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The Peacefaker 0

Flag-draped coffin labled

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The Art of the Deal 0

My old Philly DL friend Noz has a few thoughts about Trump’s deal with the Saudis. A snippet (emphasis added):

How did our deal-making president reach an agreement after Biden couldn’t? He dropped all the conditions that Biden insisted upon and gave the Saudis everything they wanted without much in return. No inspection regime (in fact, the deal seems to be crafted to prevent UN inspections from happening) and no recognition of Israel. Art of the deal!

His entire article is worth your while.

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The Patriot Gamer, Republican Family Values Dept. 0

Ring of Fire’s Josh Gay is appalled at how Donald Trump managed to minimize the sacrifice of American soldiers–and the loss to their families–who have died in the war that he chose to start with Iran.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another “responsible gun owner” discharges his responsibility.

A man faces charges after an accidental gun discharge on a MARTA bus in Sandy Springs injured him and another passenger Wednesday night. . . .

And again we are reminded that “accidental” and “negligent” are not synonyms.

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The Tinder Trap 0

Florida man.

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Imaginary Numbers 0

You couldn’t make this stuff up.

But Donald Trump can. After all, he lives in an imaginary world.

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QOTD 0

A. J. Ayer:

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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American Stasi 0

ICE agents observed using Catch-22.

It’s the best catch there is.

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Misdirection Play 0

Donald Trump sits on bag of money labeled

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Parsing the Playbook 0

From the Youtube page:

Thom talks with Democratic Senator of Oregon, Jeff Merkley, about his FREE article, Ring the Alarm Bells: The Ten Rules of Trump’s Authoritarian Playbook, and his experience at the U.S. Senate chamber outlining these corrupt and destructive tactics.

You can download Senator Merkley’s Ring the Alarm Bells.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Another case of politeness on the pavement.

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Republican Family Values 0

Know them by the company they keep.

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Still rising again after all these years? At the Psychology Today website, psychology professor Glenn Geher reports that “AI-related technology has been shown to include implicit racist messaging.”

Follow the link for the evidence.

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QOTD 0

Kyra Sedgwick, in the voice of Brenda Leigh Johnson:

If we all stop lying to each other, how will we ever get to the truth?

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The Garden of Olive Delights 0

The backstory.

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Republican Thought Police 0

When you cut through the Trumpian gobbledygook quoted in this report, it becomes clear that the Trump maladministration wants the Smithsonian Institution to promote partisan propaganda, rather than nurture knowledge.

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American Stasi 0

Couple approaching

Via Job’s Anger.

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Gutting Out the Vote 0

Farron discusses how the Trump maladministration’s efforts to dictate how states run elections are blatantly unconstitutional.

But, of course, the Trump maladministration doesn’t care about the Constitution or the rule of law.

It cares about money and monacrhy.

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Republican Family Values 0

Methinks that, when you read this article from the Des Moines Register about the struggles faced by Iowa residents since the Trump maladministration slasched SNAP benefits, you will understand why I hold that mean for the sake of mean is a Republican family value.

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