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Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0

Electro-Trumpled in blue.

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The Climates They Are a-Changing 0

Methinks this has some Bering on the climate news.

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Nor Any Drop To Drink 0

Image of glass of water.  Caption:  Is the glass half-empty or half-full?  A better question might be:  Was the glass of water poured before or after the EPS scaled back federal protection of water bodies to 1986 standards?

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Suffer the Children 0

Esther Cepeda marvels at the Trump administration’s institutionalization of cruelty.

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The Dom and His Subs 0

Joel Connelly marvels at the meekness.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Just another day in NRA Paradise.

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QOTD 0

Friedrich Engels:

Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.

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And Now for a Musical Interlude 0

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Shallowfake 0

John Gohlke.

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Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0

A campus Trumpling.

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Quaff of Queasy 0

Uncle Sam sips cup of water from faucet labeled

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The Sharpiest Mind in the Room 0

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

At The American Scholar, Elizabeth D. Samet takes a deep look at the history and meaning of the South’s Confederate monuments and the recent raising of a monument to Ulysses S. Grant at West Point. An excerpt:

The late-19th-century national reconciliation movement—of which Grant’s own coffin, accompanied by two federal and two Confederate pallbearers, proved a potent symbol—continues to shape the way many Americans understand the Civil War today. Grant did not share this understanding. Declaring in his Personal Memoirs that slavery was the cause of the war, he also judged that cause “one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse.”

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Clear and Present . . . . 0

Image:  Assault rifle and vape tube.   Caption:  Deemed deadly.   Guess which one was immediate banned.

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QOTD 0

Jerome Frank:

The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.

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Bellweather 0

Martin Longman wonders whether the North Carolina Republican Party presages the future of the national Republican Party.

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This Can’t Be Good 0

It’s raining Styrofoam in Charlotte, N. C.

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Just the Vaxx, Ma’am 0

At The Sacramento Bee, Mike Madrid argues that the anti-vaxx movement is a symptom of the unraveling of the social contract. Here’s a snippet; follow the link for the rest.

The “freedom” the anti-vaccine movement demands is not the garden variety Libertarian notion of individual rights. Instead, it wants a hall pass from the tacit social contract needed to create a civilized society.Our freedoms stop where harm to others begins. We do not get to drive on the wrong side of the road just because we feel we have a right to do so. There are public health consequences to all of our actions, but the anti-vaccine ideology selfishly dismisses the social contract.

This self-selection by anti-vaccine “warriors,” as they call themselves, is the manifestation of a growing self-righteous ideology that believes we have no obligation for the health or well-being of each other. This emerging attitude is precisely the opposite sense of community that drove millions of Americans to be vaccinated in the early days of immunization efforts against polio.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Secesh sues history.

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It’s All about the Algorithm 0

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