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At Psychology Today Blogs, Monnica T Williams explores the harm done by racist (and, by extension, other bigoted) microaggressions. She points that their being “micro” doesn’t make them any less “aggressions.” A snippet:

When a white family member understands that a loved one’s pain isn’t an isolated incident, but part of a larger pattern of racism, their perspective deepens. Instead of dismissing microaggressions as misunderstandings, they begin to see them as reflections of a systemic problem that needs to be addressed.

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Among other things, Thom and former FBI agent Mike German discuss the origins of the Second Amendment. It’s likely not what you expect it to be and certainly not what the NRA and its dupes, symps, and fellow travelers would want you to think.

Frankly (I do everything frankly), it rather took me aback, but it did not surprise me.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Farron runs the numbers that show that the invasion of illegal immigrants wasn’t.

It was a talking based on a lie.

It’s a simple formula. Hate sells.

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In the midst of a long article about how the next few years are likely to be–er–difficult, the Rude One presents what methinks is an apt description of the current who-shot-John over H1B visas in the Republican Party:

It’s a battle between the racist capitalists and racist isolationists over who is the better racist . . . .

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If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

David dissects the racism and bigotry underlying the choice by Donald Trump and his dupes, symps, and fellow travelers to blame the New Orleans Bourbon Street attack on immigrants when, in fact, said attack was perpetrated by an American-born American military veteran. Methinks his reasoning to be spot on. (Warning: Short promo at the end.)

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From the you-can’t-make-this-stuff-up files: A member of the New Secesh laments having to give up freedom of screech.

We are a broken polity.

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The Entrance Exam, a Notion of Immigrants Dept. 0

Mike Luckovich decodes de code.

Baby 2025 approaches.  MAGA-hatted man holds up a color chart to his skin, finds that it's white, and says,

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Still Rising Again after All These Years, Reprise 0

Farron makes a persuasive case that Donald Trump has made racism acceptable great again.

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Signs of the times.

My Daddy fought Nazis in the Ardennes.

Were he still with us, he would be–er–somewhat distressed to find home-grown Nazis on the homefront betraying the very cause that he fought for.

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“Those Who Cannot Remember the Past Are Condemned To Repeat It”* 0

And, remember, there are those who don’t want us to remember the past, because they do want us to repeat it, and they still rising again after all these years.

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*George Santayana.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

PoliticalProf.

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The Entitlement Society 0

A Twits on Twitter An X Offender.

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The Profiteers of Prejudice 0

David follows the money. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

The SPLC takes a deep dive into the growth of anti-Haitian rhetoric lies and how they feed division and hatred.

Here’s a bit from their article (emphasis added. The whole piece is worth your while.

Rachel Laforest, chief program officer at Bend the Arc: Jewish Action, wrote about her Jewish and Haitian identity and the experiences that come with it in a piece published by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. In it, Laforest wrote about class and cultural solidarity and her parents’ fight to build power for labor and democracy in the U.S. She warned against efforts to blame societal issues on immigrants.

“The extremist forces behind the Springfield attacks know that they can only succeed with division,” she wrote. “They employ the machinery of antisemitism and racism to distract from the root causes of our collective struggles and turn us against each other.”

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A Notion of Immigrants . . . 0

. . . let Texas Governor Abbott introduce you to Republican family values.

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The Lake Effect 0

All the spews you can lose.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Frame One:  Foreign looking family.  Frame Two:  Elon Musk, Rupert Murdock, Kash Patel.  Caption:  Which group of immigrants is the real threat to America?

Via Job’s Anger.

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