Norman Hill
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I aspire to be a polymath but perhaps am more of a dilettante. Am I retired? I say I'm in limbo. I used to be a unix/network sysadmin, math instructor, bar owner. Now I tutor math, volunteer, cook a little, play pool, and futz around in my woodshop.
Pete Seeger- Die Gedanken Sind Frei
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April 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
March 26, 2025 Will this be the straw? How's the camel?
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March 26, 2025
Monday’s astounding story that the most senior members of President Donald Trump’s administration planned military strikes on Yemen over an unsecure commercial messaging app, on which they had include...
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March 27, 2025 at 6:18 AM
March 26, 2025 Will this be the straw? How's the camel?
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More of Trump's descent into dictatorship
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More of Trump’s descent into dictatorship
Two illegal firings that will increase prices for consumers and concentrate more power in Trump’s hands — unless the courts stop him.
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March 19, 2025 at 1:39 AM
More of Trump's descent into dictatorship
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THE LONGEST DAY EVER!!!
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/u...
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Republicans Quietly Move to Relinquish Power to Undo Trump’s Tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China (Gift Article)
House G.O.P. leaders tucked the provision into a procedural measure needed to pass a government spending bill.
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March 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
THE LONGEST DAY EVER!!!
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/u...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/u...
It's the oligarchy, stupid. We've got our own set of oligarchs now.
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It's the oligarchy, stupid.
Friends,
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February 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
It's the oligarchy, stupid. We've got our own set of oligarchs now.
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How Musk is cancelling the U.S. government
Remember this "when and if America ever wrests back control of our government"
Remember this "when and if America ever wrests back control of our government"
How Musk is cancelling the U.S. government
Friends,
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February 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
How Musk is cancelling the U.S. government
Remember this "when and if America ever wrests back control of our government"
Remember this "when and if America ever wrests back control of our government"
"... the overall strategy is clear: Musk and his minions decided to summarily fire as many federal workers as they could without making any effort to find out what these workers do and whether it’s important." open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Our Government Is Experiencing a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly
Musk is moving fast and breaking important things
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February 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"... the overall strategy is clear: Musk and his minions decided to summarily fire as many federal workers as they could without making any effort to find out what these workers do and whether it’s important." open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Trumpoleon Bonaspur
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Trumpoleon Bonaspur
Make America Wear Rubbers Again
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February 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Trumpoleon Bonaspur
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Wrote about this recently. I sincerely believe Musk wants to be emperor of the world, and no I don’t think that’s hyperbole.
February 16, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Wrote about this recently. I sincerely believe Musk wants to be emperor of the world, and no I don’t think that’s hyperbole.
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Dear Democratic Party: why are you not screaming this from every rooftop? Why are you not holding press conferences with these poor fired people - putting a face on what the richest man is destroying?
“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”
Yesterday many thousands of federal employees were terminated. This is a Reddit thread for federal employees that got laid off.
February 16, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Dear Democratic Party: why are you not screaming this from every rooftop? Why are you not holding press conferences with these poor fired people - putting a face on what the richest man is destroying?
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Excellent description of today’s MAGA-Republican Party.
They’re not capable of empathy or compassion. It’s all about the cruelty with them.
They give themselves tax breaks while simultaneously cutting key benefits for the American people.
It’s shameful and it needs to end.
They’re not capable of empathy or compassion. It’s all about the cruelty with them.
They give themselves tax breaks while simultaneously cutting key benefits for the American people.
It’s shameful and it needs to end.
February 16, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Excellent description of today’s MAGA-Republican Party.
They’re not capable of empathy or compassion. It’s all about the cruelty with them.
They give themselves tax breaks while simultaneously cutting key benefits for the American people.
It’s shameful and it needs to end.
They’re not capable of empathy or compassion. It’s all about the cruelty with them.
They give themselves tax breaks while simultaneously cutting key benefits for the American people.
It’s shameful and it needs to end.
Mostly scary but a few sprinkles of hope
The Democracy Index
February 14, 2025
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February 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Mostly scary but a few sprinkles of hope
Elon Musk Is Faking It
The fraudster who cried “fraud”
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February 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Celebrate the heroes!
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Profiles in courage
Friends,
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February 13, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Celebrate the heroes!
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In a statement, AP editor Julie Pace said the White House told the AP if it did not align its editorial standards with Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, it would be barred from accessing Trump's executive order signing
February 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
In a statement, AP editor Julie Pace said the White House told the AP if it did not align its editorial standards with Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, it would be barred from accessing Trump's executive order signing
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1) Musk standing behind the Resolute Desk speaking for Trump is shocking & bizarre. 2) Musk's lazy inarticulate nonsense shows he has no clue at all. 3) His assertion that the people have no voice bc he dislikes contraints on himself is pure anti-democracy thinking.
February 11, 2025 at 9:29 PM
1) Musk standing behind the Resolute Desk speaking for Trump is shocking & bizarre. 2) Musk's lazy inarticulate nonsense shows he has no clue at all. 3) His assertion that the people have no voice bc he dislikes contraints on himself is pure anti-democracy thinking.
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This is a flat-out, clear-cut violation of the First Amendment.
Associated Press: “Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office.“
February 11, 2025 at 9:32 PM
This is a flat-out, clear-cut violation of the First Amendment.
"The executive branch must respect that Congress controls the nation’s money, [former Treasury secretaries] wrote, reiterating the key principle outlined in the Constitution: “The legislative branch has the sole authority to pass laws that determine where and how federal dollars should be spent.”"
February 10, 2025
As soon as President Donald Trump took office, his administration froze great swaths of government funding, apparently to test the theory popular with Project 2025 authors that the 1974 law forbidding...
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February 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
"The executive branch must respect that Congress controls the nation’s money, [former Treasury secretaries] wrote, reiterating the key principle outlined in the Constitution: “The legislative branch has the sole authority to pass laws that determine where and how federal dollars should be spent.”"
The text of a post by Francoise Von Trapp is in this note. The post and her account are no longer on Facebook.
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February 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The text of a post by Francoise Von Trapp is in this note. The post and her account are no longer on Facebook.
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The end of law?
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The end of law?
The Trump regime is refusing to be bound by the federal courts. Where will this end?
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February 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The end of law?
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Sabotaging the Pax Americana
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Sabotaging the Pax Americana
Trump and Musk are making us distrusted, friendless and weak
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February 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Sabotaging the Pax Americana
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In 2016 the NYT ran multiple front page stories page about the grave national security risk of Hillary Clinton's server.
Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding
Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding
February 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
In 2016 the NYT ran multiple front page stories page about the grave national security risk of Hillary Clinton's server.
Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding
Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding