Chris Murphy is demonstrating the level of vocal opposition to Trump's corruption, based on reason and truth, that should render him an attractive presidential candidate. Democrats should take notice.

Today Joe Scarborough uncritically linked as "weaponization" the five prosecutions against Trump with Trump's current campaign of vengence. There were facts, law, and competent lawyers to support the Trump prosecutions, so contrary to Trump's current abuse of the rule of law. Shame on Joe.

George Orwell indicted totalitarianism and the power of propaganda in his "1984". He now is a prophet, a "Jeremiah", for the Trump era. From biographies I have read, I don't think I would want Orwell over for dinner, but I would invite him to lecture anytime. American needs an Orwellian "2025".

Trumpism (noun): the corruption of science and reason.

Why is not Senator Chris Murphy not being identified as Presidential timber? He is moral; he says the right things; he has political courage. I hope he is thinking of a run in three years.

More American corporate titans and now even an English King willingly co-opted into the Trump circus. Will the Trump/Vance autocrats and their despicable minions, including Trumpian Justices, turn America into a Russian clone before the next election? Unless the Democrats grow spines, bet yes.

Trump/RFK, Jr.'s, attack on the CDC is the modern equivalent of Lysenkoism in Russia and Eugenics in Nazi Germany. Science is being replaced by myth, reason by ideology. These guys' myth-creation will cause death and suffering. Stalinism, Nazism, and Trumpianism: disasters of the modern age.

Trump and ICE remind of the terrors of the Fugitive Slave Act. After the return to slavery of Anthony Burns, the abolitionist poet John G. Whittier wrote: "And Law, an unloosed maniac, strong, Blood-drunken, through the blackness trod, Hoarse-shouting in the ear of God. The blasphemy of wrong."

"Peace for our time" (1938). Sudetenland goes. Hitler moves on. "A ten out of ten" (2025). Ukraine goes. Putin moves on. Trump is always Putin's slavish pawn. A red carpet laid by American soldiers on American soil will be the image to remember of Trump's demonic, autocratic adoration.

While fighting slavery, William Lloyd Garrison often quoted from Isaiah: "We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have an agreement; when the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter.” Timely.

The firing of the honorable Erika McEntarfer for telling a truth that exposes his economic idiocy, and the immediate rewarding of the despicable Ghislaine Maxwell for an undisclosed, distorted narrative that undoubtedly suits his purposes are but two of this week's examples of Trump's corruption.

Trump's personal attorney "investigatng" and offering limited immunity and Trump being equivocal regarding pardoning a convicted sexual trafficking felon. In 1972 that would be grounds for impeachment with even Republicans in the House and Senate voting "yes." There is no "progress" in politics.

The Epstein files should be released given the investment the Trump camp has made in the "conspiracy". But why didn't Biden once Maxwell was convicted? Because nothing there to hurt Trump? Because harmful to Democrats? Something else? Hopefully it will be released soon ending the questions.

Intriguing: Trump's use of "Enigmas" (i.e., "mysterious" or "puzzling") to describe Jeffrey Epstein and himself in the context of their "secret." As has been noted, "Gamines" is an anagram, meaning neglected young girls who roam the streets, or are playful & mischievous. Conspiracy theory anyone?

How about this for Independence Day, 2025: "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity."

Amen. slate.com/news-and-pol...

A remarkable and wise article from America's best James Madison scholar. It’s Not Just a Constitutional Crisis in the Trump Era. It’s Constitutional Failure washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/27/i...

The cruel Trump and his evangelical cadres continue to condone the destruction of the Palestinians in Gaza-- Netanyahu's modern equivalent of the God-ordained destruction of the "Amalekites." Will not the Palestinians too disappear from the earth? Such inhumanity couched in theology and tribalism.

James Ryan forced out at UVA. The corruption manifested in Trump's initial election, the appointment of three justices committed to an imperial, autocratic president and a hallowing out of due process, and the re-election with its war on science, allies, diversity, and equity is unfathomable.

