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The Privatization Scam 0

In the Charlotte Observer, a doctor speaks out on how the privatization scam is harming public school students with disabilities in North Carolina. Here’s a bit of his article; follow the link for the rest.

By taking money away from public schools and giving it to private schools, North Carolina Republicans are creating a system in which more children with disabilities won’t have access to the accommodations that they are legally entitled to.

The lawmakers who voted for vouchers should know private-school funding with public money is not popular with voters. Across the country, ballot measures to publicly pay for private schools failed in 2024.

That’s why all our Republican legislators and Democratic Reps. Carla Cunningham, Michael Wray and Shelly Willingham waited until after the election to overturn Gov. Cooper’s veto. They knew it would be unpopular with voters and may cost them.

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“Economic Arson” 0

David sees a pattern. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)

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Kleptocracy 0

Jim Hightower sees a pattern in Trump’s cabinet picks:

This is what Trump & Company mean by saying they’ll make government “efficient.” Instead of corporate powers having to lobby regulators to get special favors, corporate officials will become the regulators.

Follow the link for the evidence.

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Russian Impulses 0

Via C&L, which has commentary.

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No Place To Hide 0

There’s a reason internet companies make their terms of service virtually unreadable.

It enables stuff like this.

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Republican Family Values 0

There seems to be a common thread here, does there not?

Honest to Pete, Monty Python couldn’t make this stuff up.

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This New Gilded Age 0

Seth discusses Bernie Sanders’s claims that we are will down a path to oligarchy.

Spoiler: Seth thinks Bernie may have a point.

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Republican Family Values 0

Steve M. points out that a significant Republican family value is to be “mean for the sake of mean.”

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Pay To Play 0

“Republican family values” is an oxymoron.

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The Rule of Flaw 0

Kimball Shinkoskey, writing at the Las Vegas Sun, is somewhat less than optimistic about the potential effects of the Supreme Supremacist Court’s decision to fabricate from thin air without any precedent whatsoever the doctrine of “presidential impunity immunity.”

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Republican Thought Police 0

Farron points out that, if it looks like a book ban, walks like book ban, and talks like a book ban, well, it’s a book ban.

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A Tune for the Times, Republican Family Values Dept. 0

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The Leerer of the Land 0

Title:  Make America Gaetz Again.  Image:  Mike Gaetz and a female staffer walk past a statue of Lady Justice.  Gaetz says,

Click to view the original image.

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Republican Family Values 0

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Immunity Impunity 0

At the Idaho State Journal, Michael Corrigan marvels at the teflon Don.

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The Party of Tax and Spin 0

Michael in Norfolk finds it somewhat–er–disquieting that many persons cited prices as their reason for voting for Donald Trump, while ignoring his plans to impose tariffs, which will lead to even higher prices. In a longer article detailing the likely consequences of Trump’s “policy,” sums up its likely effects quite succinctly:

Stated another way, the Trump plan is for everyday Americans to pay higher prices so that the very rich can enjoy further tax cuts while regular taxpayers see little benefit.

Aside:

Methinks “little benefit” an understatement.

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“A Republic, If You Can Keep It” 0

At AL.com, Kyle Whitmire looks at events over the past few years in his home state of Alabama and concludes:

When voters don’t punish crooked politicians, politicians just do more crooked things.

For some fool reason, he seems to suspect that we are about to see this play out on a larger stage . . . .

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The Law and Order Party 0

Yeah.

Right.

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Pay Attention to the Man behind the Curtain 0

Title:  Three Misguided Reasons that Americans Are Voting for Trump.  Image:  Frame One:  Man says,

Click for the original image and the artist’s commentary.

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Republican Family Values 0

Donald Trump in a tree spying on a woman who's getting undressed.  Trump says,

Via Job’s Anger.

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