Regarding Pete Hegseth

January 18, 2025

Likely soon to be Secretary of Defense Hegseth to us.

field

MN-01 special election: Is Trump fading as a factor?

March 30, 2022

Walker Orenstein does a lot of good reporting. From an article of his that got my attention, a couple of days ago: Early voting for the May 24 primary for the special election to replace U.S. Rep. Jim Hagedorn in Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District starts next Friday, and candidates have begun crisscrossing the region to […]

whitehouse

Why I’m not particularly worried about Election Night, or after

November 2, 2020

I know doom-and-gloom about Trump stealing the election, and mass violence, and so on, are dominating the progressive internet right now. But I just can’t bring myself to feel it. Earlier today, one of the most right-wing federal judges in the country threw out an effort to disqualify a bunch of mostly Democratic votes. He […]

DHS goons

Dump the Department of “Homeland Security”

September 1, 2020

I’m adding my $0.02 to a call that has become prevalent among progressives, lately. Actually, such calls have been around since this monster was created, and rightly so. I think it’s helpful to start at the beginning. The DHS was created in 2003 as an umbrella organization for 22 existing government agencies, of which the […]

corn

Trump has screwed farmers in Minnesota, and elsewhere, big time

August 24, 2020

You probably saw, not long ago, that corn farmers are going to lose money, again, despite great yields. That was before the mega-windstorm hit Iowa, and wiped out some of that state’s projected crop. You’d think that would have made a difference, because, supply and demand, right? Actually, futures didn’t move much. The “supply” part […]

portland

Will Trump’s thug secret police be in Minneapolis soon?

July 18, 2020

Sure looks like it.

Angel of Death, come on down!

May 23, 2020

Bluster on, Donny

courts

How we got to where we’re at with the federal judiciary

December 17, 2019

I saw this: Moscow Mitch McConnell didn’t just casually toss the Constitution into the trash on Sean Hannity’s show Thursday when he promised Donald Trump would be in control of his own impeachment hearing. He gloated over his wanton destruction of federal judiciary, laughing at Hannity for saying that he was shocked President Obama left […]

Tehran, Iran

Will Trump really start a war with Iran?

May 28, 2019

I doubt it, but…