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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

The NAACP has suggested that black student athletes to unite against the New Secesh, refusing to attend sports powerhouses (such as UGa., Alabama, FSU, etc.) in states that are attempting to gerrymander minority voters out of existence. Rick Stron discusses this.

(In the first two minutes, you can watch the New Secesh come out from under their hoods and show themselves. It’s pretty scary.)

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American Stasi 0

Yet another persons held in an ICE detention center concentration camp tells his story.

Just read it, and, as you do, remind yourself that this is being done in the name of liberty and justice for all..

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The Rule of Lawless 0

Two prisoners in a cell.  One says,

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If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0

At Above the Law, Liz Dye explores Donald Trump’s claims that he and his staff have the right to destroy official documents in defiance of long-established law. Almost as an aside, she notes the irony:

It’s worth pausing to note that the man who spent years braying that Hillary Clinton should go to email jail for using a private server is now arguing that his minions have a constitutional right to conduct government business on self-destructing messaging apps, and that any law requiring them to preserve those messages is an unconstitutional affront to executive power.

Follow the link for context.

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The Exit Strategy 0

Donald Trump, hving painted his way into a corner with Iran, sees war with Cuba as a way out.

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The Art of the Steal 0

Donald Trump, holding folders labeled

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Know Them by the Company They Keep 0

What would you think, for example, when this is the company that they keep?

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The Rule of Lawless 0

Thom wonders, “What happens when a President stops following the Constitution?”

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Republican Thought Police 0

At Above the Law, Kathryn Rubino takesa deep look at the Trump maladministration’s campaign against the American Bar Association. Here’s a bit from her article (emphasis added):

To be clear about what’s actually going on here: the right’s campaign against the ABA is not, at its core, about expanding access to legal education or lowering costs for aspiring lawyers. It is about punishing an institution they perceive as ideologically hostile. The ABA has sued to protect judicial independence, passed resolutions opposing Trump administration policies, and spent years pushing diversity standards in legal education. The response from the administration has been swift and coordinated . . . .

Afterthought:

“Ideologically hostile” indeed.

Ideologically hostile to the rule of lawless maybe.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Field explains why today’s Republican Party is determined to gut out the vote.

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Republican Family Values, American Stasi Dept. 0

In the midst of a longer article about conditions at a privately-owned ICE detention center concentration camp, New Jersey Congressman Rob Menendez offers his theory as to why the Republican-controlled House and Senate are resisting efforrs to look into conditions at said locations:

Menendez, who was making his eighth visit to Delaney Hall, said Republican members of the GOP-controlled House and Senate were ignoring conditions at detention facilities nationwide, because “they want to hide from the fact that they’re tearing families apart.”

Methinks he may be onto something. Follow the link for the context of his comment.

And, while we’re on the subject . . . .

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An Ode to the Artist of the Con 0

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Establishmentarians 0

Michael in Norfolk looks at Republicans’ flouting of the Constitutional mandate for separation of church and state.

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Emoluments 0

No surprises here.

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

CNN’s Jake Tapper argues that Stephen Colbert rhymes with Thomas Beckett.

Read the article. The rhyme is not so farfetched as it sounds.

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*Nark Twain.

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In Translation 0

John Amato decodes de code:

Whenever Republicans say the words “voter integrity,” what they mean is disenfranchisement of all Democratic, minorities and disabled senior voters.

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All the News that Fits 0

SFgate’s Drew Magary argues that much of the coverage of the current redistricting efforts designed to gut out the vote of the midterm elections is missing the point. Methinks he makes a valid point.

Here’s a tiny bit of his article:

All of this is disgusting of course, but even more disgusting has been seeing our captured national media frame this crisis in terms of a political horse race.

(snip)

So not only are you and I being subjected to a coordinated plan by the GOP to nullify this fall’s election results before Americans have even gotten a chance to vote, but also to an accompanying disinformation campaign from the establishment media to posit this as just another political tussle. It is not. It is villainy, villainy of the crassest sort.

The entire article is well-worth the few minutes it will take you to read it.

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Suffer the Children 0

As has been amply demonstrated, that’s not scripture. That’s a Republican family value.

For example, as Nicholas Kristof notes in a column about the Trump maladministration’s cuts to foreign aid,

A Boston University researcher estimated that the aid cuts cost more than 750,000 lives worldwide in their first year. A recently published study in The Lancet, the British medical journal, forecast that at present rates the defunding will cost 9.4 million lives by 2030, including 2.5 million children under the age of 5.

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Trumponomics 0

Donald Trump hols a bucket for a man as a man shakss money into it from a taxpayer.  Trump says,

Via Job’s Anger.

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Captain by Crook or by Hook 0

GOP Elephant as a piarate peering through a telescope in

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