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A Slip of the Tongue 0

David suggests that Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud on CNN (and points out that CNN failed follow up on it).

Learn more about “plenary authority.”

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Republican Thought Police 0

Methinks my old Philly DL friend Noz pretty much nails it.

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

    Thom hears a rhyme
    From another time
    When men in hoods
    Roamed the woods,
    With crosses ablaze
    Through nights and days.

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*Mark Twain.

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“The ‘E’ Word” 0

David offers a theory as to why Donald Trump is okay with shutting down the federal government.

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Republican Family Values Meet a Notion of Immigrants 0

Hones to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up.

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The Rule of Lawless 0

The Trump maladministration decrees, “Hatch Act, schmatch act.”

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Hoist on Their Own Petard 0

Methinks Atrios has a point.

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The Rule of Lawless, Droning On Dept. 0

Title:  Hey Kids!  It's Droney--the friendly MAGA drone.  Frame One:  Little boy:  Droney, we read that you've been seen attacking Venezuelan boats in international waters, killing at least 17 people.  Droney:  Well, sure.  The president says they were drug smugglers.  ALso, the videos are really cool.  Boats go splodey!  It's fantastic content.  Little boy:  But--they could have been interdicted and arrested.  And they you'd have evidence.  Little girl:  They may have been migrants or just fishermen.  Droney:  Eh, drug smugglers, migrants, whatever.  It's a new day of American power, which means the president gets to summarily execute anyone he wants.  The Supreme Court says so.  Little boy:  Are you sure about that?  Droney:  You kids aren't questioning MAGA drones, are you.  Because that's exactly the sort of thing the president does not like.  Little boy:  No, we certainly are not.  Little girl:  Perish the thought.  Droney:  Okay, good.  Well, gotta run.  I've got to track down a late night comedian.  Er, I mean to say, a radical antifa terrorist who also tells jokes.  (Droney flies off.)  Little girl:  He's . . . kidding, right?  Droney (over his shoulder):  Ha ha.  I'll never tell.

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Republican Family Values 0

Title:  Rage at the Ragged.  Frame One, captioned

Via Job’s Anger.

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The Enemies List 0

Grung_e_Gene decodes de code.

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Occupation Nation 0

At the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Daniel Oppenheimer offers some thoughts as to how to respond if when Donald Trump orders the National Guard to invade your city.

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

Trudy Rubin hears a rhyme in Donald Trump’s efforts to silence his critics. A snippet:

Trump is following a pattern clearly marked out by the Kremlin — and perhaps even more relevantly by Turkey, where journalists and academics are prosecuted for “insulting the president” — and by Hungary, led by Trump pal Viktor Orbán.

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*Mark Twain.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Devolution 0

Michael in Norfolk makes a frighteningly convincing case that the United States is going bananas banana republic.

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Republican Thought Police 0

At the Bangor Daily News, Dan Cashman, who once hosted a late night talk show, is not sanguine. A snippet:

The actions taken by Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr last week, to go on a podcast and threaten local station groups with the possibility of federal action because of things said by a comedian on a TV show, is crossing a critical line. Free speech is protected in this country, and for good reason. We have many freedoms that are easily taken for granted. The ability to criticize elected officials, be it for comedy or honest conversation, is protected, and must continue.

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A Tune for the Times 0

From the Youtube page:

We couldn’t find any lobster costumes, and a whirling freestyle in the middle of a school week was not gonna happen. So – with some extra input from a few media sources to cover instrumental sections – this is our parody rendition of “Under the Sea”, one of our old Disney favourites for its sheer joy and energy. It was composed by Alan Menken (with cracking lyrics by Howard Ashman) for the 1989 animated “The Little Mermaid” and won an Oscar. Of course, the calypso lobster’s forlorn plea for an alternative path falls on deaf ears. Which brings us to free speech.

It’s been a scary time in lots of ways in the US, with the temperature cranked up again by shocking murders and reckless responses, and sadly now the First Amendment (for decades a place of some bipartisan accord) seems to be creaking. As we were working on the arrangement, we learned that Jimmy Kimmel’s show had been reinstated by Disney – which is great news, having loved meeting him in 2020 albeit under bizarre pandemic circumstances – though we gather that much is still unclear about how the matter is going to play out. Here’s hoping that enough uproar is generated that Trump and co. think again about making their predictable/alarming move on limiting freedom of expression.

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Suffer the Children 0

We are again reminded that that is not scripture. That is a Republican family value.

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Free Trumpled Speech, One More Time 0

Ring of Fire looks at Donald Trump’s campaign to silence anyone who criticizes him. (Warning: Mild language.)

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Free Trumpled Speech, Reprise 0

Seth takes a closer look at Donald Trump’s efforts to unfree speech.

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Free Trumpled Speech 0

Caption:  Free Speech in the Age of Trump.  Image:  Heavily redacted document with a Sharpie labeled

Via Job’s Anger.

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