Smoot-Hawley Redux 0
Farron discusses how much Trump’s tariffs are costing American consumers.
I think those folks who claim that Donald Trump truly doesn’t understand how tariffs work may be onto something.
Words Have Meanings, American Stasi Dept. 0
At Above the Law, Jonathan Wolf reports that :ICE “kidnapped” some of the staff of his favorite burrito shop. Later on in the article, he explains his use fo that term (emphasis added):
The color of someone’s skin or the fact that they speak English with an accent does not amount to probable cause.
Republican Thought Police, Still Rising Again after All These Years Dept. 0
It’s no jump to claim that the Trump maladministration wants to erase history that puts the lie to their prejudices.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Once again, politeness goes to for the dogs.
A Tune for the Times 0
(Warning: Minute and a half long promo at about the one minute mark. Mild language.)
The Rule of Lawless 0
The Trump maladministration’s attempt to indict Congresspersons for reminding military personnel that their oaths of allegiance do not require them to break the law didn’t go over well with the grand jury.
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.