Graduated from a rival institution to UVA. My wife earned two degrees there. My institution sadly has remained silent during the Trump thought-control onslaught on higher education intended to repress truth discomforting to the white majority. I salute the heroic James Ryan. Hope he survives.

Home Land Security v. DVD: today's Roberts' majority is the equivalent of the Southern majority in Dred Scott. Immigrants have no rights the White Man need recognize. The Roberts Court will one day be known as the 21st Century equivalent of the Taney Court. Will take decades to recover.

What is happening in Gaza? The Iranian crisis now distracts from the continued tragedy there. Where is the NYT and WP right now? Are we now experiencing the age old question of a tree falling in the forest with no one there to hear? Little news coverage means no starvation/deaths?

I am not a Newsom fan generally, but every conscientious American should print out and post to the refrigerator a copy of the articulate attack on Trump corruption he made tonight. He referred to Greek Democracy and the Roman Republic. He gets a "Cicero" award from me tonight.

Trump sits passively as the rioters he inspired storm the Capital, yet in a blink of an eye mobilizes the National Guard to shoot rubber bullets at journalists covering peaceful protests of his deplorable polices. When will his "base" awake from their stupor and reject this destructive autocrat?

Reading Sinha's good abolition history, "The Slave's Cause." Struck by the parallel of Southern slave-owner propaganda and actions under the Fugitive Slave Laws and today's Maga immigrant propaganda/Trump's EOs. Both heartless. History does rhyme; evil repeats itself in similar forms.

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MIT sadly punished free speech by banning Megha Vemuri, the MIT Class President who gave an impassioned Pro-Palestinian speech, from her own graduation. Innocent people have been dying in droves in Gaza. Her speech had merit. If only she had placed blame for the tragedy on Hamas and Trump too.

America elected a felon who repudiates truth and science; shuts down humanitarian aid; pardons insurrectionists; embraces autocrats; abandons victims (Ukraine, Gaza, the poor); intimidates America's universities; desecrates the rule of law; manifests abject cruelty. A horrendous mistake.

52,000 died; 118,000 injured; verge of mass starvation for 2.2 million people; destroyed infrastructure; Trump's forced migration and a Gaza "Riviera". Hamas, Netanyahu, and Trump are the villians here. Where is leadership in America to bring humanitarian relief? AWOL, just as with Ukraine.

52,000 died; 118,000 injured; verge of mass starvation for 2.2 million people; destroyed infrastructure; Trump's forced migration and a Gaza "Riviera". Hamas, Netanyahu, and Trump are the villians here. Where is leadership in America to bring humanitarian relief? AWOL, just as with Ukraine.

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Autocracy needs a cruel Pied Piper who inspires hate and fear supported by compliant, amoral minions and rich, oligarchical supporters who are rewarded for their largesse. That is where America is right now. Sadly for democracy, there is yet no discernable counterforce able to drive them back.

Justice Rutledge in his 1947 Everson dissent wisely warned that religious sects by their very nature would push for public funding of their religious indoctrination, even to the point of taxpayers paying for Sunday School. The Supreme Court in St. Isidore will likely prove him a prophet.

The "Bob Jones" case held that the IRS could revoke the University's tax exempt status for violating the IRS's policy against racial discrimination. Trump's IRS will undoubtedly argue that Harvard "wokeness" is the equivalent. Trump corrupts.

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Go, Cory, two more hours of talking and you will have surpased the much less noble Strom Thurmond's longest speech on the U.S. Senate floor. History is going to look at you kindly not only for the resistance you are manifesting, but for the truth of your words. Presidential timber for sure.

Cory Booker is the real deal. He is doing what all Democrat Senators should be doing at this time of crisis: he is getting out of his comfort zone to fight publicly and with articulate vigtor against the Maga cancer. Keep it up, Cory. Hopefully your colleagues will follow.

Give Trump credit: he has actualized "1984" faster than George Orwell could pen it.

Rachel, why have you been silent on the anger generated by Schumer's actions last Friday. Is there not a desperate need for more youthful, dynamic leadership to take it directly and forcefully to Trump? Surely a newsworthy issue.