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Trumpling History 0

Family looks a billboard reading,

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Still Rising Again after All These Years, Reprise 0

Donald Trump at the Smithsonian uses his Sharpie to draw a smile on a KKK uniform, then says,

Via Job’s Anger.

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The Detainee 0

Lady Liberty imprisoned in the White House Detention Center.

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Responsible Fiscals 0

(Warning: Mild language.)

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As the Twig Is Bent, So Grows the Tree . . . 0

. . . and it appears that Oklahoma is planning to bend itself its twigs.

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Precedented 0

Donald Trump opens his mouth and Adolf Hitler emerges, saying,

Via Job’s Anger.

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The Privatization Scam 0

Emma talks with Whitney Wimbish about how private prisons are profiteering from Donald Trump’s campaign against brown people immigrants.

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A Tune for the Times 0

Celebrate the new Mythsonian Museum.

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“We’re Looking at an Administration . . . that Does Not Obey Laws” 0

Thom talks with Malcolm Nance about how Trump’s deploying American troops against Americans violates the law. The relevant portion of the video starts at about the five minute mark; the first part of the video ia about the Trump-Putin meeting. (Warning: Commercial at about the 3 1/2 minute mark.)

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

Over at The Rectification of Names, Yastreblyansky hears a rhyme all the way from Rome.

And here’s a bonus rhyme.

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*Mark Twain.

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American Stasi 0

Via WHYY, my old NPR station, Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner looks at Donald Trump’s military occupation of the District of Columbia and explains why I have trouble sleeping some nights:

“I just never really thought that the preservation of the government of the United States would be an issue that I would have to face,” he said. “I just never thought that military invasion of America’s big cities with a fear-based racist agenda to pave a path for a military takeover is something that I would face, and I deeply wish I didn’t face it.”

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The Crime Waver 0

Title:  The Last Big Crime Wave in D. C.  Image:  Donald Trump stands on a folder titled

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

At the Kansas City Star, Joel Mathis writes of many of the innocent, law-abiding persons who have been swept up in Donald Trump’s crusade against immigrants. He notes that, despite the Trump maladministration’s pledges that criminals and gang members would be its targets, that has not been the actuality.

In the course of his article, he makes this observation, which methinks sums up what’s going on:

ICE, accordingly, is on a hiring spree. “Defend your culture!” the Department of Homeland Security said in a recruiting post in social media last week, and if that doesn’t give away the (white supremacy) game, I don’t know what does.

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American Stasi 0

No, that’s not hyperbole. From Truthout:

Internal documents obtained by The Washington Post and reported on Tuesday reveal a secret Pentagon plan by the Trump administration to create a standing force of military personnel that could be rapidly deployed to U.S. cities or communities to quell public protests or any situation President Donald Trump deems “domestic civil unrest.”

Much more at the link.

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Birds of a Feather, All the News that Fits Dept. 0

Warning: Short commercial at about the 2 1/2 minute mark.

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Republican Family Values 0

When you read these stories of persons renditioned by the Trump maladministration without cause or due process, but simply because IDE didn’t like their looks, you will find it difficult to deny that mean for the sake of mean is a–if not the–Republican family value.

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Metamorphosis 0

David discusses how Nixon’s southern strategy led to today’s Republican Party. Methinks he makes valid points. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)

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

Michael in Norfolk hears a rhyme with nations in decline.

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*Mark Twain.

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Chaos Agents 0

Writing at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Gene Collier is not sanguine. He notes

The great awakening of Trump 2.0 is that tragically unserious people can do tragically serious damage.

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“Facts Are What People Think” 0

Donald Trump is suing universities, attacking news media, and honoring slaveholders.

Douglas Rooks* sees a pattern in all this. Here’s a tiny bit of his article:

It’s really no secret. From his 2016 campaign to the present, Trump has constantly presented lies as truth and facts as debatable. To maintain credibility, it helps if the electorate becomes more ignorant, and Trump has set out to achieve that goal in, shall we say, textbook fashion.

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Yes, David Rooks. Not David Brooks. Clearly.

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