April, 2025 archive
A Notion of Immigrants 0
If you get deported by ICE, you can expect to fly the fiendly skies.
Republican Family Values . . . 0
. . . are a malleable thing.
In a longer piece in which he discusses how the MAGA movement is fed by, and feeds on, white nationalism and racism, Field notes an irony:
I commend the entire article to you attention.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Bait for the easily bamboozled? Fritz Kessler counsels caution.
Signal Achievements, Reprise 0
Security expert Bruce Schneier takes a deep dive in signalgate and its implications. In the light of recent events, the whole thing is worth a read. Here’s a tiny little bit.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness again becomes child’s play.
We are a society gone insane from lead poisoning of our own doing.
“Vengeance Is Mine” 0
At the Sacramento Bee, law professor Erwin Chemerinsky looks at Donald Trump’s quest for retribution from law firms that have incurred his wrath. A snippet:
This is the playbook of a dictator, not a president in a democracy under the rule of law.