RogerMatile
@ram1946.bsky.social
Retired weekly newspaper editor, photographer, reporter, graphic artist. Local history columnist, & public history nerd. Blogging local history & microhistory at History on the Fox. Volunteer local history museum director.
It always helps get the holiday season off to a wonderful start with the help of such a loving, engaged family leading the nation's observances.
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Melania Trump flees after just minutes at White House Christmas event
First lady Melania Trump spent less than three minutes at a White House Christmas event on Monday before running off. Trump was seen taking photos and shaking hands after a horse-drawn carriage brough...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
It always helps get the holiday season off to a wonderful start with the help of such a loving, engaged family leading the nation's observances.
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Tales of the death of farming in in this small corner of fast-developing northern Illinois have been greatly exaggerated…new post up over at the blog...
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Tales of the death of farming in Oswego and Kendall County have been greatly exaggerated…
For me, watching the Oswego area change has ranged from being an observer trying to cope with it to it literally being my business. When my parents quit farming and moved into Oswego back in 1954, …
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November 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Tales of the death of farming in in this small corner of fast-developing northern Illinois have been greatly exaggerated…new post up over at the blog...
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Note to Latino voters: You may not like Dems' stance on choice & LGBTQ+ issues, but they won't send heavily armed masked thugs to kidnap you off the street, at your job, or while you're shopping and send you to some foreign hellhole. Just some food for thought.
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Republicans face losses in key group over Trump migrant sweeps and affordability
Latino conservatives tell Eric Garcia that high costs at the supermarket and draconian immigration policies could cost the GOP most of the gains Trump made last year
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November 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Note to Latino voters: You may not like Dems' stance on choice & LGBTQ+ issues, but they won't send heavily armed masked thugs to kidnap you off the street, at your job, or while you're shopping and send you to some foreign hellhole. Just some food for thought.
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Voters, you might want to pay attention when racists speak. The Trump crime regime made it plain they believed ALL immigrants were "the worst of the worst," and all of them need to be deported, even those who are here legally. Except themselves, like Musk, of course:
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‘Is the price of doing this worth it?’: North Carolina Republicans worry about Trump immigration raids
The concerns surrounding Trump’s immigration clampdown in the Tar Heel state speak to a tension at the center of the president’s immigration agenda.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Voters, you might want to pay attention when racists speak. The Trump crime regime made it plain they believed ALL immigrants were "the worst of the worst," and all of them need to be deported, even those who are here legally. Except themselves, like Musk, of course:
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So the Crashing Boer over at Twitter finds out "transparency" isn't all that valuable for the extreme right, since it immediately proves the whole movement's a fraud propped up by malicious anti-American foreigners:
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Numerous Top MAGA X.COM/Twitter Accounts Revealed To Be Foreign Agitators After New Feature Rollout
Musk and MAGA are suffering a self-inflicted injury... The Daily Beast Elon Musk’s social media site X has rolled out a new feature in an effort to increase transparency—and unwittingly revealed that ...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
So the Crashing Boer over at Twitter finds out "transparency" isn't all that valuable for the extreme right, since it immediately proves the whole movement's a fraud propped up by malicious anti-American foreigners:
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It's going to be hilarious watching GOP'ers try to get Trump interested in anything that might benefit anyone except himself, and that includes his own voters, people he holds in total contempt. To be fair, he holds everyone else in total contempt too.
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'Burns it all down': GOP insider warns party it has much bigger problem than Epstein
A GOP pollster has shared what they believe is the biggest challenge Republicans must tackle.Speaking to Politico, prominent GOP pollster Patrick Ruffini says it's not enough for the Trump administrat...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
It's going to be hilarious watching GOP'ers try to get Trump interested in anything that might benefit anyone except himself, and that includes his own voters, people he holds in total contempt. To be fair, he holds everyone else in total contempt too.
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The Trump regime's overt, contemptuous lawlessness is getting pushback, and they don't like it. The military and political personnel being ordered to commit crimes have reason to be worried about their own liability.
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'That is not the law': Professor schools JD Vance as he scrambles to defend Trump threats
Yale Law School graduate JD Vance was on the receiving end of a lecture from a former U.S. attorney for jumping in late on Sunday to defend Donald Trump in the squabble about issuing illegal orders to...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The Trump regime's overt, contemptuous lawlessness is getting pushback, and they don't like it. The military and political personnel being ordered to commit crimes have reason to be worried about their own liability.
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Boy, that Epstein cesspool sure was deep and wide...
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Steve Bannon Was Planning to Produce a Pro-Epstein Documentary — On the Day of Financier’s Arrest
Emails reveal that Bannon was making arrangements for a redemptive documentary to counter damaging narratives advanced by Netflix's 'Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich.' Filmed on location in Little St. Joh...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Boy, that Epstein cesspool sure was deep and wide...
