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The Rule of Flaw 0

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Gutting Out the Vote 0

LA Granderson has a question concerning the Speaker of the house:

The next time Speaker Mike Johnson stands in front of a microphone to talk about election integrity, I want you to remember this: Nearly a third of voters in Louisiana are Black, and yet Black voters had control over less than 20% of the state’s congressional districts. White voters make up less than 60% of the electorate yet had control over more than 80% of the power.

(snip)

Johnson’s party has been working to suppress Black votes for decades, so what is he talking about when he trumpets “election integrity”?

Follow the link, where Granderson puts his question into context.

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Patriot Gamers 0

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gene Collier takes at look at the behavior of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives, particularly as regards aid to Ukraine. He is not sanguine. Here’s a tiny bit from his article (emphasis added):

But for six months, while Ukraine fought and suffered day and night, we had minority rule right here in the arsenal of democracy, minority rule by a shabby cadre of wag-the-dog Republican nutbags who think statecraft is a video game where their character jockeys for position on Fox News to gain talking points.

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Republican Thought Police, Reprise 0

Michael Paul Williams relates how the Republican Thought Police came after a girl scout because they didn’t like that she campaigned against their censorship. A snippet, quoting the Girl Scout herself:

“Honestly at first I just started laughing,” recalled Lindley, a senior at Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School who’s headed to Georgia Tech to study computer science.

“It’s kind of hilarious. For me, it’s very ironic that they decided to censor my project that’s meant to fight censorship.”

Follow the link for the context of her comment.

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Republican Thought Police 0

Say the New Secesh, “What they don’t know can’t hurt us.”

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Patriot Games 0

Methinks my old Philly DL friend Noz asks a pertinent question.

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Republican Thought Police, Reprise 0

Title:  America's Most Wanted Librarians.  Frame One:  Wanted poster for

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Willfully Blind 0

GOP Elephant at eye doctor's looking at chart the reads

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The Voter Fraud Fraudster 0

Another Republican.

Have you noticed how it’s almost always a Republican who pulls this sort of stunt on purpose?

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A Tune for Times 0

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Establishmentarians Look Eastward 0

The Washington Monthly’s David Atkins analyzes today’s Republican Party’s partiality for Putin. An excerpt:

It may sound outlandish to normie voters, but an increasingly large number of Republicans are big fans of Putin and want America to look more like Russia, not the other way around. To the Trump right, Putin’s Russia, like Viktor Orban’s Hungary, is seen as an anti-LGBTQ, patriarchal, pro-oil, anarcho-capitalist, anti-woke, Christian nationalist state they wish America could be.

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Sleepy Don 0

As the saying goes, if you snooze, you lose.

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A Stand-By Guy 0

Mother and child labeled Ukraine hang by their fingertips from a cliff.  Above, Mike Johnson looks down at them saying,

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An Ode to Impunity 0

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The Master Planners Plan Their Master Plan 0

Title:  GOP Strategies for Victory.  Frame One, captioned

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A Tune for the Times 0

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To Live in the Past 0

Thom looks back in time and finds context.

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Russian Impulses 0

Republican Ken Buck, who resigned his post in the House of Representatives in disgust, comments on the Greene raw deal.

Via C&L, which has commentary.

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“Are You Better Off Now Than You Were Four Years Ago?” 0

Republicans keep asking that question.

At the Bangor Daily News, Michael Avery Sr. responds:

My answer to that is definitely a big yes. I am no longer subjected to seeing trucks being used as temporary morgues because the death rate from COVID-19 was overwhelming hospitals and morgues.

Follow the link for the rest of his response.

(Broken link fixed.)

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Republican Thought Police 0

At AL.com, John Archibald looks at a bill currently being deliberated (I use that term very loosely) by the Alabama legislature (another term I use very loosely) and wonders

Could a librarian be arrested for shelving the Bible where minors can find it?

Follow the link to see what led him to ask such a question.

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