Hegseth’s kill orders, Trump’s anti-climate crusade, billionaire baby bonds, and the CDC’s anti-vax makeover, your daily tour through America’s authoritarian renovation project.
Killing the “narcoboat” survivors wasn’t just a war crime, it was also stupid in that the survivors could have provided useful intelligence about who was paying them to run the drugs.
Unless, of course, Hegseth wasn’t 100% sure the men on the boat were guilty. If the survivors were, say, innocent fishermen, then keeping them alive would have posed an existence threat to him and Trump.
I certainly hope we.the.people.never forget this lesson (and the few who haven’t learned it yet enjoy eating their hats). I personally take no glee and remind all the christians STILL supporting this THOU. SHALT.NOT.KILL.
I thought we had better representation. Past Tense.
In an earlier attack, there were two (narco-terrorists?) survivors that they simply let return home...to do what? I think that's when Hegsdeath revised the plan to leave no witnesses.
You are so right about shining the light on these disasters parading as human beings. Keep the bright light shining and eventually, eventually people will say hey what the f is that? I am curious about how the baby bank accounts work. Does every child born in America from now on get a one thousand dollar account? Why not pay for the maternity bills instead? Why not buy the family a year's worth of diapers instead? Why not put the money into the bills accumulated by every new parent? Do you know why? I do. It is because (yes, the rich get richer and the stock markets are assured of a steady flow of government cash) but it is because the Magats do not trust the people, the new parents, the families, to do what is right with the money. Can you imagine, not trusting a brand new mom to buy diapers instead of beer? That is how they look at us, like we are all just drug addicts and alcoholics lolling about the street corner while our bastard children roll around in the grass. The utter contempt this government has for its neediest people is vile. Trump is a stinky horrible person.
“Put together, today’s stories are facets of the same project: weakening the institutions that protect the vulnerable, elevating the actors who wield cruelty as political currency, and flooding the information space with enough chaos to make accountability feel quaint. Hegseth’s boat strikes, the Dells’ gilded Trojan horse, the CDC’s collapse into Kennedy-ism, Trump’s gleeful arson of the climate rulebook, none of it is accidental. It is governance by demolition, privatization, grievance, and spectacle.
“And yet here we are, gathering the pieces, writing them down, and keeping the receipts. Because if they are determined to usher in the age of gangster government, the least we can do is turn on the lights and narrate the whole damn thing while they stumble.”
Another brilliant encapsulation of the death of our Republic by a thousand daily cuts of treason, vengeance, greed and malice. Keeping the headlights on Trump’s/MAGA’s sadism, lies, self-dealing and astounding unfitness for governing is an essential act of American patriotism. Thankful for Mary and others in a small, fierce core of astute truth tellers who are keeping us informed and (unlike legacy media) are accurately documenting the “first draft of history”.
“Cruelty can be normalized faster than decency can be rebuilt” - makes me stop and think over my bowl of Wheat Chex’s this morning.
I am thinking of Somalian people who came here in good faith to our country to realize a dream or two or more like everyone else.
They are not “garbage”. They are people made in God’s image. They have gifts and skills and stories and wisdom to share and enhance our communities.
No human being is “garbage. Some do come close however. They come close, because they forget about everyone else and turn inward. They strive for power and pleasure etc. It’s never
enough for them. They are eventually too numb to being a human. They do terrible things - they rape children, they rape others, they rip things down when they don’t get their way, they lie, steal money from the poor….
Excellent piece - I would add to it the related point of developing a comprehensive "corruption forensics" program to maximize the value and impact of receipts.
Well, since the federal government has no compunction to do as you have described, it is up to private individuals who have the wherewithal, time and intelligence to do so. I just subscribed to your substack - are you that person? I would love to see a log kept, a searchable database, receipts added daily, descriptions of laws broken and et cetera. Make the prosecutors' job easier when we get to that. If we get to that.
Thank You ,Mary. Your ability to find the perfectly accumulated words are graphically accurate. As if it saddens the demise of America one or two bodies at a time…over lies, conspiracy mongers (also lying) , power hungry madmen vetted into positions denying they’d ever intentionally destroy a great country by definitely breaking rules of law. The GOP signed their own plan over and over and the fools that followed them amounted to nearly half the population. Those that slink away professing some awakening…yea right, you will buy them again , don’t ya just know?
No I don’t have all the answers, but as written before admitting our mistakes is a beginning and denying them says it all…hello!
Remember their names.Remember their names. Remember their names!
"Trump is terminating the Biden-era CAFE standards, the very rules designed to make cars cleaner, safer, and less expensive to fuel, and replacing them with, well… nothing."
This is just Trump rewinding anything Biden. The auto manufacturers didn't ask for this and don't want this. They want consistency in regulations for products that take years to develop. And if they do degrade the CAFE standards, good luck exporting them to civilized countries.
This retrograde action is just another wrench in the gears of progress that will end up handing the 21st century to Chia-Nah. Let's hope Detroit just ignores it.
