The Turkish Hat Law, banning non Western headgear, took effect.
Beijing's Forbidden City was opened to the public for the first time.
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‘It’s terrifying.’ Wyoming leads country with highest jump in Obamacare costs
‘It’s terrifying.’ Wyoming leads country with highest jump in Obamacare costs: For a 60-year-old Wyoming resident earning $63K a year, the average monthly ACA premium costs are increasing by 421%.
Truly an example, for Wyoming, of play stupid games, win stupid prizes, which we're seeing a lot of now days. Chaining ourselves to the far right is proving to be a huge mistake in nearly everything.
Republicans have been opposed to the Affordable Health Care Act from the very beginning, but have failed to repeal it, and have failed to offer any alternatives to it. The act itself definitely has flaws, but ironically the flaws that exist are due to ongoing right wing opposition to national health care, which every other advanced nation has.
The credit system that the AFHA currently has came in during the Covid pandemic, and because of it, given that so many people were out of work. Removing them will cause a massive jump in insurance rates. None of this is a surprise to people who have looked at it, and frankly I suspect its a backdoor path to Republicans removing the system on the basis that it's too expensive and hence a failure.
It might also prove to be the straw that breaks the back of resistance to national health care. Thousand will not be able to afford insurance and it'll be a health crisis. Populists on the right will receive the blame for it while those on the left, like Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez will pick it up, arguing for a national system. The political winds are already turning against the Republicans and this will make it worse for them.
Because of the cost of healthcare, this is an area where the principals of subsidiarity, as well as the principal of solidarity, really call for a basic national system, which shouldn't be all that hard to create. Such a system would cover basic health care. Elective matters of a non life threatening nature it wouldn't. And it wouldn't cover the "medical" items in the culture wars either, such as abortion
Tuesday, November 24, 1925. William F. Buckley born
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William F. Buckley was born in New York City. He'd grown up all over the Western World, notably in the United Kingdom, due to his father's business interests.
He was essentially the founder of modern conservatism, a movement that's been destroyed by Trump's populism. He died in 2007 at the age of 82.
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Monday,November 23, 1925. USS Wyoming commences an overhaul.
Trump’s pardon of crypto king makes case for constitutional reform
Trump’s pardon of crypto king makes case for constitutional reform: A constitutional amendment first proposed after Watergate would address questionable pardons, writes guest columnist David Adler.
Sunday, November 23, 2025
CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist, 109th Edition. Lost love. Painting Targets. Piggy. Articles of Surrender. Voting in opposition of something that isn't going on.
Lost love
The big news this past week is that Marjorie Taylor Greene, who came to prominence as one of the most notable and frankly disagreeable figures on the far right, and then who moved away from Trump, is leaving the 119th Congress in January after her pension vests.
What's exactly going on here is really unclear, but Green's transformation was remarkable. She used to come across like an ignorant howler monkey. If Eva_Vlaardingerbroek is the "Shieldmaiden of the far right", she was more like an buffoonish bouncer.
All of a sudden, however, she really came around to opposing Trump and in fact suddenly sounded like a different person completely. That suggests her antics were always an act put on for her constituents.
Given her change, she was drawing the direct opposition of Trump who was opposing her in next year's Congressional election. She already had stout opposition and may just be taking off because she doesn't want to spend the next year dealing with a pack of extremists. Her transformation did not cause her to be loved by moderates who were baffled on her transformation, save perhaps for Thomas Massie, whom Trump also hates. Trump is vicious to all who oppose him.
Well, as W. E. B. Dubois famously said, only a food never changes their mind.
The Seditionist accuses others of Sedition.
Oh horse shit. No "great legal scholars" are venturing that opinion. Pam Bondi probably would, if told to do so, but her sycophantry disqualifies her from being a great anything.
Donald Trump is a seditionist insurrectionist. He has not had his act of sedition excused by Congress, so he's actually ineligible to be President of the United States, and legally, isn't.
So that makes it all the more ironic and hypocritical that he's gone after a collection of Congressmen and Senators, all veterans, who reminded service members that they can, and must, obey an illegal order, under certain circumstances (they can't for instance, just assume an order may be illegal).
Some of this has actually already been happening. Resignations of senior officers, and some firings, have hit the news, usually with a "gosh, I wonder why this is happening" sort of commentary. It's happening because they're opposing illegal orders. It's also the case that National Guardsmen have started a backchannel internet communication discussion that includes the same topic.
Trump seems to be in a full blown panic about this, and probably for good reason. The US is currently murdering people on the seas in extrajudicial killings using military force that some regard as being on the edge of illegality. Trump has sent National Guardsmen to cities with Courts repeatedly intervening to stop the deployments. Trump is constantly rumored to be on the edge of using the Insurrection Act. But as time goes on he gets more and more erratic.
