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Republican Thought Police, One More Time 0

Rick Strom tries to make sense of the senselessness.

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Dis Coarse Discourse 0

Steve M. looks back at the long history of Foxy shady.

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Vaccine Nation 0

Via the Hartford Courant, physicians Daniel Tobin and Anthony Yoder express their concern that the Trump maladministration is hazardous to our health A snippet:

With the CDC and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) essentially sidelined, we now find ourselves in a leadership vacuum and faced with misinformation that frequently contradicts itself and is void of scientific basis. We have witnessed seasoned subject experts forced to leave or resign key positions and panels rather than promote false information or misguided recommendations, only to be replaced with known opponents of vaccination that cite “facts” not rooted in data and research which have appeared in official CDC documents alongside those borne from rigorous scientific investigation. This only sows the seeds of confusion and without the ongoing guidance of true experts, the problem is only going to worsen, to the detriment of everyone.

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Trumpling History 0

Family in the Smithsonian in an exhibit room adorned with stocks, whips, shackles, nooses, and the like.  Man reads from legend,

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The Fifth Horseman, One More Time 0

Afterthought:

The sign in front of RFK Jr. as he testifies reads “The Honorable Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.”

I submit that said statement is an oxymoron.

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A Report from the Front 0

Eric Chastain, a retired army veteran, writes of what it’s like to live in under military occupation–in this case, in Washinton, D. C. He is not sanguine. Here’s a tiny bit of his article.

The sight of troops with weapons patrolling sidewalks, boarding trains and standing post outside coffee shops has now spread from the nation’s second-largest city to the nation’s capital. What was once extraordinary is quietly being treated as routine.

That should alarm us all.

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“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0

Michael in Norfolk hears a rhyme. Here’s a couplet:

Throughout history would be dictators have used claimed emergencies to enhance their power and to suspend the rule of law. A famous example is how Hitler used the Reichstag fire – which historians believe was set by Hitler’s goons – to claim emergency powers that allowed him to attack opponents and adversaries. The Felon has seized on this playbook . . . .

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Undue Process, Notion of Immigrants Dept. 0

Sam and the crew point out that the Trump maladministration’s campaign against immigrants is little more than ethnic cleansing under a different name.

A quote:

The whole point of due process is not that you are granted some type of special privilege. It is to establish whether the government is accurate or telling the truth in justifying the actions that it takes.

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Vaccine Nation 0

Title:  RFK Jr. Convenes His Vaccine Panel.  Image:  Wizards, witches, and soothsayvers gathered around a crystal ball.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Via The Charlotte Observer, University of Kansas professor Robert C. Schwaller points out that today’s Confederate sympathizers are redoubling their efforts to whitewash–I use that term advisedly–the legacy of chattel slavery.

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Occupied Territory 0

David runs the numbers that show that Trump’s military occupation of Washington, D. C., is backfiring, even as Trump continues to lie about it.

Afterthought:

I wonder. Does Trump even know when he’s lying, or does he just believe what he believes because he believes it?

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Republican Thought Police 0

At the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Gene Collier makes a strong case that the Republican thought police are coming for the U. S. Military. A snippet (emphasis added):

The president doesn’t want to hear the best military advice; he wants to hear what he wants to hear, and that sends a chilling effect,” Retired Army Major General Randy Manner was saying this week on one cable news program. “Before the election I was very vocal about how the president could actually change the military into his personal army within two years. … It’s actually happening much more rapidly than I thought was possible.”

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The Rule of Lawless 0

It seems that D. C. grand juries aren’t buying the–er–Trumped up charges against the sandwich slinger.

(Syntax error fixed.)

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The Rule of Lawless 0

Trumped-up charges.

No surprises there.

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Windbags 0

Emma and the crew debunk de bunk about wind farms.

Afterthought:

In Trump world, government does not exist to serve the people.

Government–and the people–exist to serve the Trump.

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The Cracker Up 0

Afterthought:

I dined–if you can call it that–at a Cracker Barrel once. It was the day the space shuttle blew up.

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Foxy Shady 0

Farron comments on emails which he contends reveal that Fox News is not a legitimate news organization.

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Trumpling History 0

Family looks a billboard reading,

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Stray Question 0

Did you seriously believe that the Trump maladministration would act on actual factual information when, instead, they can deploy the Republican thought police?

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A Tune for the Times 0

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