All the News that Fits 0
Driftglass looks back at the history of hate radio and reminds us that dis coarse discourse did not get so coarse by accident.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another “responsible gun owner.”
Another exposed portable phallus.
Another child in another hospital.
Another day in the NRA’s Garden of Bleedin’.
The Voter Fraud Fraudster 0
Susan Estrich debunks Trump’s bunk about the California vote count.
All the News that Fits 0
Farron explains why Walter Cronkite would be ashaned of what his network has become. (Warning: Mild language.)
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
In Republican world, if you don’t talk about history, it therefore isn’t.
This is the same sort of reasoning that white Southerners used to turn the Civil War, started by seceding states sseking to secure slavery, into the Lost Cause(TM), the notion that the poor persecuted little seceded states were simply struggling to protect their Southern Way of Life(TM).
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*Mark Twain.
Phoning It in . . . 0
. . . to a bad actor.
The Art of the Con 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Tom Harper follows the money.
A Postal Puzzle 0
Is Alabame Senator Tommy Tuberville actually a Florida man? Inquiring minds want to know.
Read the article by Kyle Whitmire that Farron references.
Republican Thought Police 0
It appears that the Trump maladministration is trying a new tactic so as to supporess academic freedom and control curricula. A snippet:
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The shift comes after federal judges blocked Trump’s administration from making crippling cuts at Harvard and the University of California, Los Angeles. It also follows a mass exodus in civil rights lawyers who traditionally guide investigations against universities. Still, Trump hasn’t backed down from his campaign to end what he calls “wokeness” run amok in academia.