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The Rollback Continues 0

Now comes the persons that filed the suit that the Supreme Supremacist Court used to overturn affirmative action based on race on their next campaign.

They want to put women back in their place.

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Courting DIsaster, Reprise 0

In reviewing recent statements by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Supremacist Court, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gene Collier finds himself somewhat taken aback by what hurts said Chief Justice’s tender fee-fees.

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Courting Disaster 0

Title:  Deep Pockets.  Image:  Rich man tucking a Supreme Court Justice into his pocket.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Cancel culture, Republican style:

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

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Freedom of Screech 0

Cartoon lampooning Supreme Court decision equating refusing to do business with LGVBTQ persons is somehow freedom of speech.

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Unprecedented 0

At Above the Law, Joe Patrice argues convincingly that our current Supreme Supremacist Court is just making stuff up; he considers their ruling about the web designer who didn’t want to do a website for a gay couple despite never having been asked to do a website for a gay couple. Here’s a tiny bit from his article:

Once you make the choice to open a business to the public, you agree to abide by the rules. If you don’t want to do that, you don’t have to open a business. That’s been the law dating back to English common law — but apparently the majority has chosen a convenient time to junk its amateur historian antics.

I commend the rest of his article to your attention.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

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Establishmentarians 0

As a reminder, establishmentarians are those who want to make sure that you have that their old time religion.

Or else.

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The Fetishist 0

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Sunk, Reprise 0

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At Psychology Today Blogs, Noam Spencer looks at why the deaths at sea of five rich people overshadowed those of 700 refugees. Here’ are two of the points he makes:

  • Wealth bestows power. Power attracts attention because it has the potential to be consequential in our lives.
  • Media outlets driven by profit push stories that are compelling, rather than those that are important.

See his complete piece for a detailed discussion of these and the other points he raises.

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A Picture Is Worth 0

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Selective Enforcement 0

It’s a thing.

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The Trojan Horse 0

LZ Granderson looks behind the curtain and concludes that

. . . the legislative attacks on drag are nothing but a Trojan horse.

Conservatives speak of protecting children, but laws aimed at drag are really about weaponizing homophobia and transphobia to score political points.

Go read the article for his reasoning.

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Reality Check 0

Of course, the problem Jim Jordan is trying to deal with is that the facts lean left.

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Establishmentarians 0

At Above the Law, Thomas Mill argues that our current Supreme Supremacist Court has jeopardized the Founder’s concept of separation of church and state. A snippet; follow the link for the evidence.

. . . .the religious conservative majority is doing exactly what it says government cannot: differentiate or “discriminate” against entities based on their religious status in a way that is beneficial to one type and exclusionary to the other.

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Strollin’ in the Park One Day,
Spreading Hate Along the Way
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Our domestic terrorists strike again. Here’s the lede from the report:

Authorities in Passaic County are investigating an incident where seven swastikas were painted around a park in Clifton. That park is sandwiched between two Jewish schools.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

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Misdirection Play 0

Michael in Norfolk looks inside the Trojan Horse of “parents’ rights.” Here’s a bit of his piece:

The mantra of racist and anti-LGBT legislators as they seek to ban books and erase history they don’t like and LGBT students in general is that they are protecting “parental rights.” However, the real agenda is to please knuckle dragging evangelicals and Christofascists who want to sanitize history of the rampant racism that defined the Jim Crow era and want to send LGBT individuals back into the shadows . . . .

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

The Sacramento Bee has obtained a copy of Florida Governor DeSantis’s trafficking ticket (that is, the “release” his minions had migrants sign before trafficking them to California).

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Facebook Frolics 0

Hate-full frolics.

“Social” media isn’t.

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