Tag: news
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TAPA # 160 MURDERS IN MINNEAPOLIS
Trump has no bottom to his depraved indifference to citizens’ rights. What we have witnessed in the Trump-directed invasion of Minnesota and the murders in Minneapolis confirm his fundamental inability to lead or protect the public, indeed, even our most basic right to life itself. His coterie of loyalists Noem, Patel, Bessent, Bovino, and Blanche…
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TAPA # 159 A JAN 6TH REDUX
This morning, I dreaded reading the papers. The murder of Alex Jeffrey Pretti, an intensive-care nurse and U.S. citizen living in Minneapolis, by federal agents sworn to protect us was revealed in bystander video. There is no question about what happened. You can read it, watch it, and see it for yourself. Pretti was coming…
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Prime Minister Carney @ DAVOS – WEF
January 21, 2026 The Right Honorable Mark Carney Prime Minister of Canada Office of the Prime Minister 80 Wellington Street Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2 Canada VIA Email: pm@pm.gc.ca Dear Prime Minister: Listening to your speech at the Davos World Economic Forum, and our president’s rambling, distorted, disingenuous speech, it is clear that you are a…
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TAPA # 156 TANTRUM
A tantrum is an episode of emotional dysregulation characterized by an intense, poorly controlled expression of anger, frustration, or distress that exceeds what the situation typically warrants and reflects a temporary failure of self-regulation. Common features include emotional loss of control and a disproportionate reaction to a trigger. Tantrums often occur when an individual feels overwhelmed, thwarted,…
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TAPA # 154 FEAR OR FAVOR???
Four senior career prosecutors from the Department Justice Civil Rights Division resigned protesting the refusal of the DOJ to investigate the shooting of Renee Good. The former head of the Civil Rights Division, Kristen Clarke, said that “the officer-involved shooting of Renee Good is precisely the kind of case that the Civil Rights Division would…
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TAPA # 153 I HATE THOSE BRIDGES TOO FAR!!!
A friend recently sent me an essay about how to hold fast to one’s values while engaging pragmatically with people who hold deeply opposed views. My takeaway was a reminder to try to remove the “edge” from my writing and from how I engage others. That is easier said than done. It is difficult not…
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TAPA # 152 TRUTH WILL HAVE CONSEQUENCES
Today I watched the compilation of videos assembled by The New York Times. Their frame-by-frame analysis, slowed and synchronized across multiple angles, makes one thing unmistakably clear: this incident demands a serious, independent investigation. What the videos reveal explains precisely why President Trump, Secretary Noem, and Attorney General Bondi have worked to block any comprehensive inquiry.…
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TAPA # 151 THE USE OF FARCE
There has been a great deal of talk about “respect” in the aftermath of the murder of Renee Good in Minneapolis by ICE agent Jonathan Ross. Before returning to that, however, we need to examine what “respect” looks like coming from the top of our government. Yesterday, while touring a Ford plant in Michigan, the President of the…
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TAPA # 149 TRUMP TRUTH
The Authoritarian Playbook These are the defining features of a totalitarian system, according to Hannah Arendt, the political philosopher who fled Nazi Germany in 1933. Timothy Snyder, former Yale historian and author of On Tyranny, distilled the same danger into a single warning: “Post-truth is pre-fascism. “Once truth collapses, tyranny follows. If I didn’t know better, I would think…
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TAPA # 146 THEY SHOOT MOMS – DONT’T THEY!!!
In TAPA #145 Baloney Not Oil, I laid out why the only people who will ever see a financial return from the Venezuelan incursion, an operation that cost American taxpayers an estimated $500 million, are the oil barons. Because of the massive tax breaks Trump handed the industry, any profits will never reach the “regular” American who works…
THE AMERICAN POSEIDON ADVENTURE 