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The Trump (absent) administration, in one devastating article
Not many of us can keep track of all the mediocrities who are fully dysfunctional in the Trump administration. Not many of us want to keep track of how Trump and his mediocrities have emptied the federal government of the … Continue reading
Posted in Koch Bros Final Solution to Democracy, Politics, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chad Wolf, Department of Homeland Security, federal government agencies, Food and Drug Administration, Internal Revenue Service, Jennifer Steinhauer, John Bolton, National Park Service, National Security Council, Pentagon, Robert Wilkie, Scott Gottlieb, Senator John Kennedy, Stephen M. Hahn, Steve Mnuchin, Tom Bossert, Treasury Department, Trump administration, Veterans Affairs, Zolan Kanno-Youngs
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Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a hero for our time
Remember when Sally Yates was fired for defying a president and news media figures immediately invoked Richard Nixon’s “Saturday night massacre?” I, too, thought of Nixon, for a moment. But then it was another man, a radiant embodiment of resistance … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, The Facts of Life
Tagged Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Austrian Hapsburg family, Bordeaux France in 1940, Border Control, Chaim Kruger, Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, John Kelly, Maurice Papon, Portugal Salazar government, Portuguese consulate in Bordeaux, Robert Montgomery, Salazar's Circular 14, Sally Yates, Saturday night massacre, Trump Executive Orders, Vichy government, Yad Vashem Righteous
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DOJ and DHS: America’s Maurice Papons
Source: Justice Department Seeks Dismissal of Lawsuits Seeking to Preserve DACA – The New York Times As the Trump administration and its perverse minions ramp up deportations of immigrants, I think–inevitably and inevitably with horror and rage–of Maurice Papon. Although … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, The Facts of Life
Tagged crimes against humanity, de Gaulle regime, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, deportations, Jeff Sessions, John Kelly, Maurice Papon, Nazis, Vichy government, war crimes
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