So, as you may have heard, President Trump has decided to destroy the East Wing of the White House to build some kind of Bribery Ballroom (name pending, but actually not because it’s going to be called the Trump Ballroom because of course it is). He also, you may not have noticed, cut down a few heritage trees for the same reason. If this were just a normal building somewhere else, owned by a real property owner, this would have been illegal. Mostly due to lack of permits, environmental protection (or lack of report of environmental impacts),...
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Dragon books
Fuck it. We did Psalm 1; let’s do Psalm 2. For the past several years, in my old age, I have gotten back into reading what I call my “dragon books” — fantasy novels — to have some semblance of escape in my reading from the horrors of societal life since circa 2015. While it is true I have interspersed them with canon and non-canon “good” literature (not sure where Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem falls in there) as well as great non-fiction (I highly recommend Foner’s Reconstruction, which I read in 2018 according to Goodreads), I always...
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Janet Mills, former Democratic governor of Maine, is running for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. Many have described this as a “coup,” specifically for Sen. Chuck Schumer, who wants to regain the majority in the senate, and has been trying to get Mills to run this cycle, seeing her as the best possible nominee for the Democrats. Some have called her some kind of dream candidate, one with the best chance of winning the seat for the Democrats due to her popularity and proven ability to win state-wide in Maine. She’s also 77 years old. Now,...
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