The majority of American people already disapprove of Trump's presidency. There's no national stomach at all for using the military against the population, but the administration has constantly flirted with it, and to some extent, already done it. The legality of Trump's actions on all levels are in the Courts. There's a reviving movement to impeach him, and his behind the scenes support may well be reaching the breaking point. We still don't know what was in the Epstein files, other than that rich and powerful men feel they can get away with whatever they want, including screwing teenage girls.
Declaring the politicians who spoke to be seditionist is absurd. They were no such thing. But it does paint a target on their backs. This was reprehensible.
It's also a sign of extreme desperation. We'll note that below.
Piggy
One of the increased signs of Trump's dementia is his inability to hold his tongue. Last week he called a reporter who asked a question he didn't like "Piggy". It was a female reporter.
He's demented.
Any other politicians in the US who said such a thing would be howled down to the point they'd offer an apology. Not Trump, of course. The fact that he hasn't been is evidence of what redneck trash this country has become. It's appalling.
It's also a sign that at this point Trump is so stressed by something that the wheels are really coming off of his psyche.
Articles of Surrender
One of the most notable things about Donald Trump is the degree to which he truly seems to abhor war.
Or does he?
It's actually a bit difficult to tell.
Regarding the Russo Ukrainian War, Trump has repeatedly issues statements that approach being homo erotic about the war and how it needs to end, due to all the "beautiful" young men it kills. At the same time, of course, he doesn't mind killing South American men very much.
Going back to that, however, Trump has being trying and promising to end the Russo Ukrainian War for well over a year now. He's flip flopped on positions, but one of those that he periodically occupies is acting as an agent for Russia. We're back at that point again.
The West promised to secure Ukraine's sovereignty when it gave up its nuclear weapons. The West has not fulfilled that promise fully. President Biden did a good job of helping Ukraine right from the onset, but didn't go as far as he should have. The various European nations have done far, far more than they've gotten credit for.
Trump desperately wants a Nobel Peace Prize, and although he may have convinced himself that he ended "eight wars", so far, he's not really ended any, if we consider that the only real claim he could have made to that effect was the war in Gaza, where Israel conducted a bombing raid yesterday. Most people who have really looked at the situation in Gaza don't expect the peace to hold permanently.
A real peace between Ukraine and Russia would be a major accomplishment, however. The thing is, however, that the "peace plan" that Trump presented was basically that Ukraine surrender. Indeed, it resembles the treaty that ended the Great War to some extent, in that Ukraine gives up land and limits the size of its army, which are two of the things Germany did at the end of World War One.
That worked out oh so well.
Of course, to realize that would require a sense of history, which Trump lacks. That the plan smacks of the Munich Accords also would require that.
So, back to a couple of things .Why is Trump the only Western leader outside of Viktor Orban who likes Putin? It isn't because he's on the populist right. Giorgia Meloni is on the populist right and she's not a Putin fan.
But Meloni also is very intelligent and not trying to suck up unwarranted praise all the time.
It might be just because the Russians know that Trump is demented and a narcissist, and they play into that. But it's hard to wonder if it isn't something else.
At any rate, member of the Administration are already attempting to walk the document back. That's interesting, as Trump seemed very solidly behind it. That suggest that there are some forces behind the scenes that can operate a bit independently of Trump.
Voting no on Socialism while Trump cozies up to it.
The House voted on a resolution to disapprove Socialism, which is just about as stupid of thing as they could done. What on earth was that exactly supposed to prove?
The GOP has really gone off the rails on this topic in that it now asserts routinely that Socialism=Communism. It doesn't. All Communists are Socialist, but not all Socialists are Communists, and those who maintain the opposite need to go back to school.
Ronald Reagan's big French buddy Francois Mitterrand was a Socialist. He was also completely democratic.
Of course, Donald Trump isn't completely democratic, but interestingly, some of his policies are socialist, and now he's had a fawning meeting with the new Democratic Socialist mayor of New York City. He declared that they had a lot of views in common.
Look for the GOP to now propose joining the Comintern.
Turning Point at CC
One of the things that the assassination of Charlie Kirk seemed to do was to boost the creation of Turning Point USA chapters. There's one at one of the local high schools now, and one at the local community college.
At that one, there was just an event at which the far right Secretary of State and a far right politician who wants less government but who is a major landlord, thereby occupying a role in society that only exists due the major support of the government, or else people would ignore your claim to property rights, spoke.
Wyoming's far right is sounding more and more irrelevant, so its interesting how these things are a bit behind the curve. Of course the Secretary of State, in order to try to keep ahead of the curve, has been sounding like a member of Greenpeace recently. I thought this would have generated some news, but it doesn't seem to.
