Politics of Hate category archive
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Writing at The Sacramento Bee, Jonathan van Harmelen hears a rhyme. Here’s one brief couplet (emphasis added):
Follow the link for the rest of the verses.
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*Mark Twain.
American Stasi 0
Apparently, if ICE arrests the wrong persons because of mistaken identity, they just get to keep them anyway, because they can.
Welcome to the rule of lawless.
Or Not To Reevaluate? 0
My old Philly DL friend Noz thinks he has figured out why the Trump maladministration is so determined to end SNAP benefits.
American Stasi 0
A federal judge calls out the head of the Trump administration’s military occupation of presence in Chicago for lying in court.
Detail at the link.
And, more news of the American Stasi . . . .
Foxy Shady 0
Fox News falls for racist AI slop.
Why am I not surprised that Fox went for this like a dog for a milk bone?
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Michael in Norfolk decodes de code:
Facebook Frolics 0
Retired police officer gets thrown in jail for posting a meme on the Zuckerborg.
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
Undone Process, the Rule of Lawless Dept. 0
At Above the Law, Joe Patrice explains how the Trump maladministration is punishing lawyers for representing clients that it dislikes.
Republican Thought Police 0
Mary Trump discusses the Trump maladministration’s attempt to you-will-pardon-the-expression whitewash America’s history. She argues that
Donald Trump wants to make history class white again. His regime continues to attack our education system and limit discussions on race, gender, colonialism, AND the Constitution. Especially the limits it outlines on executive power.
Stray Question 0
Am I the only persons who sees not a little irony–if that’s a strong enough term–in Donald Trump’s sudden embrace of establishmentariarism?
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At AL.com, Kyle Whitmire looks at Donald Trump’s decision to demolish of the East Wing of the White House (without, natch, getting permission, although he does not own the White House) and hears a rhyme.
Follow the link for his citation of the evidence.
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*Mark Twain.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Ronald Brownstein hears a rhyme from the past in the actions of today’s Supreme Supremacist Court. Here’s a snippet from his article:
But, starting in the 1870s, the conservative Supreme Court of that era unraveled those protections in rulings that culminated in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision that upheld “separate but equal” Jim Crow segregation for nearly the next 70 years.
Today’s Supreme Court majority has not matched that nadir. But the conservative majority on the modern court has steadily retrenched the landmark civil rights protections enacted during the 1960s — a period that historians often describe as the nation’s Second Reconstruction.