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1. about 10 hours ago on Prickly City

   Wallnau has decades of extreme RWNJ/Christian Nationalist public utterances which indicate, to me at least, insanity.

2. about 11 hours ago on Doonesbury

   That is a handle attached to the mechanism for opening/closing the stove exhaust vent. It prevents the escape of heat from the house in the winter when the stove is not in use.

3. 1 day ago on Prickly City

   Correctomundo. Sad.

4. 1 day ago on Get Fuzzy

   Love the drawing details in all four panels, and particularly in the first and the last.

5. 1 day ago on Prickly City

   Fernando demonstrably ingested a powerful mind-altering substance this morning, readers!

6. 1 day ago on Prickly City

   A lot of 2016 voters who cast ballots for anyone but Clinton or Trump, or voters who just stayed home, were not individuals who at all desired the current makeup of the United States Supreme Court.

   The members of this cohort are, in my opinion, not particularly astute. Nowhere is this better demonstrated than by their obliviousness to the fact that had Hilary Clinton become president that year instead of Donald Trump, the USSC would be majority progressive — and there would be ~ 200 fewer Federalist Society lower federal court appointees. This outcome of their presidential vote simply does not appear on the radar of a great many of this group.

7. 1 day ago on Rudy Park

   Trump’s maturity level has been stuck at the same point since his mommy and daddy got sufficiently fed up with his superior, defiant, know-it-all behavior to dispatch his adolescent a$$ to a military school for some rigid disciplinary (they fervently wished for) improvement.

   A tactic which — though somewhat sound in principle — failed spectacularly.

8. 1 day ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   ‘Straight White American Jesus’ is a podcast hosted by two university professors who were fundamentalist scriptural literalist preachers before abandoning faith and attaining degrees. They have 4 years of in-depth analysis of contemporary Christian nationalists and other far right sects. This morning their podcast was episode 1 of a new podcast by Dr. Leah Payne titled Spirit and Power.

   Leah and Sam (Kestenbaum – an award-winning journalist covering religion in America who writes widely for national magazines and newspapers, including Harper Magazine’s, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Rolling Stone) discuss some of the influential conservative charismatic media makers who are energizing the religious right: pastor Greg Locke, rabbi Jonathan Cahn, entrepreneur Clay Clark, worship leader Sean Feucht, and head of Charisma News, Stephen Strang. 

9. 1 day ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   sites . uw . edu / magastudy / demographics-group-affinities/

   Panel Study Of The MAGA Movement

   Rachel M. Blum, Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma

   Christopher Sebastian Parker, Professor, University of Washington

   ‘Who are MAGA supporters, and what do they believe in? In these figures, we elaborate on these questions. As the results make clear, they’re not a terribly diverse group: at least 60 percent of them are White, Christian and male. Further, around half are retired, over 65 years of age, and earn at least $50K per year. Finally, roughly 30 percent have at least a college degree. That MAGA supporters are older, Christian, men, more than half of whom are retired, comports with the now-familiar images of the Capitol riots. What may seem a bit surprising is that about half are middle-class by income, and almost 1/3 are middle-class by educational criteria. Apparently, these same images of the riot participants, ones portraying a mainly working-class crowd, were misleading.’

10. 1 day ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

    Putin has zero ambitions toward returning the government he heads to the 1917-1991 state controlled economy of Russia-USSR. He is, in fact, a serious backer-participant in the Russian oligarchical nationalist authoritarian government which emerged following the dissolution of the USSR in 1991.