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Republican Family Values Meet a Notion of Immigrants 0

Hones to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

The Trump maladmnistration wants them darkies to know their place.

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

In an article about the mean for the sake of mean that the Trump maladministration is displaying toward immigrants, persons who look like immigrants, and even natural-born American citizens who happen to be brown, Gustavo Arellano hears a rhyme:

Under Noem’s leadership, DHS’ social media campaign has instead produced videos that call undocumented immigrants “the worst of the worst” and depict immigration agents as heroes called by God to confront invading hordes. A recent one even used the theme song to the cartoon version of the Pokémon trading card game – tagline “Gotta catch them all” – to imply going after the mango guy and tamale lady is no different than capturing fictional monsters.

That’s one step away from “The Eternal Jew,” the infamous Nazi propaganda movie that compared Jews to rats and argued they needed to be eradicated.

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*Mark Twain.

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Separation of Church and State 0

Der Spiegel takes a deep dive into the right-wing they-call-themselves Christians who (rather incongruously, considering Donald Trump’s history) wield great influence in the Trump maladministration. Their findings are not comforting. Here’s a tiny bit from the artilce:

The Christian nationalists among the “Project 2025” authors – many in number – imagined a country full of evangelical Christian families led by a strong patriarch.

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It sounds a lot more like radicalism than like faith. It is the attempt to turn the clock back by several decades, if not centuries – back to a time when men were still men and conflicts were solved with faith in God and a revolver. Jesus and Jesse James. The resuscitation of a quintessentially American myth. An overtly far-right response to left-wing identity politics seen as overly feminine and moralizing. And, ultimately, it is an attempt to dismantle the rule of law.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Methinks Michael in Norfolk has a valid wonder.

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The Rule of Lawless, Droning On Dept. 0

Title:  Hey Kids!  It's Droney--the friendly MAGA drone.  Frame One:  Little boy:  Droney, we read that you've been seen attacking Venezuelan boats in international waters, killing at least 17 people.  Droney:  Well, sure.  The president says they were drug smugglers.  ALso, the videos are really cool.  Boats go splodey!  It's fantastic content.  Little boy:  But--they could have been interdicted and arrested.  And they you'd have evidence.  Little girl:  They may have been migrants or just fishermen.  Droney:  Eh, drug smugglers, migrants, whatever.  It's a new day of American power, which means the president gets to summarily execute anyone he wants.  The Supreme Court says so.  Little boy:  Are you sure about that?  Droney:  You kids aren't questioning MAGA drones, are you.  Because that's exactly the sort of thing the president does not like.  Little boy:  No, we certainly are not.  Little girl:  Perish the thought.  Droney:  Okay, good.  Well, gotta run.  I've got to track down a late night comedian.  Er, I mean to say, a radical antifa terrorist who also tells jokes.  (Droney flies off.)  Little girl:  He's . . . kidding, right?  Droney (over his shoulder):  Ha ha.  I'll never tell.

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Republican Family Values 0

Title:  Rage at the Ragged.  Frame One, captioned

Via Job’s Anger.

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Twits on Twitter X Offenders 0

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Republican Thought Police 0

In the course of a longer article about recent events at Texas A&M University, Mary Ellen Klas summarizes the tactics of the Republican thought police (emphasis added):

Texas, like Florida before it, has steadily adopted an authoritarian approach to higher education. The goal is to target a marginalized group or racial minority whose ideas the Republicans in power find undesirable and use them as a cudgel to justify bringing state universities more firmly under governmental control. In the last year, the Lone Star State began enforcing a patchwork of policies aimed at purging diversity, equity and inclusion programs at state universities. It abolished independent faculty senates with faculty councils controlled by the governor’s appointees. And it banned a vague array of “expressive activity” and demonstrations on campuses.

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Occupation Nation, Reprise 0

Sam and the crew discuss the tactics of the occupiers. (Warning: There’s language in some of the video clips that they show.)

Afterthought:

Late in his life, my father said to me, “I’m glad those days are over.”

He was referring to the days of racism and segregation during which he and later I as Southern boys were raised.

But they’re not over. They may have been in abeyance for a while, but they are most certainly back with crosses burning.

America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the racist mythology created to rationalize it continue to exact their toll.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

It seems that the Trump maladministration is committed to exercising undue process of lawless.

And we are again reminded that mean for the sake of mean is a Republican family value.

(Syntax error fixed.)

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

At the Washington Monthly, Richard D. Kahlenberg peers behind the sheets of a recent action of the Trump maladministration and concludes that

Trump’s new enemy appears to be racial diversity itself . . . .

Follow the link to find out why he reached that conclusion.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

At the Detroit Free-Press, Randy Essex reminds us that

Since colonial times, America’s white ruling class has worked to instill fear of “others.” The landed elite recognized early on that if poor whites found common cause with native and Black people, free and enslaved, those landed elites were in trouble.

He goes on to argue that this, well, let’s call it “Southern Strategy,” is still being pursued and that Donald Trump’s bogus claims that cities are rife with crime (which is Trumpian code for “full of black and brown persons”) is an updated tactic of said “Southern Strategy.”

I commend his article to your attention.

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The Guiding Principle 0

Frame One:  Dark-skinned man says to the Roberts Court,

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Stray Thought 0

Who other persons idolize can tell you a lot about the character and beliefs of said idolators. Indeed, they may even be said to hold up a mirror to said idolators.

For example, what can you induce about those who find this person to be admired?

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Signs of the Times 0

When you don’t want to face factual reality, you can always remove any signs of the truth.

Honest to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up.

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Iced by ICE 0

Sam and the crew find themselves–er–somewhat taken aback by the brutality of Donald Trump’s secret police ICE agents.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years, Notion of Immigrants Dept. 0

At SFGate, Paula Mejía writes of Angie ‘the ICE Chaser’ Vargas, a health care professional who has made an avocation of documenting the antics of Donald Trump’s secret police ICE agents in the Los Angeles area on her TikTok account.

In the course of the interview, she gets to the crux of what’s going on (emphasis added).

“I don’t think that it’s fair how [people are] getting preyed on. Honestly, let’s just say it for what it is: It’s racism, and they’re stereotyping us for being brown,” she says. “They don’t go up to white people and ask them for their documentation. You don’t see them in Seal Beach. You don’t see them in Newport Beach. You don’t see them in Laguna. They’re preying on our urban communities.”

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Rick Strom discusses ICE’s detention of legal workers at a Hyundai plant in Georgia. (Warning: The first couple of minutes are a chilling vision of what this nation is becoming under the Trump maladministration.)

From the Youtube page (emphasis added):

By her own admission, MAGA supporter and Congressional candidate Tori Branum was supposedly responsible for calling ICE on the Hyundai plant in Georgia that saw hundreds of workers, including South Korean nationals there for business purposes, rounded up and held in ICE custody, effectively costing the country billions of dollars in investments in the process.

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

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*Mark Twain.

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