Hunt Clubs 0
Thom has seen this before. A snippet:
Every modern society that normalizes hunts of the poor, the dark-skinned, the undocumented, or the politically inconvenient eventually discovers that the culturally acceptable definition of undesirable keeps expanding.
Republican Thought Police 0
Sen. Marsha Blackburn wants to know how Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson had the unmitigated gall to attend that subversive treasonous Grammies awards ceremony.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
At Psycnology Today Blogs, Sebastien Montel why persons will say things on the inner webs that they would never consider saying to someone face-to-face. Given the state of dis coarse discourse, I think his article is quite timely and well worth a read.
Here’s one factor he mentions:
American Stasi 0
At Above the Law, in the midst of a longer story about efforts by lawyers and law students to pressure (the Republican-controlled) Congress to require the Trump maladministration’s ICE to obey the law, lies this little fact:
All the News that Fits 0
Thom looks at how Trump is replacing the “Voice of America” with the “Voices of Oligarchy.” (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
This New Gilded Age . . . 0
. . . brings with it a new generation of robber barons.
At Der Spiegel, Simon Book shines a light on one of them, the Lord High Admiral of the Zuckerborg.
Just go read it.
The Rule of Lawless 0
At the Colorado Sun, Mario Nicolais is less than sanguine. He notes that we may be facing
the most frightening step toward autocracy our country has taken so far
while giving as one exaample that
Follow the link for more examples.
A Tune for the Times 0
(Warning: Mild language.)
Look! Over There! This New Gilded Age Dept. 0
Steve M. dissects the Republican Party’s misdirection play. A snippet:
The Bad Bunny Hop 0
John Young explains that he watched the Super Bowl Bowl half time show despite having no interest in the game itself (his favorite team didn’t make it) so as to show support for Bad Bunny and disdain for those who claim that that American citizen somehow isn’t American. Here’s a bit of his article:
“Faith”: Let us venerate the least religious — and most Bible-illiterate, and meanest — president in history, yet one who plays the religious right like a harpsichord.
“Family”: Again, we shall venerate the least family-devoted president in history — bedding multiple beauties with wife No. 3 at home, adjudicated for sexual assault and 34 felonies. Most famous quote: “Grab ‘em by the pussy.” In what chapter of the New Testament is that? Whatever, lead us in song, Kid Rock.
“Freedom”: Three cheers from the MAGA choir for immigration agents as they kill and obliterate God-given rights like habeas corpus and due process. That’s next to godliness if the detainee’s skin is brown.
American Stasi, Reprise 0
Farron comments on the Trump maladministration’s project to build concentration camps and the implications thereof.