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The New Secesh’s efforts to white-wash (I use that term advisedly) America’s history find another target.

The Trump administration is enlisting national park visitors into the Republican president’s fight to rewrite American history, with a new directive that forces all park units to display signs that encourage guests to report any information that is critical of American history.

On May 20, U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum directed all park units to display the signs to comply with President Donald Trump’s earlier executive order, which claims that U.S. history has been distorted by ideology and seeks to counter what it describes as revisionist narratives that portray the country’s past in a negative light.

To translate, the words

portray the country’s past in a negative light

is New Speak for

tell the truth about.

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Sam and the crew explain why the Trump maladministration is renditioning refugees, including Afghan refugees who helped American forces during George Bush’s Great and Glorious Patriotic War for a Lie, but making exceptions for white folks from South Africa.

(Spoiler alert: No surprises here.)

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Indiana’s Lt. Governor tries to rewrite history.

Afterthought:

They don’t want to admit the reality of slavery because that would require them to come face to face with who they really are.

They would rather believe that Gone with the Wind was an historical document, rather than what it was, probably the single most effective piece of political propaganda in America’s history.

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“Woke”? Not if today’s Republican Party gets its way.

Via Boston.com, Republicans are now opposing efforts to remove bigotry and racism from AI.

In the White House and the Republican-led Congress, “woke AI” has replaced harmful algorithmic discrimination as a problem that needs fixing.

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The first crew of the U. S. S. Barry chose as a motto “Strength and Diversity” (meaning diversity of tactics and weaponry) over three decades ago.

Now comes James Stavridis, who served on that ship, to report that the anti-DEI crowd now is coming after its motto.

We are a society going backwards.

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Laura Loomer complains that “uppity blacks” don’t know their place.

Yup, she actually said, “Uppity.”

They’ve taken off their hoods.

They’re not even trying to hide their racism in these Trumpled times.

(Slightly edited for style.)

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At The Philadelphia Inquirer, Faye Anderson takes issue with Donald Trump’s attempt to white-wash (I use that term advisedly) America’s history. Here’s a tiny bit from her article; follow the link for her reasoning.

With the troubling, revisionist, and narrow-minded executive order he signed last month called “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” President Donald Trump isn’t trying so much to kill the past as cover it up with as many layers of lily-white paint as he can.

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. . . and still trying to pretend that history wasn’t.

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David decodes de code. (Warning: Short promo at the six-minute mark.)

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The name of yet another secessionist general dons a disguise a returns to (dis)grace a U. S. Army base.

Aside:

Do the Party of the New Secesh really think that they are fooling anyone with their silly cover stories here?

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The Trump administration has again renamed an army base back to its old name–one that honored a Secessionist general–again after hunting up the name of an honorable soldier that they can use to whitewash (you will pardon the expression) their deed.

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Michael in Norfolk gives away the game plan.

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Atrios has the rest of the story.

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At the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Robert Hill reminds us that there’s nothing new about current white supremacist backlash against DEI.

It’s but the latest in a long line of attempts to keep the downtrodden trodden down.

Follow the link for a list.

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And now they’re even Bragging about it.

Afterthought:

Their cover story is flimsier than a house made out of straw.

It’s quite clear to what audience they bow.

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Clearly, if we don’t talk about America’s original sin of chattel slavery, then it must not have happened.

Because that’s the way history works.

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Thom is astonished. I’m not.

All pretense is off.

The racism and misogyny of today’s Republican Party are fully out of the closet.

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Republican Thought Police in This New Gilded Age 0

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