Woe Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. – Pope Leo XIV This w…

This week: MAGA discontent, no change in the war, Trump v. Pope, and one of my favorite closings. weeklysift.com/2026/04/20/w...

How can Trump voters' disillusionment lead to Democratic victories? weeklysift.com/2026/04/20/c...

Accelerating Trends The war has accelerated or made evident a trend that was already there, which is that the whole Trump administration is about a kind of rebalancing of power, so that we are less powerful and our ri…

This week: “peace” talks, Hungarian election, Artemis II, Melania, Swalwell, and a very small Earth. weeklysift.com/2026/04/13/a...

Not a Game No sifts for two weeks. The next new articles will appear April 13. In the dramatic circumstances of war … the media must guard against the risk of becoming propaganda. … It is up to yo…

This week: war, ICE, Trump losses in court, Mueller, and when a puppy meets a kitten. weeklysift.com/2026/03/23/n...

Notes on yet another week of war With no goal to achieve, it’s hard to see how this ends. Two weeks ago, I opened the weekly summary with a quote from the Roman philosopher Seneca: “If one does not know to which port o…

Another week, more escalation, and no vision of an ending.
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Pathocracy The transition to pathocracy begins when a disordered individual emerges as a leader figure. While some members of the ruling class are appalled by the brutality and irresponsibility of the leader …

This week: war, law, trans persecution, and a candidate who offers an attack against herself. weeklysift.com/2026/03/16/p...

The Longer View Ever find yourself watching Trump officials and thinking “What’s wrong with those people?” Three writers offer their answers. We’ve known for a long time that the Trump admi…

Why are Trump and his people so resentful and reckless?https://weeklysift.com/2026/03/16/the-longer-view/

Unfavorable Winds Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. – Seneca, “Moral Letters to Lucilius”first century AD This we…

This week: war, primaries, Talerico, Noem, a bad jobs report, and a madrigal version of “Staying Alive”. weeklysift.com/2026/03/09/u...

Can Democrats compete for Christianity? Republicans have left an opening. Can Democrats like James Talerico take advantage? Ever since Jerry Falwell launched the Moral Majority and got credit for electing Ronald Reagan in 1980, conservat…

James Talerico challenges the notion that Republicans own Christianity. weeklysift.com/2026/03/09/c...

Stop Asking Boil it all down and what do we have? We have a military operation with no clear ends at all. Stop asking what the US government’s intentions are, they do not exist outside of the personal in…

This week: Iran, SOTU, ICE, Epstein, and what unsupervised Canadian dads get up to during the Winter Olympics. weeklysift.com/2026/03/02/s...

Why this? Why now? Two decades ago, George W. Bush and his cabinet spent months raising support for an invasion of Iraq. Two days ago, the Trump regime attacked Iran without giving us any coherent explanation. Saturd…

A distraction from Epstein? A reset of the national narrative? What the other Gulf states get in exchange for their billion-dollar bribes? Those explanations all make more sense than what Trump has been saying. weeklysift.com/2026/03/02/w...

Kindness or Cruelty? I am begging my fellow politicians, my fellow Illinoisans, my fellow Americans to realize that right now in this country we are not fighting over policy or political party. We are fighting over whe…

This week: tariffs, Epstein, Iran, Cuba, Jesse, Gaza, and more. weeklysift.com/2026/02/23/k...

The Tariff Decision At least for now, the power to tax still belongs to Congress. I had been starting to wonder if we still had a Supreme Court. Again and again, starting with two cases before the election (the ballot…

The result comes from internal divisions in the conservative wing of the Court, not from John Roberts suddenly turning against authoritarianism. weeklysift.com/2026/02/23/t...

Uncooperative Responses No Sift next week. The next new posts will appear on February 23. Our response should not be “This response to Bad Bunny’s inclusion shows how divided we are, how can we stop this polar…

This week: election interference, Minneapolis, non-cooperation, Kennedy Center, and The Washington Post. weeklysift.com/2026/02/09/u...

Non-Cooperation When does cooperation become complicity? And what other choice is there? This morning I want to introduce you to a blogger a bit more radical than I am: A. R. Moxon, who writes a payment-optional S…

If moderate approaches fail, we may need more radical options. weeklysift.com/2026/02/09/n...

