Mike Johnson Is A Threat To America, Part Infinity
Mike Johnson, Republican, Speaker of the House of the United States of America, and second in line to the Presidency, on Tuesday led a group of dangerous red-tie sycophants to the New…
Words On Lessons For Mike Johnson
Abraham Lincoln. Warren G.Harding. Dwight D.Eisenhower. We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert…
Hate. America’s Fatal Disease
America today is overwhelmed by HATE and HATE will bring an end to ‘The Grand Experiment’. Yes, HATE has been an integral part of the American experiment from its beginning, bringing with…
Our Mother and The Future of All Things Living
“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children” First Nations proverb. The Planet is under severe assault; by climate changes, extreme rains and heat, dying…
International Workers Get A Day, And More…
Workers Around The World Celebrate May Day (more…)
The Pathetic Pathogen
Inside and Outside The Courtroom Fragile Little Manlet Reads Articles Praising Him Outside Courtroom From Crooks And Liars: The Twice-Impeached One stood outside the courtroom to read sections of praise-worthy articles.…
Psychopaths and Sycophants, Together Again
Republican Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas and the Islamic Republic of Iran are back in the news again; and not for good deeds, charitable contributions or for the overall betterment of the…
Mass Murder Still NOT Patriotic
A terrorist attack on 19 April 1995 at a Oklahoma City federal building killed 168 people including 19 children and over 850 were injured. The bomber Timothy McVeigh, a U.S. Army veteran,…
IS SCOTUS LISTENING TO THE ALARMS
The former President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump, lives in an otherworldly fantasy where he was King or at least Authoritarian Fuhrer while in office (2016-2020), which would…
Words On Freedom, Choices and Politics
Audre Lorde. Utah Phillips. Martin Luther King Jr. (more…)
Whatever… Ms Murkowski
Reports are circulating that Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican from Alaska, has said she “absolutely” will not vote for former President Donald Trump in the 2024 election. Also, according to CNN, the senator…
There’s No Cure For Stupid
…When This Guy Is Your Hero… You Are One Sick Little-Dick MotherFuc*er ••• Donald Trump’s dinner guest at Mar-a-Lago Nick Fuentes says that when the America First movement takes power, all non-Christians…
A Desperate Wannabe Is A Dangerous Wannabe
When A Wannabe Dictator Tells You He Will Be A Dictator On Day One BELIEVE HIM! The Assault On U.S. Democracy Is Not Over (more…)
Warning: Beware of False Prophets
Portraying Johnson as just a pious Christian causes the public to overlook the way he manipulates Christianity to exert power. Johnson has taught classes miseducating Americans about church-state separation and perpetuated the…
Stunning. Disheartening. Dangerous.
••• A Story in Words and Images A stunning report by Thor Benson, staff writer at CommonDreams.org, reveals an absolute threat to the future of U.S. Democracy. Safe to say the piece…
Hey Dems, Look, There’s A Hole In The Wall. Save US.
Take The Traitors At Their Word(s). Go At Them Hard, Or They Will Find A Way To Close That Hole. To Trump, Johnson and the rest of the Republican traitors and…
Joy Amidst The Chaos
No doubt the US is teetering on the edge of the abyss. No doubt the whole world seems to be following close behind; or, is it the other way around. Really, it…
Words On Double Consciousness
Harry Truman. Suzy Kassem. W.E.B. Du Bois. (more…)
Needed Today More Than Ever, In So Many Ways
Not Just A Song – Still A Call To Action Step Into It... (more…)
Yes, Crying Clowns Can Be Dangerous
On February 2, 1653, New Amsterdam became a city in North America. For those who don't know, the city was later renamed New York City. Anyway, little known about the city's 1653…
Words On Dangers To America
We Must Start Urgently Talking About The Dangers Of A Second Trump Presidency With Trump’s victory in New Hampshire, the battle lines are drawn for November. Unless something very weird happens,…
The Press Act. It’s A Good Thing
ACLU Cheers House Passage of the PRESS ACT The bill protects journalists and their sources from government overreach and censorship. Press Release: American Civil Liberties Union The House of Representatives voted to…
Damn, America, Come In Out Of The Rain
DoJ Releases Devastating Report On ‘Cascading Failures’ Of Uvalde > The Justice Department’s report is a damning 575-page catalogue of confusion, lack of courage and their deadly consequences. Full Report here (pdf)…
Answer: Obviously Not
Question: Have You No Shame ~ Sometimes, Somethings Just Make You Vomit A Little In Your Own Mouth ~ ~ After A While, Some People Get To Like The Taste and…
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Honours, All Days
His Words Continue To Shine A Bright Light On America ~~ “We must learn to live together as brothers or we will perish together as fools” ~ “Injustice anywhere is a threat…
Truth
Mother Earth Feeds The Spirit Take Advantage, Live At Peace With All Her Gifts ~ Reciprocity ~ (more…)
It’s Like Looking In A Mirror
Politics. Campaign Performance. Avoiding Truths. X/Twitter. TikTok. Instagram. Podcasts ABC - to - XYZ. News Media. Etc., Etc., Etc. ~~ News Media and Presidential Campaigns § The style of campaigning is symbolic…
Words On Politics and Freedom
Enchanted Gardens. False Promises. Immoral Flaws. Lewis. Malcolm X. Davis. Freedom is not a state; it is an act. It is not some enchanted garden perched high on a distant…
Emergency Call
Journalists in Ukraine Need Help
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Those who cover the frontlines need first aid kits, medical supplies, flak jackets, helmets. Those trapped in towns and cities under fire need safe passage, relocation and humanitarian assistance.
