The Voter Fraud Fraudster 0
Susan Estrich debunks Trump’s bunk about the California vote count.
All the News that Fits 0
Farron explains why Walter Cronkite would be ashaned of what his network has become. (Warning: Mild language.)
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
In Republican world, if you don’t talk about history, it therefore isn’t.
This is the same sort of reasoning that white Southerners used to turn the Civil War, started by seceding states sseking to secure slavery, into the Lost Cause(TM), the notion that the poor persecuted little seceded states were simply struggling to protect their Southern Way of Life(TM).
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*Mark Twain.
Phoning It in . . . 0
. . . to a bad actor.
The Art of the Con 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Tom Harper follows the money.
A Postal Puzzle 0
Is Alabame Senator Tommy Tuberville actually a Florida man? Inquiring minds want to know.
Read the article by Kyle Whitmire that Farron references.
Republican Thought Police 0
It appears that the Trump maladministration is trying a new tactic so as to supporess academic freedom and control curricula. A snippet:
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The shift comes after federal judges blocked Trump’s administration from making crippling cuts at Harvard and the University of California, Los Angeles. It also follows a mass exodus in civil rights lawyers who traditionally guide investigations against universities. Still, Trump hasn’t backed down from his campaign to end what he calls “wokeness” run amok in academia.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At Above the Law, Joe Patrice explains why the Supreme Supremacist Court is relying on its “Shadow Docket” to roll back civil rights, resuscitate Jim Crow, and take the nation back to the 1950s {if not the 1850s, which, methinks, is where they truly want to be):
It relieves the burden of having to slap lipstick on this pig.
Follow the link for context.
The Art of the Con 0
Robert Reich dissects the duplicity behind Donald Trump’s “Freedom 250″ celebration cash grab. A snippet:
Follow the link to see why he says that.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
There’s definitely something fishy about this politeness.
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.