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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 0

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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The Entitlement Society 0

A Twits on Twitter An X Offender.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Michael in Norfolk decodes de code.

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A Quibble 0

Methinks Michael in Norfolk made a typo.

He missplet “1850s.”

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Still Rising Again after All These Years, Reprise 0

The New Secesh are now phoning it in.

Expect more like this, folks.

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The Rule of Flaw 0

I go to sleep worrying about the American dream.

I wake up to the American scream.

I am not sanguine.

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Still Rising after All These Years 0

If at first you can’t secede, try, try again.

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The Confluence 0

Steve M. takes a look at this weekend’s Trump rally in Madison Square Garden (which, I must note, is neither square nor located at Madison Square, but I digress), where Trump’s supporters openly flaunted their racism, and notes an overlap. Here’s a bit about the overlap:

Did yesterday’s rally seem like the work of an organized, dangerous fascist party? Yes — but the rally’s rhetoric also seemed like ordinary casual conversation among bigoted white men when they think no one can hear them.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Mailboxing it in.

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“They Want Apartheid Back” 0

Thom talks with a caller about why some people vote Republican, even though Republicans’ “policies” are inimical to their health and well-being. He offers a simple explanation.

As someone who grew up under Jim Crow and remembers my Daddy making sure he had paid his poll taxes, who was in school during desegregation, who trained in U. S. History with an emphasis on U. S. Southern, and who freaking pays attention to what’s going on, I find it difficult to take exception to Thom’s argument.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Jackie Calmes makes a compelling case that Donald Trump has shown us who he really is many times.

The question is, “Are enough people paying attention?”

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

It seems clear that Richard Nixon’s “southern strategy” has come full circle and that today’s Republican Party has devolved into the party of the Secesh.

Here’s yet another example.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Sometimes, despite their best efforts, the mask slips off.

Via Atrios.

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Kindred Spirits 0

Hitler holds a Nazi flag.  A Klansman holds the Stars and Bars.  Both ask,

Via Yellowdoggranny.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

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Vance Planning 0

. . . in case you needed any more evidence that today’s Republican Party is little more than the party of the New Secesh.

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Gutting Out the Vote 0

Thom talks with Greg Palast about Palast’s new film detailing Republicans’ efforts to deny American citizens their right to vote.

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

Rebecca Watson hears a rhyme:

Or you can read the transcript.

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*Mark Twain.

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