- This week’s note in Trumpian ‘Alternative Facts’ comes from Foreign Policy Magazine, running through a half dozen false stories about Mexico.
- Yellow Dog at Blue in the Bluegrass marks the 100th anniversary of the NAACP Silent Protest Parade in reaction to open mass attacks by white supremacists on black residents during the summer of 1917.
- At The Intersection of Madness and Reality, Rippa thinks the new HBO show Confederate, presenting how America would look if the Confederacy had won the Civil War, is a great idea.
- @bjork55 at Bjork Report suggests the President’s only remaining option is to spark a civil war of sorts fueled by white resentment. The antidote? Massive get‑out‑the‑vote.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz notices a common theme in Republican legislative strategy. They have dedicated themselves to repealing the legacy of strong, intelligent, popular, black man and takes a guess on which of those attributes is the obvious motivation. I don’t think the pastor’s point is that those aggressively attacking health care are motivated by Obama being intelligent.
- Infidel753 beats bigots at the wordgames they sometimes play. For example, with the word “bigot”.
- Stephan Miller’s White House press conference vocabulary got a lot of folks curious. tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors does a little digging and finds why a sub-section of white racists regard “cosmopolitan” as an insult.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger notices a new asterisk added to Emma Lazarus’ poem on the Statue of Liberty.
- Oh for crying out loud. Scaramucci was fired before he started. In the name of simple humanity, do we have to surrender to our juvenile side and kick a guy when he’s down? Well… what the hell, lets! Frances Langum has a few cartoons that the New Yorker ought to have published and one that was.
- The Onion features our President’s new Chief of Staff, John Kelly, as he roots out Priebus sympathizers hiding in White House tunnels.
- In case you want to know what new agitprop Putin is ordering up for us to read, Iron Knee at Political Irony has discovered a site that tracks Twitter accounts linked to Russian influence activities online.
- Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post explores how to restore Democratic majorities in Congress.
- Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara at Principled Perspectives is dedicated to fighting for freedom, which he defines, at least in part, as a fight to repeal anti-discrimination laws.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit celebrates a criminal conviction quite separate from the evil that the perpetrator committed. Poetic justice is not really justice, but it does provide some comfort. Hear that, OJ?
- John Scalzi at Whatever reviews research of robots from long, long ago.
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Good and merciful Lord help us all! Now Pastor Pavlovitz is telling us that we are racist if we don’t support President Obama’s signature legislative coup of the ACA.
That is a golden oldie for sure. If you don’t support Obama and his agenda, it must be because he is a black man. It certainly cannot be because you disagree with him on policy.