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Connie Willis English

Hegseth’s Destroying the Military–And People are Finally Noticing

Dear Everybody: The big news today is that everybody suddenly seems to have figured out that Pete Hegseth has totally screwed the pooch on the Iran War: In Pentagon/Pete Hegseth news: –I told you about Army Secretary Dan Driscoll stepping … Continue reading → https://azsf.net/cwdaily/2026/09/03/hegseths-destroying-the-military-and-people-are-finally-noticing/

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Connie Willis English

Trump Has Cut Down All of the Kennedy Center’s Weeping Willows

Dear Everybody: The big news today is two stories that may not strike you as major, what with the Iran war and the Canadian trade war and the crashing economy and all, but I see these as flashing danger signs: … Continue reading → https://azsf.net/cwdaily/2026/09/02/trump-has-cut-down-all-of-the-kennedy-centers-weeping-willows/

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Connie Willis English Varia ENG

Trump and the US Postal Service Conspire to Rig Mail-In Voting

Dear Everybody: The big news today is new information regarding Trump’s USPS mail-in ballots attempt to rig the election: –A little background: Two different judges put a hold on the scheme, then the Supreme Court ruled that the holds were … Continue reading → https://azsf.net/cwdaily/2026/09/01/trump-and-the-us-postal-service-conspire-to-rig-mail-in-voting/

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English Omnicrisis SolarPunk

Scrapyards and Gardens

Industrial civilization will most likely pass through phases of decline before anything resembling solarpunk emerges. An analysis grounded in EROEI, Tainter’s complexity theory, and Greer’s catabolic collapse — extended with Indigenous futurisms (Whyte) and a critique of resilience (Solarpunk Cambodia).

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Connie Willis English Varia ENG

Bad News from the Grand Canyon and the Supreme Court

Dear Everybody: There were several big news stories today: The first one is there was a terrible flash flood in the Grand Canyon yesterday: –It tore through the Grand Canyon after a thunderstorm dumped a ton of rain in an … Continue reading → https://azsf.net/cwdaily/2026/08/31/bad-news-from-the-grand-canyon-and-the-supreme-court/

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Connie Willis English Varia ENG

Sacha Baron Cohen and Polar Bears and Geese with Guns

Dear Everybody: The big news this morning is that Trump is on a rampage on Truth Social: –Trump: “THE FAKE POLLS USED BY OUR CROOKED MEDIA ARE OUT OF CONTROL, AND SOMETHING MUST BE DONE ABOUT IT. FCC TO THE … Continue reading → https://azsf.net/cwdaily/2026/08/30/sacha-baron-cohen-and-polar-bears-and-geese-with-guns/

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Artificial Intelligence English Omnicrisis SolarPunk Technology

AI in Solarpunk Civilization – Opportunities and Threats

AI is not a homogeneous category to accept or reject wholesale. We separate three questions: about the concept itself, about today’s large-scale AI industry, and about the possibility of a decentralized model serving self-governance.

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Connie Willis English Varia ENG

An Avalanche of Awful (And Some Good News)

Dear Everybody: Today, one of the people who writes Daily Kos’s Good News column said it was getting harder to write the columns because “there is a constant drumming of awful from that terrible, terrible man and the terrible, terrible … Continue reading → https://azsf.net/cwdaily/2026/08/29/an-avalanche-of-awful-and-some-good-news/

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Connie Willis English Varia ENG

Now Trump Wants to Rename the Atlantic and the Pacific

Dear Everybody: The big news today is that the same federal judge who had blocked Trump’s mail-in ballot order has blocked it again, saying it imposes onerous requirements and threatens to disenfranchise voters and harm states. –The Supreme Court said … Continue reading → https://azsf.net/cwdaily/2026/08/28/now-trump-wants-to-rename-the-atlantic-and-the-pacific/

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Connie Willis English Wszechkryzys

New Dept. of Ed Video Portrays Trump as Hitler

Dear Everybody: The most important news this morning, as far as I’m concerned, was the Department of Education posting a video on the OFFICIAL Department of Education website that compared Trump to Hitler: –The video shows a clip from the … Continue reading →
https://azsf.net/cwdaily/2026/08/27/new-dept-of-ed-video-portrays-trump-as-hitler/