When Ted Koppel gets pissed, he brings out the facts. And boy, is this gonna bite us in the butt for the next century or so.
Monthly Archives: April 2025
Gerald Ford and America’s “moral obligation” to refugees
I mean, yeah, sure, he pardoned a criminal president, which gave us the crimes of Reagan, Bush the Lesser, and now Trump, but Ford wasn’t *all* bad.
At least he wasn’t a raging racist POS.
It’s happening here: when book bans hit home
Never…EVER…side with the book burners and banners and censors. They do not have your best interests at heart and are using group ignorance to lie, steal, and eventually kill you. And there are here in Minnesota as well.
10 ways to be prepared and grounded now that Trump has won
More advise that may not have aged well since the election.
Fascism in Europe: Rick Steves
Steves gets it, and goes there. Listen.
We Must Be Ready When Trump Invokes Insurrection Act.
Have a plan I guess. It *is* going to get worse.
Grilling is easier than you think. Here’s how to start
More grilling tips. Enjoy.
SPLC: Veterans on Patrol
If you saw pics and video of a family being terrorized last week by a bearded “ICE agent” bashing in their windows to abduct them, it wasn’t a federal agent. It was a militia member cosplaying as an officer of the law.
He is head of a terrorist organization called “Veterans on Patrol“, which apparently is allowed to abuse people on the word of the president.
Feeling great again yet?
Update: of course ICE now says it isn’t him, despite the concept of an agent not adhering to dress standards. Which means they condone this behavior. Clown show all around.
Food Failures: Avoiding Grilling and Barbecue Pitfalls
It is starting to warm up in fits and starts here so getting some grilling tips isn’t a completely bad idea.
10 Things We Can All Do to Protect Democracy
From back in January (I am slowly coming out of my medicated haze post-surgery and cleaning up links so I may have already posted this).
It seems Pollyanna-ish now to think we can save the United States from itself, but here goes. I have more of these. It will at minimum prove that not everyone was ready to cozy up to fascists, for all the good it did.