A Sci-Fi Thanksgiving | ***Dave Does the Blog

This is excellent: looking at the actual historical "Thanksgiving" tale (Pilgrims and Indians, featuring Squanto) as a science fiction story of invading aliens and the post-apocalyptic human who tried to take advantage of the situation, only to meet a grisly end …

http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/11/28/the-story-of-thanksgiving-is-a-science-fiction-story/

(Based on the historical tale told here: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/native-intelligence-109314481/?c=y%3Fno-ist)

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3 days ago

" #Rubio declines to rule out further US #military action in #Venezuela at Senate hearing"

Winning hearts and minds, amirite? 🙄

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/28/marco-rubio-force-venezuela-us-goals?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

4 days ago

[The Washington Post] #Trump says it’s ‘too late’ to stop #WhiteHouse #ballroom construction]

What a bossy little ass he is.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/01/25/trump-white-house-ballroom/

6 days ago

The endless array of misdeeds, malpractice, and actual crimes from the #TrumpRegime is bewildering, exhausting, and deadening. Which seems to be the point.

https://hill-kleerup.org/blog/2026/01/25/another-day-another-array-of-infuriating-stupid-and-or-evil-shenanigans.html

6 days ago

New post from Popehat.com!

We Should Talk About The Morality of Political Violence
What Are The Best Moral Arguments Against It?

2 weeks ago

[The Washington Post] ‘Morally acceptable’ for U.S. troops to disobey orders, archbishop says]

So, will #Trump call the archbishop a traitor who deserves to be hung? Will the #JusticeDept start investigating the #Catholic Church? Will the regime insist on appointing it's own archbishop for the US #military? Stay tuned!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/01/20/us-trump-greenland-military-church-disobey/

2 weeks ago

"The Toddler-in-Chief"

#Trump's tantrums over (a) not being given a #NobelPeacePrize he "deserves," and (b) not being given a #Greenland he "deserves," would be hilarious, if it were for trade (and possibly military) wars that he's stirring up.

https://hill-kleerup.org/blog/2026/01/19/the-toddler-in-chief.html

2 weeks ago

For what was once a quirky joke, the stealing of #Greenland has become a touchstone for the moral corruption of the #TrumpRegime. It's #MightMakesRight attitude and framing of being a bully as a moral imperative is a danger to us all.

https://hill-kleerup.org/blog/2026/01/17/greenland-has-become-emblematic-of-the-trump-regimes-sickness.html

2 weeks ago

Pete #Hegseth says the military newspaper "Stars and Stripes" is too #woke and must be rechanneled to focus solely on exploding rockets and gouts of blood and how nifty the Commander in Chief is.

Sure, it's mandated *by law* to have an "independent" editorial board ... but as we know, to the #Trump Regime, "independent" is almost as naughty an I-word as "inclusion."

https://hill-kleerup.org/blog/2026/01/17/pete-hegseth-thinks-stars-and-stripes-is-too-woke.html

2 weeks ago

"The Emperor's New Peace Prize"

Part of me want to just go along with the gag so that #Trump will finally STFU about how much he deserves a #NobelPeacePrize. Except then he'll want another one ...

https://hill-kleerup.org/blog/2026/01/15/you-get-a-nobel-prize-and-you-get-a-nobel-prize-and-you.html

2 weeks ago

"Greenland, Trump, and Backing Oneself into a Corner"

The more #Trump keeps talking about how #Greenland will and must be annexed, the more he feel forced to do it lest the entire world point and laugh and think he's a loser. Which is both pathetic and dangerous.

https://hill-kleerup.org/blog/2026/01/14/greenland-trump-and-backing-oneself-into-a-corner.html

2 weeks ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115889314081283735

Hey, it's easy to show that #airpollution #regulation is too costly when all you do is count the costs, not the benefits, amirite? #EPA #Trump

2 weeks ago

"Like a little kid playing 'war'"

Pete #Hegseth's frantic compulsion to show that he's the killingest alpha male on the planet is driving him to make some fundamental (and consequential) errors about #AI and the #military.

https://hill-kleerup.org/blog/2026/01/13/like-a-little-kid-playing-war.html

3 weeks ago

RIP #ScottAdams.

Yeah, he lost me as a fan (and customer) way back. But for a time there, his #Dilbert defined white collar office life in a way that really resonated with me and pretty much everyone around me. And I feel compassion for anyone who lost a fight with cancer.

https://hill-kleerup.org/blog/2026/01/13/rip-scott-adams.html

3 weeks ago

"Trump's weird obsession about wind power"

From cancer scares to bad economics, #Trump is clearly obsessed about the "dangers" of #windpower . But why?

https://hill-kleerup.org/blog/2026/01/12/trumps-weird-obsession-about-wind-power.html

3 weeks ago

"Blaming the Victim for January 6"

And today we welcome the newest #TrumpRegime official, Winston Smith, who has taken over documentation of the #Jan6 cowardly attack by Capitol Police, egged on by Nancy Pelosi and Mike Pence, on peaceful patriotic protesters who were calmly but righteously declaring their opposition to the 2020 election steal.

It's all documented right there, on the #WhiteHouse wibsite. Really-truly.

https://hill-kleerup.org/blog/2026/01/07/blaming-the-victim.html

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