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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There Is a Third Option

Published

13 hours ago

October 10, 2026

Alice Rush

Whoa. Let’s take a step back. Is it really either A or B?

You could on the side of the morons, those incapable of any level of critical thinking, like the author of the meme here.

There Is a Third Option

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Televised Executions

Published

2 days ago

October 9, 2026

Alice Rush

The United States seems set on propelling itself backwards.

Televised Executions

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Does It Get Any Worse?

Published

2 days ago

October 9, 2026

Alice Rush

Maybe, as they say, “Hell has a special place reserved in it” for people like Thom Tillis, Republican Senator from North Carolina, who enabled Trump to rape and destroy the United States.

That was until it became clear to Tillis that he could jump ship, write a scathing book about the president, get all over mainstream news promoting it, and go on to enjoy another chapter of political success.

That we Americans are so stupid that we accept this blatant hypocrisy and criminality is sad proof that we’re not the people we were 20 years ago. Maybe what many people are saying are correct: we deserved what we got.