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  "Whenever one object exerts a force on another object, the second object exerts an equal and opposite force on the first." - Sir Isaac Newton Politics is not immune to physics, as much as it pains me to admit as a former liberal arts major.  Specifically, politics is just as beholden to Newton's Third Law of Motion, as quoted above, as is any planetoid drifting through the zero-G void of space.   And this is why America is seeing a surge of renewed enthusiasm for both progressivism and socialism. The natural predator of fascism is socialism. They are the matter-antimatter dynamic of political extremes. One will always oppose the other, and when the two come into conflict, explosions can result, as seen in the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939. The same dynamic is now occurring in the United States of America, as the predatory Trump regime exhibits aspects of both predatory capitalism and fascism. As Americans face rising food prices, fuel costs, and utility rat...

  👄👄👄This is your regular reminder that we are 259 days into Donald Trump's Epstein cover-up. 👄👄👄👄 The last two weeks in my neck of the sprawl have been rather warm. This is not unusual. I recall one October a decade or so ago when it got so warm that the kids were passing out in their Halloween costumes! While it hasn't been quite that bad this October, it has definitely felt like we are suffering through Autumn's summer. As such, a weird sort of malaise has taken hold. For me, those cool, crisp days of fall bring with them a burst of energy, a need to fully and enthusiastically embrace the joys of indoor living, something I consider encompasses everything from scrubbing the house from top to bottom after a summer of neglect, to more frequently planting my butt in front of my electronic dream machines to imbibe the pleasures of a wired age. And while I have made some progress in those areas since Autumn has officially begun, it has felt like an uphill battle as the ...