Republican Thought Police 0
A “social” media “inflencer” claims that, because she dared to exercise her freedom of speech to criticize the Trump maladministration on her feeds, she was prevented from attending speech by J. D. Vance.
Establishmentarians 0
Michael in Norfolk calls out the goal of the unholy alliance between Trump and right-wing Christians:
The Voter Fraud Fraudsters 0
Afterthought:
I’ve long suspected that Republicans’ claims of rampant voter fraud could just might be based on their knowledge of what they would do if they thought they could get away with it.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Willing to betray secrets? Just be sure to ask it nicely.
Republican Family Values 0
Apparently, as PoliticalProf notices, affordable healthcare is not a Republican family value.
Courting Disaster 0
Via the Las Vegas Sun, Jackie Calmes finds herself dismayed at the failure of the Supreme Supremacist Court to stand up to the man who would be king. A snippet:
It did fail. And the justices’ stunning complicity with Trump in blurring the separation of powers and menacing democracy demands a response from Congress and voters.
The Rule of Lawless, Republican Family Values Dept. 0
At Above the Law, Liz Dye reports on how the Trump maladministration has unleashed its Department of (in)Justice on E. Jean Carroll for daring to win her suit against Donald Trump.
Republican Thought Police 0
Via the Tampa Bay Times, Scott Maxwell writes of Florida International University’s attempt to withhold diplomas from students who had the unmitigated gall to protest silently and peacefully againstthe Trump maladministration’s secretive police ICE. A snippet:
But what they really mean is that Florida students should think the way they do or else shut the hell up.
Aside:
When I was a college student (mumble) years ago, I participated in many peaceful, usually silent protests, mostly against the war in Viet Nam (and history has proven us right, but that’s another issue).
My college officials I suspect–heck, I know–did not approve, but they never threatened to punish us for exercising our Constitutional rights in those unTrumpled times.
Emoluments, Reprise 0
Josh Gay follows the money.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A learning aid? At the Psychology Today website, Timothy Cook (no, not that Tim Cook) reports that “AI use can raise scores in the short term but worsen kids’ thinking abilities in the long term, studies find.”
Follow the link for mere.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
“Responsible gun owners” decide to frighten Fourth of July festival with a doppelganger of a portable phallus.
The Marguis de Sade would be envious.