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Facebook Frolics 0

Fraudulent frolics.

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Facebook Frolics, Crocodile Tears Dept. 0

Joe Scarborough has had enough of the Zuckerborg.

Video via Juanita Jean.

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Environmental Deception 0

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Fly the Fiendly Skies 0

You’ll journey to new Frontiers of customer service.

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Chartering a Course for Disaster 0

Scott Maxwell argues that you can voucher that this is a con.

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The Privatization Scam 0

Rent-a-cop revels.

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Owning Up 0

A looter explains his actions.

Via Delaware Liberal.

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Truthiness frolics.

Also, too.

Media Matters link via Atrios.

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The Pusher Men 0

Transcript here.

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Animal Sacrifice 0

Thom and his guest discuss how the slaughter of farm animals is not simply the result of the coronavirus. Rather, they posit that the pandemic has revealed deep flaws in the existing system for getting meat to market.

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The Medicine Show 0

Will Bunch argues that it is all show and no medicine.

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A False Choice 0

At the Inky, Robert I. Field explains that the notion that you can somehow choose between the economy and public health is–er–misguided. An excerpt:

Disease mitigation and economic revival are both, of course, desperately needed, but they are inseparable. Just as a house can’t be solid if the foundation isn’t, an economy can’t be healthy if the population isn’t. A house with a weak foundation may seem substantial but only until a storm hits. An economy without a robust public health infrastructure may seem prosperous but only until widespread illness strikes.

Meanwhile, PoliticalProf takes a look at the stock market.

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Indulgences for Sale 0

Donald Trump, seeking to appease the evangelical “Christians” in his base, has declared that churches are essential services.

E. J. Montini disagrees, because the Bible tells him so. A nugget (emphasis in the original):

But I recall a priest delivering a sermon on the subject of churches, talking about the Bible verse (Matthew 18:20) where Jesus says, For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

The priest made a joke with the congregation, saying something along the lines of, “While I’m glad you’re all here, and I really do need this job, it doesn’t even take two or three of us to have the Lord with us. We’re able to have that on our own, any time we want.”

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An Unthinkable Thought 0

I fear that El Jefe may be onto something.

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Trade-off 0

Susan Estrich is less than optimistic about the effects of Donald Trump’s push to “reopen” the country. Here’s a bit from her article (emphasis added):

I know what the president will say to people reopening their stores, wisely or not. He’ll tell them he hopes they get great business, tremendous business, the best business in the world. Really, can you imagine him saying anything else? What I don’t know is what he will say to the tens of thousands who will lose their loved ones because in Trumpland, making money, more and sooner, means more.

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Faceless frolics.

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Misdirection Play, All the News that Fits Dept. 0

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The Fee Hand of the Market 0

Well, this should work out well (about as well as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, that is).

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Chris-Crossed 0

Chris Christie joins the ranks of those willing to sacrifice lives* on the altar of the Dow-Jones Average.

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*Lives of others, it goes without saying.

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Klepto Karen DeVos 0

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