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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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Creative Accounting 0

Donald Trump as a school boy writing on a blackboard,

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The Label behind “No Labels” 0

Jim Hightower follows the money.

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Car Wars 2

David dissects the dissimulation.

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The Bookfaker 0

Man walks down corridor labeled

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Lies and Lying Liars 0

Here’s Kevin McCarthy claiming that it was Democrats who wanted to shut down the government:

And, for more commentary on the Squeaker of the House . . . .

Via C&L, which has commentary.

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Raging Bull 0

Title:  Man of the People.  Frame One, captioned

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Why the New York Times continues to pay something for this nothing is beyond me.

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The Art of the Steal 0

Also, too.

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For Your Dining Pleasure . . . . 0

This evening, why not treat yourself to a David Brooks Special?

Not a lot of substance, but, true Brooksian fashion, an awful lot of empty hot air.

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Twits on Twitter X Offenders 0

Snopes unpacks (yet another) lie about vaccines.

In related news, self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk is making noises about suing the Anti-Defamation League for ” (wait for it) exercising free speech.

And we have another example that “social” media isn’t.

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Devolution 0

Writing at the Hartford Courant, David Holahan finds himself dismayed by flood of lies in dis coarse discourse and by those who would dismiss justify them as somehow being “free speech.” Here’s a bit of his article (emphasis added):

We are enduring a prevarication pandemic of late. Pettifoggers for perfidious pols are telling us that lies are nothing more or less than good old fashioned made-in-America free speech, our great gift to global governance.

(snip)

America has devolved from the home of self-evident truths to the land of felonious falsehoods.

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Courting Disaster 0

If the truth hurts, just (try to) edit your Wikipedia entry.

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Twits Own Twitter 0

Self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk demonstrates that actions proclaim louder than words:

The company formerly known as Twitter has been slowing the speed with which users could access links to the New York Times, Facebook and other news organizations and online competitors, a move that appeared targeted at companies that have drawn the ire of owner Elon Musk.

(snip)

On Tuesday afternoon, hours after this story was first published, X began reversing the throttling on some of the sites, dropping the delay times back to zero. It was unknown if all the throttled websites had normal service restored.

Details at the link.

And, in case you needed more evidence that “social” media isn’t . . . .

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Have Cake, Eat It Too 0

Apparently, Texas believes in the “right to life,” except when it doesn’t.

Just go read it. See if you can wrap your brain around it.

I certainly cannot.

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Courting Disaster 0

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito says,

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Freedom of Screech 0

Self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk absolutely threatens to sue the Center for Countering Digital Hate for exercising free speech.

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The Time Machine 0

John Young, discussing the recent Supreme Supremacist Court ruling in Moore v. Harper, argues that MAGA Republicans and their sponsors (might one call them “groomers”?), such as the Federalist Society, want to roll back the clock by packing the Court with their dupes, symps, and fellow-travelers.

Here’s a bit of his article:

And so, in a right-wing laboratory, rows of judge-robots were programmed:

“I will destroy democracy.”

“I will destroy democracy.”

“I will destroy democracy.”

MAGA true believers will say this is not the intention of their chosen jurists. They mean only to return the workings of our democracy back to the way they were in the — uh, oh, what the heck — 18th century.

Before the invention of flush toilets. When slaves, not electricity, powered the economy. When only property owners, White ones, ran the place.

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The Motion To Delay 0

Bank robber surrounded by polite kneels with his hands up while saying,

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Establishmentarians 0

Farron argues that the Republican Party in no longer a political party in any traditional sense, but rather has become little more than a tool of right-wing evangelical they-call-themselves Christians.

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