGA or no MAGA, this is not a fascist country. Fascism doesn’t work. Trump’s refusal to learn this is going to cost him dearly.
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Minneapolis showed us why Trump and his fascists will lose
Trump’s Stupidity Czar, Tom Homan, announced today that the “surge” in Minneapolis is over.
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February 13, 2026 at 2:45 AM
ICE and Border Patrol agents are beyond the reach of the law and the courts. Masks and not displaying names are violations of the Constitution’s provisions against unreasonable searches and seizures and guarantee of the protections of due process of law.
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Halloween for cowards
Here are two things that definitely don’t belong together: guns and masks.
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February 12, 2026 at 1:44 AM
When you’ve lost Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, both of whom have had a look at the unredacted Epstein files, you have a whole lot to worry about. Trump is cornered by the life of sexual abuse he led in the past.
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How many more times will we have to read the words, “It’s way worse than you think?”
That phrase was uttered this time by, of all people, Marjorie Taylor Greene after she had visited the ultra-secure room in the Department of Justice where members of Congress can read, but not copy, t...
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February 11, 2026 at 1:18 AM
Coming at the end of the week that Trump posted the video showing Barack and Michelle Obama as apes...

Going to war with Bad Bunny is like a comma on his racism, spreading it beyond Black people to specifically include those with Brown skin.
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The suicidal politics of trashing Bad Bunny
Let me begin by revealing a truth about myself: I don’t have any tattoos, not even one, but if ever I get the desire for a tattoo, it’s going to be “Bad Bunny.”
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February 10, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Somehow Ruby and I will survive another day of ‘round zero temps while the other four feline furries and Tracy await our return from the cold with hot coffee and love.

Life right now in Pennsylvania in February is cold, but good.
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It's 1 degree and howling outside and I'm just in from walking Ruby and I'm taking the night off
Here we are in full outdoor regalia: Down vest and down jacket for me; two layered dog jackets for Ruby.
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February 7, 2026 at 11:46 PM
6,000 years of history has taught that racism is like rust. The soul of civilization is eaten away by its evil.

He thinks it’s a joke. It’s not. Donald Trump and his blatant and prideful racism has put us in danger.
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Afraid for my country
I was going to use “No Words” as the title for this column and run the picture of Michelle and Barack Obama depicted as apes, but I decided not to reproduce that disgusting racist image from the loath...
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February 7, 2026 at 2:15 AM
Don’t listen to Donald Trump when he farts up the Oval Office. He’s so full of shit, he’s about to blast off from the Resolute Desk on a blue flame, and we should be treating him like we’re watching the lift-off and laughing at his increasing desperation.
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Optimism, not despair
Here is what we should do: We need to figure out another way to deal with Donald Trump at night, and Donald Trump in the morning.
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February 6, 2026 at 1:33 AM
You wish that you could say it’s what money does to them. You wish it could be ascribed to people with wealth that is inherited, or wealth that has been recently come by, but people from both groups are among them.
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They are different from you and me
You wish that you could say it’s what money does to them, and that can be part of it, but it’s not all.
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February 5, 2026 at 3:20 AM
These men – Trump and Attia and others in the Epstein network of partying and getting “massages” -- can slough off criticism of their behavior in years past because today, the Trump Department of Justice has said officially that they did nothing wrong.
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“It’s not a crime to party with Jeffrey Epstein.”
Bari Weiss, who recently took over the helm of CBS News, the storied network of Edward R.
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February 3, 2026 at 6:56 PM
That is why “there is nothing on me” is a lie, and yet when it comes to the law, it is true. Proof is neither truth nor evidence of a lie. It is legal and cold and naked.
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Proof and truth and lies
Buckle up.
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February 3, 2026 at 3:45 AM
That is what the so-called Epstein files are about. It’s why Trump feels it’s necessary to tell the lie that the files “absolve me.” They’re about men raping children. The files absolve no one. Don’t let anyone tell you any different.
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The child-rape files
The millions of pages of documents the Department of Justice has released – more than a month late – are not about who was on the private jet, or who was invited to dinner or when they sent emails or ...
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February 1, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Sore neck and back from installing hand rails in basement stairs and stairs to Tracy’s third floor studio.
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I didn't write today, but I worked.
I did something today that Tracy and I have been talking about for months…well, in truth since we moved here.
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February 1, 2026 at 1:13 AM
As in almost all wars, the struggle is lopsided in terms of weapons in favor of one side against the other. But the war in the streets against Trump and Stephen Miller and ICE is being won in the court of public opinion
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Self defense against fascism: Phones vs. guns
Maybe the most emblematic photo of the ICE/Border Patrol assault on Minneapolis will turn out to be the one above of Alex Pretti holding up his phone as he confronts a Border Patrol agent on the stree...
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January 31, 2026 at 1:54 AM
We now have secret police paid by our tax dollars committing crimes against the Constitution on a daily basis. We have seen the enemy, and he is us.
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Secret police
Let’s call Trump’s rampaging federal agents what they are: Secret police.
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January 30, 2026 at 2:23 AM
This is Tiger, the neighborhood stray we took in on Christmas night. The vet tells us she is about 12 years old. She has four teeth. Now she lives inside with us and our four cats and Ruby.

See the look on her face? That’s the way I feel right now.
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Taking a night off
This is Tiger, the neighborhood stray we took in on Christmas night.
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January 29, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Greg Bovino isn’t gone. They moved him back to El Centro, California. Kristi Noem isn’t gone, and she hasn’t atoned for the vicious, ugly lies she told about Renee Good and Alex Pretti. She’s still canoodling with Corey Lewandowski
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Don’t be distracted by Trump’s lies and three-card monte games with immigration. He's hiding something bigger.
Greg Bovino isn’t gone.
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January 27, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Be of good heart. Our votes are out there waiting for us to cast them. The deaths of Good and Pretti will not be in vain. We are going to win this thing for them, for ourselves, for our country.
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But my ballroom!
Although I do not know each and every one of you, dear readers, I know enough about you by now to realize that you don’t need any more evidence that our scattered, childlike president is losing his sh...
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January 26, 2026 at 10:18 PM
What this means is that the people of Minneapolis, the city police, and the Minnesota National Guard will be on one side of the struggle, with agents allied with Donald Trump and his authoritarian regime on the other side.
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First step in a civil war
This is an image of the Minnesota National Guard moving into Minneapolis to assist local police in enforcing the law.
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January 25, 2026 at 11:27 PM
The turning point we’ve reached in Minneapolis is more profound than we thought. The First and Second Amendments must apply to everyone, or they have no meaning at all.
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The First and Second Amendments were not meant to be a deadly combination
They are arranged next to each other in the Constitution – the First Amendment and its guarantee of free speech and religion, and the Second Amendment, as currently interpreted, with its guarantee of ...
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January 25, 2026 at 7:25 PM
The people demonstrating against ICE in Minneapolis are putting their lives on the line. One of them gave his life today.

It is up to us to ensure that the loss of Alex Pretti’s life will not be in vain.
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Murder in Minneapolis: It’s even worse than it looked at first
The New York Times has obtained another video of the killing – let’s call it what it is, the murder – of a man who turns out to be not only an American citizen, but an ICU nurse at the Veterans Affair...
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January 25, 2026 at 2:45 AM
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Trump has declared war on an American city
Still from an ICE shooting this morning in Minneapolis.
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January 24, 2026 at 6:00 PM
In the end, he is losing because taken together, what has resulted from all his big authoritarian moves is that he looks weak. Panic is setting in. There aren’t enough needles and “not vitamin B” in the world to keep this staggering act going.
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He's losing
Where I sit tonight -- probably the same place as a lot of you right now -- is in the path of the largest winter storm in years.
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January 24, 2026 at 1:45 AM
You end up asking yourself, does he know he hasn’t been wheeled out in front of a high-school auditorium filled with JD Vance’s alleged tobaccy-chawin’ relatives? Looking out at his audience in Davos, he was probably asking himself, where are all the red hats?
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Key money
I listened to Trump’s Davos rant so you don’t have to
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January 22, 2026 at 4:21 AM
Everyone who has ever had a baby will understand exactly what I’m about to say. If you haven’t experienced the delight and terror at the birth of a new human being, you should pay attention, because I’m going to describe our president, Donald Trump.
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Where are his attendants?
Everyone who has ever had a baby will understand exactly what I’m about to say.
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January 21, 2026 at 2:06 AM
Can you imagine how sad it is to be Donald Trump? It must be why he falls asleep all day sitting in his chair. If I were him for even a moment, I wouldn’t want to be awake either.
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With Trump, trying to make sense of the senseless doesn’t make sense anymore
Have you seen Trump’s letter, or text message, or whatever it was that he wrote to Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre of Norway yesterday?
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January 19, 2026 at 9:33 PM