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The Emptiest Words in American Politics 0

Frame One:  GOP Elephand holding up a newspaper with the headline,

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Republican Thought Police 0

Trump maladministration to California cities:

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*Such as (quoting from the report) “any mention of gender, abortion and other inclusive” terminology.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Trumpled History 0

Title:  New Smithsonian Exhibits.  Exhibit One:  Slavery:  An opportunity for on-the-job training, wiht a picture of a smiling slave.  Exhibit Two:  Indian Schools:  Free haircust, new clothes, English lessons, with a picture of a smiling Indian child dressed in a suit and tie;  Exhitibt three:  Our Greates Presidents (there's only one!), with a picture of Donald Trump.

Via Job’s Anger.

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Suffer the Children 0

We are again reminded that that’s not scripture. That’s Republican policy.

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Decoding De Code 0

At The Coloarado Sun, Mike Littwin reports that he has found a quotation from George Orwell that illuminates why the Trump maladministration is attacking the Smithsonian (and I would add, by extension, universities and other institutiolns of learning and remembrance):

From Orwell’s “1984”: “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

Follow the link to see why he thinks that to be the case.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Donald Trump issuing and executive order that reads,

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Afterthought:

If George Wallace were to come back from the dead, he would welcomed with open arms by today’s Republican Party.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years, Reprise 0

Donald Trump at the Smithsonian uses his Sharpie to draw a smile on a KKK uniform, then says,

Via Job’s Anger.

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The Rule of Lawless 0

It’s something that happens when the lawless try to remake the rules.

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The Dictator Dictates 0

Donald Trump on television holding a sign reading

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If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0

Frame One:  One heavily armed National Guard soldier says to another,

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Lies and Lying Liars 0

Apparently, the Trump maladministration believes that, if they don’t talk about it, it didn’t happen.

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A Loafsome Attack 0

Via Kathryn Rubino at Above the Law, this tribute to the Trump maladministration’s decision to throw the book at someone who threw a sandwich is circulating on “social” media.

Heavily armed law enforcement agent having a sandwich thrown at him captioned,

Rubino’s post has commentary which is well worth a read. A tiny excerpt (emphasis added):

This incident lays bare the hypocrisy of all the early (and empty) rhetoric from the start of the Trump II reign about cutting government waste. MAGA doesn’t want a small government, they want a government that can be bent to their whims. Just like authoritarians everywhere.

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Woke/ Not if the Republican thought police get their way.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Thom talks with Kymone Freeman about Trump’s military occupation of the District of Columbia. (Warning: Short commercial at about the three-minute mark.)

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The Control Freak 0

Via the Charlotte Observer, the Kansas City Star’s Melinda Hennenberger offers what methinks is a simple lens through which to view the actions of the Trump maladministration. Here’s a tiny bit from her article:

Just about everything that is happening domestically — from an aggressive new review of all Smithsonian exhibits to make sure they are “unifying,” “constructive,” and in sync with Trumpian values, to the determination to defund even community libraries — goes back to his goal of complete control.

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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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If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better,
Republican Thought Police Dept.
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At the Des Moines Register, Rekha Basu has a long and thoughtful article about Iowa’s Republican Governor’s attempts to stamp out talk about DEI in the state’s educational institutions. (In case you wondered, the goal of the anti-DEI movement is to pretend that discrimination and bigotry and segregation and slavery never happened and left no legacy.)

She notes that the Iowa governor referred to Donald Trump’s anti-DEI executive order, then observes (emphasis added)

But Trump’s approach has been nothing if not contradictory. He forbids implementing DEI policies at public institutions but has repeatedly singled out Jewish students as deserving of special protection against bias. He has gone so far as to strip funding from Harvard and Columbia universities because of alleged antisemitism in campus protests against Israeli practices toward Palestinians. But he’s said little about the treatment of Palestinians. Trump has booted out migrants and refugees of color, including those legally here, while allowing white South African ones in. The message? Be inclusive toward his chosen groups but exclusionary against others.

I commend the entire piece to your attention.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Chaos Agents 0

Writing at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Gene Collier is not sanguine. He notes

The great awakening of Trump 2.0 is that tragically unserious people can do tragically serious damage.

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