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The real mystery is why anyone still expects any member of the Trump regime to tell the truth about anything. It seems, as a group, that they're both mentally and physically incapable of it.
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Treasury secretary blasted for 'denying reality' after claiming 'inflation hasn't gone up'
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday refused to admit inflation has gone up for Americans after NBC “Meet The Press” host Kristen Welker confronted him with the numbers."Inflation has gone up,” ...
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November 23, 2025 at 11:14 PM
The real mystery is why anyone still expects any member of the Trump regime to tell the truth about anything. It seems, as a group, that they're both mentally and physically incapable of it.
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The Trump regime is quickly destroying the entire U.S. government while showing total contempt for the law & the Constitution. Now they're attacking the very foundations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. It will take decades to repair the damage they're doing.
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'Anguished' troops say Trump just put them in an 'impossible situation': ex-Republican vet
"Anguished" active duty military troops are feeling "moral doubt" and "profound legal confusion" as a result of Donald Trump's actions, according to a conservative veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom.N...
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November 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
The Trump regime is quickly destroying the entire U.S. government while showing total contempt for the law & the Constitution. Now they're attacking the very foundations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. It will take decades to repair the damage they're doing.
www.rawstory.com/trump-troops...
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The Russian-dictated Ukrainian 'peace plan' confirms once again--as if any confirmation was needed--that Trump is nothing more than a treacherous right-wing surrender monkey and spineless Putin catspaw:
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The Murky Plan That Ensures a Future War
Who will benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
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November 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The Russian-dictated Ukrainian 'peace plan' confirms once again--as if any confirmation was needed--that Trump is nothing more than a treacherous right-wing surrender monkey and spineless Putin catspaw:
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What Dems should emphasize hourly: The Republican Party's depravity, exemplified by the Epstein scandal; its contempt for the law & the Constitution exemplified by the extrajudicial murders off Venezuela & ICE thugs running amuck, & its total economic incompetence.
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Epstein, Trump, and the Era of Elite Impunity
Democrats don’t need to pick and choose among the administration’s many sins. They all tell the same grim story.
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November 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
What Dems should emphasize hourly: The Republican Party's depravity, exemplified by the Epstein scandal; its contempt for the law & the Constitution exemplified by the extrajudicial murders off Venezuela & ICE thugs running amuck, & its total economic incompetence.
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This is a fascinating piece that everyone interested in the "why" of modern U.S. electoral politics ought to read:
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The hidden axis: the left-right spectrum has a non-ideology problem
Most voters want a party that emphasizes cost of living issues and makes the world a better place. Few Americans think in solidly ideologically terms. "Moderates" are mostly non-ideological.
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November 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
This is a fascinating piece that everyone interested in the "why" of modern U.S. electoral politics ought to read:
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Wonder what it will finally take for people to accept that Republicans no longer know how to govern? They've forced everyone who did out of the party. Anyway, even if they did know how to govern, this latest bunch wouldn't be interested in doing it.
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'Truly bizarre': Critics pounce on 'one of the biggest foreign policy scandals in history'
A peace plan being thrust upon Ukraine was actually written by Russia, according to reports, and Marco Rubio is taking heat for confusing messaging.Foreign affairs and defense correspondent Nick Schif...
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November 23, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Wonder what it will finally take for people to accept that Republicans no longer know how to govern? They've forced everyone who did out of the party. Anyway, even if they did know how to govern, this latest bunch wouldn't be interested in doing it.
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The list of sex offenders and their hangers-on and other random criminal types Trump has attracted to GOP politics just keeps getting longer and more disgusting.
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Probe launched after Trump official intervened on behalf of another alleged sex trafficker
Two key Senate Democrats have launched an inquiry after a ProPublica investigation revealed this week that a White House official had intervened on behalf of his former legal clients — pro-Trump influ...
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November 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The list of sex offenders and their hangers-on and other random criminal types Trump has attracted to GOP politics just keeps getting longer and more disgusting.
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Okay, the continual misuse of the word "conservative" really gets to me. These people are NOT conservative. They are radical right-wing extremists whose stock in trade is hate, fear, and ignorance.
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'Intense backlash' sweeps conservatives off school boards nationwide
Democrats invested heavily in sweeping Republican culture warriors off school boards across the country, and their efforts paid off.Republicans lost school board seats in local races in Ohio, Pennsylv...
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November 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Okay, the continual misuse of the word "conservative" really gets to me. These people are NOT conservative. They are radical right-wing extremists whose stock in trade is hate, fear, and ignorance.
