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What’s in a Name? 0

Bill Press would like to know.

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An Open Warrant? 0

Via Michael in Norfolk (who has commentary), an explanation as to why the Trump maladministration has become fixated on antifa, which is not an entity, merely a label:

Image:  They want to go after

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Republican Thought Police 0

Florida Man.

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The Rule of Lawless 0

Charles Parrish has a question.

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The Bad Bunny Hop 0

Rick Strom discusses how comedian Josh Johnson ridicules the furor over Bad Bunny at the Superbowl while also pointing out the bigotry behind it.

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A Matter of Priorities 0

Frame One:  Woman says,

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Dragnet 0

Title:  The Next Arraignment.  Image:  Lady Justice having her booking photos taken.

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Republican Thought Police 0

Methinks my old Philly DL friend Noz pretty much nails it.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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

    Thom hears a rhyme
    From another time
    When men in hoods
    Roamed the woods,
    With crosses ablaze
    Through nights and days.

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*Mark Twain.

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Devolution 0

Frame One:  Ronald Reagan gestures towards a gleaming Washington, D. C. and says,

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Republican Thought Police 0

Der Spiegel takes a deep dive into Republican attempts to suppress dissenting views. A snippet:

America at the moment is not just enduring attacks by a completely untethered president and his administration against critics and political rivals. It is an attack on thought itself.

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The Rule of Lawless 0

In a longer article about Donald Trump’s use of the National Guard to subjugate those who might disagree with his edicts occupy American cities, Roy S. Johnson decodes de code:

The deployment of National Guard troops in many cities has recently been massaged as protecting “federal officers and assets” against “ongoing violent riots and lawlessness.”

Translation: Trump is sending American troops to “protect” his swelling flotilla of barely-trained, masked and thuggish ICE agents who are attacking brown and Black people, including children and the elderly, even in their homes, as they did this week in Chicago.

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The Rule of Lawless 0

David suggests that we are seeing

. . . authoritarian theater at its worst.

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

Grunge_e_Gene hears a rhyme that sounds a lot like “Blackwater.”

You remember Blackwater, do you not, the security firm mercenaries from the Great and Glorious Patriotic War for a Lie in Iraq?

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*Mark Twain.

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Deportation Nation 0

Sightseer ship in New York harbor passes the pedestal where Lady Liberty used to stand.  Tour guide says,

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Republican Family Values Meet a Notion of Immigrants 0

Hones to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up.

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The Rule of Lawless 0

The Trump maladministration decrees, “Hatch Act, schmatch act.”

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A Tune for the Times 0

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