Press Freedom: Danger In Swing States
* Hard Times For Press Freedom and Journos * A new report just out from Reporters Without Borders (RSF) takes a deep dive into press freedom in four U.S. ‘swing states’ just days ahead…
Elections Have Consequences
For Immediate Release:Tuesday, September 13, 2022 NARAL Pro-Choice America PRESS RELEASE NARAL Pro-Choice America Condemns National Abortion Ban Legislation Introduced by Republican Senator Washington, DC — (more…)
Monday Ménage: Edition Cherish Freedom, Submissive People, Moving Offshore
Albright. Berry. Schweizer. We cannot, of course, expect every leader to possess the wisdom of Lincoln or Mandela’s largeness of soul. But when we think about what questions might be most useful to…
Wednesday WayBack: Misplaced Loyalties Will Tear Out Your Heart
Yes, Liz Cheney did a good job as Vice Chair of the January 6 Committee. The Congresswoman from Wyoming, like no other on the committee, made clear to everyone that her mission was not…
Monday Ménage: Edition America. It’s The Culture, Stupid
Saunders. Bryson. Fry. Huck [Finn] and Tom [Sawyer] represent two viable models of the American Character. They exist side by side in every American and every American action. America is, and always has…
Wednesday WayBack: History Can and Does Repeat Itself – When Allowed
As detailed in an excellent piece at Crooks And Liars, the far-right, fascism-loving MAGA Mob is taking its cue from the former guy (TFG) and going after judges and FBI agents. They, and the…
Wednesday WayBack: Lying Liars and The Lies They Leave Laying Around
In the cesspool that is today's Republican source for their spoken and written words, the latest dump by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy might not be as toxic as the many he has dropped…
Friday Serenade: Exhausted Still
A participating member at DemocraticUnderground.com posted a truthful, and, yes, haunting essay on his frustration with the current state of affairs in the United States. He asks the question: Anyone else just utterly exhausted,…
Monday Ménage: Conception, Conflictinator, and a Smart Phone
Carlin. Stewart. Roberts. Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born, you're on your own.…
Wednesday WayBack: Unambiguous
There's much excitement about Thursday's Prime Time January 6 Committee Hearing during which we are promised to be witness to clear and precise details around the 178 minutes when the former president watched but…
Monday Ménage: Edition American History, Lessons Not Learned. A Replay
Berlet / Lyons. Nichols. Nixon. We have been studying the armed militias with a group of more than 100 analysts and reporters for many months. The issue for us was never if there…
Fourth of July in a Dying America … UPDATED
Welcome to the Country of Death with Politicians Who Don't Give A F*ck! UPDATE: Police Confirm A 7th Person Dead. A 22-year old male using a high-powered rifle shooting from a rooftop at a…
Monday Ménage, With A Plus One: Edition Orators, Gladhand, Everything and Bullshit Consumption
Aristophanes. de Beaumarchais. Mencken. Pearlheart. Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on…
Friday Serenade: Continuous Action
Creating outrage, creating the ‘others’, has worked as policy since political parties were themselves created. Recently it worked for the former guy and now is working for the current cabal of far-right fascism-loving…
Friday Serenade: Coward McCarthy, Complexes, and Contemptible Hogs
Yeah, corporate media and (most) Republicans have moved on from stories about Republican member of the United States House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy and his punk-ass flip-flopping between sucking up to the former guy…
And They Are Still Coming…
Don't Be Like The 'I Am Not' Guy ~ Stand Up. Speak Out.
Never Forget: 1995.04.19
A terrorist attack on 19 April 1995 at the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City killed 168 people including 19 children and over 850 were injured. It was the deadliest act of…
Wednesday WayBack: When All You Have Is Whine
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy Wednesday morning addressed the U.S. Congress about the unprovoked Russian invasion of his country and the real-life impact. Zelenskiy asked the United States, Europe and NATO for more help; but…
Monday Ménage: Edition War, Obscenity, Humanity
Einstein. Eisenhower. O'Brien. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. Albert Einstein. Every gun that is…
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,…
Wednesday WayBack: Wingers, Propaganda and Vlad, Oh My
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes & ears. It was their final, most essential command - George Orwell, "1984" Once again, right-wingers in the U.S. are just so proud…
Monday Ménage: Edition Givers and Takers
Dhliwayo. Xinindlu. Malloy. True leaders are givers, not takers; builders, not destroyers; doers, not talkers; encouragers, not flatterers; lovers, not haters; warriors, not worriers; forgivers, not shamers; performers, not complainers; achievers, not quitters;…
Wednesday WayBack: History, Ain’t It Something
Writing at CommonDreams.org, Thom Hartmann asks the question on the minds of many Americans: Will US Turn Away From Fascism and Abandon This GOP Death Cult Before It's Too Late? Hartmann: The current Republican…
Friday Serenade: AWWH, Jeff, It’s Over
Back when Donald Trump was a washed-up businessman, with a checkered history of bankruptcies, racism and failed real estate projects, it was Jeff Zucker, then the president of NBC Entertainment, who decided to resurrect…
Wednesday WayBack: Tripping All Over Themselves
A number of leading Republican senators are tripping over themselves trying to hide from questions about Trump's promise at a recent Texas rally that if he's elected in 2024 he will pardon the January…
Friday Serenade: When Worlds Collide
He is famously among the most ornery, uncompromising and capricious of blue-chip legends ~ Neil Young’s battle is principled – and comfortable In pulling his music from Spotify in protest over Covid misinformation, the…
Monday Ménage: Edition Social Media, News, Librarians
Wylie. Aral. Vonnegut. 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…
Personal Note
Return To The Trenches
When election results on 6 November 2024 showed Donald Trump had won the Presidency, for me it was like getting punched in the face, repeatedly. I mean – repeatedly!
My sarcasm of the earlier ‘Good Luck, America’ is obvious; so at that point I decided to take a break, to get away from our new reality. Didn’t think the break would be this long.
And now, recent sequence of events demand I get my ass back in the fight. More… posted 2025.08.31
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 …
“I think if [Thomas] Jefferson was alive today, he’d be hand-in-hand with AOC. That is the liberal, kind of milquetoast, whitewashed Christianity of the left. The Joe Biden Christianity. It has no teeth. It has no strength. It has no endurance.” Taylor Marshall – American traditionalist Catholic writer and a former Episcopal Church priest. He converted to Catholicism and became an activist of Conservative-Right Catholicism. Full story at Media Matters
“It’s a very detailed indictment, and it is very, very damning. This idea of presenting Trump as a victim here, a victim of a witch hunt is ridiculous…He’s not a victim here. He was totally wrong. I do think that if even half of it is true, then he’s toast.” Bill Barr, former US Attorney General in the Trump Administration.
‘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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