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The Re-Christening 0

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth smashes a bottle of chamgagne across the bow of the renamed USNS Harvey Milk, now named the USNS Bigot.

Via Job’s Anger.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Farron argues that Stephen Miller is upset because there’s no there there.

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One Thing Is Not Like the Other Thing 0

Wearing a mask to protect your health and slow the spread of a pandemic is not the same thing as wearing a mask to hide your identity while violating persons’ Constitutional rights, regardless of what some pipsqueak pol who’s in way over his head might say.

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Separation of Posers 0

Sam and the crew dissect Donald Trump’s feud with Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

At the Tampa Bay Times, John Hill debunks de bunk. A snippet (emphasis added):

If anything, the state looks foolish for having cried wolf about the need for a statewide immigration crackdown. Supporters sold the Florida law as a way to help the Trump administration deport people here illegally who committed violent crimes. At least 79 people have been arrested since Florida’s law went into effect, but only two were charged with a violent crime. Nearly a third have been charged with only an immigration offense. For dozens, their only alleged crime was driving without a license or a seat belt, or with expired tags. Sounds like a normal day on Florida’s roads to me.

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Space Debris 0

Title:  Mission Accomplished.  Image:  Missile labeled

Click to view the original image.

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“If We Don’t Talk about It, Then It Must Not Have Happened” 0

The Trump maladministration’s attempt to expurgate America’s history of the parts is doesn’t like continues apace.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Sam and the crew note that persons are starting to push back at ICE and its brown shirt tactics.

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“But It’s One of Them 0

At Psychology Today Blogs, psychology professor Todd Nelson considers why persons are so susceptible to prejudice–that is, prejudging others–and offers some suggestions as to how not to fall into the prejudice trap. Given that dis coarse discourse seems flooded by merchants of hate, I found it a timely read.

Here’s a tiny bit:

We are born with an innate tendency to automatically categorize things (Gardner 1985; Ramsey et al, 2004). That is very helpful and helps us move through life by not needing to analyze every object we see to determine what it is and what its function is. Automatic categorization helps us instantly make those judgments. The problem comes when we bring that to people. People aren’t homogeneous, based on a single feature or even several features. If I see a skinny man with glasses, I can’t assume he is an introvert who likes to read.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Sam and the crew dissect ICE’s new catch-22.

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Suffer the Children 0

One more time, that’s not scripture. That’s Republican policy. (Warning: Short promo at the end.)

An excerpt:

Trump and his allies play word games, they play semantic games, they don’t care about the Constitution, unless it’s the Second Amendment.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Rebecca Watson debunks Donald Trump’s “white genocide in South Africa” bunk.

Or you can read the transcript.

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Establishmentarians 0

Sitting in for David Pakman, Brittany Page focuses on a discussion from the Texas legislature to highlight the hypocrisy of today’s establishmentarians.

Afterthought:

The dirty little truth that establishmentarians don’t want anyone to know is that establishmentarianism is not about piety.

It’s about power.

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Student Visa Tours 0

Daniel Ruth, writing at the Tampa Bay Times, takes issue with Donald Trump’s characterization of foreign students at American universities. He tell of his own experiences with foreign students at the University of South Florida. Here are a couple of excerpts from his article:

The contributions of these international students are profound.

Almost all of are engaged in STEM majors — bio med, engineering, physics, chemistry, math, biology. A few are business majors. All of them are a joy to be around. They are intellectually curious. They are very serious people, and they can be funny, too.

(snip)

. . . so many of them want to use their American education to return to their homelands to make things better — the medical students, the engineering students, the computer science students, the nursing students. They want to make their countries better. And Donald Trump wants to throw them out.

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Republican Family Values, Rolling Back the Clock Dept. 0

At Psychology Today Blogs, Barbara J. Risman makes the case that, when Republicans say “family friendly,” what they mean is “patriarchal.” She points out that

Perhaps the alleged goal of helping families that is now being touted by many Republicans is really a way to use tax incentives and reduced funding for children to encourage certain kinds of families: heterosexual couples with mothers who do not work for pay.

Methinks she makes some valid points. Follow the link for her arguments.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini, prompted by a communication from a reader, asked ICE why its agents are wearing masks while arresting immigrants who have broken no laws–who, in fact, have played by the rules. ICE did not respond when he asked for an explanation, so he offers his own theory:

. . . put yourself in the shoes of those agents. If it was me, and my job was “busting people who followed the rules,”… I’d wear a mask, too.

Follow the link, where he explains how he came to that conclusion.

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Occasionally correct? As my old boss used to day, even a blind pig finds an acorn sometime.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

The New Secesh’s efforts to white-wash (I use that term advisedly) America’s history find another target.

The Trump administration is enlisting national park visitors into the Republican president’s fight to rewrite American history, with a new directive that forces all park units to display signs that encourage guests to report any information that is critical of American history.

On May 20, U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum directed all park units to display the signs to comply with President Donald Trump’s earlier executive order, which claims that U.S. history has been distorted by ideology and seeks to counter what it describes as revisionist narratives that portray the country’s past in a negative light.

To translate, the words

portray the country’s past in a negative light

is New Speak for

tell the truth about.

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A Notion of Immigrants, One Man’s Story Dept. 0

Badar Khan Suri, a scholar at Georgetown University, tells what it’s like to be renditioned by the Republican thought police because he had the unmitigated gall to dare to express an opinion.

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Establishmentarians 0

Score a small victory for disestablishmentarians.

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