Friday Serenade: Escaping – A Double Play
World Wide Pandemic Killing Millions • Wars • Genocide • Racism • Attack On Reproductive Rights • Attack On Gender Identity • Attack On Voting Rights • Attack On Science and The Planet •…
Wednesday WayBack: America, Been Here Before
GOP Takes Dump On America, Again 'Former U.S. President Donald Trump and former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo praised Russian President Vladimir Putin's strategy in Ukraine. Pompeo, in a February 18, 2022 interview,…
Friday Serenade: American Experiment, Crushed By Minority Rule
We Have Journeyed Far From Here ~ Supreme Court Blocks Biden The Supreme Court blocked the Biden administration from enforcing its emergency rule mandating that workers at large businesses get vaccinated or undergo regular…
Prez Gave His Speech. It Was A Nice Speech. We Like Nice Speeches
President Joe Biden on Tuesday gave a speech in Atlanta endorsing eliminating the filibuster for the passage of voting rights bills. The speech had its moments. But speeches alone will not save U.S. democracy.…
Wednesday WayBack: White Nationalists and Their Motherland
Moscow Mitch McConnell's outrage yesterday at Democrats' radicalism – fighting for the right for every eligible citizen to vote – is not anything new. Far-right Republicans have long turned to Russia and the former…
McConnell’s Big Fear: If You Let It, Democracy Works
McConnell Thinks Fighting For Voting Rights Is 'Radicalism' - And Not The Good Kind U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday laid bare his reasoning for vehemently defending the use of the…
Adolph DeSantis Has Storm Troops Arrest, Detain Citizen – ‘Cus He Felt Like It
Floridians, If You Don't Bow Down Or If You Speak Out, He's Coming For Ya ~ This is what fascist leaders do to their public to instill fear in them. A peaceful elderly Black…
Monday Ménage: Edition Truth, Justice, Activism
West. Wilson. Davis. When faced with a choice between an incriminating truth or a flattering lie, America's ruling class has been choosing the lie for four hundred years. White Americans hunger for plausible…
Friday Serenade: Story Of The Year – Democracy In Crisis
Democracy Crisis in the Making Report Update: 2021 Year-End Numbers Research identifies at least 262 bills were introduced in 41 states this year with the intent to hijack the election process As 2021 draws…
Monday Ménage: Edition Politics Politicians Pundits And Arrogance
Wylie. de Maupassant. Trotsky. 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…
Friday Serenade: Bipartisan Replay Replay, Part Infinity
Joe Biden Tells Joe Manchin and NoChin McConnell About The Real Meaning of Bipartisanship And What A Story It Is! Really, Just SO. DAMN. PATHETIC. ~~ And In Related News... 'Act of Cowardice': Biden…
Treason. Sedition. Insurrection. Attempted Coup. Yeah, It’s All Of That.
Names. Dates. Times. Places. We already knew that a large number of Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives had tried to overturn the free and fair election of 2020; and some continue this…
Wednesday WayBack: Press Freedom ——— End To The Allusion
Entering A New Reality Upon the ruling by U.K.'s High Court to allow the extradition to the U.S. of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, questions about a free press in the United States of America…
Williams Signs Off
Anchor ends his nightly Show “The 11th Hour” with a look back on his time with the network ~ After 28 years of peacock logos on much of what I own, it is my…
President Joe Biden Warns That U.S. Democracy In Decline
THEN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!! At Thursday's virtual Summit for Democracy, President Biden repeated warnings from the International Institute of Democracy and Electoral Assistance that the United States is among the growing number of…
Wednesday WayBack: Yes, History Repeats; A Short Reading List
A Little Obsession Is Good Obsession Received a couple of e-mails recently suggesting I might be obsessed with the idea today's Republicans are a Nazi-like political party. Well, I think 'obsessed' could be an…
It’s In The Playbook. They Like The Playbook
Who Has The Balls??? Kevin McCarthy, Republican representative from California – he's called House Minority Leader – once again shows the world how much of a coward he is and how little he cares…
Monday Ménage: Edition Democracy An Historical Movement, A Struggle
Davis. Solnit. Thompson. I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved…
Silence From Republican Party Leaders Speaks Volumes, Loudly
Sometimes Fear Is More Than A Lifestyle Choice Kevin McCarthy's silence on out-of-control House members of his Party engaging in full-on harassment, threats, and abuse of Democratic colleagues is not that difficult to…
Wednesday WayBack: Roe v. Wade And The Supreme Court
Going to go out on a limb here, but I'm pretty sure the Court would be seeing this differently if it was ruling on cocks. ~ Rusty coathangers are not what I'm talking about.…
