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A Tune for the Times 0

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Driven to destruction.

Brownsville (Texas–ed.) police say seven people were killed Sunday morning and it appears they may have been intentionally run over by a motorist.

We are a broken society.

(With a broken link, which is now unbroken.)

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Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! 0

Trials, not to mention convictions, on the charge of seditious conspiracy are rare, but four leaders of the they-call-themselves Proud Boys beat the odds and were found guilty.

At the Inky, Philadelphia activist Gwen Snyder details the years of harassment she has endured from the they-call-themselves Proud Boys. This was how it started; follow the link for full account.

The first time the Proud Boys came to my home to threaten me, I was out of state, traveling to attend a family function. It was June 2019, and they arrived at nearly midnight.

My downstairs neighbor was home, out on our building’s porch for a smoke break. The far-right gang members approached him, demanding to know if I was there.

He didn’t know, he told them. They demanded that he tell me to stop writing about their racist activities and posting members’ names on Twitter. Then they plastered a sticker with their logo onto my front door. They placed more around the neighborhood for good measure.

Image:  Abraham Lincoln's statute at the Lincoln Memorial holds two thumbs up.  Caption:  Jury convicts Proud Boys members of seditious conspiracy.

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Image via Balloon-Juice, which has commentary.

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Rolling Back the Clock One More Time 0

Words fail me.

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The Fire This Time 0

Ron DeSantis dressed as a Nazi brown shirt setting a pile of books on fire while saying,

Via Yellowdoggranny.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

At NJ.com, Lisa Davis takes a deep look at the efforts of Republicans, particularly in the South, to pretend that history isn’t. A snippet.

Attacks on knowledge generally, and African-American history specifically, are an attempt to erase the gains of the 20th century and return this country to one of patriarchal white supremacist rule.

Read the whole piece for her reasoning.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Self-Implication 0

Florida Man, in his own words . . . .

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Fact-Checking the Graham Cracker 0

David suggests that the Graham Cracker needs to get out of his propaganda bubble and deal with facts.

(Like that’s going to happen.)

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Courting Disaster, Unchecked, Unbalanced 0

Gordon Weil, writing at the Bangor Daily News, is not sanguine. A snippet:

Thomas and Alito are right-wing radicals. Alito regularly flaunts his partisanship. Thomas masks his bias in a dubious philosophy. Roberts asserts a degree of judicial independence that ignores the checks and balances that supposedly are central to the government.

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Word Gamers 0

At AL.com, Frances Coleman discusses the latest attempts of Alabama’s governor to pretend that history isn’t and than reminds us (emphasis added)

“Woke” is only the latest in a long line of words that are shaped and polished to suit the purposes of those who use them. Words like “woke” aren’t specific, and that’s the point. They are simple repositories for a jumble of emotions, fears and hatreds that avoid any analysis or thought.

There’s nothing new about this.

Follow the link for her arguments.

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The Contraband 0

Two children walking down a road past a sign reading

Via Juanita Jean.

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Decoding de Code 0

The Detroit Free Press’s Keith A. Owens decodes de code of de day: “anti-woke.” The short version: it’s a war against history and fact. Here’s a bit from his article:

. . . the attempt to protect the people from the threat of fact-based intelligence isn’t just going on in Florida, it’s a Hail Mary arcing across the entire country promoting the desperate MAGA belief that if they can just turn out the lights in America’s classrooms fast enough, maybe the kids won’t realize they’re sitting in a dark room. Maybe, just maybe, they’ll stop being woke and become convinced it was always that way.

The entire piece is worth your while.

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On the Voyage to Florida . . . . 0

Caption:  Steamboat Willie in the 1920s.  Image:  Mickey Mouse piloting a Steamboat while thinking,

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Republican Family Values 0

Roy S. Johnson marvels at the petty cruelty directed towards young trans “influencer” Dylan Mulvaney by the party of mean for the sake of mean. A snippet:

This week, the bigots aimed their lip gloss at Maybelline, the makeup giant. Someone dug deep enough into Mulvaney’s social media to find a reel of her using the company’s products for a makeover.

I mean, really. Bigots must be out there livin’ large if they have time for this.

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Courting Disaster 0

At the Idaho State Journal, Jesse Robison catches a whiff from a sty.

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Precedented 0

George B. Dew sees an historical precedent for Florida Governor DeSantis.

In the end, governor, I’m afraid to tell you this, but I think I must. It’s not Jefferson or Madison or Patrick Henry you resemble.

It’s King George III.

Follow the link for his reasoning.

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The Privatization Scam 0

The Orlando Sentinel’s Scott Maxwell reports on the difficulties reporters encounter in trying to find out what Florida is getting in return for its school voucher money. A snippet; details at the link:

Sadly, the Florida politicians who promoter “school choice” don’t want parents and watchdogs to know what’s going on inside those schools. They demand accountability from public schools, but let voucher schools run wild. They are truly, as the Sentinel has been documenting for years now, “Schools without Rules.”

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A Question of Identification 0

Sam and his crew discuss an exchange between Matt Walsh and a college student who had to unmitigated gall to question him. First, they air the edited version as released the Young America’s Foundation, then a longer version, and critique the differences.

Commentary from the Majority Report’s Youtube page is below the fold.

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