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Suffer the Children 0
One more time, that’s not scripture. That’s Republican policy. (Warning: Short promo at the end.)
An excerpt:
Trump and his allies play word games, they play semantic games, they don’t care about the Constitution, unless it’s the Second Amendment.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Once again, a child gets a leg up on politeness.
Republican Family Values 0
Joni Ernst drops the pretense.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Rebecca Watson debunks Donald Trump’s “white genocide in South Africa” bunk.
Or you can read the transcript.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
The editorial board of the Bangor Daily News hears a rhyme. Here’s the rhyme; follow the link for context.
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*Mark Twain.
Bonana Fanna Fo Fonald 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini plays the Donald Trump name game.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Thom parses a number of rhymes.
A quote:
It’s not just that dictators become corrupt. It’s that corrupt people, when they have positions of power, inevitably will or will try to become dictators because that’s how they protect themselves and their corruption.
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*Mark Twain.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
More courtesy on the concrete.
What’s the common denominator in gunnuttery?
Why, it’s the guns. And, of course, the stupid.
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.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Trustworthy? I’ve still got that bridge for sale in Brooklyn.
Tickled Memory 0
For some fool reason, this article reminds me of someone in the news.
Health Care Hallucinations 0
It sure sounds as if RFK Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again report was written with AI. Here’s the lede:
Seven of the cited sources don’t appear to exist at all.
And this guy’s in charge of HHS.
Much more at the link.
Establishmentarians 0
Sitting in for David Pakman, Brittany Page focuses on a discussion from the Texas legislature to highlight the hypocrisy of today’s establishmentarians.
Afterthought:
The dirty little truth that establishmentarians don’t want anyone to know is that establishmentarianism is not about piety.
It’s about power.
Republican Thought Police 0
Our wannabe dictator has sicced the Republican thought police on NPR and PBS. At Above the Law, Liz Dye points out that
Follw the link for the other stuff she points out.
Student Visa Tours 0
Daniel Ruth, writing at the Tampa Bay Times, takes issue with Donald Trump’s characterization of foreign students at American universities. He tell of his own experiences with foreign students at the University of South Florida. Here are a couple of excerpts from his article:
The contributions of these international students are profound.
Almost all of are engaged in STEM majors — bio med, engineering, physics, chemistry, math, biology. A few are business majors. All of them are a joy to be around. They are intellectually curious. They are very serious people, and they can be funny, too.
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. . . so many of them want to use their American education to return to their homelands to make things better — the medical students, the engineering students, the computer science students, the nursing students. They want to make their countries better. And Donald Trump wants to throw them out.