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A Notion of Immigrants 0
If you get deported by ICE, you can expect to fly the fiendly skies.
Republican Family Values . . . 0
. . . are a malleable thing.
In a longer piece in which he discusses how the MAGA movement is fed by, and feeds on, white nationalism and racism, Field notes an irony:
I commend the entire article to you attention.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Bait for the easily bamboozled? Fritz Kessler counsels caution.
Signal Achievements, Reprise 0
Security expert Bruce Schneier takes a deep dive in signalgate and its implications. In the light of recent events, the whole thing is worth a read. Here’s a tiny little bit.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness again becomes child’s play.
We are a society gone insane from lead poisoning of our own doing.
“Vengeance Is Mine” 0
At the Sacramento Bee, law professor Erwin Chemerinsky looks at Donald Trump’s quest for retribution from law firms that have incurred his wrath. A snippet:
This is the playbook of a dictator, not a president in a democracy under the rule of law.
A Tune for the Times 0
Warning: Mild language.
“Thinning the Herd” 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini is less than sanguine about RFK Jr.’s stewardship sewership of the Department of Health and Human Services. A snippet:
But that was way back in … 2024.
The plan now seems to involve thinning the herd.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Muskrat Love 0
A quote:
This is authoritarianism hiding behind an American flag.
Warning: Short commercial at the end.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Via Der Spiegel, a very sad story that illustrates why maybe, just maybe, AI robots should talk like robots, as Bruce Schneir recently suggested.
Suffer the Children 0
Again, that’s not scripture. That’s a Republican family value.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” feels compelled to deploy his portable phallus whilst plying the pavement.
Republican Thought Police 0
In the midst of a longer article about the right-wing propaganda machine, Yastreblyansky makes the following observation, which methinks is right on the mark:
Recommended Viewing 0
If you can find them, these two episodes of Family Ties:
All in the Neighborhood: Part 1
All in the Neighborhood: Part 2
They are 35 years old and still quite timely.
A Tune for the Times 0
From the Youtube page:
From mass deportations, to mass firings to the crippling of our social support institutions, in two short months we have changed into something unrecognizable; Something we could accurately call “The Broken Promise Land.”