Politics of Hate category archive
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Nell Auc0in Naquin hears a rhyme goosestepping through the decades from Germany to here.
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*Mark Twain.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Methinks my local rag makes a good point when they conclude that
Follow the link for the evidence.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Michael in Norfolk argues that the Supreme Supremacist Court has come up with a new right. Here’s the title of his article:
Follow the link for the article itself.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Thom argues that the New Secesh are coming out in the open. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
Nixon’s Southern Strategy has come full circle.
Richard Nixon welcomed segregationists into the Republican Party.
Now they have taken it over.
Republican Thought Police 0
It appears that the Trump maladministration is trying a new tactic so as to supporess academic freedom and control curricula. A snippet:
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The shift comes after federal judges blocked Trump’s administration from making crippling cuts at Harvard and the University of California, Los Angeles. It also follows a mass exodus in civil rights lawyers who traditionally guide investigations against universities. Still, Trump hasn’t backed down from his campaign to end what he calls “wokeness” run amok in academia.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At Above the Law, Joe Patrice explains why the Supreme Supremacist Court is relying on its “Shadow Docket” to roll back civil rights, resuscitate Jim Crow, and take the nation back to the 1950s {if not the 1850s, which, methinks, is where they truly want to be):
It relieves the burden of having to slap lipstick on this pig.
Follow the link for context.
The Rule of Lawless 0
At AL.com, Kyle Whitmire looks at recent actions by the Trump maladministration’s Department of Justice (sic) and concludes that
I think he’s onto something. Follow the link for his reasoning.
The Rule of Lawless 0
Via the Law Vegas Sun, Mark Barabak considers the results of a recent poll of lawyers, legal scholars, lawyers and law professors, and citizens. The results are somewhat–er–disquieting. Here’s on quote from his article:
American Stasi 0
Rick Strom reports on ICE agents who are confessing to investigative journalists under promise of anonymity that, under the Trump maladministration, it’s all about the color of the skin.
Republican Thought Speech Police
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Bruce Schneier and John Penney argue that the actions of the Trump maladministration are having a chilling effect on the exercise of freedom of speech. Their article focuses on college campuses, but methinks it extends much further. Here’s a tiny bit from their article:
Research suggests that surveillance, personal threats, uncertainty and abuse of power are key factors in doing so. The federal government has a clear and systematic pattern of employing these very mechanisms across a number of domains far beyond campuses.
They are evident in militarized raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and in journalists being arrested and indicted for reporting on protests. They are made clear in the long list of political enemies the Trump administration has investigated or threatened, including the Federal Reserve chairman. And they can also be seen in the weaponization of technology, including ramping up surveillance to target critics and protestors.
American Stasi 0
NJ.com reports on a nurse who gpt ICEd was treated roughly because she was trying to, well, be a nurse:
Bowe said that’s when an officer grabbed the back of her shirt and threw her onto the sidewalk.
More mean for the sake of mean at the link.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
UNC law professor Gene Nickol tells NC Republicans that, try as they might,
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Afterthought:
I think “racist agenda” would have been a more appropriate phrasing, but that’s just me.
The Rule of Lawless 0
At Above the Law, Kathryn Rubino reports on DOJ attorneys fired by the Trump maladministration. A snippet:
The prosecutors fired were doing their jobs. That is, apparently, the problem.
Follow the link for context.
American Stasi 0
As far as I can tell, this is little more than KKK v. 2.0.
American Stasi 0
Retired ATF agent David Ziegler contrasts the behavior of Donald Trump’s secretive police with the standards he was expected to comply with when he was on active duty and issues a warning:
For those who believed, “It can’t happen here,” it already has.
Follow the link for his reasoing.