Published

10 months ago

January 21, 2025

Alice Rush

From her Wikipedia page:

Heather Cox Richardson is an American historian. She is a professor of history at Boston College, where she teaches courses on the American Civil War, the Reconstruction Era, the American West, and the Plains Indians. She previously taught history at MIT and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

She writes:

Back at the White House, retaliation continued. Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of all of the January 6 rioters who had been convicted of crimes related to the attempt to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election, including Enrico Tarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys who was serving 22 years for seditious conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States.

His pardon also included Daniel Rodriguez, who was sentenced to 12 and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to tasing Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone, who suffered cardiac arrest and a traumatic brain injury. “Omg I did so much f—ing s— r[ight] n[ow] and got away,” he texted to his gang. “Tazzed the f— out of the blue[.]”

Richardson doesn’t offer an opinion on the moral nature of Trump’s decision to pardon/commute the sentence of these people, but the reader infers, correctly, that justice and the rule of law is not well served.

We need to prepare ourselves for four years of these fascist actions, and hope we get some semblance of our country back when it’s over.

Pardoning the Cop Beaters

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With Trump, It Gets Worse by the Day

Published

11 hours ago

November 22, 2025

Alice Rush

With each passing day, Trump’s rhetoric reveals to an even greater degree his cruelty, his vindictiveness, and most of all, his lack of understanding of the U.S. Constitution. The only thing he has on his side is his capacity to mirror the hate and ignorance of his MAGA base.

We used to be proud of our country.