Thank You For Your Service and Sacrifice
Just Go Away
~ No Worry, History Will Remember You ~ Senator Joe Manchin, Democrat and multi-millionaire, yacht-owning, oil champion from West Virginia told the world Thursday that he will not run for reelection…
Yes, Some Stories Really Are ‘Must Read’
‘MAGA Mike Johnson’ Wants Commission to Cut Social Security Formed ‘Immediately’ Social Security Works said that the new House speaker’s “NUMBER ONE priority is to cut our earned benefits behind closed…
America Has A New Speaker: Danger Ahead?
Beliefs and Country: Contradictions On Display Mike Johnson, the newly seated Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, now second in line to the Oval Office, was first elected to…
Words On Politicians and Politics: Tomorrows, Remedies, And Morons
Churchill. Marx. Borowitz. A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain…
Intel Leaks, With Death and Destruction
~ via Newsweek 2023/10/09 ~ Donald Trump’s Israel Intel Leak Under Scrutiny After Hamas Attack Donald Trump’s sharing of alleged classified intelligence to Russian officials in the White House has come under…
The Cruel Price With The Ever-Flowing Tears
Israelis Made to Suffer the Cruel Price for Oppression of Palestinians in Gaza The threats of “flattening Gaza” prove only one thing: We haven’t learned a thing. The arrogance is here to…
Sleaze-Bag Kevin Gets Balls Cut Off, With The Whole World Watching
Kevin McCarthy has groveled and slithered his way around and through the U.S. House of Representatives for years; this is no big secret. But now he has been outed, by the very…
Words On Politics
~ 2023 – Lessons Not Learned ~ Armed Militias. Electoral Disaster. Church Burnings vs Voter Fraud. We have been studying the armed militias with a group of more than 100…
The Assault On U.S. Democracy Is Far From Over
~ When Fascists Tell You They’re Fascists, Believe Them ~ Talking Points Memo, one of the better websites for short and long-read news stories, yesterday posted ‘Our Slow-Moving National Crisis Is…
You’re Messing With The Wrong Woman
~ Stupid People Doing Stupid ~ ~ Make Big Mistake Going After DA Fani Willis ~ Let's forget the bullshit about whether or not it was a good move by Fulton County…
Never Forget
2023.09.11 ‘You don’t get any new memories’
Labor Day Psychological Warfare
‘This is psychological warfare’: Starbucks workers allege anti-union firings The National Labor Relations Board has reinstated 28 of the more than 200 pro-union workers fired since late 2021 According to the NLRB,…
8 Cowards Plus 1 Disgusting Human Being
Well, they had their first gathering on a TV stage. Eight Republican candidates hoping for a shot at the nomination to be president of the United States of America. And they all…
Marion County Record: Story Behind The Story
Marion County Record Newspaper Raid Should Concern Us All ~ There was “insufficient evidence” to justify a police raid Aug. 11 on the Marion County Record, a small newspaper in Kansas, and…
Robbie Robertson, Live In Peace
May Your Journey Be Strong, Filled With The Honour of Your Ancestors. Endless Gratitude For The Words and Music You Gave To Us All. “In Robbie Robertson’s songs and guitar,…
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;…
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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At least 236 journalists and media workers killed in Gaza
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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
NYC journalist shoved, pepper-sprayed while covering NBA watch party
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Trump administration, allies move to punish outlets during his second term
From the first weeks of President Donald Trump’s second term, his appointees and allies in Congress joined him in taking steps to punish and intimidate news outlets that have covered him and his administration unfavorably. We’re documenting those efforts to chill reporting, revoke funding, censor critical coverage and more in this regularly updated report:
March 14, 2025 | Trump says negative press coverage “illegal” during speech at DOJ
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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
Intent to Destroy
Russia’s Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine
By Eugene Finkel
“Finkel’s Intent to Destroy spans several centuries, delving into some of the most heinous atrocities perpetrated by the Kremlin on Ukrainian lands. Despite the extensive scope, the text is rich in nuanced analysis, being equally valuable for scholars and accessible to readers unfamiliar with the region. What stands out most is Finkel’s approach: Rather than striving for unattainable objectivity, he bravely acknowledges his deep investment in producing responsible scholarship that is guided by honesty.”–Olesya Khromeychuk, director, Ukrainian Institute London
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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
