Obituary for TikTok US: 2017-2025

UPDATE: TikTok goes down. TikTok comes back up. All in less than 24 hours. Convenient how creating the problem lets you swoop in to save the day, isn’t it? We’re all being played. Gone Too Viral In a time when our lives were choreographed by algorithms, filled with lip-synced trends, and stitched together into a … Read more

It Appears Speaker Mike Johnson Has Never Heard of the Separation of Powers

Our long national nightmare is returning. This week has shown yet again that the Republican Party, after 40 years in the making with increasing levels of subservience to a series of “Dear Leader” Presidents (Reagan, Bush II, and Trump,) has morphed into an authoritarian-plutocratic-white nationalists-alternative reality based-neo fascist political entity. In 2025, fealty to Donald … Read more

Gallego and Kelly Will Regret Supporting the ‘Detain Petty Thieves Forever Bill’ (aka ‘Laken Reilly’)

It seems that many elected Democrats, including some of Arizona’s own, have been cowed into supporting a very bad bill. In brief, the ‘Detain Petty Thieves Forever Bill’ (aka the Laken Reilly Act… you can always count on MAGA to horribly and cynically exploit a family’s tragedy for political purposes, can’t you?) not only mandates … Read more

In His Farewell Address, President Biden Calls on the People to “Keep the Flame and Faith” While Fighting the Coming “Oligarchy of the Tech Industrial Complex”

In his last Oval Office Address as President of the United States, Joe Biden delivered his farewell address, thanking the American People for entrusting him with the American Presidency, calling on them to continue fighting for the American Ideal, ward off the rising Oligarchy of the “Tech Industrial Complex,” and to stay engaged and “keep … Read more