Category Archives: Resistance Rebellion And Death

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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When Totalitarianism Comes to D.C.: The Renaming Edition

Posted on June 26, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Not Wor-Shing-Tun, but the mainland colony known as the District of Columbia. MAGA totalitarians want to rename things (boldface mine): Late last month, Florida Republican Rep. Greg Steube introduced a bill that would halt any funding for the Washington Metropolitan … Continue reading →

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Officer Friendly? Or a Kidnapper?

Posted on June 23, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

“We’re just your friendly neighborhood officers” There are a lot of wealthy–not rich, but just wealthy–people who really need to figure out that having unidentified internal security forces grabbing people off the street puts them at risk for kidnapping for … Continue reading →

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Republican Kidnappers

Posted on June 20, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

This is a good ad, but we now need so many more actual Democratic officials to make the point this viscerally–no faux outrage:

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Trump’s Own Private Army

Posted on June 19, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Over seven years ago, some asshole with a blog noted the following about ICE (boldface added): The problem is similar to that of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). Most DEA officials want to stop drug manufacturers. Most are not interested … Continue reading →

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