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26 March 2026
"No Kings" shorts
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Portland, Oregon, June 14, 2025 The third "No Kings Day" program of protest actions in the USA are being organized for this Satur...
19 March 2026
Bewildered and confounded
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Sarah and James Polk; Donald Trump Sources: left , right . He is a bewildered, confounded, and miserably perplexed man. —Congressman Abraha...
12 March 2026
Boredom for Dummies (and everyone)—partly a repost
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Detail from Japanese Pearl Harbor attack plan. Source . First, a few words about our latest war. When I heard the first news bulletins about...
05 March 2026
Convergence in the Trump era
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Back when I was first interested in Russia and the Soviet Union, in my mid-teens, physicist Andrei Sakharov proposed a new twist on Marxist ...
26 February 2026
"Speak, Memory"
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A couple of weeks ago, my therapist suggested that I write down some of my early memories, grouped chronologically. Maybe later we can disce...
19 February 2026
Are you serious?
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Heard last Sunday, describing the USA's current presidential administration: "These are simply not serious people." Our visit ...
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