Dying in Broad Daylight: The Washington Post We’ve seen newspapers go into a death-spiral before. But who thought it could happen to The Washington Post? Maybe you’ve seen this pattern with your own local newspaper: It has financi…

Jeff Bezos isn't Charles Foster Kane. weeklysift.com/2026/02/09/d...

Through the Looking Glass To those who continue to work for ICE: Resign. To those who control this facility: Leave. Through your use of violence and the trampling of the Constitution, you have lost all legitimacy and replac…

This week: ICE protests, Epstein, Don Lemon, seizing 2020 ballots, and a giant rolling finger. weeklysift.com/2026/02/02/t...

Did We Win? Trump is back-pedaling on Minneapolis. But has anything really changed yet? At this point, just about all observers agree that the occupation of Minneapolis has been a political and public-relation…

The resistance in Minnesota has turned the narrative against Trump and ICE. But that’s just a potential turning point, not a decisive victory. weeklysift.com/2026/02/02/d...

Resistance In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. – commonly attributed to George Orwell What did we learn from the Holocaust? We have to act and we have to resist. If I…

This week: resistance in Minneapolis, Trump’s Greenland retreat, the regime’s Nazi problem, still waiting for Epstein files, and a stare-down with a crocodile. weeklysift.com/2026/01/26/r...

Turning Point or Tipping Point? If the regime can repeatedly murder people in the streets with no consequences, there’s no turning back. Fortunately, more and more people are beginning to realize that. When I started the We…

America has a chance to turn around here. Will we take it, or go past a point of no return? weeklysift.com/2026/01/26/t...

All We Have All we have are whistles. They have guns. – Francisco Segovia, executive director COPAL This week’s featured post is “Greenland: It’s getting serious”. There is also a…

This week: Greenland, Minneapolis, the Dual State, Trump’s unearned medal, no more Epstein files, and family resemblances. weeklysift.com/2026/01/19/a...

Greenland: It’s getting serious What started as a punch line is turning into a trade war with our allies. When President Trump began fantasizing about annexing Greenland back in 2019, the suggestion was hard to take seriously. Ma…

No one can explain why it's worth blowing up NATO to acquire Greenland. weeklysift.com/2026/01/19/g...

Expand your vocabulary: the Dual State [I haven’t done an Expand Your Vocabulary post in several years, but “the Dual State” merits one. We should all become fluent in its use.] It’s commonplace these days to com…

Here's a phrase we all need to start using: weeklysift.com/2026/01/19/e...

Two Options They’re telling you to believe them and not your eyes. … So the message from this administration is clear: only they determine the truth, and when their forces come to your city, obey o…

This week: Renee Good, Portland, Venezuela, Greenland, and some cute baby animals. https//weeklysift....

Renee Good and Our Epistemological Crisis Is there any hope of finding a common reality? Wednesday in Minneapolis, ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot American mother Renee Good three times, killing her. There is so much to be upset about here, i…

The most disturbing thing about the regime's gaslighting is that for many people it works. weeklysift.com/2026/01/12/r...

The Euphoria Period We’re in the euphoria period of acknowledging across the board that Maduro was a bad guy and that our military is absolutely incredible. This is exactly the euphoria we felt in 2002 when our milita…

This week: Venezuela, year-end, Court, Smith, small towns, and five good stories of 2025. weeklysift.com/2026/01/05/t...

The Venezuela attack is a constitutional crisis for the United States Is Congress still a branch of government? As I often point out: A one-person weekly blog is a bad place to cover breaking news. This morning, the attack on Venezuela is in that nebulous zone betwee…

Reasonable people can debate what role Congress should have in questions of war and peace. But under Trump, Congress has no role at all. weeklysift.com/2026/01/05/t...

Blackouts These documents are more blacked out than Pete Hegseth on New Years Eve. – feral streep, on the redactions in the newly released Epstein material No Sift next week. The next new posts will ap…

This week: Trump’s pathetic week, war with Venezuela, Epstein, Wiles, and a new Randy Rainbow song. weeklysift.com/2025/12/22/b...

Three days in the life of a pathetic man Everything Trump does to aggrandize himself just makes him smaller. From the time he came down the escalator in 2015, Donald Trump has gloried in his ability to get a rise out of people like me. Al…

Trump can't make me angry any more. He just makes me sad.

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Vance and the cabinet members shouldn't be asked whether they condemn Trump's Rob Reiner post. They should be asked why they're not invoking the 25th Amendment. No sane person wrote that post.