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The Privatization Scam 0

Maddy Wheelock details the duplicity. A snippet;

School choice increases the divide between students who have access and those who don’t. State funding for education and other critical spending priorities all comes from the same pot. So more money for private schools and charters means less for rural and low-income schools. School choice doesn’t create more options if it only does so by divesting from neighborhood public schools. The math doesn’t add up.

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Republican Family Values 0

Yet more evidence that leads one to consider the possibility that mean for the sake of mean is a Republican family value . . . .

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

At the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Robert Hill reminds us that there’s nothing new about current white supremacist backlash against DEI.

It’s but the latest in a long line of attempts to keep the downtrodden trodden down.

Follow the link for a list.

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The Cultural Devolution 0

Mangy announces the upcoming bill of events for the newly Trumpled Kennedy Center.

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Indoctrination Nation 0

David parses the implications of some of Linda McMahon’s testimony in her confirmation hearings. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)

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White Coffee 0

Words fail me.

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Suffer the Children 0

That’s not scripture. That’s a Republican family value.

Black child holding a bowl approaches Donald Trump and Paula White-Cain, saying,

Via Job’s Anger.

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

At the Washington Monthly, Robert J. Shapiro hears a most disturbing rhyme. Here’s a couple of bits from his article:

His (Donald Trump’s–ed.) approach to politics has always been to cast supporters as friends and critics as enemies. This characterization of politics was first propounded by the German political theorist Carl Schmitt . . . .

And in Schmitt’s framework, when enemies at home or abroad gain notable political sway, it creates a grave emergency that warrants executive action outside the law. It’s clear why Schmitt was the favored theorist for the Nazi party and a senior jurist in the Third Reich.

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*Mark Twain.

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The Privatization Scam 0

Caption:  News:  Texas Senate classifies a family of four making $160,000 as

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

At Northjersey.com, Laura Morowitz argues forcefully that Donald Trump’s hostility towards immigrants is fundamentally nothing more than another case of mean for the sake of mean.

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Know Them by the Company They Keep Hire 0

Persons look into the Treasury Dept. to find a person in a KKK suit at a computer.  The Klansman says,

Via Job’s Anger.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Donald Trump spreads racist bigoted xenophobic bunk about immigrants.

Katharine Davies Samway and Lucinda Pease-Alvarez debunk de bunk.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Patriot Gamers 0

Two men in pick-up flying the Stars and Bars and a Nazi flag pass a demonstration where -immigrants are flying the flags of their home countries.  One man in pick-up says to the other,

Via Job’s Anger.

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The Privatization Scam 0

And it is a scam. You can voucher on it.

(At about the eight minute mark, Emma and the crew veer off from that subject and discuss listener comments. but the part up to that is well worth a listen.)

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Making America Grate Again 0

Title:  Anne Frank's Hiding Rebuilt in New York.  Image:  Couple looking over the hiding place.  Woman says,

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Aside:

On Thursday’s episode of the Bob Cesca Show, one of the participants–I forget which one–made a remark that resonated with me: that what’s happening today seems to echo the end of Reconstruction.

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Establismentarians, Boebert Is the New Gohmert Dept. 0

At the Idaho State Journal, Nick Gier skewers Lauren Boebert’s fanciful and fabricated claim that the United States Constitution does not–er–establish separation of church and state. He reminds her that

No, Congresswoman Bobert (sic), our founders—conservative and liberal—were wise enough to reject the dangerous idea that your favorite pastor should direct the government.

Follow the link for the wealth of historical evidence that he musters.

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Devolution 0

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Donald Trump stands in front of the Declaration of Independence saying,

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America’s original sin of chattel slavery continues to take its toll.

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

Writing at the Portland Press Herald, Peter Pressman and Edward A. McCulloch tell of a rhyme they are hearing. A snippet (emphasis added); follow the link for further reverberations.

Gleichschaltung was the process of the Nazi Party taking control over all aspects of pre-WWII Germany, initiated some 92 years ago.

The Nazis started with the Civil Service . . . .

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*Mark Twain.

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