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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The sheer villainy of Trump and his minions would be rejected by fiction writers as too over the top. That these are the people in positions of power almost makes me believe in the existence of the devil. I want to go reread, well finish, the Master and Margarita for more insight.

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Hegseth has risen to the top of the list of those whose name will be understood as a household name for evil. He is a blood thirsty, murderous, failed human being.

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

On Justice Alito and the birthright case - Alito would have to rewrite a very large percent of his cases and abandon originalism if he adopts the position that the 14th amendment’s meaning changed because society changed. Of course, he doesn’t care for consistency or for the Constitution.

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Trump is worse than despicable, a cruel amoral horror masquerading as a human. The marks on his hands are merely a reflection of his inner putrescence.

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Trump is crazy, a malignancy rather than a human being but he’s been that way forever. He’s no different now than ever. He is deranged not deteriorating. All we are seeing is the eroding of pretense and the cumulative corrupting effects of power on an already corrupt canvas

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

If I read the words “Trump” and “panic” together one more time I am going to scream, which will have the same effect on the body politic as Trump’s supposed panics. What does Trump panics” even mean?

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

How can the NYT have as its lead story garbage about Santos and not the millions of marchers protesting Trump. Santos is nothing but a sad footnote.

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Trump - history will acknowledge Trump by assigning the name “Trump” a new meaning. Just as history made the name Quisling a universal synonym for “traitor”. “Trump” will become a synonym for a mean spirited, antidemocratic, destructive force. One can hope anyway!

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

With their attempt to indict Democrats for tormenting violence with their rhetoric the Trump administration has reached the singularity of hypocrisy.

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

It is odd to be driving around Blue Oregon as if nothing is happening when everyday there are reports of something unthinkable. The news buzzes around almost as if it’s corporeal. It is as if the air is filled with a swarm of shouting yellowjackets each with a new stinging insult to decency.

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Is this headline clever hidden satire by the Washington Post headline writer? It’s a real headline. After week of market turmoil, Trump and Cabinet reconnect with UFC fans.

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Portland, Oregon “hands off march”, “thousands.”

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

All of Portland Oregon’s major firms signed the Amicus brief challenging the Trump executive order targeting law firms. Nationwide 500 law firms have signed on exposing the money driven cowardice of the firms that have shamefully capitulated.

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

What do the R’s really want? An America safe for the rich? A white Christian nation? The word Christian is hard to fathom when the administration supported by the Congress has not done a single thing that reflects a hint of humanity. They are inhumane to their core. So there!

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The use of antisemitism as a cudgel to bring universities to ruin is of course a subterfuge to unleash resentment and hostility to education. It is also ironic given the status education was given in my home and the Jewish home of everyone I knew and everyone I know now.

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Skadden Arps caves to Trump’s unconstitutional threats. How do they sleep. We may be in 1933 Germany territory but so what - better to protect their $5.4 million dollars per partner. Shameful, stomach churning cowardice. Money, money, money, not even a pretense that anything else matters.

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Sports don’t seem to be a big topic here but somebody has to say it. The obvious influence of DEI in the NCAA basketball tournament is shameful!

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

No winning for Columbia by giving in. Who would go there. There are other choices although like major law firms maybe universities will countenance fascism. It wasn’t a good choice in Germany, Italy, or anywhere else. Apparently the history departments don’t have enough influence!

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Headline in the Guardian - White House says Trump is right to call for impeachment of ‘partisan judges’- let’s talk about Judge Aileen Cannon - what good lord are Trump appointed judges? You can’t make this stuff up.

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I have read all I need to know about Trump and Musk today. It is amazing how quickly they are gutting American medicine, academia, National Parks, safeguards of any kind. Will people accept this two years from now. Clearly, many voters are ignorant of how good government protects them

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

How anyone (not a fascist) could now buy a Tesla now is beyond the pale. Musk’s recent retweet of a tweet that blamed the deaths during the regimes of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao on “public sector workers” is reprehensible. Are we supposed to fear those Dept. of Education workers , the evil EPA workers?

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I’ve been faltering in my attempts to avoid Trump. The administration is just cruel, callous, mean, and heartless. Trying to describe them requires opening the thesaurus for words meaning inhumane. Every word enshrined by Trump’s agenda, nowhere a hint of human kindness.

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

The Republican war on the sick, the needy, the endangered will be catastrophic for many and cost lives here and abroad. Ethically the purveyors of this outrage are not far different than those who pull a trigger with real guns. The Republican War on decency has no bottom.

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

The way Trump is suppressing black history, women’s history, LBGT history coupled with taking control of the government is how Nazi Germany’s and Stalin’s propaganda machines worked before their brutal murdering of millions. I don’t fear that yet, but I fear where the impulse will lead.

