- This week’s note in Trumpian Alternative Facts comes from the Baltimore Sun as the White House justifies the suspension of noted journalist Jim Accosta with a heavily doctored video. Cheap move, even for this administration.
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors recounts how my President, eagerly anticipating a confrontation with that CNN news correspondent, instead got flustered, ended up losing his cool, and banned Accosta from the White House.
- Joe Hagstrom at MadMikesAmerica draws a line from the ancient war between Greece and Troy to the Trump attack on the American ideal.
- Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post looks past this week’s election counts-and-recounts to what we in the public must do now.
- Jonathan Bernstein notes that final results of this week’s voting are not yet in, but points out that it isn’t stopping my president or his party from making wild accusations about fraud.
- Yellow Dog at Blue in the Bluegrass examines conservative victories, looks at the evidence, and explains the secret ingredient in successful Republican campaigns.
- At The Onion, the Republican party in Georgia demands that, to protect the integrity of the ongoing election count, Democrat Stacey Abrams must step down as a candidate.
- Helen Philpot takes a turn at Margaret and Helen, with a review of this week’s election, including her favorite losers.
- The midterm election is either barely over, or still in process as votes are counted and defended, and Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger sees a clear ideal candidate for President.
- Infidel753 studies the political rage of “conservative white mostly-religious males who make up the Republican base” and discovers that most of the anger is not political.
- Dave Dubya draws a line between nationalism and actual patriotism.
- Vincent at A Wayfarer’s Notes begins with the surprisingly hard life of Johann Sebastian Bach, including his brief time in jail for daring to resign from his job, and winds into genuine generosity as an art.
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