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- Just follow orders or obey the law? What US troops told us about refusing illegal commands December 1, 2025
- education needs support December 1, 2025
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- A Belated Thanksgiving Post (Gary Krenz) November 30, 2025
- The Washington Post Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all (Dan Little) November 28, 2025
- State Media by Proxy (Gary Krenz) November 26, 2025
- Trump: Democrats’ message to troops seditious behavior, punishable by death – BBC News November 21, 2025
- Border Patrol monitors US drivers and detains Americans for ‘suspicious’ travel | AP News November 20, 2025
- “Remove the Regime” protests in DC to demand Trump’s impeachment November 20, 2025
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Just follow orders or obey the law? What US troops told us about refusing illegal commands
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education needs support
Trump’s war on education is harming American young people across the board, from pre-school to doctoral students. And yet the most valuable inheritance for each child and young adult in the world is to have developed his or her creativity, … Continue reading
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Jen Rubin on the order to “kill everyone” (Dan Little)
Jen Rubin’s meticulous and detailed analysis of the criminal status of the Hegseth order is exceptionally good. She quotes the relevant parts of international law, pulls together expert opinion of military lawyers, and demonstrates that this episode demands criminal prosecution … Continue reading
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A Belated Thanksgiving Post (Gary Krenz)
Thanksgiving is a few days past, but here’s a belated thanksgiving post — just before the end of the holiday weekend. To begin, here’s a nice post by Robert Reich from a few days ago: “Gratitude: Thanksgiving thoughts.” It has … Continue reading
The Washington Post Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all (Dan Little)
This is surely a war crime, on a par with atrocities committed by the Russian army in Ukraine. No members of these boat crews are “combatants” in the technical sense, there is no state of war, and disarmed and helpless … Continue reading
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State Media by Proxy (Gary Krenz)
Ben Schwartz has an excellent piece in The Nation, “Trump’s Quest for Total Media Control.” It lays out in concise fashion how the various strands of Trump’s attacks on media — from trying to get Jimmy Kimmel and others fired to … Continue reading
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Trump: Democrats’ message to troops seditious behavior, punishable by death – BBC News
This is truly an outrage. If any private person posted such a message he would be investigated and likely prosecuted for making threats of violence against specific persons. How can it be that our president can make deadly threats and … Continue reading
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Border Patrol monitors US drivers and detains Americans for ‘suspicious’ travel | AP News
Wow, this is a pretty amazing secretive program of mass surveillance across the United States. Did we the people agree to have our travels tracked and analyzed, and then used as a basis for highway stops leading to searches and … Continue reading
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“Remove the Regime” protests in DC to demand Trump’s impeachment
Another mass protest against the dictatorial efforts and strategies of the Trump administration … Let the people speak! "Remove the Regime" protests in DC to demand Trump’s impeachment https://share.google/mBuZvjMet95fMlm2N
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat: “Intellectual Freedom in an Authoritarian Age”
As I promised in an earlier post, here is the video of Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s outstanding Davis, Markert, and Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom at the University of Michigan. It is well worth watching!