Published

2 years 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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Modern Humankind in a Nutshell

Published

6 hours ago

October 31, 2026

Alice Rush

At left we see the moral bankruptcy that guides our civilization.

I recall many years ago, when Musk was becoming a “thing,” writing a post to the effect that, “What a terrible shame. We really didn’t need just one more super-rich asshole on this beleaguered planet.”

Modern Humankind in a Nutshell

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Guiding America’s Future

Published

1 day ago

October 30, 2026

Alice Rush

It’s easy to understand how Trump has great appeal to the hateful idiots and the amoral rich.

It’s much harder to see how it’s possible that a huge number of eligible voters are uninvolved in guiding the future of the United States, with many of them saying that “both sides are the same.”

Guiding America’s Future

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It’s PEOPLE Who Vote

Published

1 day ago

October 30, 2026

Alice Rush

We often hear the MAGA folks claim that voting in the U.S. disproportionate favors the people in big cities, mostly along the coasts.

The obvious response: People vote, not acres of land.

And yes, it’s true that Trump has little appeal to the well-educated, highly productive people in Southern California, the Bay Area, the Mid-Atlantic, New England, other large cities like Chicago, Phoenix, Houston, and Seattle.