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Republican Family Values 0

Thom talks with Alex Lawson about how Republican policies are destroying rural hospitals and eroding health care to enable billionaires to buy more yachts.

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The Supreme Courtiers 0

The six Supreme Court justices appointed by Republicans carry Donald Trump on their shoulders in a sedan chair towards autocracy.

Via Job’s Anger.

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The Disqualifier 0

Robert Reich offers a theory as to what would disqualify someone from being a member of Donald Trump’s cabinet. A snippet; follow the link for his reasoning.

You can be Secretary of Defense (War) and cause the mightiest military in the world to be brought to its knees, and still keep your job in the Trump regime.

You can be in charge of public health and cause measles to reemerge as a major hazard to Americans, and still keep your job.

You can be illegally enriching yourself and your family as Commerce Secretary, and still keep your job.

But you’ll be fired for actively and unnecessarily getting bad press.

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Stray Thought 0

Under a properly run government, citizens are not continually surprised by what their government just did and don’t find themselves worrying about what the heck it’s going to do next.

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QOTD 0

Philo:

Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.

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Geeking Out 0

Mageia v. 9 with the Plasm desktop. The wallpaper is from my collection.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Suffer the Children 0

As has been well established by now, that’s not scripture. That’s a Republican family value.

Two children at a school lunch table with only an apple to eat.  One says,

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

The hunt for politeness continues:

Authorities say the victim was positioned behind their decoys when another hunter spotted the decoys and fired shots. The victim quickly received medical treatment.

Musical NotesGuns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.

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Actions Have Consequences* 0

David points out that isolation is not the same as independence.

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*That is, of course, a concept foreign to Donald Trump as, throughout his life, his actions have never had consequences that he was unable to wiggle out of.

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Republican Thought Police 0

Via the Charlotte Observer, Stephen L. Carter has a message for Donald Trump:

Free speech means Kimmel has the right to ridicule you.

Follow the link for his reasoning.

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The Art of the Steal 0

Mediaite takes a look at the White House crypto con.

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The Sure Thing 0

Bob Molinaro, sportswriter extraordinaire:

Inevitable, too, was that the creation of mobile online sports gambling sites would lead to addiction for untold numbers of young men, athletes and non-athletes.

He goes on to cite this example.

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QOTD 0

Harry S Truman:

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better, Reprise 0

Democratic Donkey redrawing Virginia's elecction districts.  GOP Elephant says,

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Facebook Frolics, Still Rising Again after All These Years Dept. 0

Police in Rhode Island say they’ve confirmed that videos of a person walking around a town in a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood were part of a hoax for social media, not the work of an organized group.

I’m guessing he may be angling for an appointment to the Supreme Supremacist Court:

Afterthought:

There’s nothing social about acting like a racist for clicks.

One more time, “social” media isn’t.

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Trumponomics 0

Farron notes that conservative economists are not sanguine, discusses Trump’s efforts to end run around the law so as to revive his tariffs, and then wonders why Trump has a tariff fetish.

See the article that Farrom discusses.

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If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0

Frame One, captioned

Via Job’s Anger.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Gene Nichol is fed up with originalist sin. Here’s a bit of his article about the recent Supreme Supremacist Court decision gutting the Voting Rights Act. A snippet:

Of course this is the pattern of Republican originalist forgetfulness. The UNC admissions case, the Shelby County case (also voting rights), the Sebelius case (Affordable Care Act), Citizens United – all turn their backs on history to favor Republican political preference. And, my word, Trump v United States – the absolute immunity decision – is the least tethered ruling to constitutional text, framers’ intention and historical practice in American judicial history. Alito’s originalism only limits the claims of his adversaries; never his own. It is stunning he can be sanctimonious about it.

Go read the full article for context.

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