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The Cloak of the Crypto Con 0

In the midst of a longer article about how he is somewhat taken aback by the loyalty of the Trumpettes in the face of Donald Trump’s actions, Devin Scillian notes how Trump is profiting from the crypto con:

I’ve also been grinding o? a molar over the launch of the Donald Trump meme coin cryptocurrency. It’s a clear money grab, a way of not only making money o? the presidency but, in the thinking of some of us, profiteering from the Ponzi scheme that continues to define crypto. (Fortune estimates that while thousands of investors lost $2 billion dollars in the rollout, the Trump family raked in $100 million in transaction fees.) Even worse, thanks to crypto’s invisibility cloak, there is no way to know who is pouring Russian rubles and Chinese yuan into the Trump coffers.

The whole article is worth a read.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

More neighborly politeness.

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QOTD 0

Alfred Nobel:

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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The Rule of Lawless 0

GOP Elephant says to Donald Trump,

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Play by the rules? You must be kidding.

Finish reading this post »

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Self-politeness is the politest kind.

While he was headed into the (Wichita, Kansas–ed.) YMCA building, he reached into his bag and grabbed his gun accidentally, causing it to go off. He received a gunshot wound to the leg and was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Musical NotesGuns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.

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Vaccine Nation 0

Uncle Sam, his body covered in a rash labeled

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Afterthought:

I had both kinds of measles when I was in elementary school. I can’t say they were terrible agony–certainly not any worse than the three cases of strep throat I had in my 20s–but they were not fun.

Why any sentient parents would choose to put their children at risk for that when it’s preventable is beyond me.

Doing so is cruel.

I do not think it an exaggeration to say that the anti-vax community promotes cruelty. Cruelty due to willful ignorance is still cruelty.

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What’s in a Word? 0

Sometimes, not much. For example:

Ronald Greenberg argues that the word “conservative” no longer applies to today’s Republican Party. He finds aanother term more appropriate.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Michael in Norfolk gives away the game plan.

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QOTD 0

Cathy Ladman:

All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.

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And Now for a Musical Interlude 0

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The Revisionist 0

Caption:  If Trump were president in 1939.  Image:  Trump at a table wiht hIrohito, Mussolini, Hitler, and Stalin.  Trump says,

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Vaccine Nation 0

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All the News that Fits 0

At The Philadelphia Inquirer, Will Bunch covers Donald Trump’s efforts to curtail freedom of the press, from banning the AP from Air Force One for not using the Trumpian term, “Gulf of America,” to threatening local news outlets with reprisals if they dare to (gasp!) report breaking news. In his article, Bunch points that this assault on the Constitution has been brewing for some time.

The decimation of press freedom is made possible by the record-low level of public trust in the media — some of it earned, but much of it driven by a relentless right-wing propaganda campaign that started in 1969 with Spiro Agnew and has never stopped. That unpopularity makes it easy for King Trump to divide and conquer.

I commend the entire article to your attention.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another “responsible gun owner.”

Yet another improperly stored gun.

Yet another child in the hospital.

Yet another day in NRA Paradise.

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Left Unsaid 0

Atrios has the rest of the story.

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DOGE Bull 0

Evidence mounts that Elon Musk’s DOGE has no idea how government works, it also doesn’t know what it’s doing.

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QOTD 0

Morgan Freeman:

The search for truth is never over and the survival of truth is never assured. We have to choose – do we stand with those who wish to suppress the truth or stand with those who seek it.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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