Wednesday WayBack: Backsliding In The USA
On Monday, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) published results of a study that finds the United States of America is a “backsliding” democracy. “The visible deterioration of democracy in the…
Backsliding, It’s All The Rage
“This year we coded the United States as backsliding for the first time, but our data suggest that the backsliding episode began at least in 2019” No American – woke or unwoke, engaged or…
Monday Ménage: Edition Power, Corruption, Excesses and Idiots
Goodman/Howe. Zinn. Miller. Democratic power springs from an enlightened electorate. The neglect of this possibility in America – the failure to protect and advance it with new form and content during a century…
When An Image Tells The Story
Democracy Dies In The Home Of The Once Brave
Oxymoron: Republicans – Free Fair Elections
'Blatant Partisan Power Grab': Wisconsin GOP Attempts to Seize Control of State's Elections “They're not dismantling democracy in secret. They're doing it right out in the open” Wisconsin Republicans, at the urging…
Friday Serenade: Nancy With The Hammer
Governing, Or At Least Trying To, Versus Fear And Loathing Led by Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, Democrats passed President Joe Biden's landmark $.17 billion Build Back Better bill. The…
Monday Ménage: Edition Politics Politicians and The Political Machine
Martini. Floyd. La Follette. We live in a time where increasingly our national leaders are more like dons of crime than statesmen, where notions of plausible deniability replace truth, and claims that politicians…
Politics & Policy
Constitutional America???
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Dead By Cop
Black, Native, Latino Americans Are Killed At A Much Higher Rate Than White Americans
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Hey, US Ed, History Calls
The invasion by Europeans of the ‘New World’ saw the First Nations population go from around 15 million in 1500 to just over 200,000 in 1900. (U.S. only. Does Not include data on First Nations Peoples of Canada).
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Project 2025 & The Military
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Shrewd, SlipUp, Or Just Plain Stupid …
In a meeting with hundreds of U.S. generals and admirals: “It’s unacceptable seeing ‘fat generals and admirals’ in the halls of the Pentagon, and leading commands around the country and the world. It’s a bad look.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Ebony McMorris, reporter for American Urban Radio Networks (AURN): “Mr. President, what are your plans for—” McMorris began (one of the few Black reporters in the WH Press Corps). “Quiet. You’re really obnoxious,” said Trump. “I’m not obnoxious, but I’m trying to ask you what about your plans for Memphis, Mr. President?” “You are really obnoxious,” said Trump (president of the USA).
“I think she’s a disgraceful person, you know, I think she’s a disgraceful person, a loser. It’s amazing the way people vote. I know it’s people from her area, maybe of the world, I don’t know. They got here and they vote her in. I don’t know. It’s hard to believe. But I think she’s a disgusting person.”
That’s the President of the United States of America making remarks about seated member of the House, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), to reporters in the Oval Office.
‘If Republicans don’t block voting rights, Democrats will allow “child molesters” and “illegal aliens” to vote and Republicans will be out of power for years’. Ted Cruz, Republican U.S. Senator from Texas. Same Ted Cruz who voted to force changing legal votes of Electoral College. Went so far as to incite an insurrection.
Simple Reminder
Stuff…
News Disorder, It’s A Thing I’m always tired because at night I can’t sleep unless I watch the news. Then I watch the news and can’t sleep.
Your Tingly Leaving You know that tingly little feeling you get when you like someone? That’s your common sense leaving your body.
Don’t Wanna Know It is possible to lead a cow upstairs – but – not downstairs. Question: Why in the hell would you want to take a cow upstairs? Wait, no, don’t tell me. I don’t want to know.
Kane’s Clinic
Wheel In The Sky
Journey From their album, Infinity – the first album with Steve Perry on lead vocals. Released January 1978.
Going Back Home
Sherman Robertson From the 1998 Rockin’ Blues album (CD) Going Back Home
Out Of The Rain
Etta James From her 1990 Soulful Blues album Stickin’ To My Guns
Dreams
Brandi Carlile * From WFUV LIVE CD (FM 90.7 in the Greater New York City area). Originally on her 2009 folk-rock album Give Up The Ghost.
Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
Marvin Gaye Originally On His Landmark 1971 Album What’s Going On
Amigo De Verdad
Gipsyland from their album Viva La Musica. Recorded in Cancoon Studio Paris and DreamHouse Studios London.
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