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Doug DeCelle
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Climate Change and Creation Theology; linking the connection of greed with the destruction of the planet; blogger at First Light, www.douglasdecelle.net
Oligarchy thrives with chaos. It seeks to monitize social services like infastructure, security, the electrical grid, parking authorities and sewer systems. Once privitized, the quality goes down. Prices go up.--Chris Hedges
September 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
An important key at this point for resisters is to avoid clashes, rioting, vandalism, or looting.
September 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Modernity promised certainty. Postmodernism unmasked it. The Epistemic Age is learning to live without it. www.douglasdecelle.net/the-epistemi...
The Epistemic Age: Living in a World Without Certainty -
"We’re not just in culture wars—we’re in The Epistemic Age: a time when certainty collapses, values dissolve, and every claim feels unstable. The right blames Democrats and academics, but the true uph...
www.douglasdecelle.net
September 19, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I’m going to miss Jimmy Kimmel but… the real late-night circus is American politics. We don’t need monologues to see absurdity—it’s playing live every day on Capitol Hill
September 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Violent crime in D.C. has dropped significantly, with a 26% decrease in violent crime this year compared to the same period last year, according to NBC4 Washington, including a 12% drop in homicides and a 20% drop in assaults with a dangerous weapon.
August 12, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The massive budget for ICE and immigration enforcement and incarceration exceeds the military budgets for most countries.
July 30, 2025 at 3:08 AM
And the Big Beautiful Bill will amp this up massively
Portland ICE goons violently slam a protester 🪧
July 30, 2025 at 3:02 AM
July 30, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Alligators are part of the beautiful texture of Florida life. They are no longer endangered. They're not especially dangerous, killing less than 5 people a year. This Alligator Alcatraz idiocy does these marvelous creatures no favor.
July 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
The MAGA plan for climate apocalypse follows the strategy of insurance companies. You're covered so long as premiums are greater than payouts. Once a fire burns Sacrameto down or a storm floods a third of Florida, the motto of both insurance co. and government will be "You're on your own."
July 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Notice how Republicans are now disinterested in the deficit or national debt. Why not? Because tax relieved millionaires are no longer financing medicad, fema, etc. The one budget item that will never be cut is debt service--which goes to millionaires.
July 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Forty-two percent of America's enormous national debt is held by private American investors, the ones who are receiving big tax cuts. Can you see the big con? Non rich taxpayers lose services that make their lives better, but pay for natl debt service which flows to the rich. Its called class war.
July 6, 2025 at 8:54 PM
This actually might be a good idea. Can we consider release of green house gases, and the resulting planetary heating and violent weather as manipulating weather?

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July 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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NOT A CRIMINAL

A veteran’s wife was arrested by ICE when she went for an immigration check-in. She was separated from her young children, even though she’s still nursing.

I wonder who he voted for?

That said, it’s odd he said “almost inhumane”. Being snatched from your newborn baby IS inhumane.
July 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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We The People ✊
LA, CA
July 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
July 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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@billshaner.bsky.social reports from the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“They’re trying to kidnap someone”
On the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts.
www.motherjones.com
May 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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The danger of the current GOP agenda is the proposed extention of the 2017 tax cuts. This brief WSJ video is the best analysis of how poor and middle class Americans will be locked into destitution if the cuts in services and tax relief for the wealthy advances. youtu.be/AdwFchjz2e8?...
Economists on How Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts Actually Played Out | WSJ
YouTube video by The Wall Street Journal
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March 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Well-written compelling essay on why POTUS has no authority to levy teriffs without a genuine emergency. consortiumnews.com/2025/04/10/t...
Tariffs & the US Constitution
No emergency means there is no lawful basis for Trump’s imposition of the tariffs, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. Nor is there any  constitutional basis for the underlying statute. By Andrew P. Napo...
consortiumnews.com
April 13, 2025 at 1:45 AM
This crisp, well-written article demonstrates why the tariffs recently imposed by POTUS are unconstitutional. consortiumnews.com/2025/04/10/t...
Tariffs & the US Constitution
No emergency means there is no lawful basis for Trump’s imposition of the tariffs, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. Nor is there any  constitutional basis for the underlying statute. By Andrew P. Napo...
consortiumnews.com
April 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Yesterday's "Hands Off" protests drew 5M peaceful demonstrators opposing the Republican Administration. Expert Erica Chenowith says no government withstands a non-violent challenge from 3.5% of its people without yielding or collapsing. With 340M in the U.S., that’s 11.9M—we're halfway there.
April 7, 2025 at 1:01 AM
This is pretty rich.

What the global elite reveal to Davos sex workers www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
What the global elite reveal to Davos sex workers
EXCLUSIVE: Salome Balthus, 40, is a high-end escort and author from Berlin who has travelled to Davos, Switzerland, to meet up with clients during the World Economic Forum (WEF).
www.dailymail.co.uk
April 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Breaking News!
Code UFB!!!

The daily CO2 number from Mauna Loa exceeded 430 ppm yesterday. This is the first reading above 430 ever recorded.

CO2 levels have not been this high since the Pliocene epoch, 3 to 5 million years ago.
March 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM