Republican Thought Police 0
At the Austin American-Statesman, James Kallison is distressed at efforts in Texas to replace public education with public indoctrination, observing that
I commend his article to your attention, as Texas is not alone in wanting to use public funds to promote public ignorance.
The Blame Gamer 0
Robert Reich sees a pattern:
Follow the link for examples.
The Rule of Lawless 0
At Above the Law, Jonathan Wolf analyzes claims that vandals have attacked the Reflecting Pool and concludes
And what else would you expect? Trump thinks he is going to be remembered as a builder in Washington, but he is going to be remembered as the city’s vandal in chief..
Follow the link for context.
American Stasi, Privatization Scam Dept. 0
Scripps News’s Patrick Terpstra follows the money. A snippet:
ICE was bringing them to Camp East Montana, the nation’s largest immigration detention center. An obscure company called Acquisition Logistics LLC won a $1.2 billion no-bid contract to stand up the soft-sided facilities designed to house thousands of migrants.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Impartial and unbiased? Just as impartial and unbiased as the internet it scrapes to fill its database: As Phil Reed warns us at the Psychology Today website, “AI in healthcare amplifies existing gender and cultural stereotypes, worsening inequality.”
Follow the link for his evidence.
(Slightly edited for clarity.)
Lobster Potty 0
We are truly living under an idiocracy.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” performs a random act of politeness.
The family member was later treated at the hospital and released.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.
Still Rising Again after All These Years,
Voter Fraud Fraudsters Dept.
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Jamielle Boule offers the theory for Donald Trump’s fetish about voter fraud
He suggests that said fetish isn’t based on the idea that persons who can’t legally vote are voting. Rather, it’s based on the idea that persons are legally allowed to vote who shouldn’t be legally allowed to vote because votting is not a right; it’s a privilege of which those are unworthy–persons, for example, who couldn’t afford to pay poll taxes or couldn’t pass literacy tests that were rigged against them back in what Trump and the Trumpettes think of as the time when America was great.
Methinks his argument makes sense of the senseless and commend his article to your attention.
A Tune for the Times 0
Warning: Mild language.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Via The Japan Times, Justin Fox debunks the racist bigots’ bunk. A snippet:
