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January 28, 2026 at 4:32 AM

Erin Loanzon

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January 22, 2026 at 4:37 AM

Erin Loanzon

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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that” - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

January 20, 2026 at 3:19 AM

Erin Loanzon

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Stephen Miller: What Happens When You Microwave A Dildo and Shove It Up Trump’s Ass

As the amazing Jimmy Kimmel put it, White House advisor Stephen Miller is President Trump’s “other tiny penis”, and has always been just flat-out evil.

January 12, 2026 at 3:24 AM

Erin Loanzon

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January 7, 2026 at 4:15 AM

Erin Loanzon

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Canada, If You’re Listening To This…

Like everyone else, I’ve been following President Trump’s invasion of Venezuela because of his mentally ill “Donroe Doctrine”, where he thinks he has the right to “dominate” the entirety of the Wester...

January 4, 2026 at 10:12 PM

Erin Loanzon

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Is Marco Rubio On Drugs? What Does This Do to America’s Drug Policy At Home and Abroad?

Elon Musk and his ketamine, President Trump and his Adderall/other stimulants (we really don’t know what exactly for sure), the pill mill that Dr.

December 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM

Erin Loanzon

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Rob Reiner, Leadership, and “Turning Down the Temperature” in America

Like everyone else, I’ve been watching the sad horror that are the senseless deaths of legendary director/filmmaker/political activist Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer - “Primary Colors” is one ...

December 16, 2025 at 4:05 AM

Erin Loanzon

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Ukraine versus Russia and the United States

The War in Ukraine has become a war of a Ukraine and the entirety of Europe versus the United States and Russia, with the United States cowing to the demands of whatever Vladimir Putin wants (the “pea...

December 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM

Erin Loanzon

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When Even a Complicit Media Tells the Truth, You Know It’s Bad

Sorry, I just got back from vacation on Thanksgiving and it’s been a chaotic Black Friday weekend.

December 3, 2025 at 4:14 AM

Erin Loanzon

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From A Man Like Trump: Why Him Saying “Piggy” Unfortunately Matters

The recent incident on Air Force One - where President Trump yelled at White House Correspondent (Bloomberg News) Catherine Lucey, going “Quiet, quiet Piggy!” - was truly awful to watch.

November 21, 2025 at 3:08 AM

Erin Loanzon

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The Epstein Files: It’s Just Begun

I long for the day when I never have to write about the late, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein ever again, or at least can write about him in ways such as “the sex trafficker whose victims finally ...

November 20, 2025 at 2:52 AM

Erin Loanzon

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Ivanka Trump: The Feckless Cunt Returns!

As I sobbed liberal tears into my Taco Bell and Coke Zero lunch today (regarding the Democrats decision regarding the shutdown), I stumbled upon this gem.

November 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM

Erin Loanzon

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Oh SNAP, Where’s America’s Food Amidst a Blue Wave?

For some reason, my right eye is twitching, but maybe it’s because Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is supposed to now run out of funding (it’s beginning of November, and people are understan...

November 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM

Erin Loanzon

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(Literally) Coming In Like a Wrecking Ball: When Will This Stop?

Like everyone else, I’ve been following the antics of President Trump making his gaudy, tacky, gauche ballroom while Americans are literally starving.

October 27, 2025 at 12:23 AM

Erin Loanzon

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Missiles over I-5, “No-Kings” Protests, and What Happens Next

I remember the informal “autopsy” of the ill-fated 2024 Kamala Harris/Tim Walz campaign, and how they talked too much about the rise of authoritarianism and not enough about “dining table issues” (eco...

October 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM

Erin Loanzon

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“Arc De Trump”: A Reaction, To Say The Least

When I was 18, I went on a nine-day trip to France, and we walked through the Arc De Triomphe, the arch memorial commissioned by Napoleon I for his soldiers.

October 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM

Erin Loanzon

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MTG And Her Brand of “Populism”: Listen, But Don’t Be Fooled

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-AL) is a Christian nationalist psycho like millions of others in this country, but now she’s jumping the sinking Trump ship with a new life boat.

October 14, 2025 at 3:07 AM

Erin Loanzon

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Trade Wars, Tariffs, and More: Invoke the 25th Amendment NOW!!

As the American government shuts down to a grinding halt, we can only watch as necessary federal employees are either forced to work without pay or furloughed.

October 2, 2025 at 3:36 AM

Erin Loanzon

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Jimmy Kimmel Returning and Courage When We Need It

It’s official: Jimmy Kimmel is coming back to ABC tomorrow night, and it’s proof that we the American people aren’t entirely helpless.

September 23, 2025 at 4:03 AM

Erin Loanzon

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Jimmy Kimmel and the death of free speech: MAGA’s early Xmas gift

Sorry, needed some time to process everything that has been going on for the last week.

September 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM

Erin Loanzon

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Tyler Robinson, more of the Kirk assassination and Pres. Tangerine Turd

Now that they caught Tyler Robinson, the guy that confessed to killing right-wing podcaster and influencer Charlie Kirk (he turned himself in), it won’t be long before he’s tried, convicted, and sente...

September 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM

Erin Loanzon

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Trump as “FBI Informant”, the flyover… Desperation is a stinky cologne

Sorry I’ve been gone - I just got my flu shot and have been stewing on RFK Jr.

September 7, 2025 at 3:00 AM

Erin Loanzon

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Mass Shootings: Throw Your Hands Up Because You Just Don’t Care

As I think about Fletcher Merkel and Harper Moyski, the two kids that were brutally murdered in the recent mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic school this past Wednesday - as well as the 18 others ...

August 31, 2025 at 7:40 PM

Erin Loanzon

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Midterms 2026: Democrats, What’s the Game Plan??

As I sit here in the laundromat (again - my washing machine’s still broken) and read Michael Cohen’s latest Substack (see link below), it got me thinking: what is the game plan for the Democratic part...