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QOTD 0

Hy Averback:

Life is a dangerous thing. Very few of us get out of it alive.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Emoluments 0

The editorial board of The Philadelphia Inquirer follows the money. They suggest that

While Trump feeds the masses bread and circuses, he is laughing all the way to the bank.

Follow the link for an inventory of the illicit income.

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Republican Thought Police 0

It looks as if things didn’t go so well for the Republican thought police in the recent school board elections in Texas.

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The Dolly Parting 0

Seth takes a closer look at Donald Trump’s becoming obsessed with the idea that children only need one or two dolls as a response to his tariffs leading to higher costs and shortages.

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The Christmas Grift 0

Caption:  Christmas 2025.  Little holding a talking Trump doll.  She says,

Click to view the original image.

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

One woman’s story.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another “responsible gun owner” exposes his portable phallus to children.

Investigators determined the children had gotten up early and found an unsecured firearm in the kitchen. While handling the gun, one of the children accidentally shot the 3-year-old, according to police.

Thus passeth another day in NRA Paradise.

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Maureen O’Hara:

There is nothing worse than having your personal problems become somebody else’s entertainment.

I wonder what she would say about “social” media.

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A Tune for the Times 0

(Warning: Short commercial at about the one minute mark.)

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The Rule of Lawless 0

The Pittsburgh-Post Gazette’s Gene Collier warns of some arresting developments.

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This New Gilded Age 0

Thom argues that Donald Trump’s it’s-absurd-to-call-them “policies” will bring back sweatshops.

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Suffer the Children 0

That’s not scriptture. That’s a Republican family value.

Child playing with alphabet blocks that spell out

Click for the original image and the artist’s commentary.

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Mad at Scientists 0

Rebecca Watson looks at the Republican war on science.

Or you can read the transcript.

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Fly the Fiendly Skies 0

They get fiendlier every day.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Another “responsible gun owner.”

Another improperly secured gun.

Another child in the hospital.

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QOTD 0

Daniel Ellsberg:

If monarchy is corrupting – and it is – wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

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Ad-Speak 0

Apparently, a portable drinking cup is now a “leak-proof hydration solution.”

(No, I can’t remember the specific product in that commercial. I wish I could, so I could make sure never to give them my money.)

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Tit for Tat 0

At Above the Law, Mark Hermann imagines what a left-leaning “Project 2025” (he calls it “Project 2029”) might look like. A snippet:

If Trump can eliminate Harvard’s tax-exempt status, then a vindictive Project 2029 should propose eliminating the tax-exempt status of organizations that lean to the right. The Heritage Foundation, Hillsdale College, the Family Research Council, and the like would be good places to start. Let’s see how they do without tax exemptions. Load that idea into Project 2029. Fair is fair, right?

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If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0

At the Bangor Daily News, Matthew Diana highlights the hypocrisy.

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