Republican Thought Police 0
At SFgate, a report of the purging of the history of the Blackfeet people at Glacier National Park contains this nugget (emphasis added);
Methinks an edit is called for. Methinks this phrasing more accurately describes what’s going on here.
- They want to “restore truth and sanity to American history” as long as the truth does not “disparage white, racist Americans past or living.”
The Bad Bunny Hop, Reprise 0
Sam and the crew dissect what MAGA’s furor over Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl tells us about the culture war mongers.
This New Gilded Age . . . 0
. . . and Michael in Norfolk thinks he knows who the robber barons are.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Promoting passivity? At Psychology Today Blogs, John Nosta posits that the risk of AI “isn’t machine thought, but emergent passivity in us.”
QOTD 0
John Nettles, in the voice of DCI Tom Barnaby:
Now that answers about a dozen questions. If only I knew what they were.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
The Rule of Lawless Meets a Notion of Immigrants 0
The EFF reports that the Trump maladministration wants to track those who disagree with its tactics. A snippet:
These subpoenas are unlawful, and the government knows it. When a handful of users challenged a few of them in court with the help of ACLU affiliates in Northern California and Pennsylvania, DHS withdrew them rather than waiting for a decision.
These subpoenas are unlawful, and the government knows it.
Smoot-Hawley Redux 0
Farron discusses how much Trump’s tariffs are costing American consumers.
I think those folks who claim that Donald Trump truly doesn’t understand how tariffs work may be onto something.
Words Have Meanings, American Stasi Dept. 0
At Above the Law, Jonathan Wolf reports that :ICE “kidnapped” some of the staff of his favorite burrito shop. Later on in the article, he explains his use fo that term (emphasis added):
The color of someone’s skin or the fact that they speak English with an accent does not amount to probable cause.
Republican Thought Police, Still Rising Again after All These Years Dept. 0
It’s no jump to claim that the Trump maladministration wants to erase history that puts the lie to their prejudices.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Once again, politeness goes to for the dogs.
A Tune for the Times 0
(Warning: Minute and a half long promo at about the one minute mark. Mild language.)
The Rule of Lawless 0
The Trump maladministration’s attempt to indict Congresspersons for reminding military personnel that their oaths of allegiance do not require them to break the law didn’t go over well with the grand jury.
Hunt Clubs 0
Thom has seen this before. A snippet:
Every modern society that normalizes hunts of the poor, the dark-skinned, the undocumented, or the politically inconvenient eventually discovers that the culturally acceptable definition of undesirable keeps expanding.
Republican Thought Police 0
Sen. Marsha Blackburn wants to know how Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson had the unmitigated gall to attend that subversive treasonous Grammies awards ceremony.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
At Psycnology Today Blogs, Sebastien Montel why persons will say things on the inner webs that they would never consider saying to someone face-to-face. Given the state of dis coarse discourse, I think his article is quite timely and well worth a read.
Here’s one factor he mentions: