Every Good Morning

I will leave aside his inexhaustible lying and his innate dishonesty, his arrogance, his vulgarity, racism, misogyny, and bone-deep ignorance and lack of curiosity, his destruction of the environment, his eternal corruption and thus his dishonorable use of the Presidency to enrich himself and his pals. I will leave aside his personal cruelty and his delight in punishment. What I chiefly loath about him is how he has spread his […]

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Since his election in 2016, Trump has consistently sought to bend the law to serve him. This is the axiom of tyrants: the law and the courts and prosecutors must serve the ruler. Early in his administration, he called for the Justice Department to investigate his political rival, Hilary Clinton. He attacked federal judges for their decisions on immigration and his travel ban. Among other actions, he has used executive […]

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Republicans under Trump are moving to destroy decades of environmental regulations that have made our lives better, our air and waters cleaner, our wildlife habitats more robust. They are doing so in pursuit of corporate support. For Republicans, everything is about short term profit. Kill the land, make the money. Trump pulled the US out of the Paris Climate Accord. He regards Climate Change and all its attendant warnings and […]

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I hoard these moments now. I didn’t used to. Everything has changed. I don’t count on others seeing what I have seen much longer. Yesterday morning I thought one of those obscure farmer’s ponds had broken through its embankments and was rushing down a road deep cut between two fields, tearing it up as it surged. It was so loud and sudden that for a second I actually thought, “I […]

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