Signs of the Times 0
At AL.com, Kyle Whitmire sees an ominous sign: the banner of Dear Leader Donald Trump hanging from the Department of (sic) Justice. A snippet:
Below his face, the banner says, “Make America Safe Again.”
Somehow, though, the banner doesn’t evoke safety. I can’t think of another instance in history when heads of state hung pictures of themselves from the sides of public buildings that didn’t end badly.
If you know of an exception, please share it with me.
War and Mongers of War 0
In responding to the news of the Trump maladministration’s attack on Iran, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine asks a question to which methinks the answer is clear:
Follow the link for more reactions from Virginia’s Congresspersons.
Stray Thought 0
For the half of the electorate who did not vote in 2024:
If you let an idiot win an election, don’t act surprised when you end up with an idiocracy.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Subversively seductive? At the Psychology Today website, Darren J. Edwards argues that AI may be leading us into its own version of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. A snippet:
Methinks his piece is well worth the few minutes it will to read it.
And Now for a Musical Interlude A Tune for the Times
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Artie Shaw and his orchestra perform “Nightmare.”
All the News that Fits 0
Thom talks with Mary Trump on what happened to objective, fact-based broadcast news.
Afterthought:
I think Thom makes a great analogy about hoarding disorder.
The Medicine Show 0
Rebecca Watson finds herself–er–somewhat taken aback by the Trump maladministration’s willingness to put the public’s health in the hands of quacks.
Or you can read the transcript.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” feels free to flaunt his portable phallus at a fellow driver.
Guns 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.
Courting Disaster 0
The saying is that any prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich.
Except it seems for Trump’s prosecutors. Via Above the Law, TechDirt takes a deep dive into why the Trump maladministration’s DOJ keeps losing in court. A snippet:
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Via the Charlotte Observer, Bloomberg’s Andreas Kluth reminds us to watch what they do, not what they say. Here’s a tiny bit from the article:
Aside:
I would have put the word, “Christian,” in quotes. The only part of Christ’s words that these “white Christian nationalists” seem to have read is “Do unto others.”
American Stasi, Reprise 0
Speaking of the surveillance state . . . .
American Stasi and the Rule of Lawless 0
And it’s the right-wingers who keep harping on the “surveillance state,” except, natch, when they’re doing the surveilling.
(snip)
The ruling found that DHS did not follow the federal law requiring the agency requesting taypayer address from the IRS to have specifically identified the individual in question. The requesting agency must provide the IRS with the name and address of the person whose information it seeks to obtain. IRS failed to verify that this information had been provided in the majority of the 47,300 DHS requests.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet again a “responsible gun owner” exposes a portable phallus to a child.
Words fail me.