American Stasi 0
A federal judge has ruled that the Trump maladministration needs to improve the conditions in its concentration camps detention centers. Here’s a bit from the news report:
“Make no mistake, decisions about immigration and related enforcement policies are largely committed to the political branches of our government – Congress and the Executive, not the courts. But there are limits. The Constitution demands humane treatment of everyone in government custody. It requires that they receive due process of law. And it limits the Executive to enforcing the laws that Congress has enacted rather than doing whatever it wishes,” Kaplan wrote.
A Tune for the Times 0
Warning: Mild language.
This New Gilded Age 0
Robert Reich finds a straw at which to grasp.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Hoist on His Own Party’s Petard 0
As my old professor of the Early Federal Period was fond of saying, “Hstory is irony.”
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
An accessory after the fact? How about taking a peek under the coverup.
Bread and Circuses, Reprise
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At the Hartford Courant, Thomas Cangelosi muses on what the word “great” seems to mean to Trump and the Trumpettes. A snippet (emphasis added):
But these first principles have been deflated by Trump’s inflated idea of “great.” His idea of great is a big, gaudy spectacle.
The Art of the Steal 0
Mary Trump follows the money.
American Stasa 0
If the American Stasi weren’t wearing uniforms issued by the Trump maladministration, they’d be wearing their traditional garb–hoods and sheets.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
False idols? At the Psychology Today website, Joe Pierre argues that, despite the hype, “current AI chatbots fall far short of being any kind of supreme intelligence.”
Follow the link for his reasoning