Republican Thought Police 0
Just when you thought things couldn’t get more Orwellian, they up and do.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
In a longer article about some of the ways in which J. D. Vance tries to twist history, Yastreblyansky makes a telling observation: that, in attacking birthright citizenship, today’s Republican party, AKA the Party of the New Secesh, echoes the arguments of pre-civil war slaveholders.
The Golf Bull Lands in the Rough 0
Seth takes a closer look at why Donald Trump seems a bit grumpy after fleeing to Scotland to play golf, only to find himself confronted with questions about Jeffrey Epstein.
They’re Making a List and Checking it Twice . . . 0
. . . because they disapprove of how you’re living your life.
The EFF reports:
That’s what’s happening in Vero Beach, FL, where the Florida Attorney General’s office has subpoenaed a local restaurant, The Kilted Mermaid, demanding surveillance video, guest lists, reservation logs, and contracts of performers and other staff—all because the venue hosted an LGBTQ+ Pride event.
Details at the link.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
And another “responsible gun owner” feels privileged to discharge his portable phallus whilst proceeding along the nation’s highways.
Get Me Rewrite! 0
The Trump maladministration has rewritten Lady Liberty’s poem.
It now reads
- “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
And I will charge them a fee.”
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At the Austin Statesman, Hannah Strong hears a rhyme echoing across the sea from eight decades ago. She refers to the movie The Zone of Interest, which IMDB describes as
and asks
I commend her article to your attention.
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*Mark Twain.
Freedom of Suppress 0
Farron discusses Donald Trump’s efforts to suppress voices that disagree with him.
Suffer the Children 0
In Lawrence County, Tennessee, it’s now against the rules for students to miss school because they are sick.
Under this policy, when I had measles (it was before the measles vaccine, when I was in the fourth grade, not after RFK Jr.), I could have been “referred to” the court for being home sick with a fever, for Pete’s sake.
We are a society in regress.
Hollow Days 0
If Donald Trump truly wants to eliminate some federal holidays, LZ Granderson has some suggestions for him.
Signs of the Times 0
Steve M suggests a revision.