Category Archives: Resistance Rebellion And Death

Internalizing Our Fascist Moment

Posted on August 14, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

What strikes me about this moment is how too many people, including those who claim to oppose Trump, have not internalized that the Trump administration and the Congressional Republicans are fascist (if you want to call it sparkling authoritarianism or … Continue reading →

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Liberals Need to Learn That the New York Times Is a Conservative Newspaper

Posted on August 6, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

By conservative, I do not mean MAGA or White Christian evangelical (nationalist), but they are conservative. In case you missed it, there seems to be a real disconnect between what The Harvard Crimson and the New York Times are reporting … Continue reading →

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There Also Must Be Accountability for Institutions That Failed

Posted on August 4, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Or more accurately, for the people in those institutions that have failed us. In light of Trump’s firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because he didn’t like the jobs numbers, Commandante Atrios revisits some concern, from … Continue reading →

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When (Grand) Jury Nullification Is a Good Thing

Posted on July 28, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Historically, jury nullification–when a jury returns a verdict of not guilty even though they think a defendant has broken the law–has been used to allow very bad people (e.g., murderers of Black people during the Jim Crow and segregation eras) … Continue reading →

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Creationism and Fascism: Two Instances When Words Have No Meaning

Posted on July 23, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Or as some asshole with a blog intermitently puts it, nothing in movement conservatism makes sense except in the light of creationism. Creationists have always used words as weapons by ingoring their straightforward meanings. It’s what they do. A recent … Continue reading →

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The Free Press Isn’t So Free Anymore

Posted on July 16, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

The fear of retribution is powerful (boldface mine): I suspect it will take Color Revolution-style resistance—perhaps including state violence against peaceful protests—before mainstream news acts like Trump’s abuses of power are newsworthy again. But Trump would have to be hard … Continue reading →

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Pleasantly Surprised by Discontent at ICE

Posted on July 11, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

In this Atlantic article about the discontent among ICE employees, it’s interesting to note that many of the employees interviewed think it’s stupid to continue “arresting gardeners.” While I’m no fan of ICE as currently constituted (to say the least), … Continue reading →

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Grok and Antisemitism: It’s Time for Democrats to Leave Twitter/X

Posted on July 10, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

It’s also time for decent people in general to leave too, but I’m getting ahead of myself. If you haven’t heard, Grok, X’s LLM (which should probably be called a Large Hitler Model) had a long outburst of antisemitism last … Continue reading →

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An Inability to Accept a Fundamental Change in the Existing Order

Posted on July 3, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

I had a conversation with someone in their 80s last week, and what we kept coming back to was that the world he had spent his entire life in had changed. He wasn’t referring to technological change–obviously technology was different … Continue reading →

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The Question We Need to Ask Christian Candidates

Posted on June 30, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Last week, as a result of Zohran Mamdani winning the Democratic mayoral primary, lots of people lost their shit, including New York Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who ranted about Mamdani being a possible Hamas supporter. This all goes back to … Continue reading →

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