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Still Rising Again after All These Years, Reprise 0
If you don’t like historical fact, well, heck, just historical fiction?
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Speaking of normalized nastiness, Florida Man.
They’re not even bothering to don their hoods any more.
Emoluments 0
Mary Trump follows the money.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Tom Harper makes a strong case that Donald Trump has normalized nastiness.
“Because I Wanna” 0
Per Above the Law’s Kathryn Rubino, that’s the crux of the Trump maladministration’s legal justification under the terms of the U. S. Constitution for Donald Trump’s executive orders.
(Broken link fixed.)
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
CNN’s Jake Tapper argues that Stephen Colbert rhymes with Thomas Beckett.
Read the article. The rhyme is not so farfetched as it sounds.
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*Nark Twain.
Quacking Up 0
David discusses how the Trump maladministration is replacing science with ideology and turning the Federal Drug Administration into the RFK-DJT Emporium for Exotic Eiixirs. (Warning: Short promo at the end.)
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another of those “responsible gun owners” exposes his portable phallus to children, and politeness becomes child’s play.
We are a society of stupid.
In Translation 0
John Amato decodes de code:
Follow the link for context.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A privileged communication? Or evidence for the prosecution?
Aside:
Yes indeedy-do. Yesterday’s B. C. comic pretty much nailed it.
All the News that Fits 0
SFgate’s Drew Magary argues that much of the coverage of the current redistricting efforts designed to gut out the vote of the midterm elections is missing the point. Methinks he makes a valid point.
Here’s a tiny bit of his article:
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So not only are you and I being subjected to a coordinated plan by the GOP to nullify this fall’s election results before Americans have even gotten a chance to vote, but also to an accompanying disinformation campaign from the establishment media to posit this as just another political tussle. It is not. It is villainy, villainy of the crassest sort.
The entire article is well-worth the few minutes it will take you to read it.
Suffer the Children, Reprise 0
Sam and the crew talk with Nicholas Enrich, former civil servant who worked at USAID under four administrations, about the damage done to USAID by the Trump maladministration.
Suffer the Children 0
As has been amply demonstrated, that’s not scripture. That’s a Republican family value.
For example, as Nicholas Kristof notes in a column about the Trump maladministration’s cuts to foreign aid,