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Michael in Norfolk gives away the game plan.

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Atrios has the rest of the story.

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At the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Robert Hill reminds us that there’s nothing new about current white supremacist backlash against DEI.

It’s but the latest in a long line of attempts to keep the downtrodden trodden down.

Follow the link for a list.

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And now they’re even Bragging about it.

Afterthought:

Their cover story is flimsier than a house made out of straw.

It’s quite clear to what audience they bow.

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Clearly, if we don’t talk about America’s original sin of chattel slavery, then it must not have happened.

Because that’s the way history works.

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Thom is astonished. I’m not.

All pretense is off.

The racism and misogyny of today’s Republican Party are fully out of the closet.

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Republican Thought Police in This New Gilded Age 0

Title:  It's 2025.  Time To Be Oligarchically Correct.  Frame One, captioned

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Still Rising Again after All These Years,
Republican Thought Police Dept.
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Scott Maxwell parses the perfidy of Florida AG Ashley Moody.

No excerpt or summary can do his article justice. Just go read it.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Among other things, Thom and former FBI agent Mike German discuss the origins of the Second Amendment. It’s likely not what you expect it to be and certainly not what the NRA and its dupes, symps, and fellow travelers would want you to think.

Frankly (I do everything frankly), it rather took me aback, but it did not surprise me.

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The Entrance Exam, a Notion of Immigrants Dept. 0

Mike Luckovich decodes de code.

Baby 2025 approaches.  MAGA-hatted man holds up a color chart to his skin, finds that it's white, and says,

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Signs of the times.

My Daddy fought Nazis in the Ardennes.

Were he still with us, he would be–er–somewhat distressed to find home-grown Nazis on the homefront betraying the very cause that he fought for.

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“Those Who Cannot Remember the Past Are Condemned To Repeat It”* 0

And, remember, there are those who don’t want us to remember the past, because they do want us to repeat it, and they still rising again after all these years.

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*George Santayana.

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The Entitlement Society 0

A Twits on Twitter An X Offender.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Michael in Norfolk decodes de code.

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A Quibble 0

Methinks Michael in Norfolk made a typo.

He missplet “1850s.”

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Still Rising Again after All These Years, Reprise 0

The New Secesh are now phoning it in.

Expect more like this, folks.

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The Rule of Flaw 0

I go to sleep worrying about the American dream.

I wake up to the American scream.

I am not sanguine.

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Still Rising after All These Years 0

If at first you can’t secede, try, try again.

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The Confluence 0

Steve M. takes a look at this weekend’s Trump rally in Madison Square Garden (which, I must note, is neither square nor located at Madison Square, but I digress), where Trump’s supporters openly flaunted their racism, and notes an overlap. Here’s a bit about the overlap:

Did yesterday’s rally seem like the work of an organized, dangerous fascist party? Yes — but the rally’s rhetoric also seemed like ordinary casual conversation among bigoted white men when they think no one can hear them.

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