Trump NSF Backs Down from Dismantling Critical Ocean Monitoring Systems – CNN

After bipartisan backlash Trump admin backs down from unilateral and sudden dismantling of ocean monitoring network to ‘consult’ and ‘study’ ‘path forward’. Some of the kinds of news coverage / content that can be expected to disappear if the Skydance-Paramount / Warner Bros. Discovery merger is able to go through […]

Why Democracy May Prevail – 6/5/2026

Direct link to my original post:https://verysmallocean.org/blog.html#democracy-may-prevail An interesting YouTube video, 31.5 minutes, called Why Trump’s Power is Fading by UK person Brendan Miller. I was somewhat heartened by it. He says he’s more persuaded by this one but there’s also another he made called How Trump is Building an American Dictatorship. This is of course important for mitigating […]

We the People [citation needed]

— In this tale by turns sordid & harrowing we can now relate blow by blow, how it all had come to be, barring [SEE DISCLAIMER, GRAND JURY REGULATIONS, AND DOCUMENTATIONS OF IMMUNITY] those the many parts we could not.

Navigating Political Tensions: What Lies Ahead?

The post discusses concerns about proposed political appointments and the potential for violence and extremism amidst contemporary political tensions. It reflects on troubling incidents, social media reports, and broader fears while questioning the motivations of various political figures. Ultimately, it suggests a complex landscape where not all authoritarian figures may embrace genocidal ideologies.

Maddow: Trump win ‘gives us a really big to-do list’ to defend democracy

Rachel Maddow speaks to Americans who do not want to surrender democracy to Donald Trump’s authoritarian management and points out that since it did not work to defend democracy with the election, it is time to turn to a new set of tools and tasks to preserve the system of government used in the United […]

We the People [citation needed] — (4/4/2023)

— We the People [citation needed] saw through all their junk.— We saw through all their junk and we took it away from them and slapped them with it like a rubber hose— We the People [citation needed] felt satisfied but not satiated— We were here and there and everywhere, while the plotters pretended to […]