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She Was Just Being a Girl 0

At least, that’s what Florida woman claims.

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The Trade Warrior, Rule of Lawless Dept. 0

What Nox said.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

More neighborly politeness:

The 44-year-old man reportedly told police that he drank alcohol before trying to clean the weapon. He called 911 just before 1 a.m. after the gun accidentally went off and hit the wall of his apartment on South Oakbridge Court.

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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QOTD 0

Ambrose Bierce:

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

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Break Time 0

Off to drink liberally.

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The (Google) Surveillance State 0

The EFF explains how, for Google, the days of “Don’t Be Evil” are very much a thing of the past.

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Devolution 0

Title:  USA 250 vs. Trump, Part 4.  Frame One:  American troops raising the flag on Iwo Jima in World War II.  One says,

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Red Scare Redux 0

Thom decodes de code.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another “responsible gun owner” exposes his portable phallus to a child.

Deputies in Pulaski County (Ark.–ed.) have arrested a man after they say a child shot a gun, left unattended by him, and killed a 7-year-old boy. . . .

One more time, “responsible gun owner” is an oxymoron.

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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 a speech by J. D. Vance.

Afterthought:

On the bright side, she didn’t have to listen to J. D. Vance.

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Fly the Fiendly Skies 0

They get fiendlier every day.

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QOTD 0

Keith Ellison:

Not voting is not a protest. It is a surrender.

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The Boar Meeting 0

Two pigs in the mud, one labeled

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Establishmentarians 0

Michael in Norfolk calls out the goal of the unholy alliance between Trump and right-wing Christians:

It’s an agenda long pushed by far right “Christians” who want nothing less than a de facto theocracy with themselves in charge. Ironically, these same people rail against Iran’s Islamic theocracy and its abuse of citizens even as they seek to impose a theocracy of their own that will abuse and marginalize those who do not subscribe to their hate and fear based beliefs.

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The Voter Fraud Fraudsters 0

Why am I not surprised?

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.

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Willing to betray secrets? Just be sure to ask it nicely.

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Republican Family Values 0

Apparently, as PoliticalProf notices, affordable healthcare is not a Republican family value.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Donald Trump stands before the copy of the U. S. Consitution, where he has rewritten the first phrase to read,

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C&L has more.

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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:

In the 1800s, the threat to the republic was slavery. These days the danger is a lawless, power-drunk president defiant in unprecedented ways toward the other, supposedly coequal branches of power, Congress and the judiciary. The court’s 2025-2026 term was a test, I said last fall, and one I feared the court would fail, given its predilection for presidential power — the once-fringe unitary executive theory — and thinly veiled Republican partisanship.

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.

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QOTD 0

John Tyler:

I can never consent to being dictated to.

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