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Federal employees, including the military: Following orders to do illegal things is no defense, & will get you prosecuted. For you military folks, note there's no statute of limitations on war crimes & crimes against humanity. For background, Google Nuremberg trials:
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'Flurry of receipts': Ex-Trump official says courts just vindicated Dems he threatened
President Donald Trump just lobbed death threats at a group of Democratic military veteran lawmakers for reminding the troops they are required to refuse illegal orders — but then a series of courts h...
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November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Federal employees, including the military: Following orders to do illegal things is no defense, & will get you prosecuted. For you military folks, note there's no statute of limitations on war crimes & crimes against humanity. For background, Google Nuremberg trials:
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In case you, like I, wonder where this sudden animosity against Venezuela came from, it's an elaborate fiction manufactured by a couple of obvious crooks financed by a U.S. billionaire and swallowed whole by Trump. Shades of Iraq...
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Trump Got Venezuela Intel from Team Behind 2020 Election-Theft “Witness”
As the lies of the right-wing Iraqi "Curveball," let Bush take us into Iraq, Trump is using his own intel feed to do the same in Venezuela
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November 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
In case you, like I, wonder where this sudden animosity against Venezuela came from, it's an elaborate fiction manufactured by a couple of obvious crooks financed by a U.S. billionaire and swallowed whole by Trump. Shades of Iraq...
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Right-wingers...always a classy bunch:
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House Republican hit with international travel ban after drinking incident
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) was banned from international congressional travel for three months following an alcohol incident during a delegation trip to Mexico, Punchbowl News reported on Wednesday."Dur...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Right-wingers...always a classy bunch:
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Grain elevators are a surviving link to this fast-changing northern Illinois community's farming past. New post up over at the blog...
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Oswego’s landmark grain elevator a reminder of the community’s farming past
Because there was no easy and economical way to ship grain from it prior to the construction of the Oswego, Ottawa & Fox River Valley Railroad in 1870, Oswego had no grain elevator until after …
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November 19, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Grain elevators are a surviving link to this fast-changing northern Illinois community's farming past. New post up over at the blog...
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Just saw some pundit commenting on Latino voters' "swing to the left" after the 2024 vote. I figure they're just as conservative as they've always been. They're just concerned now about the Republican Party's heavily armed, masked thugs assaulting & kidnapping them in their homes & on the streets.
November 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Just saw some pundit commenting on Latino voters' "swing to the left" after the 2024 vote. I figure they're just as conservative as they've always been. They're just concerned now about the Republican Party's heavily armed, masked thugs assaulting & kidnapping them in their homes & on the streets.
How in the world can our democracy survive when voters are so ignorant that they don't know which party controls the government? This whole 250-year experiment in representative government could come crashing down because of the people's raging stupidity.
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New poll: Democrats lead the 2026 House generic ballot, and their edge widens when voters are reminded Republicans control Congress
Plus: Voters see both parties as out of touch, but for different reasons; Trump hits new low on pocketbook issues; Large majorities oppose ending ACA subsidies and SNAP, support taxing high earners
www.gelliottmorris.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
How in the world can our democracy survive when voters are so ignorant that they don't know which party controls the government? This whole 250-year experiment in representative government could come crashing down because of the people's raging stupidity.
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Wonder why Trump ever made the Epstein files a campaign issue. He knew he was mentioned all over them. He apparently thought, after MAGA'd been stoking crackpot Epstein theories about Dems, he could quash the whole thing after he was elected. Politically live by conspiracies, die by them, I guess.
November 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Wonder why Trump ever made the Epstein files a campaign issue. He knew he was mentioned all over them. He apparently thought, after MAGA'd been stoking crackpot Epstein theories about Dems, he could quash the whole thing after he was elected. Politically live by conspiracies, die by them, I guess.
The MAGA Republican Party's malevolent stupidity has once again come back to bite them. It's likely they won't even win this one in the corrupt SCOTUS. And the thing is if they hadn't been exuberantly racist they could have done it legally:
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'Really screwed up': Texas GOP roasted over 'self-own' that could cost them House seats
After a month of losses and setbacks in his plan to push Republicans to rig congressional districts to give themselves extra seats, President Donald Trump suffered a massive blow as a three-judge pane...
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November 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The MAGA Republican Party's malevolent stupidity has once again come back to bite them. It's likely they won't even win this one in the corrupt SCOTUS. And the thing is if they hadn't been exuberantly racist they could have done it legally:
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Wait! Christians actually quoting Jesus? What kind of radicalism will they come up with next?
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Trump confronts 'game-changer' as cruelty provokes 'unbelievably radical' revolt: analysts
Comments made by Pope Leo and a widely spread attack on President Donald Trump by Catholic bishops on his harsh immigration policies should give his administration pause that the ground beneath them i...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Wait! Christians actually quoting Jesus? What kind of radicalism will they come up with next?
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