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The Armed Takeover of US Cities by the President Is Not a “Distraction”
Jason Kottke, kottke.org
Jamelle Bouie on Democratic politicians who maddeningly cannot recognize and acknowledge what is going on in the country. From
Aug 26, 2025, 1:03 PM
Gutted: How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies (ProPublica). “Food and...
Jason Kottke, kottke.org
Gutted: How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies (ProPublica). “Food and drug facility inspectors are having to go t
Aug 21, 2025, 2:48 PM
The Covid Vaccine Situation for the Fall Is a Complete Mess
Jason Kottke, kottke.org
Dr. Katelyn Jetelina (aka Your Local Epidemiologist) has a frustrating update on how Covid vaccines are probably going to work thi
Aug 20, 2025, 3:20 PM
“If you want to fight for what’s right in this moment, and...
Jason Kottke, kottke.org
“If you want to fight for what’s right in this moment, and forge politics that exist in opposition to what Trump repre
Aug 14, 2025, 3:49 PM
Dictators love a crisis. “For reasons of both personality and political ambition,...
Jason Kottke, kottke.org
Dictators love a crisis. “For reasons of both personality and political ambition, Trump needs a crisis to govern — or rather
Aug 13, 2025, 7:21 PM
The Boston Globe’s Prescient 2016 View of Our Trumpist Future
Jason Kottke, kottke.org
On April 9, 2016, several months before Donald Trump was elected President for the first time, the Boston Globe ran an editorial e
Aug 12, 2025, 4:56 PM
American neo-Nazis love the Trump era. “[Trump] awakened a lot of people...
Jason Kottke, kottke.org
American neo-Nazis love the Trump era. “[Trump] awakened a lot of people to the issues we’ve been raising for years. H
Aug 11, 2025, 2:13 PM
Jamelle Bouie on the Death of the Fourth American Republic
Jason Kottke, kottke.org
This is a great piece from Jamelle Bouie on the likely death of the Voting Rights Act and, zooming out, the end of an era in Ameri
Aug 6, 2025, 11:30 PM
The End of America as a Center of Science
Jason Kottke, kottke.org
Ross Anderson writes about how scientific empires, from the ancient Sumerians to the Nazis to the Soviet Union in the 1950s, have
Jul 31, 2025, 3:48 PM
After Paramount cancelled the Late Show with Stephen Colbert after he criticized...
Jason Kottke, kottke.org
After Paramount cancelled the Late Show with Stephen Colbert after he criticized the network’s $16 million bribe to Trump, D
Jul 23, 2025, 9:14 PM
Trump Action Tracker. “Each action is mapped to one or more of...
Jason Kottke, kottke.org
Trump Action Tracker. “Each action is mapped to one or more of five broad domains of authoritarianism, helping to make sense
Jul 23, 2025, 5:20 PM
CBS cancelled the Late Show with Stephen Colbert just days after he...
Jason Kottke, kottke.org
CBS cancelled the Late Show with Stephen Colbert just days after he criticized the $16 bribe the network paid to Trump. Here’
Jul 18, 2025, 7:39 PM
Photos Show the Vast Scale of China’s Solar Power Projects
Jason Kottke, kottke.org
Over at the Atlantic, Alan Taylor has collected a bunch of photos showing just how hard China is pushing on solar energy. As
Jul 16, 2025, 6:58 PM
Taking Journalism’s ‘Experts Said…’ Chicanery About Facts to Its Natural, Absurd Conclusion
Jason Kottke, kottke.org
Yesterday, the NY Times published an article about Donald Trump’s threat to take away citizenship from a US-born citizen:
Jul 13, 2025, 4:30 PM
There’s No Undo Button For Our Fallen Democracy
Jason Kottke, kottke.org
Tressie McMillan Cottom, one of America’s leading public intellectuals, posted this to Bluesky yesterday: I’m going t
Jul 3, 2025, 4:10 PM
Stupid-Americans feel about Trump the way Irish-Americans felt about JFK in 1960....
Jason Kottke, kottke.org
Stupid-Americans feel about Trump the way Irish-Americans felt about JFK in 1960. “They love him for who he is, which is one
Jun 26, 2025, 8:27 PM
Diego Luna Guest-Hosts Kimmel, Talks Immigration
Jason Kottke, kottke.org
Diego Luna is guest-hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live this week and for his first monologue, the Mexico native spoke about immigration a
Jun 24, 2025, 2:33 PM