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Weekly Mind Dump: Trump's Circus of the Damned - A Halloween Special
As The Joker said, “Is it just me or is it getting crazier out there?”
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James L Bruno
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The Lights are Going Out - It May Be Too Late to Regain Our Freedoms
I don’t want to be followed and harassed by homegrown secret police in my own country. But the walls are fast closing in on our freedoms.
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Weekly Mind Dump: Why Dictators Love Gilded Palaces
History reflects both glory and shame in architecture, structures of divinely-inspired beauty and monstrosities of power-mad potentates. Trump's White…
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Will U.S. Troops Fire on Civilians on Trump's Orders?
We are fast approaching crunch time when our senior military officers will be faced with having to decide whether to follow blatantly unlawful orders.
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September 2025

Weekly Mind Dump: The Comey Affair & Corrupt Prosecutors
Pam Bondi, Lindsey Halligan, Todd Blanche and fellow travelers in the Trump regime would be wise not to ignore the examples of their historical…
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America at a Turning Point: Trump's Power Grab vs Our Jimmy Kimmel Moment
We are now at the stage of authoritarian consolidation. But we have one last chance to reverse it through people power and Jimmy Kimmel showed us the…
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Weekly Mind Dump: Tick Tock - The Clock is Running Down on Writers' Freedom
As we complete the transition from the Orwellian to the Kafkaesque under the MAGA junta, writers face the choice of turning dissident or going full…
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Weimar America: Could Germany’s Past Be America’s Future?
We stand on the precipice as a nation. All it will take for chaos is another high profile assassination. Then all bets are off for the Founding Fathers…
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Weekly Mind Dump: Why Dictators Need Martyrs
Those who die for Trump, praised as “martyrs,” will be perceived by future historians as mere losers and their uber-hero Trump couldn’t care less about…
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The Conscience of a Diplomat: To Serve or Not to Serve a Tyrannical Leader
Our foreign policy is being corrupted and the State Department suborned to serve the will of an authoritarian leader. U.S. diplomats face a dilemma.
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Weekly Mind Dump: The Trump Administration's Unrelenting War Against Children
Donald Trump and his henchmen all share guilt in their malevolence against children for the black heart does not beat alone.
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Trump's Keystone Kops Diplomacy is Driven by Pure Ego
The administration's approach to resolving the Russia-Ukraine conflict is bumbling and hobbled by MAGA nihilism. The odds for resolution are nil.
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