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Courting Disaster 0

At Above the Law, Kathryn Rubino reports that the American public is getting wise to the Supreme Supremacist Court.

Not that it matters so long as the party of the New Secesh today’s Republican Party controls all three branches of government . . . .

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A Matter of Priorities 0

At the Idaho State Journal, Lauren Necochea looks at Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” and follows the money. A snippet:

If you want to know who a politician values, look at their budget. House Republicans just passed a federal budget that makes their priorities painfully clear: handouts for billionaires, paid for by working families, including thousands of Idahoans.

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The Rule of Lawless 0

Title:  On ICE.  Image:  Lady Liberty frozen into an ice cube.

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The Outside Agitator 0

Policeman in armor faces protestof holding an

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If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0

MAGA-hatted man carrying the Gadsden flag and wearing a tee shirt reading

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A Trumpled Taxonomy 0

Title:  A Field Guide to Civil Unrest, 2nd Edition.  Image:  Frame One;  Qanon Shaman and red-hatted man holding sign reading,

Via Job’s Anger.

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The Ruler of Lawless 0

David analyzes the aspiring authoritarian’s actions. I cannot take issue with his analysis. (Warning: Short promo at the end.)

At AK,com, Roy S. Johnson has more.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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That Was the Week that Was Very Very Weird 0

Seth takes a closer look at some of the events of the past week.

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The Rule of Lawless 0

At the Idaho State Journal, Kim Shinkoskey states that Donald Trump is

offending specific provisions in the Constitution

and goes on to offer a bill of particulars.

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Responsible Fiscals 0

The Congressional Budget Office runs the numbers on Donald Trump’s tax cut billionaire giveaway bill.

As far as I can tell, no matter how you do the math, they do not add up to “responsible.”

Read more »

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Republican Family Values 0

Frame One:  Speaker of the House Mike Johnson says,

Via Job’s Anger.

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Establishmentarians 0

Sitting in for David Pakman, Brittany Page focuses on a discussion from the Texas legislature to highlight the hypocrisy of today’s establishmentarians.

Afterthought:

The dirty little truth that establishmentarians don’t want anyone to know is that establishmentarianism is not about piety.

It’s about power.

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Republican Thought Police 0

Our wannabe dictator has sicced the Republican thought police on NPR and PBS. At Above the Law, Liz Dye points out that

. . . this is an unabashed declaration that the government is engaging in viewpoint discrimination. The president is openly retaliating against public broadcasters because he doesn’t like their content — a flagrant violation of the First Amendment.

Follw the link for the other stuff she points out.

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Emoluments, Reprise 0

At the Bangor Daily News, Linda Wilcox follows the money.

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Health Care Deform 0

At the Washington Monthly, Thom Walsh explains why the Republican plan to increase “work requirements” for Medicaid is little more than a ploy to deny health care to persons who need it, all the while masquerading as guardians of the public purse, Here’s a tiny bit of his article:

Consider the mechanics of the policy. To retain Medicaid coverage, adults without dependents must work, train, or volunteer for at least 80 hours per month. But the burden of proof falls entirely on the enrollee. In Arkansas, the first state to try this, 18,000 people lost coverage in months, not because they weren’t working but because they couldn’t navigate an online reporting system. That’s bureaucracy weaponized.

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Republican Family Values 0

At the Bangor Daily News, Stephen McKay suggests that Donald Trump provides a somewhat less than stellar modeling of behavior to be emulated by our nation’s youth.

Methinks he makes several points worthy of consideration.

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The Rule of Lawless 0

In a longer column discussing the Trump maladministration’s attempt to punish Harvard University for daring to stand up to it, Noah Feldman makes this observation, which methinks is quite en point (emphasis added):

Harvard provided all the information required by federal regulations, even supplementing its initial submission at DHS’s request. Then, on Thursday, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem abruptly canceled Harvard’s participation in the Student and Exchange Visitor Program. Harvard filed suit on Friday, asking the federal district court to issue a temporary restraining order blocking Noem’s action.

As has become typical of the Trump administration, Noem’s action blatantly violates the law, not even paying lip service to it. Her letter didn’t even deign to claim that Harvard had broken any rules or regulations.

Instead, the letter embraced the “we can do anything we want” reasoning behind so many of Trump’s executive actions.

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Dr. Dracula 0

Republican Elephant dressed as a doctor looks on as Mr. Monopoly Man receives a transfusion from a Medicaid patient because of Donald Trump and Republicans' tax cuts for the wealthy.

Via Job’s Anger.

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The Art of the Double-Deal 0

Frame One:  Picture of doll family captioned,

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