Category Archives: Conservatives

DOGE Is (Was?) an Insider Threat

Posted on March 11, 2026 by mikethemadbiologist

Nobody could have predicted this (boldface mine): According to the disclosure, the former DOGE software engineer, who worked at the Social Security Administration last year before starting a job at a government contractor in October, allegedly told several co-workers that … Continue reading →

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D.C. Statehood Matters: The Speeding Camera Edition

Posted on March 10, 2026 by mikethemadbiologist

D.C. statehood is often portrayed as critical because Democrats almost certainly would gain two seats, and it makes sense that is how most people who live outside of D.C. would view the issue. But for D.C. residents, the most noticeable … Continue reading →

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Trump Freezes Out ICE Queen

Posted on March 6, 2026 by mikethemadbiologist

“WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE MY NEW DHS SECRETARY?” In case you missed it, Kristi Noem* is out at ICE, and it happened in the most humiliating fashion: while she was giving a speech–and none of her staff bothered to … Continue reading →

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‘AI’, DOGE, and Mediocrity

Posted on February 26, 2026 by mikethemadbiologist

A couple of years ago, some asshole with a blog noted: The dirty secret of white-collar and white-collar adjacent professional life is that one has to be very good at mediocre reading and writing (regarding the latter, just look at … Continue reading →

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Two Things I Learned from Last Night’s State of the Union Address

Posted on February 25, 2026 by mikethemadbiologist

While there’s much that could be said about Trump’s Nuremburg Rally last night, life is too short to waste time on a speech that won’t do much (like most State of the Union addresses). But there are two things that … Continue reading →

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Congressional Republicans Create a Huge Legal Problem for D.C.’s Tax Collection

Posted on February 18, 2026 by mikethemadbiologist

And by D.C., I do not mean Wor-Shing-Tun, but the colonial territory of the District of Columbia. Because D.C. is a colonial territory and not a sovereign state, Congress has the ability to alter or reject D.C. legislation, and Congressional … Continue reading →

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Secretary of State Rubio Goes Full White Christian Nationalist

Posted on February 17, 2026 by mikethemadbiologist

Which is to say, white Christian supremacist: For the United States and Europe, we belong together. America was founded 250 years ago, but the roots began here on this continent long before. The man who settled and built the nation … Continue reading →

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The Implications of the Phrase “The Most Racist”

Posted on February 11, 2026 by mikethemadbiologist

In case you missed it, last week, in one of adjudicated rapist Donald Trump’s posting binges, he posted a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes. Republican Senator Tim Scott, who is the only Black member of the Republican … Continue reading →

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Illinois College Republicans Do a Big Fascism

Posted on February 3, 2026 by mikethemadbiologist

A really bad one (boldface mine): In a post that included a stylized graphic of a presumed federal officer holding a gun to someone’s head, Illini Republicans stated that they “stand with ICE” amid the killings of Renee Nicole Good … Continue reading →

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The Incoherence of the Conservative Position on Immigration

Posted on January 28, 2026 by mikethemadbiologist

With Trump’s blut und boden immigration policy in disarray, many of his enablers are now retreating to a position of “we just want to deport the bad ones.” But there are two problems with that. First, as a matter of … Continue reading →

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