Category Archives: conservatives

How It Works. How They Work.

Posted on Thursday 3 July 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

How it works: Republican megadonors get megacontracts to run ICE concentration camps; How they work: Republicans are even less pluralistic than they’ve ever been; Robert Reich on the familiar reasons authoritarians suppress education, and what “conservative ideas” might possibly be; … Continue reading →

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Now It’s Concentration Camps

Posted on Wednesday 2 July 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Concentration Camps, and Republican salivation to send 65 million immigrants to the alligators; Trump thinks brain scans measure IQ; American science’s brain drain; How societies maintain national myths to survive. – – – What’s next? Dungeons and shackles? Do Trump … Continue reading →

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Progress, and the Forces Against It

Posted on Friday 27 June 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

We have been here before: comparing 1940 to 2025; Steven Novella assesses whether skepticism has made any progress in recent decades; The irony of MAGA being outraged by a Muslim candidate for New York City’s mayor; Conservative presumption and arrogance … Continue reading →

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This Is What Will Be

Posted on Thursday 26 June 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

How right-wing violence has become normalized; How perhaps “totalitarianism” is better word than “authoritarianism” for what is going on; How Republicans trying to roll back same-sex marriage are fighting a losing battle, cf. that Stephen Prothero book; A psychiatrist explains … Continue reading →

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Like Living in Someone Else’s Fantasy Novel

Posted on Monday 23 June 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Heather Cox Richardson summarizes the past few days and puts events into context; (With asides about having read Fail-Safe and watched the movie, this past week; and a Facebook meme about Emperor Hirohito bombing Pearl Harbor and then expecting peace); … Continue reading →

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No Shades of Gray

Posted on Friday 20 June 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Trump wants national parks to reflect only patriotic history; Trump thinks if you’re not on his side then you “hate America”; Yet another example: Beware “common sense”; Short items: Atheists in prison; Trump officials reverse ICE guidelines, again and again; … Continue reading →

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Police Uniforms and Masks; Humor vs. Anger

Posted on Wednesday 18 June 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

How fake police wear uniforms, and secret police (ICE) wears face masks; Robert Reich on the most regressive bill in history; The lack of conservative humor; Becoming aware of Rebecca Solnit; And short items about how Trump cut the suicide … Continue reading →

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Paleolithic Emotions, Medieval Institutions, and Godlike Technology

Posted on Tuesday 17 June 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

EO Wilson on the real problem of humanity; Conservatives think you can command things into existence, despite the evidence of the real world; re: Trump’s tariffs on aluminum; With my comments about modern technology and globalism; How the Minnesota killer … Continue reading →

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Are Trump and MAGA intending to ethnically cleanse Democrats? Signs Point That Way

Posted on Monday 16 June 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

Paul Krugman and Guardian on how the parade was a flop, while No Kings Day was a hit; Photos from Trump’s military parade; Motivated reasoning and conspiracy theories about the Minnesota shootings, even though the facts are apparent enough (and … Continue reading →

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It’s Not Even About Deportation

Posted on Friday 13 June 2025 by Mark R. Kelly

The Alex Padilla incident, and the threat to “liberate” Los Angeles from its lawfully-elected leaders; Trump always thinks protestors are paid demonstrators; why cannot he conceive that people disagree with him on principle? And bonus items! – – – Because … Continue reading →

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