Samuel Beshers
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Temperature today: 90C I didn’t think the temperature was going down after the handcuffing of Senator Padilla, but it is even with the arrest of the New York City comptroller, Brad Lander. This is a big part of the takeaways from the weekend. There are several independent developments: No Kings Day was a huge
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Temperature today: 95C and not going down any time soon Alex Padilla. And the immediate lies from some, but not all, Republicans. All of them should know better. They all need to be held accountable, preferably sooner rather than later. “Parkrose permaculture” has a video today reminding us that we’re being hit by propaganda from
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Temperature today: 90C and climbing Today a sitting US Senator from California, Alex Padilla, was removed from a press conference being held by Kristi Noem, forcibly detained and handcuffed. This is an incredible outrage; it is also a crime and the officers and agents responsible should be arrested. They lied after the fact that they
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Temperature today: 80C This is one of the days when Trump seems inept and cowardly, doing malicious things but only being partly effective, and then retreating when the pushback comes. The protests in LA seem to have died down, or news of them has. It is clear that this situation was created by the administration
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Temperature today: 90C It’s going down in LA; shit’s getting real There is an iconic photo of a young woman confronting a row of National Guards with a single chrysanthemum flower, which became a powerful image of the power of peaceful protest. There is a new image, a video of this time, of a young
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Temperature today: 80C It is taking longer than I expected (feared?) but we are slowly getting cooked. Over the next week or so I am going to start over trying to make sense of what is going on. It is now June 5 and since I last posted on May 30 there has been plenty
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Temperature today: 50C ? Who the hell knows? Since the election I have felt a nearly constant yingyang between “evil people imposing martial law” and “bumbling incompetents who can produce a shitshow and not much else”. The great “scum” tweet of a few days ago raised the specter of the former, but that is countered
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Temperature 98C. The President of the United States has called at least half of the citizens “scum”. May 27, 2025 Mr. President: Yesterday, on Memorial Day, you put out a message on social media that began as follows: “Happy Memorial Day to all, including the scum that spent the last four years trying to destroy
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Temperature today: 60C Maybe everyone takes a holiday today; back on our guard tomorrow. Happy Memorial Day! This is a day of mixed feelings, so I am going with gratitude. I am going to start with the members of the armed services, especially those who gave their lives for our country. We honor your memory
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Temperature holding at 90C. We cannot spend every minute obsessing but we must prepare ourselves to act. Two pieces for today, both from writers who have in depth knowledge and have been both sounding alarms and realistic about our situation. Peter Olandt writes that “There are no rules based paths that will get us out”.
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