More at International Federation of Journalists.
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Journalists in Gaza need your help. Here’s how:
International Media Support (IMS), the Danish-based media development organisation, is collecting donations for:
- Food, clothes, blankets and other utilities for journalists and their families
- Safety equipment and gear for journalists, such as press vests, helmets, cell phones and cameras.
- Psychosocial support for journalists
- Ongoing support to keep as many media outlets as possible operating.
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THE TRACKER
Freedom of the Press Foundation
Court says First Amendment means less free speech
[WHAAAAT ?!?!?!?]
If it sounds backward to use the First Amendment to undermine a law meant to protect free speech, that’s because it is.
Yet that’s just what a federal court of appeals did in a recent decision on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act — the federal law that shields online services from legal liability for posts made by their users.
We explain on our website how the court’s nonsensical decision threatens online freedom of speech by journalists and everyone else.
Jobs & Events
Opportunity for Young Journalists
Rising D.C. reporters can apply for a yearlong reporting fellowship. The National Press Foundation is accepting applications for the 2025 Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellowship.
Fellows will learn more about the White House, the Pentagon, the Supreme Court, the Capitol and other key Washington institutions. They’ll review politics and policy with regulators, lawmakers, experts and the best reporters in the business.
To apply, submit two recent work samples, a letter of support from an editor or supervisor and a brief autobiography. Application Deadline is Dec. 2
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Color Of Change, in partnership with the National Education Association, invites you to watch “Educating for Equity: Brown v Board of Education 70 Years Later,” a short video featuring a range of young and older thought leaders talking about the groundbreaking case and the challenges facing our public education system today. Participants discuss what we need to do to protect education moving forward.
Issues
The Reading List
Lie Machines
How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives
by Philip N. Howard
Lie Machines is full of behind-the-scenes stories from the world’s biggest and most damagingly successful misinformation initiatives.
Howard, not only shows how these campaigns evolved from older propaganda operations but also exposes their new powers, gives us insight into their effectiveness, and explains how to shut them down. Howard is a sociologist and communication researcher who studies the impact of information technologies on democracy and social inequality. Book Here:
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The ReMindEr
Speakables
The New Normal? ~ The first tool of authoritarian regimes is always informational control—both in the gathering of information on the public through surveillance and the filtration of information to the public through owned media. In its early days, the Internet seemed to pose a challenge to authoritarian regimes, but with the advent of social media, we are watching the construction of architectures that fulfill the needs of every authoritarian regime: surveillance and information control. Authoritarian movements are possible only when the general public becomes habituated to—and numbed by—a new normal. Christopher Wylie.
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What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. ‘What to a slave is the 4th of July’. 1852. Frederick Douglass.
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The First ~ Jessie Tarbox Beals (1870 – 1942)
The first published female photo-journalist in the United States and the first female night photographer. She is best known for her freelance news photographs, particularly of the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, and portraits of places such as Bohemian Greenwich Village. Her trademarks were her self-described “ability to hustle” and her tenacity in overcoming gender barriers in her profession.
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Repeat After Me
And it gets you elected