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

In order to secure control of government Stalin purged his diplomatic corps and other high government officials. His methods may have been more brutal but this appears to be precisely what Musk and Trump are doing. It is a purge and coup. One can only hope the court’s make a difference.

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Trump, Musk, and Republicans see the role of government to enrich the rich and not to enhance Americans well being. The damage to the infrastructure will soon begin to show cracks and in another year catastrophes. Then it will be then up to voters, if allowed to vote.

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Trump’s sitting down with Putin and excluding Zelensky is horrible. It’s as though in 1940, Lindbergh won the presidency and sat down with Hitler, excluding Churchill, to negotiate a treaty with Germany, threatening to withdraw all aid to England if Churchill refused the deal, which he would have.

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

It has been the Republican’s goal to undo the safety net of the federal government since the New Deal. Their perfidy makes me wish I believed that after they leave this earth there would be comeuppance for their sadistic, selfish, cruel assault on decency.

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Why is it necessary for me to read the final seconds of those on the D.C. plane crash?

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Trump and the Heritage Foundation, not his MAGA marks who are clueless about what government does, would like to destroy the already insufficient safety net. It is a cruel vision infused by racism, disregard for the lives of others here and worldwide and the corrosive dream of a white American.

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Birthright citizenship - without it none of my grandparents would have been citizens. Since we were East European Jews that would have been just dandy with today’s cult Republicans.

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

We return to the US from our Mexico sojourn in a few days. We will not be returning to the America we left. Trump is an abomination. The ignorance of voters on what government does and how it does it is shocking and the consequence of that ignorance is already devastating.

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Still in Mexico where Trump seems not to be on anyone’s mind. It is instructive and means when not actively resisting living as if Trump is invisible is possible.

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

We’ve been in Mexico City a week and it has been a pleasure to not have to hear the next President’s name or anything about his rogue cabinet. In Europe people asked “how Trump.” Not here. Being here is a good antidote for thinking the US is the only place in the world. Life goes on everywhere.

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

At PDX on our way to Mexico City putting into action the plan to avoid the inauguration. It all seems surreal and it’s not going to get better for a while. Good government takes thought and fortitude - all missing. Alas and slack.

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

We are going to Mexico for two weeks to escape the inauguration, which will likely be a fiasco. I’m a little worried that Trump is going to bar Democrats from returning to the country!

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

The vote to allow Trump’s sentencing honors the jury trial.The right to jury trial has been systematically weakened by SCOTUS. One example, its acceptance of harsher sentences if an accused goes to trial instead of accepting a plea bargain. The Court has valued convenience over the Sixth Amendment.

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Since I’ve been staying away from the news it’s hard to know what to specifically be outraged about. I know the number of such things are many, that’s good enough.

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Just two of the things I find remarkable - Standing with Panama, Standing with Greenland posts, Marianne Williamson being referred to as “past Presidential candidate” as if it was a real thing.

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

This is the time of year I go on a scavenger type hunt for presents I hid but can’t remember where. Once a present showed up in June. Happy holidays to all.

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

At breakfast with friends this morning. Two of them said they are now viewing Trump’s various antics as entertainment. One approach, but it also is necessary to remember how much damage his actions will cause.

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

The 19th century anarchists would classify Mangione’s shooting of Thompson as “propaganda by deed”, actions which the anarchists intended to awaken the working class.

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

The effects of my “news” strike. As the world of politics drifts out of my vision I have turned to history podcasts. It seems many describe times mired in authoritarian regimes, or relate the conquest of one ethnic group over another, and there is always the exploitation of the poor by the few.

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I am a recovering news addict, avoiding all former feeds. The effect is surprisingly salutary. Despite my sincere efforts a lot of Trump trickles in but the trickle doesn’t send me to drink, or ranting how could this be. I’m not giving up, but distance is sometimes needed. .

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I don’t much care one way or another about Hunter Biden’s pardon. The move toward an authoritarian fascist government that targets the press, the opposition, and desires to put immigrants in camps, not to mention ruining the economy with tariffs is a bigger concern for me. Such low hanging fruit.

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I am getting much of my news here. The dedication to maintaining America’s moral center is heartening in a disheartening time.

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I don’t know if it’s hope, but generations of my family survived in the face of plagues, pogroms, and wars. My grandfathers arrived in the US over 100 years ago with nothing. I will not let the struggles, triumphs, and works of those who came before me, be lessened by shrinking from this moment.

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Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Annual morbidity in the 20th century, before and after vaccines: Measles: Before: 530,000, After: 47 Mumps: Before: 160,000, After: 429 Rubella: Before: 50,000, After: 3 Diphtheria: Before: 20,000, After: 2 Smallpox: Before: 30,000, After: 0 Polio: Before: 16,000, After: 0

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Zarov @irz77.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I had reached 100 followers on twitter (left) and 80 on Threads. Followers where are you?

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