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Finding Gravity: How the news media privileges dangerous and hateful Trump-Vance lies. Alicublog: Roy Edroso breaks it down. The Psy of Life: Support for Trump, and cognitive biases. Letters from an American: Thoughts from political historian Heather Cox Richardson. This Modern World: The undecided voter. Crooked Timber: An appreciation of Patrick O'Brian as a conservative writer. This installment by Batocchio.

Gov. Ron DeSantis suggested he is entirely willing to throw out the will of Florida voters again if two state attorneys he previously removed from office are voted back in. You may recall that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis removed two democratically-elected state attorneys, Monique Worrell and Andrew Warren, claiming they were two “radical left-wing district attorneys” who “wouldn’t do their job.” In reality, DeSantis quietly conspired with local sheriffs to tarnish the prosecutors’ reputations, “turning local cops against the state attorneys they’re supposed to partner with and trust,” The Daily Beast reported last year. As C&L’s Susie Madrak pointed out, Worrell was about to crack down on crooked cops. Now both Worrell and Warren are running to reclaim their old jobs.

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Double standards, anyone?

On a bike ride, I had a "field of dreams" moment, where I started thinking about monuments to build for the 50th anniversary of the moon landing.

PBS put together 10 hour long episodes for its documentary on the history rock. I will give it credit that it didn't whitewash the racism that was attached to its history like everything else in America at that time. LA Times: “It seemed like on Monday there was no rock ‘n’ roll,” says Robbie Robertson, recalling the early ‘50s in the first episode of “Rock & Roll,” a 10-hour PBS documentary series.