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Cicero:

Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.

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Dolly Parting, Reprise 0

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Intellectually enhancing? If you buy that, I got a bridge in Brooklyn that’s for sale.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

Lady Liberty atop her pedestal which reads

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Vaccine Nation on the Disinformation Superhighway 0

In an article at AL.com, Nicole K. Reh, who is on the path to earning a medical degree, writes about how “social” media is endangering persons’ health; she focuses on the recent measles outbreaks and the anti-VAXX lies that have fueled them.

One interesting frightening statistic that she cites particularly caught my eye:

A 2024 Stanford study found that 49% of TikTok health videos were inaccurate, and 14% were potentially harmful.

The entire piece is worth a read, and, remember, “social” media isn’t.

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A Notion of Immigrants Meets the Rule of Lawless 0

Shorter Steven Miller: Constitutional rights? We don’t care about no Constitutional rights.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another “responsible gun owner” performs a random act of politeness.

We are a broken society.

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An Ode to Greased Palms 0

QOTD 0

Thomas Babington Macaulay:

The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.

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And Now for a Musical Interlude 0

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“The Response Generator” 0

Yastreblyansky parses the pattern in the president’s prattle.

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The Crypto Gang 0

Title:  The Trump Gang--Eric, Don Jr., and Jared.  Image:  The Trump gang as wild west outlaws robbing a stage coach driven by Uncle Sam, who says to them,

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Also, speaking of the crypto con . . . .

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A Woke Pope? 0

Thom explains why the Trumpettes don’t like the new Pope.

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Republican Thought Police 0

The Trump maladministration seems to have decided that it would be a darned shame if members of our military had access to ideas that said maladministration wishes to suppress.

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The Sword of Dummycles 0

It turns out that the Force wasn’t actually with him.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Politeness gain becomes child’s play.

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QOTD 0

Oscar Wilde:

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

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A Tune for the Times 0

(Warning: Mild language.)

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The Voter Fraud Fraudsters 0

At the Charlotte Observer, Gene Nichol lists four lessons learned from the thwarting of the recent attempt by North Carolina Republicans to steal the election of a justice of the N. C. State Supreme Court through bogus charges of voter fraud.

But it seems that the voter fraud fraudsters just won’t give up.

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DOGE Bull and the Rule of Lawless 0

At the Idaho State Journal, Jim Jones explains why he is concerned how Elon Musk’s DOGE has been sweeping up data from federal agencies in violation of laws designed to protect the privacy of citizens’ day. Methinks he raises legitmate concerns. Here’s a couple of snippets from his piece:

Whenever Musk’s foraging through private government data is publicly reported, Trump officials write it off as just trying to ensure that undocumented immigrants are not receiving improper government benefits. There is no credible evidence to support the contention that there is significant fraud in benefit systems. The White House has also admitted that federal databases are being merged in order to track down and deport immigrants.

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There is great concern that the targeting of migrants with the powerful master database could be a test run for using that system against U.S. citizens who oppose Trump policies.

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