A Vance Notice: Don’t Say He Didn’t Warn You 0
At Populist.com, Kaili Joy Gray quotes what J. D. Vance has said about Donald Trump.
No excerpt or summary will do it justice.
Just go read it.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Lawrence O’Donnell looks at news media coverage of the Trump campaign and argues that “it’s 2016 all over again.”
Via C&L.
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*Mark Twain.
A Questioning of Identity, Reprise 0
Rebecca Watson takes a long look at the ginned up who-shot-john about Algerian boxer Imane Khelif. Here’s quote:
So know this: witch hunts don’t just kill witches. I mean, they don’t kill any witches but you take my point: a witch hunt is a witch hunt because it finds witches wherever it can, and a trans hunt will do the same.
Or you can read the transcript.
Dialog with the Deity 0
At the Tampa Bay Times, Daniel Ruth has questions for the Creator.
QOTD 0
Henry Fountain Ashurst:
Afterthought:
Methinks these words ipso facto disqualify many current Senators.
Break Time (Updated) 0
Braving the remnants of Hurricane Debby to drink liberally.
Addendum:
Debby went easy on us. We got some wind and sprinkles and I drove through one rain squall on my way to DL, but the worst of it passed west of here, where they got tornado warnings.
The Lake Effect 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini thinks that the Lake may running drying up.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Sam and the crew debunk the racist lies that Republicans, who are citizens of this “nation of immigrants,” are using to demonize immigrants.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another case of self-politeness . . .
The man in his 50s or 60s was carrying his gun and trash at about 6 a.m. Tuesday, according to a preliminary San Antonio police report. The gun discharged when the man slipped in a wet area.
. . . another casualty of the confluence of guns and stupid.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Now comes James D. Zirin, writing at the Washington Monthly, who hears a rhyme.
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*Mark Twain.
All the News that Fits 0
I submit that this article from Psychology Today Blogs, though it’s not primarily about news or even politics, offers some useful pointers for dealing with the right-wing media manipulators apparatus.
Republican Family Values 0
Farron uses J. D. Vances’s wife’s interview with Fox News as a starting point to delineate the duplicity of the claim that Republicans somehow support families.
