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Dick Dowdell

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The Puppet and the Pyre

How Trump’s decline and Miller’s ideology are pushing America to the brink

3d ago

A shadowed aide stands behind an empty presidential chair in a darkened Oval Office, symbolizing unseen power and democratic decay

3d ago

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The Propaganda Machine Never Sleeps

Every era of inequality produces its own stories. Today’s may be the most dangerous yet.

3d ago

A split-screen illustration contrasts two opulent ballroom scenes. On the left, a richly decorated Gilded Age ballroom glows with golden light, crowded with elegantly dressed couples in 19th-century attire beneath towering chandeliers. On the right, a stylized depiction of a modern Mar-a-Lago gala shows Donald and Melania Trump standing among well-dressed guests in a similarly ornate hall.

3d ago

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How America Put the Truth Up for Sale

The repeal of the Fairness Doctrine made lies profitable and democracy fragile

4d ago

Two 1950s-style newsboys on opposite street corners — one well-dressed beside a shiny black car holding a paper titled Schumer Shutdown, the other in work clothes by an old Chevrolet with a paper titled Trump Shutdown.

4d ago

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Can Trump’s Government Even Function? The Inevitable Cost of Loyalty Over Competence

As America’s civil service collapses under political purges and empty loyalty tests, even his supporters are starting to feel the failure

4d ago

An empty government control room bathed in red warning lights, monitors flashing “system failure” as the faint outline of the U.S. Capitol fades on a central screen — symbolizing the collapse of competence under Trump’s second administration.

4d ago

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Why We Can’t Afford to Privatize the VA

Deserving veterans need care — not an experiment in for-profit medicine

5d ago

A solemn elderly Vietnam War veteran sits in a wheelchair outside a neoclassical VA building under heavy gray clouds. Beside him, a towering modern glass high-rise looms in the background, its cold, reflective surface symbolizing the encroaching influence of privatized healthcare. The veteran’s posture is still and contemplative, his weathered hands folded in his lap, the scene lit in muted, moody tones that highlight the quiet tension between duty, age, and an uncertain future.

5d ago

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Trump’s SNAP Cruelty

Why America must demand better of a president

6d ago

Emotionally charged portrait of former President Donald Trump standing against a large American flag, his face shadowed and tense. The lighting emphasizes deep lines and a hard expression, symbolizing defiance and indifference. The flag behind him billows in uneven, turbulent folds, suggesting national conflict and moral imbalance. The overall composition conveys the stark contrast between presidential power and the human consequences of policies affecting vulnerable Americans.

6d ago

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When the Oceans Turn Against Us

Global warming isn’t about temperature — it’s about energy — and our oceans hold most of it

Nov 7

A nighttime view of the North Atlantic showing faint illuminated currents symbolizing the Gulf Stream’s role as the heartbeat of Earth’s climate.

Nov 7

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When Capitalism Forgets Its Purpose

Why Bret Stephens is right that socialism isn’t the answer — and wrong about what broke capitalism

Nov 6

Uneven scales of capitalism — gold and power outweighing labor and fairness beneath a fading American flag.

Nov 6

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Bill Gates Is Wrong About Climate Change

Global warming is just the beginning, not the ultimate end, of climate change

Nov 5

A wide, cinematic scene shows a modern city half-submerged in dark, rising water. Skyscrapers stretch across the horizon, their lower floors drowned and upper windows glinting red in the last light of a setting sun. The sky above burns with streaks of deep orange and crimson, turning the floodwaters into a molten mirror. In the distance, a few towers tilt or crumble, their reflections distorted by waves. The atmosphere feels heavy, still, and airless — neither storm nor calm, but aftermath. The

Nov 5

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When Dissent First Became Treason in America

The forgotten crisis of 1798 — and why NSPM-7 signals we are entering the same danger zone again

Oct 30

A black-and-white colonial-style engraving depicting Benjamin Franklin Bache being beaten by a group of Federalist gentlemen outside his Philadelphia print shop, marked by a wooden sign reading ‘B. F. Bache — Printer,’ illustrating the political repression that preceded the Alien and Sedition Acts.

Oct 30

Dick Dowdell

Dick Dowdell

A former US Army officer with a wonderful wife and family, I’m a software architect and engineer, currently CTO and Chief Architect of a software startup.

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