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The Disinformation Superhighway 0

Using the Amber Heard-Johnny Depp court case as a starting point, Rebecca Watson discusses how bots and trolls are debasing dis coarse discourse.

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A Picture Is Worth 0

PoliticalProf.

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Twits Own Twitter X Offenders 0

It looks like the self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist” is at it again.

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Freedom of Screech 0

Actions speak louder than words, especially when the actions contradict the words.

For example.

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“The Party of Personal Responsibility” 0

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Originalist Sin 0

At the Idaho State Journal, Leonard Hitchcock skewers the sophistry of “Constitutional Originalist.”

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Deceptive by Definition 0

At the Idaho State Journal, Randy Stapilus notes that, in Right-Wing Wonderland, words mean what they–right-wingers, that is–want them to mean.

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Republican Family Values 0

Methinks Vixen Strangely has decoded de code.

Aside:

Likely light bloggery this week.

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Republican Thought Police 0

The Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts cuts to the quick:

Free speech, it seems, must be protected … as long as our (Arizona Republican state legislative–ed.) leaders approve what’s being said, that is.

Follow the link for her evidence.

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Lies and Lying Liars? 0

Farron points out the perfidity and perjury are not the same thing.

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“The Free Speech Absolutist” 0

Title:  Invisible-Hand-of-the-Free-Market Man senses a brewing crisis.  Hand says to Elon Musk,

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The Privatization Scam 0

Eric Foster calls out the school voucher con for the underhanded fraud that it is: a violation of the public trust and of governments’ fiduciary duty to the citizenry. Here’s a bit (emphasis added):

I call this kind of public financing of private education a reversion because, in my mind, it represents the government abdicating its duty to educate the citizenry. Again, the public school system was created because we decided that the government should be responsible for educating those whom it serves. When the government gives our tax dollars, which are taken so that the government can perform this duty, not to public schools created in furtherance of that public duty, but to private schools created to make a profit or serve some other private agenda, the government is breaching its obligation to the citizens.

I comment his entire piece to your attention.

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Establishmentarians 0

Chris Satullo challenges the establishmentarian impulse of the new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. Two tiny excerpts:

Mike, last night I took your advice. I took my Bible off the shelf and read the four Gospels straight through. What an inspiring, challenging, confounding set of words. Two thoughts:

1) Your idea that the Bible lays out a comprehensive, clearcut judicial code or policy program for a 21st century civil government does not survive five minutes sitting with the book open on your lap and your mind switched on.

(snip)

2) One thing that is clear as day is that Jesus was suspicious (even contemptuous) of both the temporal and the institutional religious powers of his day, of Rome and the Pharisees.

Follow the link for his reasoning.

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Republican Exceptionalism 0

Title:

Dick Polman has more.

Image via Juanita Jean.

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Establishmentarians 0

Thom wonders why so many they-call-themselves Christians seem to miss the point of what the Bible reports to be Jesus Christ’s own words.

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Foxy Shady 0

Emma and the crew dissect the misdirection play.

In related news, PoliticalProf looks at some numbers.

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Insincerely Yours 0

At Psychology Today Blogs, Dr. Bruce Y. Lee takes a deep dive into fake apologies. You know the ones; he describes them in his opening:

How many times have you seen politicians, business leaders, or celebrities issue apologies that leave you wondering: “Did that person actually apologize?” Or heard a coworker, friend, or someone else tell you something like, “I’m sorry that you misinterpreted my actions”, “I apologize if I offended you in any way”, or “Fine, I’ll apologize, if you insist,” which is, basically, an apology that doesn’t feel like a real apology?

Well, I regret to inform you that such apologies are not only fake but, unfortunately, very common.

Follow the link for some pointers on how avoid being taken in by them.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

There are none so blind as those who will not look.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

The New Secesh deploy duplicitous doubletalk to defeat desegregation.

Righting the wrongs of the past is in their eyes a wrong.

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Creative Accounting, Reprise 0

Mother Goose says,

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