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Facebook Frolics 0
Profits before people frolics:
Details at the link.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
AL.com’s Kyle Whitmire hears a rhyme echoing over time:
Follow the link for his parsing of the poesy.
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*Mark Twain.
Or Not To Reevaluate? 0
My old Philly DL friend Noz thinks he has figured out why the Trump maladministration is so determined to end SNAP benefits.
A Tune for the Times 0
(Warning: Short commercial at about the two-minute mark.)
The Chaos Agent 0
Thom Hartman asks a question which, I fear, is far from hypothetical in these Trumpled times::
Follow the link for his answer.
The Emoluments Ballroom 0
Farron follows the money.
American Stasi 0
A federal judge calls out the head of the Trump administration’s military occupation of presence in Chicago for lying in court.
Detail at the link.
And, more news of the American Stasi . . . .
A Tune for the Times 0
From the Youtube page:
Step into The Great Fatsby — a Cole Porter–style musical romp through Trump’s gilded Gatsby fantasy, where greed glitters, democracy wilts, and everyone’s in on the grift. Champagne, chaos, and Cole Porter rhythm collide in this Jazz Age fever dream.
Foxy Shady 0
Fox News falls for racist AI slop.
Why am I not surprised that Fox went for this like a dog for a milk bone?
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another “responsible gun owner” shoots first, gets questioned later.
The woman was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police said it was later determined that the people attempting to enter the home were members of a cleaning crew who mistakenly arrived at the wrong address.
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.
This New Gilded Age 0
Aside:
I’m with Thom about watching election returns on television.
I’m quite happy to read about them the next morning.