- This week’s note in Trumpian ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from The Baltimore Sun with the lie of the week. The Trump policy of putting little kids in cages was begun by Obama. Trump is the hero trying to end the Obama practice.
- Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post puts the focus on my President’s behavioral and policy oddities.
- News Corpse compares the active love fest between WikiLeaks and then candidate Donald Trump in 2016, then contrasts that with the very new Trump after the arrest of Julian Assange: I know nothing about WikiLeaks, it’s not my thing.
- Frances Langum asks why the Trump inaugural ticket guy gets no jail time, and concludes it’s not good news for Trump.
- At the beginning, “Department of Homeland Security” sounded kind of Teutonic to me. At least it wasn’t called the Department of Fatherland Protection.
Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged observes that the Department of Homeland Security seems to have changed direction. The unit tasked with tracking domestic threats of terrorism is being disbanded – tracking known as “Homeland Security.” Resources are instead flowing to locking little kids in desert cages to keep them away from their parents.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger brings us a five second glimpse at the agony of departing DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.
- At The Moderate Voice, scholar Anthony W. Fontes spends time on the ground with migrants and reports on why they flee to the US.
- Tommy Christopher watches as Republican Congressional Representative Thomas Massie (KY) attacks John Kerry for possessing a fake science degree. Apparently the Congressman was shocked to discover the little known fact that Political Science is not really science. Tommy quotes an incredulous Kerry: “Are you serious? I mean, is this really a serious happening here?”
Actually, the word “Science” in the name of Kerry’s degree is like “Honorable” in front of Thomas Massie’s name.
Doesn’t mean a thing.
- PZ Myers explains a little of the wonder of an actual image of a black hole. Lot of excitement centers on a primary team leader of the imaging project, Katie Bouman. And, of course, there are attacks by what Myers justifiably calls internet trolls. Some on the right are upset at accounts that, that, that a woman is associated with an important development in science. There turns out to be a great answer to those attacks.
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