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

Trudy Rubin hears a rhyme in Donald Trump’s efforts to silence his critics. A snippet:

Trump is following a pattern clearly marked out by the Kremlin — and perhaps even more relevantly by Turkey, where journalists and academics are prosecuted for “insulting the president” — and by Hungary, led by Trump pal Viktor Orbán.

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*Mark Twain.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Devolution 0

Michael in Norfolk makes a frighteningly convincing case that the United States is going bananas banana republic.

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Republican Thought Police 0

At the Bangor Daily News, Dan Cashman, who once hosted a late night talk show, is not sanguine. A snippet:

The actions taken by Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr last week, to go on a podcast and threaten local station groups with the possibility of federal action because of things said by a comedian on a TV show, is crossing a critical line. Free speech is protected in this country, and for good reason. We have many freedoms that are easily taken for granted. The ability to criticize elected officials, be it for comedy or honest conversation, is protected, and must continue.

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A Tune for the Times 0

From the Youtube page:

We couldn’t find any lobster costumes, and a whirling freestyle in the middle of a school week was not gonna happen. So – with some extra input from a few media sources to cover instrumental sections – this is our parody rendition of “Under the Sea”, one of our old Disney favourites for its sheer joy and energy. It was composed by Alan Menken (with cracking lyrics by Howard Ashman) for the 1989 animated “The Little Mermaid” and won an Oscar. Of course, the calypso lobster’s forlorn plea for an alternative path falls on deaf ears. Which brings us to free speech.

It’s been a scary time in lots of ways in the US, with the temperature cranked up again by shocking murders and reckless responses, and sadly now the First Amendment (for decades a place of some bipartisan accord) seems to be creaking. As we were working on the arrangement, we learned that Jimmy Kimmel’s show had been reinstated by Disney – which is great news, having loved meeting him in 2020 albeit under bizarre pandemic circumstances – though we gather that much is still unclear about how the matter is going to play out. Here’s hoping that enough uproar is generated that Trump and co. think again about making their predictable/alarming move on limiting freedom of expression.

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Suffer the Children 0

We are again reminded that that is not scripture. That is a Republican family value.

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Free Trumpled Speech, One More Time 0

Ring of Fire looks at Donald Trump’s campaign to silence anyone who criticizes him. (Warning: Mild language.)

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Free Trumpled Speech, Reprise 0

Seth takes a closer look at Donald Trump’s efforts to unfree speech.

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Free Trumpled Speech 0

Caption:  Free Speech in the Age of Trump.  Image:  Heavily redacted document with a Sharpie labeled

Via Job’s Anger.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Republican Thought Police 0

Couple staring at a television screen which reads,

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

Mike Littwin hears a rhyme–a rhyme he did not expect.

I knew that Donald Trump and his MAGA pals would exploit Kirk’s death, reject any calls for national unity, make Kirk a martyr and blame the martyr’s death, in Trump’s words, on “the radical left” instead of on the person charged with the shooting — who seemed to believe that shooting someone for “hateful” rhetoric would somehow make the world better.

What I didn’t know was that JD Vance, Stephen Miller and the rest of the Trump team would go full McCarthy on us.

Follow the link for his parsing of the poesy.

And, in related news . . . .

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*Mark Twain.

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Republican Thought Police 0

As my old professor was wont to say, “History is irony.

Jonathan Zimmerman notes an irony.

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If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0

Frame One:  Red-hatted man says,

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The Art of the Con 0

Methinks my old Philly DL friend Noz makes an excellent point.

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Republican Thought Police, Reprise 0

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Republican Thought Police 0

They are patrolling dis coarse discourse with truncheons raised and gags at the ready

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The Evidence of Things Seen 0

Donald Trump next to a poster of his letter to Robert Epstein.  Trump says,

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Oopsie 0

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gene Collier suggests that Squeaker of the House Mike Johnson’s attempt to make the Epstein files go away has sort of backfired.

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