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Dorothy Day:

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Real Big Men 0

Words fail me.

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Republican Thought Police 0

It appears that the Trump maladministration has decided that the military newspaper, Stars and Stripes, should report only all the news that fits.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Sam and the crew are taken aback by racism in full display.

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American Stasi 0

Uncle Sam:  We are not running concentration camps.  Lady Liberty:  By the dictionary definition we are.  Uncle Sam:  But . . . we're not committing mass murder.  Lady Liberty:  Dozens killed so far . . . isn't that a start?  (Uncle Sam simmers)  Uncle Sam:  No trains!  No ovens!  Show me a single oven.

Click for the original image.

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Accessory-before-fact? You be the judge.

And, while we’re on the subject, Joe Patrice reports that AI hallucinated another non-existent legal precedent.

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What’s in a Name? 0

Just ask Florida woman.

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Harry Blackmun:

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.

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The True Deceiver, Reprise 0

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The True Deceiver 0

Donald Trump says,

Via Job’s Anger.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Doug Jones sums up the Trump maladministration’s attempt to prosecute the Southern Poverty Law Center for being:

“This is a pure political retribution,” Jones said in a video posted to social media.

Follow the link for context.

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Hoist on Her Own Petard 0

A Trump voter is surprised to find that she got what she voted for.

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The Art of the Deal 0

Man and woman reading the news on their phones.  Man:  They say a ceasefire has een set.  Woman:  Nope.  It's been broken.  Man:  And the Strait of Hormuz is open.  Woman:  Now, it's closed.  Man:  And peace talks are on.  Woman:  Wait, they're off.  Man:  So, the war is almost over.  Woman:  No, it's just the beginning.

Via Job’s Anger.

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Dis Coarse Discourse 0

At the Portland Oregonian, letter to the editor writer Kyle J. Tobin reminds Ciatta Thompson, candidate for the Oregon House, that, when she points a finger at someone else, four fingers are pointing back at her.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” reveals her politeness, this time at a gender reveal party.

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

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Phoebe Atwood Taylor, in the voice of Asey Mayo:

Everyone’s got a right to go to hell in their own way, as ole Cap’n Porter used to say.

Taylor, Phoebe Atwood, The Tinkling Symbol (New York: Norton, 2024) p. 182.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Politeness on the pavement leaves collateral damage.

Two cars were driving aggressively down the street (in Laredo, Texas–ed.) when one of the drivers pulled out a gun and shot at the other vehicle, according to police.

Marquez was walking on the sidewalk and was struck by a gunshot. Police said the victim was an innocent bystander.

And thus passeth another life in the NRA’s Garden of Bleedin”.

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By the Book, One More Time 0

In a letter to the editor of the Las Vegas Sun, yet another person feels as if we are living in a book by George Orwell.

This time, it’s again 1984.

Aside:

That’s Animal Farm one, 1984 two.

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