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Have Cake, Eat It Too 0

Donald Trump, in a limosine with a bumper sticker reading

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War and Mongers of War 0

Susan Estrich thinks Donald Trump has some ‘splainin’ to do. She notes that

It’s not just that he’s failed to explain his war to the likes of me; he hasn’t justified it sufficiently for his own base.

Follow the link for the reasoning behind that remark.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

I’m a Southern boy.

I grew up under Jim Crow and attended segregated schools.

I remember my Daddy making sure he paid his poll taxes.

I know racism when I see it.

This is racism, pure and simeple.

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Denial Is Not Just a River in Egypt 0

It’s also how the Trump maladministration approaches U. S. History, but some people are fighting back for truth, justice, and the American way.

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Support the Troops 0

But not like Republicans do:

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) attempted to deport nearly 300 veterans and their family members in Donald Trump’s first year back in office, according to new data released by Democratic lawmakers, despite protections offered to those officers when they joined the military.

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Fly the Fiendly Skies 0

At Above the Law, Kathryn Rubino reports that Bill Barr finds that he has to wait in TSA lines just like everyone else. She goes on to say

And let’s be clear about how we got here, because there’s been a predictable attempt to muddy the waters. Republicans own this mess. Full stop. They’re the ones who empowered Trump’s personal police force — ICE — whose abuses helped trigger the standoff that led to this shutdown. They’re also the ones refusing to take up multiple Democratic proposals that would fund TSA and alleviate exactly this kind of crisis. The dysfunction isn’t some abstract inevitability; it’s a policy choice.

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Republican Family Values 0

Donald Trump to recipients of SNAP and Medicaid:  Sorry, we're cutting your programs so we can save money for wars.

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Republican Thought Police 0

At Above the Law, Joe Patrice reflects on the a federal court’s ruling that Pete Hegseth decision to bar members of the press who did not print his bidding from the Pentagon. In discussing what led up to the case, Patrice notes that (emphasis added)

For decades, journalists with Pentagon Facilities Alternate Credentials (PFACs) got access to press briefings and non-classified areas, where they could chat with officials and develop the connections and background knowledge essential to keep the public informed. Under the new rules, journalists would have to agree not to publish or solicit unauthorized information, essentially promising to be obedient stenographers in exchange for access.

That policy has now been overturned, though the Trump maladministration has promised to appeal.

Read the whole article. It is a gem.

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War and the Mongers of War 0

Steve M. argues that the Trump maladministration’s war on Iran is all about the mean for the sake of mean. Here’s a bit of his article:

For the Republican voter base, the war doesn’t need a purpose. Owning the enemy is purpose enough. The GOP will never make its voters safer, healthier, more economically secure, or more able to obtain employment, but it will talk about enemies incessantly, and let the base revel in how it’s tormenting those enemies.

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Republican Family Values 0

Words fail me.

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All the News that FIts 0

The EFF is joining the fight against the Trump maladministration’s attempts to turn television news networks into its personal P. R. pimps.

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A Sign of the Times 0

Frame One:  Pete Hegseth says,

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The Injustice League of America 0

    It is right and proper to prosecute a person who violates a just law.
    It is wrong to persecute persons just for being who they are.
    Yet Trump maladministration spurns the first, embraces the second.
    This methinks is the very definition of the rule of flaw.
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The Rule of Lawless 0

It appears that we can now look forward to the initiation of the inquisition.

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Gutting Out the Vote 0

Title:  The

Via Job’s Anger.

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All the News that Fits 0

David discusses Donald Trump’s celebrating his efforts to suppress freedom of speech.

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American Exceptionalism 0

Richard French, in a letter to the editor of the Las Vegas Sun, makes a convincing case that, if such a thing ever were, it ain’t no more. He argues that, under the Trump maladministration,

. . . .the U.S. is retreating from the values it once claimed as its moral core.

I fear that he is correct. Follow the link for his reasoning.

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Republican Thought Police 0

Now they’re coming for media fact-checkers.

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Motivation 0

The sad part is that Steve M.’s theory is quite plausible.

For that matter, so is Field’s.

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War and Mongers of War 0

Via the Las Vegas Sun, Lydia Polgreen makes a convincing–and chilling–case that Donald Trump does not realize that actions can have (sometimes unintended and unexpected) consequences.

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