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Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
How Stuff Works: The Trump Ministry of Truth 0
I do not think it much of a stretch to say that one of its guiding principles is “What they don’t know won’t hurt us.”
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A competent legal researcher? Why, you might even say it’s unprecedented.
A Slip of the Tongue 0
David suggests that Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud on CNN (and points out that CNN failed follow up on it).
Learn more about “plenary authority.”
Republican Thought Police 0
Methinks my old Philly DL friend Noz pretty much nails it.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” demonstrates politeness on the pavement.
So many guns. So much stupid.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Manipulative? Per Thomas Claburn at El Reg,
Remember, Big Tech doesn’t want to provide a service to you.
They want you to service them.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
- Thom hears a rhyme
From another time
When men in hoods
Roamed the woods,
With crosses ablaze
Through nights and days.
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*Mark Twain.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness takes to the seas intracoastal waterway.
Instead of “road rage,” I guess this must be “water rage.”
Republican Thought Police 0
Der Spiegel takes a deep dive into Republican attempts to suppress dissenting views. A snippet:
Follow the link for context.
The Rule of Lawless 0
In a longer article about Donald Trump’s use of the National Guard to subjugate those who might disagree with his edicts occupy American cities, Roy S. Johnson decodes de code:
Translation: Trump is sending American troops to “protect” his swelling flotilla of barely-trained, masked and thuggish ICE agents who are attacking brown and Black people, including children and the elderly, even in their homes, as they did this week in Chicago.
Meta: Sidebar 0
I’ve deactivated the Blue Delaware RSS feed over there ——> on the sidebar, as the site seems to be experiencing issues and the feed is currently not working.
The Rule of Lawless 0
David suggests that we are seeing
. . . authoritarian theater at its worst.