Interesting.
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CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist, 108th Edition. Lost love.
Today In Wyoming's History: November 22, 2025. Retiring a number.
Today In Wyoming's History: November 22: 2025. Former University of Wyoming football player and now player for the Buffalo Bills in the NFL, Josh Allen, had his UW uniform number retired prior to a UW football game against Nevada with the Pokes lost, 13 to 7.
Also, he's married to Hailee Steinfeld.
Monday, November 23, 1925. USS Wyoming commences an overhaul.
Today In Wyoming's History: November 23: 1925 The USS Wyoming commences an overhaul at the New York Navy Yard.
The paper noted that it was for the whole family, clean, and unbiased. It might have been all of those things, but what a bunch of horrible news.
The building that business occupied is still there. It's an office building today, right between the Rib & Chop House and the Ugly Bug Fly Shop, both of which occupy old buildings that were also there, but neither of which were in operation at the time.
Not wanting that to be the only item for the day, we offer the following (note, this was in error, this is a paper from 1923):
The paper noted that it was for the whole family, clean, and unbiased. It might have been all of those things, but what a bunch of horrible news.
Note the big collection of drug charges.
A surplus store in Casper was going out of business.
The building that business occupied is still there. It's an office building today, right between the Rib & Chop House and the Ugly Bug Fly Shop, both of which occupy old buildings that were also there, but neither of which were in operation at the time.
Rib & Chop is going out of business with the conclusion of the year. The most famous occupant of that building was The Wonder Bar which opened in 1937 and which was a Casper institution, with ups and downs, for decades.
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Jackson Hole Ski Patrol takes steps to unionize
Jackson Hole Ski Patrol takes steps to unionize: Amid unionizing effort, patrol says opening Jackson Hole Mountain Resort on Nov. 28 remains top priority.
Best Posts of the Week of November 16, 2025
Quite the week.
There was lost love:
CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist, 108th Edition. Lost love.
A horrible lynching was recalled:
A classic design was patented.
DeGaulle put his foot down, but more than that, a monster was convicted.
The 2026 Election, 3rd Edition: The Self Inflicted Wound Edition.
Ignorance, and genius, was in evidence.
A union martyr, who probably didn't die for labor, was recalled.
An early look at what nuclear war appeared in Life.
President Trump played Neville Chamberlain
The Golden Age of Air Travel starts with you.
The Golden Age of Travel Starts with You
The Secretary of Transportation has taken a lot of flak for this, and I'm not fan of the Trump Administration, but you know, I don't think the message here is wrong by any means.
And, fwiw, I hate seeing people in pajamas in public, whether its on an airplane, or Walmart.
And we never got to much of the news.
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The Feral Week of November 16, 2025.
Thursday, November 20, 2025
What is ski cutting and why is it controversial?
What is ski cutting and why is it controversial?: Skiers, snowboarders and snowmobilers encourage a backcountry safety mindset — to reduce fatalities — at the annual Wyoming Snow and Avalanche Safety Workshop in Jackson.
The Golden Age of Travel Starts with You
The Secretary of Transportation has taken a lot of flak for this, and I'm not fan of the Trump Administration, but you know, I don't think the message here is wrong by any means.
And, fwiw, I hate seeing people in pajamas in public, whether its on an airplane, or Walmart.
Thursday, November 22, 1945. Thanksgiving Day.
It was the first postwar Thanksgiving.
Proclamation 2673—Thanksgiving Day, 1945November 12, 1945By the President of the United States of AmericaA ProclamationIn this year of our victory, absolute and final, over German fascism and Japanese militarism; in this time of peace so long awaited, which we are determined with all the United Nations to make permanent; on this day of our abundance, strength, and achievement; let us give thanks to Almighty Providence for these exceeding blessings.We have won them with the courage and the blood of our soldiers, sailors, and airmen. We have won them by the sweat and ingenuity of our workers, farmers, engineers, and industrialists. We have won them with the devotion of our women and children. We have bought them with the treasure of our rich land. But above all we have won them because we cherish freedom beyond riches and even more than life itself.We give thanks with the humility of free men, each knowing it was the might of no one arm but of all together by which we were saved. Liberty knows no race, creed, or class in our country or in the world. In unity we found our first weapon, for without it, both here and abroad, we were doomed. None have known this better than our very gallant dead, none better than their comrade, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Our thanksgiving has the humility of our deep mourning for them, our vast gratitude to them.Triumph over the enemy has not dispelled every difficulty. Many vital and far-reaching decisions await us as we strive for a just and enduring peace. We will not fail if we preserve, in our own land and throughout the world, that same devotion to the essential freedoms and rights of mankind which sustained us throughout the war and brought us final victory.Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, in consonance with the joint resolution of Congress approved December 26, 1941, do hereby proclaim Thursday November 22, 1945, as a day of national thanksgiving. May we on that day, in our homes and in our places of worship, individually and as groups, express our humble thanks to Almighty God for the abundance of our blessings and may we on that occasion rededicate ourselves to those high principles of citizenship for which so many splendid Americans have recently given all.In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed.Done at the city of Washington this 12th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred forty-five and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventieth.Signature of Harry S. TrumanHARRY S. TRUMANBy the President:JAMES F. BYRNES,Secretary of State.
