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War and Mongers of War 0

Pistol Pete.

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Immunity Impunity, the Rule of Lawless Dept. 0

Via the Charlotte Observer, Jill Burcum looks at how the Trump maladministration is thwarting Minnesota authorities’ attempts to probe ICE’s shootings of Alex Pretti, Renee and Nicole Good, not to mention others who have received less publicity, and comes to a disturbing conclusion (emphasis added):

There’s a deeply disturbing pattern emerging here, one that points to more than a just a coverup. Federal officials directing these efforts appear to believe that they and their agents are a privileged class to be shielded from the consequences of their actions, instead of being held to the same standards that everyone else would be.

Follow the link to learn why she came to that conclusion.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Sam talks with David Bier about how the Supreme Supremacist Court green lit racial profiling.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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War and Mongers of War 0

Susan Estrich thinks Donald Trump has some ‘splainin’ to do. She notes that

It’s not just that he’s failed to explain his war to the likes of me; he hasn’t justified it sufficiently for his own base.

Follow the link for the reasoning behind that remark.

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American Stasi 0

Farron discusses how ICE agents were recorded trying to cook up false charges against a protestor.

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A Trumpled Nation 0

Carlos Lozada takes a look at the damage the Trump maladministration is doing to America’s global standing and is less than sanguine. A snippet:

Under Trump, the idea of U.S. leadership has indeed been remade — but from authority to domination, from persuasion to bullying, from the nurturing of alliances to the wrecking of them.

Follow the link for context.

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Denial Is Not Just a River in Egypt 0

It’s also how the Trump maladministration approaches U. S. History, but some people are fighting back for truth, justice, and the American way.

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Karen Karen-Like 0

Rick Strom finds himself sadly not taken aback by the racism and bigotry which, as far as I cant tell, is the beating heart of MAGA.

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Fly the Fiendly Skies 0

At Above the Law, Kathryn Rubino reports that Bill Barr finds that he has to wait in TSA lines just like everyone else. She goes on to say

And let’s be clear about how we got here, because there’s been a predictable attempt to muddy the waters. Republicans own this mess. Full stop. They’re the ones who empowered Trump’s personal police force — ICE — whose abuses helped trigger the standoff that led to this shutdown. They’re also the ones refusing to take up multiple Democratic proposals that would fund TSA and alleviate exactly this kind of crisis. The dysfunction isn’t some abstract inevitability; it’s a policy choice.

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ICEcapades of the Air, Reprise 0

My old Philly DL friend Noz thinks that Trump’s deploying ICE agents in airports may backfire have results that the deployer may not have anticipated.

Follow the link and decide whether you agree.

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War and the Mongers of War 0

Steve M. argues that the Trump maladministration’s war on Iran is all about the mean for the sake of mean. Here’s a bit of his article:

For the Republican voter base, the war doesn’t need a purpose. Owning the enemy is purpose enough. The GOP will never make its voters safer, healthier, more economically secure, or more able to obtain employment, but it will talk about enemies incessantly, and let the base revel in how it’s tormenting those enemies.

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Responsible Fiscals 0

Caption:  Your tax dollars at work.  Image:  Hour glass will money falling from the top into a fire labeled

Via Job’s Anger.

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Republican Family Values 0

Words fail me.

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The Injustice League of America 0

    It is right and proper to prosecute a person who violates a just law.
    It is wrong to persecute persons just for being who they are.
    Yet Trump maladministration spurns the first, embraces the second.
    This methinks is the very definition of the rule of flaw.
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American Stasi 0

Apparently, they do indeed want to use “indiscriminate force against persons exercising their freedom of speech.

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Gutting Out the Vote 0

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Via Job’s Anger.

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All the News that Fits 0

David discusses Donald Trump’s celebrating his efforts to suppress freedom of speech.

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American Exceptionalism 0

Richard French, in a letter to the editor of the Las Vegas Sun, makes a convincing case that, if such a thing ever were, it ain’t no more. He argues that, under the Trump maladministration,

. . . .the U.S. is retreating from the values it once claimed as its moral core.

I fear that he is correct. Follow the link for his reasoning.

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