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Fingers in Their Ears 0
Farron observes that some elected Republican officials are making excuses so as not to have to listen to their constituents if those constituents have the temerity to take exception to the actions of Dear Leader.
DOGE Bull 0
At Above the Law, Joe Patrice provides (yet) more evidence that Elon Musk’s DOGE really doesn’t have a clue about how government works or what it (DOGE) is doing.
Real Big Men 0
Robert Reich takes a long look at what he describes as “the centrality of male dominance and misogyny to Trump’s world” and at how it frames and explains much of the behavior of Trump and the Trumpettes.
I commend his article to your attention.
A Tune for the Times 0
(Mild language.)
This New Gilded Age 0
Apparently, I am not alone in realizing that the 1890s are back.
The Moneychangers in the Temple 0
Mrs. Betty Bowers fulminates against the false prophets.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The Trump administration has again renamed an army base back to its old name–one that honored a Secessionist general–again after hunting up the name of an honorable soldier that they can use to whitewash (you will pardon the expression) their deed.
QOTD 0
Chris Potter, in the voice of Det. Sgt. Tom Ryan:
We don’t always get happy endings in real life. That’s why people go to the movies.
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Professor Sabrina B. Little reminds us that, on the Disinformation Superhighway
Follow the link for some suggestions for how to shy away from shysters.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
He couldn’t resist the temptation.
He just had to play with his portable phallus.
We are a society of stupid.