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

Mike Littwin hears a rhyme–a rhyme he did not expect.

I knew that Donald Trump and his MAGA pals would exploit Kirk’s death, reject any calls for national unity, make Kirk a martyr and blame the martyr’s death, in Trump’s words, on “the radical left” instead of on the person charged with the shooting — who seemed to believe that shooting someone for “hateful” rhetoric would somehow make the world better.

What I didn’t know was that JD Vance, Stephen Miller and the rest of the Trump team would go full McCarthy on us.

Follow the link for his parsing of the poesy.

And, in related news . . . .

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*Mark Twain.

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The Loophole 0

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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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Defining Terms 0

Frame One, captioned

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

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*Mark Twain.

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Republican Thought Police 0

As my old professor was wont to say, “History is irony.

Jonathan Zimmerman notes an irony.

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Republican Thought Police 0

Writing at Psychology Today Blogs, neuroscientist James Hyman points out that

(t)he current (Trump–ed.) administration is clearly hostile to academia.

Follow the link for his discussion of his reasons for saying that and the implications of said hostility.

Aside:

Methinks the reason for said hostility is quite simple.

Facts, knowledge, and truth are inimical to Stephen Miller’s the Trump maladministration’s agenda.

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If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0

Frame One:  Red-hatted man says,

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The Disinformation Superhighway 0

Man sitting in front a sewer labeled

Via Job’s Anger.

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Republican Thought Police, One More Time 0

Rick Strom tries to make sense of the senselessness.

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Republican Thought Police, Reprise 0

Image:  Man typing into cell phone,

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Republican Thought Police 0

They are patrolling dis coarse discourse with truncheons raised and gags at the ready

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Unjust Retribution 0

“Vengeance is mine,” saith the Lard.

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

At the Bangor Daily News, Donna M. Loring hears a rhyme that sounds like

    Old Hickory,
    New trickery.

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*Mark Twain

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Farron reports on a voter who got what he voted for.

And now regrets it.

Today’s Republican Party is a vile and loathsome thing.

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Republican Family Values 0

Brian Kilmeade apologizes for letting the mask slip saying homeless persons should be executed.

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Dis Coarse Discourse, Disinformation Superhighway Dept. (Updated) 0

At Psychology Today Blogs, sociologist Robert Bartholomew notes that

(s)ocial media is playing an increasingly influential role in the formation and spread of rumors.

In the light of the flood of mis- and disinformation following the killing of Charlie Kirk, I think this is a timely and worthwhile read.

And, remember, “social” media isn’t.

Addendum:
For example.

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