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The Status Report 0

Frame One:  Picture of Donald Trump surrounded by flames captioned,

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Farron argues that Stephen Miller is upset because there’s no there there.

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

Now, I’m starting to hear a rhyme, and it sounds something sort of like, I can’t quite make it out, it’s a little distorted, maybe “Tempt Fate“?

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*Mark Twain.

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One Thing Is Not Like the Other Thing 0

Wearing a mask to protect your health and slow the spread of a pandemic is not the same thing as wearing a mask to hide your identity while violating persons’ Constitutional rights, regardless of what some pipsqueak pol who’s in way over his head might say.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Separation of Posers 0

Sam and the crew dissect Donald Trump’s feud with Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

At the Tampa Bay Times, John Hill debunks de bunk. A snippet (emphasis added):

If anything, the state looks foolish for having cried wolf about the need for a statewide immigration crackdown. Supporters sold the Florida law as a way to help the Trump administration deport people here illegally who committed violent crimes. At least 79 people have been arrested since Florida’s law went into effect, but only two were charged with a violent crime. Nearly a third have been charged with only an immigration offense. For dozens, their only alleged crime was driving without a license or a seat belt, or with expired tags. Sounds like a normal day on Florida’s roads to me.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

It was supposed to be a father-daughter fishing outing.

It turned into the daughter’s first encounter with a rock-throwing name-calling racist.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Sam and the crew note that persons are starting to push back at ICE and its brown shirt tactics.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Sam and the crew dissect ICE’s new catch-22.

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Suffer the Children 0

One more time, that’s not scripture. That’s Republican policy. (Warning: Short promo at the end.)

An excerpt:

Trump and his allies play word games, they play semantic games, they don’t care about the Constitution, unless it’s the Second Amendment.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Rebecca Watson debunks Donald Trump’s “white genocide in South Africa” bunk.

Or you can read the transcript.

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Republican Thought Police 0

Our wannabe dictator has sicced the Republican thought police on NPR and PBS. At Above the Law, Liz Dye points out that

. . . this is an unabashed declaration that the government is engaging in viewpoint discrimination. The president is openly retaliating against public broadcasters because he doesn’t like their content — a flagrant violation of the First Amendment.

Follw the link for the other stuff she points out.

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Student Visa Tours 0

Daniel Ruth, writing at the Tampa Bay Times, takes issue with Donald Trump’s characterization of foreign students at American universities. He tell of his own experiences with foreign students at the University of South Florida. Here are a couple of excerpts from his article:

The contributions of these international students are profound.

Almost all of are engaged in STEM majors — bio med, engineering, physics, chemistry, math, biology. A few are business majors. All of them are a joy to be around. They are intellectually curious. They are very serious people, and they can be funny, too.

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. . . so many of them want to use their American education to return to their homelands to make things better — the medical students, the engineering students, the computer science students, the nursing students. They want to make their countries better. And Donald Trump wants to throw them out.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini, prompted by a communication from a reader, asked ICE why its agents are wearing masks while arresting immigrants who have broken no laws–who, in fact, have played by the rules. ICE did not respond when he asked for an explanation, so he offers his own theory:

. . . put yourself in the shoes of those agents. If it was me, and my job was “busting people who followed the rules,”… I’d wear a mask, too.

Follow the link, where he explains how he came to that conclusion.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Thom comments on the Trump maladministration’s acting to sue the city of Chicago for not keeping them uppity darkies in their place (and if you think my characterization of the suit to be a tad flippant, just watch the video).

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A Notion of Immigrants, One Man’s Story Dept. 0

Badar Khan Suri, a scholar at Georgetown University, tells what it’s like to be renditioned by the Republican thought police because he had the unmitigated gall to dare to express an opinion.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

The Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts wonders why the Trump maladministration is punishing persons for playing by the rules. A snippet:

For years, Republicans have railed about “invaders” who break into the country illegally to claim asylum — how they were paroled and issued court dates only to disappear into the shadows, never to be seen again.

Now, Trump is going after people who made appointments to come into the country legally to seek asylum — people who were issued court dates and showed up for those hearings.

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A Trait in Common 0

Title:  Bad Guys Who Wear Masks.  Image:  Burglar.  Executioner.  Klansman.  Bandit.  Jason.  ICE.

Via Job’s Anger.

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