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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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Republican Thought Police 0

The Republican thought police are now coming for the National Parks’ Junior Ranger program. Via SFgate, By Kylie Mohr lists examples of material that’s being examined for casting aspersion on the United States. Here’s one example:

Staff at Cape Hatteras National Seashore in North Carolina, for example, asked for leadership to review a Junior Ranger book “for appropriateness of women pirates dressing like men” due to a mention of Anne Bonny, an infamous female pirate.

More stupid at the link.

Afterthought:

Denial is not just a river in Egypt. It’s the Trump maladministration’s approach to American history.

As one who trained as an historian (and whose ancestors wore the grey, for that matter), I find that repulsive and disgusting.

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Russian Impulses 0

Thom wonders why Trump hung a picture of Putin in the White House.

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Dis Coarse Discourse 0

Title:  Insult Bloat.  Frame One, captioned

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Suffer the Children 0

One more time, that’s not scripture. That’s a Republican family value.

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Just Deserts, Reprise 0

Warning: Mild language.

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Republican Thought Police 0

At AL.com, John Archibald looks at a bill recently introduced in the Alabama legislature that would for all practical purposes abolish academic tenure; he suggests that

The Alabama Legislature — like many others, these days — is not about making lives better. It’s not about making bodies healthier, dreams more attainable or food more affordable. It’s certainly not about making thoughts more free.

It’s about controlling what you can say or hear or ultimately think or learn. And of course teach.

Follow the link for the rest.

Afterthought:

Why are Republicans afraid of freedom of thought and speech? Could be that they know they are in the wrong?

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The Lake Effect, the Rule of Lawless Dept. 0

At Above the Law, Liz Dye notes that

Right now would be a really good time for the US to have a direct line to speak to the Iranian people. A radio station, broadcasting directly into Iran from a friendly Gulf state like, say … Kuwait.

But we don’t because Arizona’s perennial loser Kari Lake pulled the plug last year on most of Radio Farda, which previously broadcast news in Farsi into Iran, along with much of Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and the multiple outlets that fall under the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM).

She goes on to discuss a federal judge’s ruling that Lake’s doing so was illegal and unconstitutional. Follow the link to find out why.

(Broken link fixed.)

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Republican Family Values 0

Picture of Donald Trump and a teenaged girl captioned,

Via Job’s Anger.

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The Welcome Home 0

Pete Hegseth yells at flag-draped coffins of American soldiers,

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True Deceiver, True Believers 0

Two men at a bar.  Man One:  Trump promised not to get us into any wars, then he goes to war with Iran.  Man Two:  He said he'd release the Epstein files, but, instead, he's hideing them.   Man One:  And, instead of draining the swamp, he's made it his persons fishing hole.  Man Two:  Say!  Has he been playing us fro fools all allong?  Man One:  Naw, It's Biden's fault.  Man Two:  Effin' Binde.  Bartender thinks,

Via Job’s Anger.

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Mullen It Over 0

Seth takes a closer look at Trump’s replacing Kristi Noem with Markwayne Mullen and the chaotic incompetence associated therewith.

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The Irrationalization 0

Cartoon skewering Donald Trump's stated reasons for attacking Iran and stating it was to distract from Trump's many failures.

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Emoluments 0

Robert Reich follows the money from the box office to the coffers.

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Suffer the Children 0

As should be clear to all by now, that’s not scripture.

That’s a Republican family value.

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The Rule of Lawless 0

Pam Bondi: La loi, c’est moi.

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The Pursuit of Knowledge 0

That’s what the Republican thought police are all about.

And, once they catch it, they will lock it up and make sure it never roams free again.

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