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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Grung_e_Gene minces no words as to what he sees as the goal of today’s Republican Party. Here’s a bit from his article:

Project 2025 and Trump’s first 6 months have demonstrated exactly what I wrote was going to happen and multi-front, concentrated effort to destroy the United States and replace it with a Neo-Confederate Nation State built upon the Twin Pillars of Corporate Hegemony and White Supremacy.

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Mask Bull 0

Red-hatted Trump supporter demanding that persons take off their masks, unless they are ICE agents.

Via Job’s Anger.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

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The Hostile Takeover 0

Gene Collier looks at the Trump maladministration’s attempt to stage a military invasion of Los Angeles and is not sanguine. A snippet:

That quaint ’90s notion of appropriate governmental response seems almost idyllic against the post-modern methods, in which Trump contorts reality to align with his own political psychosis and responds only in the way that plays to his political advantage, regardless of the outcome.

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The Screening 0

Woman checking in at International Arrivals at a U. S. airport hands her passport to ICE agent.  Agent:  What is the reason for your visit.  Woman:  I'm a tourist on summer holiday.  Agent:  Hmmm.  Our database shows that in 2018 you like an Instagram critical of the President's necktie.  I see your in-flight movie choice was Walter Salles' *I'm Still Here* about Brazilian dictatorship.  And you had a friendly conversation with your seatmate who has already been deported the Libya for supporting gay marriage in an AOL instant message in 2001.  (Turns to another agend)  Bobby, another terrorist!  Second agent:  On it, sir.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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BOLO 0

Donald Trump instructs ICE agents

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“GOP Jesus” 0

Mrs. Betty Bowers explains the RRV–the Republican Revised Version–of the Bible.

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Karen Karen-Like 0

Hoist on her own petard.

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Republican Thought Police 0

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Two ICE agents drag Lady Liberty into custody.  One of the says,

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The Pettiest Officers 0

Andreas Kluth examines the maliciousness of what he calls “the petty purges of Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio” and concluces that

If this administration really thinks that national security is threatened by a refueling vessel named after a gay sailor, it deserves to enter history books as not just petty, but dangerously so.

Follow the link for his path to that conclusion.

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If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0

Red-hatted man in pickup truck festooned with the Stars and Bars and Trump flags yells at a protestor,

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Seth notes that Donald Trump’s pogrom against immigrants appears to be less popular than he might have expected.

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The Trumpled Citizenship Test 0

Two ICE agents taking a brown-skinned man into custody.  The man says,

Via Job’s Anger.

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Republican Thought Police 0

The Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts writes about Arizona’ state Superintendent of Schools Tom Horne, who’s position on a history book that contains actual history can be summarized as “I haven’t read the book, and you shouldn’t either.”

I commend her article to your attention.

Aside:

As one who trained as an historian, I find today’s Republican Party’s efforts to claim that history wasn’t to be particularly offensive. And stupid. And insidiously, invidiously harmful to the polity.

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Masked Marauders 0

Thom argues that Trump has given a green light to racists to act like racists.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Lawrence O’Donnell minces no words in commenting on Donald Trump’s restoring the names of military bases so as to honor the Secesh.

Via C&L, which has the transcript.

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

At the Washington Monthly, Garrett Epps hears a rhyme:

Trump’s experiment in rapid national disassembly echoes America’s near-death experiment in the years before the Civil War. In the past few days, we have passed what might be called the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 mark.

The struggle in the 1850s arose out of the federal government’s determination to return Black Americans to slavery (via the Fugitive Slave Act–ed.) even after they had escaped to the free North. What is happening on the streets of American cities—and most particularly, now, on the streets of Los Angeles—carries uncanny echoes of that decade-long battle, which ended in secession and Civil War.

Follow the link for his reasoning.

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*Mark Twain.

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A Trumpled Taxonomy 0

Title:  A Field Guide to Civil Unrest, 2nd Edition.  Image:  Frame One;  Qanon Shaman and red-hatted man holding sign reading,

Via Job’s Anger.

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