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Suffer the Children 0

As we know, that’s Republican policy. Here’s more evidence: Farron looks at the potential effects of Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” on America’s children.

Read the report that Farron discusses.

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This New Gilded Age 0

Donald Trump, flanked by Mike Johnson, says,

Click for the original image.

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The Storms This Time 0

Michael in Norfolk explains why, despite what Elon Musk and his minions may think, having a properly-funded Weather Bureau (to use the phrase that was common when I was a young ‘un) is a good thing.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Apparently, she wanted her politeness to go viral . . . .

There, police said the 14-year-old girl was found unconscious and not breathing, suffering from a gunshot wound. She later died from her injuries.

MPD said the girl was inside an apartment handling a gun while filming a video for social media when the gun went off, striking her in the torso.

“Social” media is a quicksand, and our society is sinking rapidly.

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Courting Disaster 0

Writing at the Washington Monthly, George Thomas expresses–er–concerns that we cannot rely on the Supreme Supremacist Court to check Donald Trump’s attempts to roll back the clock to the 1950s (or, for that matter, the 1850s, which methinks is where his heart am longin’ to go).

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QOTD 0

Ann Baker, in the voice of Corliss Archer, speaking about her boyfriend Dexter:

Lots of times in the school lunchroom we just look in each other’s eyes and forget to eat. And, golly, that’s really love when two people just look at each other and lose their appetites.

Meet Corliss Archer is a very early TV sitcom, based on an even earlier radio sitcom. It is an absolute hoot.

I’m watching it on Tubi.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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A Trait in Common 0

Title:  Bad Guys Who Wear Masks.  Image:  Burglar.  Executioner.  Klansman.  Bandit.  Jason.  ICE.

Via Job’s Anger.

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Our Society Is in Decay 0

Exhibit One: Florida Man.

Afterthought:

I don’t think it’s much of a stretch to posit that today’s Republican Party has abandoned the concept of “promoting the general welfare.”

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

In a polite society, disagreements are to be resolved with politeness, are they not?

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Constitutional Frights 0

Sam and the crew discuss the Trump administration’s desire to suspend habeus corpus, among other Constitutional Rights, and their apparent ignorance of what the Constitution actually says.

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

Via the Charlotte Observer, the Los Angeles Times’s Karen Musalo hears a rhyme of refugees betrayed a long time ago.

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*Mark Twain.

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Germy Warfare 0

At Psychology Today Blogs, Jay K. Varma, physician and former staffer at the CDC, writes of the increasing number of persons who are rejecting science in favor of voluntary ignorance. He calls the “Germ Deniers.” Here’s how he describes them:

Germ Deniers represent a spectrum of individuals who minimize or reject the well-established role of microbes in causing disease.

While some extremists outright deny that germs cause illness, most acknowledge their existence but downplay their importance. Some argue that individual factors are the primary problem. A person only gets sick from a microbe because their immune system is weak because of malnutrition or other lifestyle factors. Others argue that other external factors are the “real” causes of most diseases, such as microplastics, food dyes, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, mercury, and electromagnetic radiation.

He goes on to obliterate their arguments and explain the danger they pose to both public health and the public’s health.

In the light of what’s happening to medical research under the Trump maladministration, I find his article a timely and alarming read.

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QOTD 0

Bernard Malamud:

If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Competent legal advisor? Not according to this judge.

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The Stumper 0

Title:  Game Show for Citizenship.  Image:  Immigrants on a

Image via Job’s Anger.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

News item:

The Department of Homeland Security is reportedly reviewing a pitch for a reality TV show in which immigrants compete for the chance to fast-track their path to U.S. citizenship.

Even if there’s little or no truth to this report, that persons are willing to believe it shows the extent that mean for the sake of mean has become an accepted Republican family value.

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Suffer the Children 0

One more time, that’s not scripture.

That’s Republican policy.

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The Grift of Graft 0

At the Detroit Free Press, Devin Scillian follows the money all the way to Qatar.

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