The Hollywood Canteen was open for the last time.
The Rocky Mountain News claimed that the Japanese tried to assassinate Stalin.
I've never heard that before, and I'm fairly sure it isn't true.
The paper also informed readers of the death of Gen. Alexander Patch, part of the great post war senior officer die off that followed the Second World War.
And it noted that Koreans were complaining that the Soviets were stripping the country of machinery.
The paper ran Out Our Way.
And there was an advertisement for a pen that you didn't have to fill for a year. . . an advertisement I don't, frankly, believe.
The Reynolds was revolutionary, however. It was a reengineered Biro type ballpoint pen.
Meat rationing was to end. . .but not before Thanksgiving.
The only thing that remained rationed was sugar.
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Wednesday, November 21, 1945. UAE goes on strike.
Labels: 1940s, 1945, Automobiles, Cartoons, Guatemala, Industry, Labor unrest, Strike Wave of 1945-1945, Thanksgiving, trends, Unions, United Nations
Monday ,November 22, 1875. The death of Vice President Henry Wilson.
Ardent opponent of slavery and career politician Vice President Henry Wilson died in office at age 63.
GENERAL ORDERS, NO. 97
WAR DEPARTMENT,
ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE
I. The following order announces the decease of Henry Wilson, Vice-President of the United States:
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
Washington, November 22, 1875.
It is with profound sorrow that the President has to announce to the people of the United States the death of the Vice-President, Henry Wilson, who died in the Capitol of the nation this morning.
The eminent station of the deceased, his high character, his long career in the service of his State and of the Union, his devotion to the cause of freedom, and the ability which he brought to the discharge of every duty stand conspicuous and are indelibly impressed on the hearts and affections of the American people.
In testimony of respect for this distinguished citizen and faithful public servant the various Departments of the Government will be closed on the day of the funeral, and the Executive Mansion and all the Executive Departments in Washington will be draped with badges of mourning for thirty days.
The Secretaries of War and of the Navy will issue orders that appropriate military and naval honors be rendered to the memory of one whose virtues and services will long be borne in recollection by a grateful nation.
U. S. GRANT
By the President:
HAMILTON FISH,
Secretary of State.
II. On the day next succeeding the receipt of this order at each military post the troops will be paraded at 10 o'clock a. m. and this order read to them.
The national flag will be displayed at half-staff.
At dawn of day thirteen guns will be fired. Commencing at 12 o'clock noon seventeen minute guns will be fired, and at the close of the day the national salute of thirty-seven guns.
The usual badge of mourning will be worn by officers of the Army and the colors of the several regiments will be put in mourning for the period of three months.
By order of the Secretary of War:
E. D. TOWNSEND, Adjutant-General.
He had been born Jeremiah Jones Colbath and born to extremely impoverished circumstances, growing up partially as an indentured servant to a farmer in his region. At age 21 he changed his name, although the reasons really aren't known. He became a shoemaker, and then entered politics as a Whig. He was one of the organizers of the Free Soil Party in 1852 and became a U.S. Senator in 1855. He served in the Union Army during the Civil War and exited the war back into politics as an advocate of the rights of freed slaves.
On the same day:
Executive Order—Expansion of Ute Indian Reservation TerritoryNovember 22, 1875EXECUTIVE MANSION, November 22, 1875.It is hereby ordered that the tract of country in the Territory of Colorado lying within the following-described boundaries, viz: Commencing at the northeast corner of the present Ute Indian Reservation, as defined in the treaty of March 2, 1868 (Stats, at Large, vol. 15, p. 619); thence running north on the 107th degree of longitude to the first standard parallel north; thence west on said first standard parallel to the boundary line between Colorado and Utah; thence south with said boundary to the northwest corner of the Ute Indian Reservation; thence east with the north boundary of the said reservation to the place of beginning, be, and the same hereby is, withdrawn from sale and set apart for the use of the several tribes of Ute Indians, as an addition to the present reservation in said Territory.U. S. GRANT.
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