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“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0

I can’t help but think that this rhymes with Undergraound Railroad.

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*Mark Twain.

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Not Neutrality 0

At The Charlotte Observer, Paige Masten explains that, in some circumstances, “(r)efusing to ‘take a side’ is still taking a side . . . .

Follow the link for context.

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American Stasi 0

We are again reminded that “suffer the children” is not scripture.

Rather, it’s a Republican family value.

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American Stasi 0

Another woman’s story.

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Establishmentarians . . . 0

. . . are joining up with the Republican thought police.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Thom explains how the Trump maladministration and its American Stasi are routinely violating the U. S. Constitution in pursuit of their racist agenda. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)

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The Past as Prologue 0

Phenix S Halley steps into the Wayback Machine and offers a glimpse of the America that the Trump maladministration would make great again.

Afterthought:

It’s the America I grew up in.

I don’t want to go back.

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Republican Thought Police 0

Via SFgate, a federal judge has ruled in favor of a coalition of groups suing to stop the Trump maladministration’s attempt to erase those portions of American history that it doesn’t like. Here’s a bit from the ruling:

“Plaintiff has demonstrated a likelihood that Defendants’ efforts, ostensibly taken in the name of restoring dignity, instead seek to rewrite the Nation’s history with a white-out pen,” the court order read.

The story goes on the report that (no surprises here) the Trump maladministration is consdiering an appeal.

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Stray Thought 0

Nethinks one clear warning sign of a rule of lawless is “a secretive police.”

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American Stasi, Republican Family Values Dept. 0

Thom discusses the Trump maladministration’s “concentration camps for children.”

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Speaking of Rhymes . . . . 0

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Methinks my local rag makes a good point when they conclude that

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seems intent on replacing diversity, equity and inclusion with demotions, exclusion and inequality.

Follow the link for the evidence.

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Republican Thought Police 0

It appears that the Trump maladministration is trying a new tactic so as to supporess academic freedom and control curricula. A snippet:

Now, after a campaign that put dozens of universities under investigation, President Donald Trump’s administration is taking a wider approach, moving to rewrite the federal rules that govern all of higher education. Demands that were being pressed on individual schools are being written into the fine print for thousands of U.S. universities.

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The shift comes after federal judges blocked Trump’s administration from making crippling cuts at Harvard and the University of California, Los Angeles. It also follows a mass exodus in civil rights lawyers who traditionally guide investigations against universities. Still, Trump hasn’t backed down from his campaign to end what he calls “wokeness” run amok in academia.

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American Stasi 0

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A Notion of Immigrants, Republican Family Values Dept. 0

Donald Trump and Stephen Miller stand before a UFC cage filled with children, as a MAGA flag flies from the White House.  Miller says,

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Republican Family Values 0

Alabama Republican wants to protect the polity from the poisonous plague known as the Muppets.

The stupid. It burns.

Afterthought:

Wonder if he’s ever seen Mrs. Doubtfire?

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American Stasi 0

Rick Strom reports on ICE agents who are confessing to investigative journalists under promise of anonymity that, under the Trump maladministration, it’s all about the color of the skin.

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Heavily armed guard outside of ICE Detention Center say,

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American Stasi 0

NJ.com reports on a nurse who gpt ICEd was treated roughly because she was trying to, well, be a nurse:

Norma Bowe, a registered nurse who runs the Global Grace Health mobile clinic out of the Reformed Church of Highland Park and regularly provides medical support to protesters, said she rushed over after witnessing a federal agent drag the woman and tear off her shirt.

Bowe said that’s when an officer grabbed the back of her shirt and threw her onto the sidewalk.

More mean for the sake of mean at the link.

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The Rule of Lawless 0

At Above the Law, Kathryn Rubino reports on DOJ attorneys fired by the Trump maladministration. A snippet:

The prosecutors fired were doing their jobs. That is, apparently, the problem.

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