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Show Me the Money, Republican Family Values Dept. 0

Woman says to man doing taxes:  Don't forget to deduct our frozen embryos on the child tax credit.

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Like Alabama would put its money where its mouth is.

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From the Party of Lincoln to the Party of Stinkin’ 0

The editorial board of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch tells a tale of devolution.

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Establishmentarians 0

Hal Crowther tries to figure out how, despite the evidence and the testimony of those who have worked closely in his administration, Republicans cling to Donald Trump. The entire piece is worth the few minutes it will take to read, but this bit in particular caught my eye:

But the most appalling, hypocritical, indigestible victims of Trump’s anti-charisma are the ones who call themselves “evangelicals.” “I know that he is picked by God for this hour,” said one woman who voted for him in the Iowa primary. “He is our David and our Goliath” said another. These ghastly fools, including the reactionary movie star Jon Voight, have compared Donald Trump to Jesus Christ Himself. Talk about blasphemy. If the universe were arranged as they profess to believe, the sky would open up and divine lightning would roast every one of them to cinders.

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Republican Family Values 0

Title:  Cryogenc Nursery.  Time:  Not long after the Alabama Supreme Court's ruling that IVF embryos are people . . . .  Image:  Man in medical robes showing new employee around containers of

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No Place To Hide 2

I think it’s safe to say that the internet invasion of privacy has been out of hand for quite a long time. and it certainly has more than its share of nefarious.

Here’s some nefariousness with an establishmentarian twist. Here’s a snippet from a report by the EFF:

In May 2023, the Wall Street Journal reported that Near was selling location data to anti-abortion groups. Specifically, the Journal found that the Veritas Society, a non-profit established by Wisconsin Right to Life, had hired ad agency Recrue Media. That agency purchased location data from Near and used it to target anti-abortion messaging at people who had sought reproductive healthcare.

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Establishmentarians 0

E. J. Montini finds an irony in Arizona Republicans’ desire to post the Ten Commandments in public schools:

The Good Lord must also find it humorous that those same individuals, as well as all of their MAGA brothers and sisters, daily (and nightly, and all times inbetween) break Commandment No. 1, the admonition against worshiping false gods. At least when it comes to you-know-who.

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Republican Family Values 0

“Suffer the children” is a Republican family value.

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See the comments that Thom mentioned regarding the Heritage Foundation at this link.

As one who trained as an historian specializing in U. S. Southern, it seems to me that the “heritage” that the “Heritage” Foundation claims to represent is little more than unreconstructed white Southerners’ myth of the “Lost Cause” dressed up in Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes.

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Establishmentarians 0

What Jesus is not reported to have said, but what they believe:

Go ye therefore and make disciples of all nations, by force if necessary.

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Republican Thought Police 0

Teacher, writing the word

Via Job’s Anger.

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Establishmentarians 0

Elie Mystal looks at the recent court decision in Alabama and sees a pattern:

We are entering a new Dark Age, one where, like the last one, science, education, and facts mean nothing, and Christian myths and legends are given the force of law. I don’t know how to stop them, but I think the first step is to recognize and name what they’re doing.

And, speaking of patterns . . . .

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The Lake Effect, Still Rising Again after All These Years Dept. 0

How many are The Secesh?

The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini runs the numbers:

I finally have an answer to a question that many individuals from Arizona and around the country have asked me during the past couple of years.

It is: Roughly 25%.

The question being: How many Americans do you figure are as wacky as Kari Lake?

Follow the link for the calculations.

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Diminishing Returns 0

PoliticalProf.

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Know Them by the Company They Keep, Reprise 0

Visitors to the House of Wax.

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Establishmentarians 0

Michael in Norfolk is somewhat perturbed.

At the Des Moines Register, Jason Benell has more about the effects of establishmentarianism.

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Know Them by the Company They Keep 0

The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini points out that Arizona Congresscritter Andy Biggs keeps some pretty sketchy company.

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Willful Blindness and the Republican Thought Police 0

At the Bangor Daily News, Solomon D. Stevens argues forcefully that we should not blind ourselves to our country’s faults, as the Republican Thought Police would have us do. I cannot say that I agree with everything he says, but I do think his piece is worth the few minutes it will take to read it. Here’s a snippet, one which I think we are seeing being validated in real time:

When we close our eyes to the fact that our country is flawed, patriotism can turn nasty. It can become defensive and angry. It can lead to the desire to strike out at, to harm, those who dare to question our vision of the country. This can turn what should be a healthy patriotism into a toxic force.

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Florida Man 0

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Missing the Point 0

At Psychology Today Blogs, Eden King and Mikki Hebl explain that the fuss over DEI is much ado about a misunderstanding. They point out that the term doesn’t mean the bad things that those who oppose claim it does.

What King and Hebl don’t address, though, is this: The persons who oppose DEI detest diversity, equality, and inclusion, regardless of the words used.

Those folks really want to go back to the good old days, if not the 1850s–that’s where their hearts truly yearn to be–at least the 1950s, before Rosa Parks boarded that bus.

It doesn’t help if we look away, look away, look away from what’s going on here and fail refuse to recognize that they are still rising again after all these years.

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A Picture Is Worth 0

Republican Thought Police.

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Republican Thought Police 0

At the Des Moines Register, a history professor argues against a bill currently being advanced in Iowa to whitewash–I use that term advisedly–the teaching of American history in primary and secondary schools.

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