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Republican Family Values 0

Title:  Rage at the Ragged.  Frame One, captioned

Via Job’s Anger.

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Republican Thought Police 0

In the course of a longer article about recent events at Texas A&M University, Mary Ellen Klas summarizes the tactics of the Republican thought police (emphasis added):

Texas, like Florida before it, has steadily adopted an authoritarian approach to higher education. The goal is to target a marginalized group or racial minority whose ideas the Republicans in power find undesirable and use them as a cudgel to justify bringing state universities more firmly under governmental control. In the last year, the Lone Star State began enforcing a patchwork of policies aimed at purging diversity, equity and inclusion programs at state universities. It abolished independent faculty senates with faculty councils controlled by the governor’s appointees. And it banned a vague array of “expressive activity” and demonstrations on campuses.

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Occupation Nation, Reprise 0

Sam and the crew discuss the tactics of the occupiers. (Warning: There’s language in some of the video clips that they show.)

Afterthought:

Late in his life, my father said to me, “I’m glad those days are over.”

He was referring to the days of racism and segregation during which he and later I as Southern boys were raised.

But they’re not over. They may have been in abeyance for a while, but they are most certainly back with crosses burning.

America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the racist mythology created to rationalize it continue to exact their toll.

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The Enemies List 0

Grung_e_Gene decodes de code.

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Occupation Nation 0

At the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Daniel Oppenheimer offers some thoughts as to how to respond if when Donald Trump orders the National Guard to invade your city.

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The Rule of Flaw 0

Donald Trump carrying his enemies list and a bucket of paint walking past the Department of Justice, now renamed the Department of Just Me.

Click to view the original image.

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Devolution 0

Michael in Norfolk makes a frighteningly convincing case that the United States is going bananas banana republic.

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A Tune for the Times 0

From the Youtube page:

We couldn’t find any lobster costumes, and a whirling freestyle in the middle of a school week was not gonna happen. So – with some extra input from a few media sources to cover instrumental sections – this is our parody rendition of “Under the Sea”, one of our old Disney favourites for its sheer joy and energy. It was composed by Alan Menken (with cracking lyrics by Howard Ashman) for the 1989 animated “The Little Mermaid” and won an Oscar. Of course, the calypso lobster’s forlorn plea for an alternative path falls on deaf ears. Which brings us to free speech.

It’s been a scary time in lots of ways in the US, with the temperature cranked up again by shocking murders and reckless responses, and sadly now the First Amendment (for decades a place of some bipartisan accord) seems to be creaking. As we were working on the arrangement, we learned that Jimmy Kimmel’s show had been reinstated by Disney – which is great news, having loved meeting him in 2020 albeit under bizarre pandemic circumstances – though we gather that much is still unclear about how the matter is going to play out. Here’s hoping that enough uproar is generated that Trump and co. think again about making their predictable/alarming move on limiting freedom of expression.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

It seems that the Trump maladministration is committed to exercising undue process of lawless.

And we are again reminded that mean for the sake of mean is a Republican family value.

(Syntax error fixed.)

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Free Trumpled Speech, One More Time 0

Ring of Fire looks at Donald Trump’s campaign to silence anyone who criticizes him. (Warning: Mild language.)

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

At the Detroit Free-Press, Randy Essex reminds us that

Since colonial times, America’s white ruling class has worked to instill fear of “others.” The landed elite recognized early on that if poor whites found common cause with native and Black people, free and enslaved, those landed elites were in trouble.

He goes on to argue that this, well, let’s call it “Southern Strategy,” is still being pursued and that Donald Trump’s bogus claims that cities are rife with crime (which is Trumpian code for “full of black and brown persons”) is an updated tactic of said “Southern Strategy.”

I commend his article to your attention.

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Stray Thought 0

Who other persons idolize can tell you a lot about the character and beliefs of said idolators. Indeed, they may even be said to hold up a mirror to said idolators.

For example, what can you induce about those who find this person to be admired?

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Dis Coarse Discourse 0

Michael in Norfolk runs the numbers.

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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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