Category: Note to My Future Self
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Trump Election Takeover
Note to my future self. This week the Trump administration continued its work to take over elections. On Tuesday, the Justice Department sent letters to election officials in all 50 states and DC, threatening criminal prosecution over noncitizen voting and giving states five days to respond with a plan. Noncitizen voting is already illegal in…
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Celebrate What?
Today America is 250 years old. Many are despondent or enraged over the loss of American democracy. I am at Antietam, site of the bloodiest single day in American history. Why am I here? What is there to celebrate? On September 17, 1862, roughly 23,000 Americans fell here in twelve hours. Five days later, Abraham…
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Trump Plane
(From my Notes to My Future Self series.) On July 1, Donald Trump took the first flight on his brand new Air Force One, a $400 million Boeing 747 given to the United States by the royal family of Qatar. The Air Force has spent months and up to $400 million more in taxpayer money…
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“The Point” — Responding to MAGA Comments Against No Kings 3
March 29, 2026: Note to my future self. Yesterday 8 million Americans demonstrated that in this land we will have no Kings.I received many derisive comments yesterday from MAGA who were mocking the historic protests.“He’s not a king he’s your daddy” is one example.“We haven’t had a king for 250 years so what’s your point?”…
Brad Rourke 