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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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Republican Thought Police 0

Anita Chabria conjugates the latest con from Donald Trump’s Ministry of Truth.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

The Trump maladmnistration wants them darkies to know their place.

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Stray Thought 0

Today’s Republican Party does not want to govern.

It wants to dictate.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

At the Washington Monthly, Richard D. Kahlenberg peers behind the sheets of a recent action of the Trump maladministration and concludes that

Trump’s new enemy appears to be racial diversity itself . . . .

Follow the link to find out why he reached that conclusion.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

The Secesh are rising again after all these years, but doing so oh so politely.

Jarvis McKenzie was simply waiting for his work ride at 5:30 a.m. on July 24 when a white man fired a rifle over his head and yelled “you better get running, boy!”

Details at the link.

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Profiles in Kowtowing 0

Man cutting grass in front of the Supreme Court.  Voice from inside the court says,

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Trumpling History 0

Family in the Smithsonian in an exhibit room adorned with stocks, whips, shackles, nooses, and the like.  Man reads from legend,

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Sam talks with Ari Berman about how John Roberts’s Supreme Supremacist Court has been working to gut the Voting Rights Act that, per the Encyclopedia Britannica, “aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) to the Constitution of the United States.”

America’s original sin of chattel slavery continues to take its toll.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

David comments on Donald Trump’s efforts to whitewash–you will pardon the expression–America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the doctrine of racial superiority that was fabricated to rationalize it.

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Establishmentarians 0

Via The Sacramento Bee, Bryan Clark takes a look behind the robes of America’s establishmentarians. A snippet; follow the link for context.

The point is to gain power for a reactionary kind of political and cultural view — hence the movement’s constant insistence on the submission of women to men; the sympathy for the Old South, even to the point of defending slavery; constant attacks on gay and transgender people; occasionally downplaying the Holocaust and so on — and Christianity is a pretty cloak to wrap that foul project in.

Also, too . . . .

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Metamorphosis 0

David discusses how Nixon’s southern strategy led to today’s Republican Party. Methinks he makes valid points. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)

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Still Rising Again after All These Years, Reprise 0

America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the myth of racial superiority that was fabricated to justify excuse it continue to exact their toll. (Warning: Language.)

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Thom discusses the current gerrymandering struggle going on in Texas. (Warning: Short commercial at about the two minute mark.)

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

In a longer article about some of the ways in which J. D. Vance tries to twist history, Yastreblyansky makes a telling observation: that, in attacking birthright citizenship, today’s Republican party, AKA the Party of the New Secesh, echoes the arguments of pre-civil war slaveholders.

. . . in his arguments against birthright citizenship, Vance is aligning himself with Taney, and the Dred Scott decision, against Lincoln and the outcome of the war.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Michael in Norfolk is not sanguine. A snippet; follow the link for the rest.

. . . most Republicans seem totally fine with the destruction of civil rights and an agenda to take America back to a mix of the Gilded Age and the 1950’s.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Work on the new Nissan Stadium was halted Friday after the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department reported that a noose was found on the construction site.

Per the link, they haven’t yet identified the aspiring Klansman.

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

AL.com’s J. D. Crowe visualizes a rhyme.

ICE agent casting a shadow of a KKKlansman.

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*Mark Twain.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years . . . . 0

. . . and still trying to promote the lie that the Civil War was about something other than perpetuating chattel slavery.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

SFGate reports that the Trump maladministration’s attempt to whitewash (I use that term advisedly) America’s history as told in America’s National Parks is not being received well by vistors to said parks.

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