If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
Per Above the Law’s Kathryn Rubino, Republican Senator Chuck Grassley seems to have forgotten all about Merrick Garland.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Via the Bangor Daily News, Joshua Reynolds looks at the actions of today’s tech bros and hears a rhyme from Robert Oppenheimer’s time.
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*Mark Twain.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Boston 25 News runs the numbers:
Such is childhood in the NRA’s Garden of Bleedin’.
Follow the link for, as Paul Harvey was wont to say, the rest of the story.
American Stasi 0
Rick Strom discusses how ICE agents remain a threat and highlights how private citizens are trying to resist ICE.
Vaccine Nation 0
RFK Jr. and his fellow anti-vaxxers continue to cement their legacy.
Much more at the link.
Establishmentarians 0
F. T. Rea reminds to beware of false prophets.
The Rule of Lawless 0
Thom wonders whether Donald Trump will go “full Putin” in the face of the results of the midterm elections.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
And another “responsible gun owner” commits random acts of politeness . . . .
We are a society willfully poisoning itself with lead.
This New Gilded Age 0
Via The Japan Times, David Lingelbach and Valentina Rodriguez Guerra ogle the oligarchs. A snippet:
Establishmentarians 0
Thom talks with the Rev. Dr. Matthew Fox about right-wing white nationalist they-call-themselves-Christians and their embrace of a Gospel of Hate.
