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Know Them by Whom They Praise 0

Juanita Jean.

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Dis Coarse Discourse 0

Bird labeled

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A Picture Is Worth 0

PoliticalProf.

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Suffer the Children 0

It’s not scripture. It’s Republican policy.

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The percentage of the population that is transgender is minimal, almost infinitesimal. I don’t get the right-wing furor about it.

Oh, wait a minute.

I get it.

It’s red flag for the haters.

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True Believers 0

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gene Collier marvels at the delusional and the deluded.

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The Graham Cracker 0

Field thinks that we–well, he says the media, but I think it’s not just them–may have become numb to the outrageous.

Follow the link and decide for yourself.

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“Cancun Cruz” 0

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Closing Books, Closing Minds 0

Michael in Norfolk looks at the motivation for the right-wing’s current book-banning frenzy. A snippet:

Hence the current efforts to rid schools and public libraries of any books and information that might cause little Johnny or Susie to realize they have been taught a lot of bunk at home and in the churches they are compelled to attend.

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On Establishmentarianism 0

At the Des Moines Register, retired professor Norma Cook Everist discusses the dangers of establishmentarianism. Here’s tiny bit from her article (emphasis added); follow the link for the rest.

Over the years I’ve seen this American Civil Religion become entwined with the fundamentalist evangelical right, morphing into a Christian nationalism, distorting both American identity and Christianity. It implies that to be a good American, one must be a certain kind of Christian, and have a certain kind of politics. It implies that people of other religions don’t belong in the United States. Christian nationalism encourages white supremacy and racial subjugation. American Christian nationalism is based on the belief that America is divinely established and superior to other countries. Holding or not holding this belief determines “loyalty” to the country.

(Broken link fixed.)

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Mongers of Fear, What’s in a Word? Dept. 0

What’s in a word? The short answer is, well, “fear.”

Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years. Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called farm price supports. Socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

Via Job’s Anger.

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You can see the full quotation at Wikiquote.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

At NJ.com, Michael A. Gottesman argues convincingly that DEI is the new CRT.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Large catapult filled with persons and labeled

Via Juanita Jean.

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Karen Karen-Like 0

They just can’t seem to help themselves.

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Florida Man 0

Frames One to Three:  Ron DiSantis shouts,

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Stray Question 0

When you cut through the persiflage, you realize that “woke” means “aware.”

What does that tell you about folks who don’t want persons to be “woke”?

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Florida Man 0

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All the News that Fits, Foxy Shady Dept. 0

I think I might just read this book . . . .

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All the News that Fits, Foxy Shady Dept. 0

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I must say, I’m getting increasingly annoyed by persons who don’t know what “begs the question” means.

We are watching words lose their meaning before our very ears.

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The Rule of Flaw 0

Mona Charen is not sanguine.

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Closing Books, Closing Minds 0

Apparently, words mean what Florida Man wants them to mean.

Hundreds of dictionaries earmarked for donation from a Venice Rotary Club sit collecting dust, precluded from being given to Sarasota County (Florida–ed.) students. Even dictionaries aren’t safe from the Sarasota Schools book freeze.

Details at the link.

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