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The Democratic Message Should Be Clear: We Care about people suffering; Republicans Couldn’t Care Less
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The Democratic Message Should Be Clear: We Care about people suffering; Republicans Couldn’t Care Less
We did not “CAVE” We SAVED Americans from suffering needlessly.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Remember Trump's Abject Submission to Putin at Helsinki
Trump pretends he’s “The Man,” but it’s all make-believe. Here are some images that tell the story.
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Remember Trump's Abject Submission to Putin at Helsinki
Trump pretends he’s “The Man” but it’s all make-believe. Here are some images that tell the story.
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August 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The Most Terrifying Day for the Survival of America Yet — Fascism Is Here.

NOW

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The Most Terrifying Day for the Survival of America Yet — Fascism Is Here. NOW
Trump is pressing the pedal to the metal on his previously slow-moving coup
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October 1, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Rick Wilson's "The East Wing Obscenity"
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Rick Wilson's "The East Wing Obscenity"
This essay by Rick Wilson is among the best and most important I have ever read.
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October 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The essential need to question and confront “authority” has never been greater than it is now. Understanding how that effort was undertaken sixty years ago may be helpful. My latest essay is the second of three on the Berkeley Free Speech Movement sixty years ago.
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“Question Authority”: 1964-2025
The Berkeley Free Speech Movement, Part 2
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November 28, 2024 at 3:52 PM
This week, the magnitude of the Trumpocalypse became even more obvious—at least for those who have a fourth grade knowledge of mathematics, My essay today gives some examples of MAGAMath:
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Ain’t that MAGAmerica Somthin’ to See?
MAGAMath: $1 Trillion for the “man” who has killed hundreds of thousands; 1,500% price cuts; Americans to lose 393 pounds apiece!
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November 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM
A Catastrophe of Choice
The competition is over; Trump has retired the Trophy for Worst President in American History
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A Catastrophe of Choice
The competition is over; Trump has retired the Trophy for Worst President in American History
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April 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
November 7, 2024 at 12:16 PM
Bob Dylan’s Sixty-Year-Old Message to the MAGA Faithful
In “Like a Rolling Stone,” with a salutation from “Ballad of a Thin Man,” a man who rejected being seen as God then speaks to followers of a man who pretends to be God now
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Bob Dylan’s Sixty-Year-Old Message to the MAGA Faithful
In “Like a Rolling Stone,” with a salutation from “Ballad of a Thin Man,” a man who rejected being seen as God then speaks to followers of a man who pretends to be God now
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July 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
"against leaving Facebook. I don't think it would accomplish anything and would have downsides
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Opposition to Trump will grow substantially when people see the consequences of his extremist policies."

Should We Stay or Should We Go?
by Robert McElvaine
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Should We Stay or Should We Go?
Why a Mass X-odus from Musk is Essential, but Leving Facebook Would Be a Mistake
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December 13, 2024 at 8:51 PM
#LostSilver #SpookyMonth #RobertSM

"Is that a Lost Silver? That's so rad!"
February 2, 2025 at 3:38 AM
My essay today uses LBJ’s “Great Society” speech at the University of Michigan 60 years ago this week to remind us of his extraordinary accomplishments before he made the monumental mistake of getting deeply involved in Vietnam:
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Sixty Years Ago this Week LBJ Was on a Path to Mt. Rushmore
It's time to remember that LBJ – Vietnam = Mount Rushmore + LBJ, and those accomplishments are what the extreme right is trying to overturn today
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May 25, 2024 at 1:18 PM