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Dan Kohanski
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Long-time computer programmer, also a retired Foreign Service Officer. Most recently the author of A God of Our Invention: How Religion Shaped the Western World (Apocryphile Press, 2023); Kirkus Reviews says "Get it!"
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You keep it a ballroom. Don't you realize he's making room for a THRONE room?

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White House expands East Wing demolition as critics decry Trump overreach
More of the structure was torn down Tuesday to make way for President Donald Trump’s planned ballroom, despite complaints about the project’s lack of transparency,
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October 22, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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B-52s Sent to Buzz the Coast of Venezuela: Next Step, Invasion? And: SOUTHCOM Steps Down
B-52’s are the powerhouse of the US Air Force. It is, according to the Air Force, “a long-range, heavy bomber that can perform a variety of missions. The bomber is capable of flying at high subsonic s...
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October 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Via Belarus, Putin Threatens Nuclear War if US Gives Missiles to Kyiv
Ukrainian president Zelenskyy is scheduled to meet Trump Friday at the White House. This comes after Trump shifted from backing Putin to backing Ukraine — Trump’s abrupt Ukraine shift exposes fresh fr...
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October 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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ICE Tear-Gassed Chicago Police, Is Accused of Making False 911 Calls
Newsweek says the tear-gassing was unintentional: ICE Accidentally Tear Gases Chicago Police During Clash With Protesters Chicago Police Department officers were caught in clouds of tear gas during cl...
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October 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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World Leaders are Laughing at Trump
The Mango Mussolini likes to claim — boast — that after years of being disrespected under Obama and Biden, the United States is, under his “leadership,” once again respected in the world. The world be...
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October 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Want to Know if Trump Has Dementia? Don't Ask Google
Curious about whether Trump is exhibiting signs of dementia? Don’t bother using Google. Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia: Google appears to have blocked AI search results for the ...
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October 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Trump Threatens Mass Firings If Dems Don't Cave on CR
Trump has just upped the ante on the showdown: If the Dems don’t give in and pass the CR with no subsidies for the ACA, Trump will start a mass firing — permanent firing — of huge numbers of federal w...
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September 25, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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I'm Looking Forward to Being Left Behind
Well, folks, it’s here. The day we’ve all been waiting for — the rapture, when all those right-wing religious nuts will finally (!) get the fuck out of our lives. The Rapture Was Predicted to Happen T...
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September 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Cancel Culture Comes for Disney - And It May Be Working
The firestorm over ABC/Disney’s capitulation to Trump maifoso Brendan Carr’s demand to suspend Jimmy Kimmel (or he’ll do it the hard way by going after ABC’s license) has sparked lots and lots of outr...
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September 21, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Trump Now Threatening Broadcasters if They Commit Lèse-majesté
In olden days, there was something called lèse-majesté: [A]ny offense against a sovereign power or its ruler, from treason to a simple breach of etiquette, but lèse-majesté has also acquired a more li...
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September 19, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Trump Blows Up Another Venezuelan Boat
The Muddled Excrescence is at it again: U.S. strikes a second Venezuela boat, killing three, Trump says. The U.S. military struck a boat for the second time this month, President Trump said on Monday,...
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September 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Trump's Navy Boards a Tuna Boat in Venezuelan Waters
Reuters: Venezuela says the U.S. intercepted and boarded a Venezuelan tuna vessel in a "hostile" manner The Venezuelan government announced on Saturday that a U.S. destroyer intercepted, boarded and o...
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September 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Some Thoughts on the Reactions to the Charlie Kirk Killing
I’ve been following a number of diaries and comments here since the news about Charlie Kirk being shot and killed, including some about it’s inappropriate to be gleeful or to gloat, no matter how nast...
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September 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Trump Got Booed - A Lot. And the Media Reported It - A Lot [Update w/ More Media]
The USTA (United States Tennis Association) asked broadcasters not to “showcase” the crowd’s responses to Trump’s appearance today at the men’s tennis final. [I]n an email to broadcasters, including S...
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September 8, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Trump Sends F35 Warplanes to Puerto Rico
The F35 is America’s most advanced warplane. One of its anticipated functions is to be able to win against China’s warplanes and defenses, if and when that war comes to pass. In other words, it’s mean...
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September 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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How to Succeed at Secession Without Really Trying
We are a divided nation, the product of decades of the “divide-and-conquer” strategy employed by the GOP, the religious right, the oligarchs, and seized upon by Trump, all in the service of accumulati...
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September 3, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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The Profound Stupidity of Donald Trump
The Muddled Mussolini likes to portray himself as having achieved (and continuing to achieve) things that no mere mortal could ever have done. In one sense, he is right: he is the stupidest, most igno...
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August 31, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Breaking: CBS Reports Jodi Ernst Will Not Seek Election in 2026
Jodi Ernst (R-IA), whose most recent claim to infamy was her casually cruel response to a constituent’s question — “We’re all going to die someday” — is being reported as telling friends that “someday...
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August 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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CDC Official Accuses Admin of Deliberately Hurting Americans
Dr. Demetre C. Daskalakis is the CDC’s director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. Make that “was” the director, because as of close of business today, he has resigned f...
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August 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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MAGA Idiot Tells Taylor Swift to "Submit to Your Husband"
Trump and the MAGA world have always been terrified of Taylor Swift. She is powerful. She is known all over the world. She is the biggest hit in show business. She is rich. And she did it all by her o...
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August 27, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Felon and Sec'y Brainworm Plan to Ban Covid Vaccine as New Variants Appear
Covid is like the flu, now; there’s a new variant every year (often more than one), which means new vaccines, which vaccine manufacturers have become pretty good at developing and the FDA has been ver...
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August 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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European Leaders Joining Trump-Zelenskyy Meet to Keep Things Civil
The last time Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Trump in the Oval Office, it degenerated into a shouting match, with Vance openly berating the Ukrainian leader for, among other things, ...
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August 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Even Trump's Own AI is Calling Him a Liar
It’s really really sad when your own personal AI on your own personal social media platform won’t back up your lies. New chatbot on Trump’s Truth Social platform keeps contradicting him Truth Search A...
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August 10, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Smithsonian Now Says It Will Admit Trump Was Impeached.
Yesterday we learned that the Smithsonian the “nation’s attic” — had removed Trump from its exhibit on presidential impeachments in late July. Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in Ame...
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August 2, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Tsunami Advisories for US & Canada West Coast After 8.8 in Kamchatka, Warnings in Alaska, Hawaii
There was an 8.8 (some say 8.7) earthquake off Kamchatka peninsula around 4:25 PM Pacific time. Tsunami warnings have been issued for the entire west coast of the US. Tsunami watch issued for Californ...
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July 30, 2025 at 3:27 AM