Fair To Compare?
~ Trump Indicted For Attempted Coup ~ Trying To Overturn Presidential Election Results ~ (more…)
Senator Coal Baron
“The fossil fuel industry and their never ending profit margin, do not need yet another advocate. The American people, facing deadly heat, floods, and air quality do. Senator Manchin needs to prove…
Contrasting Views of America
The NATO Summit, Five Years After the US Was Embarrassed in Front of The Whole World The lines built steadily in the hours before Biden was set to take the stage at…
America, A Day
Lafayette. Obama. Roosevelt. Colbert. The happiness of America is intimately connected with the happiness of all mankind; she is destined to become the safe and venerable asylum of virtue, of honesty,…
US Top Court – Maybe Not So Supreme
"Every federal judge [in the United States of America] is bound to an ethics code requiring them to avoid behavior that so much as looks improper, except for Supreme Court justices. Chief…
Healthcare, A Human Right
It was one year ago when (just) six conservative Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court took away the healthcare rights of all of the nation's women and girls. The following article in…
Ranting in All CAPS; A Familiar Scam
“They want to take away my FREEDOM” Former President Donald Trump responded with fury Tuesday after he was arraigned on dozens of charges over his handling of classified documents and his alleged…
Small Nooks, New World, The Big Bamboozle
Marcus Aurelius. Sarah Vowell. Carl Sagan. Casting aside other things, hold to the precious few; and besides bear in mind that every man lives only the present, which is an indivisible…
A First in U.S. History
The Indictment of a former President of the United States of America. Should the nation be celebrating this first? Only if We The People believe in the constitutional principles of U.S. justice;…
All True, Kinda…
King. Eisenhower. Mencken. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. Martin…
American History; Yesterday Is Our Today
Nixon. Berlet/Lyons. Nichols. The knock on the door in the summer of 1995 surprised the Rev. James Carter. He wasn’t expecting company. It was a Sunday evening, and he’d planned to…
Memorial Day 2023. A Salute
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Press Freedom 2023: US Down, Again
The Once Bright Light On The Hill Continues To Dim From the annual index by Reporters Without Borders: 2023 World Press Freedom Index – journalism threatened by fake content industry The 21st…
Lies, Tapes, and Cowardice
A Day In The Life of U.S. Senator Ted Cruz Hear Ted Cruz caught on tape plotting ‘step two’ of Jan. 6 Coup What we know about Ted Cruz and Fox…
Decisions. Decisions. GOP Choice, Charlatan or Genuine Fanatic!
GOP Crossroad – Choosing Their Führer Example in detail: via CrooksAndLiars.com Republican mega-donor Thomas Peterffy told the Financial Times that he, and a "bunch of friends," are pausing plans to fund…
Do Not Let Hope Die
America: It's Now or Never ~ That all beings are great and all are part of and responsible to the Whole is a world view based on the concept of Reciprocity and…
It’s Not Me. It’s Them! So Give Me Your Money. UPDATED
UPDATED: 2023.04.04 Trump's campaign sent a fundraising email Tuesday morning with a note from the former president calling America "a Marxist Third World country that CRIMINALIZES dissent and IMPRISONS its political opposition."…
No, You Are Not
Donald Trump Indicted by Grand Jury Ex-president is expected to appear for his arraignment on Tuesday where he will be fingerprinted, photographed and processed for arrest
American Insanity. More Dead Children
Today there was another mass-shooting / mass-murder at a U.S. School. At a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, 3 children and 3 adults were murdered by a 28-year old female shooter.…
We Still Need More Ruths
Newsday - Long Island, NY, March 1971 From Letters to the Editor Segregated Island Hurrah for Martin Buskin (Feb.15) and Harold Levine (Feb.22) for their incisive articles about the segregated nature…
Decision 2024: Human Moral Decency
That this person again wants to be President of the United States of America requires his words and history be repeated over and over, and over – if not for the future…
When An Image Tells The Story
America, End The Madness Stand Up. Speak Out.
International Women’s Day 2023
A Few Words Women have always had to be creative about making limited resources work to sustain themselves and their families. They understand what it means to make the hard decisions…
30th Anniversary of 1993 World Trade Center Bombing
Sunday, 26 February, marks a grim anniversary in New York City history: In 1993, terrorists set off a homemade bomb in the parking garage beneath the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers. Six…
Nikki Haley, Her Future Is The Past
Nikki Haley, former Governor of South Carolina and U.N. Ambassador in the Trump Administration, announced she is running for President of the United States of America, 2024. The core of her campaign,…
His Words Still Ring True
Watching and listening to insurrectionists heckle President Joe Biden during the State of the Union Address (video and transcript), I was reminded of the bad old days – the many bad days…
Truth, Wisdom and Courage
Frederick Douglas Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob…
An American Story
As Republican Party members in the U.S. House of Representatives begin their Gestapo-like Committees and outings, I thought it appropriate to play an image-audio story (from September 2022) that is as relevant…
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
