Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Michael in Norfolk decodes de code. A snippet:
America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the myth of racial superiority fabricated to justify it continue to take their toll.
Occupied Territory 0
David runs the numbers that show that Trump’s military occupation of Washington, D. C., is backfiring, even as Trump continues to lie about it.
Afterthought:
I wonder. Does Trump even know when he’s lying, or does he just believe what he believes because he believes it?
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Once again, a “responsible gun owners” has taken a child’s life while playing with his portable phallus.
We are a broken society of stupid.
The Rule of Lawless 0
Yastreblyansky reports that a lot of people seem to be resigning themselves from it.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Via Above the Law, Techdirt hears something that sounds a lot like “McCarthyism.”
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*Mark Twain.
Occupying Army 0
Thom sees an ominous precedent for the Trump maladministration’s push for military occupation of American cities. (Warning: Short commercial at about the 1:30 mark.)
Republican Thought Police 0
At the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Gene Collier makes a strong case that the Republican thought police are coming for the U. S. Military. A snippet (emphasis added):
Facebook Frolics 0
The Zuckerborg’s AI is involuntarily assimilating celebrities without their permission.
Words fail me.
The Archtype 0
Jonathan Alter offers an alternative angle:
Alter may be onto something. Hitler and Mussolini had ideologies. Warped and cruel ideologies, but ideologies non the less.
Avarice, vengefulness, and racism do not in and of themselves constitute an ideology.
But it’s difference without a distinction to his victims.
Follow the link and see what you think of his reasoning.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Another tale of mean for the sake of mean.
Suffer the Children 0
As we know, that’s a Republican family value, even as they vociferously claim to be “pro-life.”
Farron runs the numbers that put the lie to that claim.