Thank you for your continued important work in documenting the evil and incompetence that has overtaken our polity. We will value it even more in the years to come when we are engaged in the arduous work of rebuilding
Killing the “narcoboat” survivors wasn’t just a war crime, it was also stupid in that the survivors could have provided useful intelligence about who was paying them to run the drugs.
Unless, of course, Hegseth wasn’t 100% sure the men on the boat were guilty. If the survivors were, say, innocent fishermen, then keeping them alive would have posed an existence threat to him and Trump.
I certainly hope we.the.people.never forget this lesson (and the few who haven’t learned it yet enjoy eating their hats). I personally take no glee and remind all the christians STILL supporting this THOU. SHALT.NOT.KILL.
I thought we had better representation. Past Tense.
In an earlier attack, there were two (narco-terrorists?) survivors that they simply let return home...to do what? I think that's when Hegsdeath revised the plan to leave no witnesses.
You are so right about shining the light on these disasters parading as human beings. Keep the bright light shining and eventually, eventually people will say hey what the f is that? I am curious about how the baby bank accounts work. Does every child born in America from now on get a one thousand dollar account? Why not pay for the maternity bills instead? Why not buy the family a year's worth of diapers instead? Why not put the money into the bills accumulated by every new parent? Do you know why? I do. It is because (yes, the rich get richer and the stock markets are assured of a steady flow of government cash) but it is because the Magats do not trust the people, the new parents, the families, to do what is right with the money. Can you imagine, not trusting a brand new mom to buy diapers instead of beer? That is how they look at us, like we are all just drug addicts and alcoholics lolling about the street corner while our bastard children roll around in the grass. The utter contempt this government has for its neediest people is vile. Trump is a stinky horrible person.
“Put together, today’s stories are facets of the same project: weakening the institutions that protect the vulnerable, elevating the actors who wield cruelty as political currency, and flooding the information space with enough chaos to make accountability feel quaint. Hegseth’s boat strikes, the Dells’ gilded Trojan horse, the CDC’s collapse into Kennedy-ism, Trump’s gleeful arson of the climate rulebook, none of it is accidental. It is governance by demolition, privatization, grievance, and spectacle.
“And yet here we are, gathering the pieces, writing them down, and keeping the receipts. Because if they are determined to usher in the age of gangster government, the least we can do is turn on the lights and narrate the whole damn thing while they stumble.”
Another brilliant encapsulation of the death of our Republic by a thousand daily cuts of treason, vengeance, greed and malice. Keeping the headlights on Trump’s/MAGA’s sadism, lies, self-dealing and astounding unfitness for governing is an essential act of American patriotism. Thankful for Mary and others in a small, fierce core of astute truth tellers who are keeping us informed and (unlike legacy media) are accurately documenting the “first draft of history”.
“Cruelty can be normalized faster than decency can be rebuilt” - makes me stop and think over my bowl of Wheat Chex’s this morning.
I am thinking of Somalian people who came here in good faith to our country to realize a dream or two or more like everyone else.
They are not “garbage”. They are people made in God’s image. They have gifts and skills and stories and wisdom to share and enhance our communities.
No human being is “garbage. Some do come close however. They come close, because they forget about everyone else and turn inward. They strive for power and pleasure etc. It’s never
enough for them. They are eventually too numb to being a human. They do terrible things - they rape children, they rape others, they rip things down when they don’t get their way, they lie, steal money from the poor….
https://open.substack.com/pub/andrewcampbell931191/p/corruption-forensics?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
Excellent piece - I would add to it the related point of developing a comprehensive "corruption forensics" program to maximize the value and impact of receipts.
Well, since the federal government has no compunction to do as you have described, it is up to private individuals who have the wherewithal, time and intelligence to do so. I just subscribed to your substack - are you that person? I would love to see a log kept, a searchable database, receipts added daily, descriptions of laws broken and et cetera. Make the prosecutors' job easier when we get to that. If we get to that.
Thank You ,Mary. Your ability to find the perfectly accumulated words are graphically accurate. As if it saddens the demise of America one or two bodies at a time…over lies, conspiracy mongers (also lying) , power hungry madmen vetted into positions denying they’d ever intentionally destroy a great country by definitely breaking rules of law. The GOP signed their own plan over and over and the fools that followed them amounted to nearly half the population. Those that slink away professing some awakening…yea right, you will buy them again , don’t ya just know?
No I don’t have all the answers, but as written before admitting our mistakes is a beginning and denying them says it all…hello!
Remember their names.Remember their names. Remember their names!
"Trump is terminating the Biden-era CAFE standards, the very rules designed to make cars cleaner, safer, and less expensive to fuel, and replacing them with, well… nothing."
This is just Trump rewinding anything Biden. The auto manufacturers didn't ask for this and don't want this. They want consistency in regulations for products that take years to develop. And if they do degrade the CAFE standards, good luck exporting them to civilized countries.
This retrograde action is just another wrench in the gears of progress that will end up handing the 21st century to Chia-Nah. Let's hope Detroit just ignores it.
Thank you for your continued important work in documenting the evil and incompetence that has overtaken our polity. We will value it even more in the years to come when we are engaged in the arduous work of rebuilding
What are the chances we can undue all of this in 3.5 years???