NewsGuild Finds Wide Racial and Gender Pay Gaps At Gannett Newspapers
Study covers more than 200 journalists at nearly a dozen unionized newspapers in Northeast region The study by a coalition of six NewsGuild bargaining units…
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…
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,…
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…
Don’t Play With My Last Nerve
And The Day Begins...
Da Dems…
Prescription Drug Reforms Are Out Of The Spending Deal, At Least For Now No reforms would be a major setback for Democrats, a big victory for…
Left Where? Why?
Rising from the tradgedy that is America, we see today few willing to find solutions but many quite willing to find blame. Much of the blame…
Yay! U.S. Up One In 2021
Reporters Without Borders 2021 World Press Freedom Index The United States moved up one spot in the 2021 World Press Freedom Index, from 45th to 44th.…
Local News In Ashes
Since 2004, 1800 newspapers have closed in the US, 1700 are weeklies. There are hundreds — if not thousands — of communities at risk of becoming…
Shift. Delete. Blame.
The Blame Game, of course, has begun. Media outlets could not wait. They were forming at the mouth, ready to sell headlines and bylines, eager to…
Monday Ménage And A Plus 1
Philip Pullman. Zadie Smith. Giannina Braschi. Wendell Steavenson. The commercial pressures, the forces urging us to buy and discard and buy again. When everything in…
And In This Corner…
The frenzied coverage by news outlets of the upcoming Biden – Putin meetup can give one the impression that it is a battle on the scale…
Is This The End Or The Beginning
Lindsey Graham: Sick, Twisted, Flat Out POS Coward Can we move forward without President Trump? The answer is no. I’ve always liked Liz Cheney…
A Free Press Means A Free People
World Press Freedom Day 'Startling Extent of Police Violence Against Journalists' Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press released its annual report on the state…
Repost: The American Normal UPDATED
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a gun law case challenging New York law which prohibits carrying concealed handguns outside the home without a license. This…
On This Day…
April 24, 1704, the 1st continuously published newspaper in America - The Boston News-Letter was published in Boston by John Campbell. Campbell (1653-1728), born in Scotland,…
Joe Manchin, Pretend Democrat
“Our ultimate goal should be to restore bipartisan faith in our voting process by assuring all Americans that their votes will be counted, secured and protected”.…
No Surprises Here
простаков Declassified Intelligence Report released to the public says Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized "influence operations aimed at denigrating President Biden's candidacy and the Democratic…
US Press Ranking 2020: Still Not So Good
US 45th in annual index Reporters Without Borders Wait now, that's 45th out of 180 countries ranked in the index. But, on the upside, that's…
Republicans Chose Treason
Now, the Neo-Nazi Party of America (NNPOA - previously known as the Republican Party) are making moves to give their Führer a pass on crimes committed.…
Monday Ménage
Thomas Frank. Henry Wallace. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned…
Monday Reminder: America, Pay Attention
Propaganda machines in all totalitarian countries habitually depict the dictator as the saviour of his people from some danger real, or more usually imaginary, and as…
Worse Of The Worst: #1
2020. A WTF! Year. So what better way to celebrate the end of the Shitty 366 than to offer our favourite four Worst News picks. It…
Worse Of The Worst: #2
2020. A WTF! Year. So what better way to celebrate the end of the Shitty 366 than to offer our favourite four Worst News picks. ICE…
Will Our Democracy Survive? Don’t Bet On It
So stunned by Donald Trump's latest attack on our democracy (Trump Reportedly Floated Michael Flynn's "Martial Law" Suggestion During White House Meeting), top U.S. Army brass…
SEDITION. PERIOD!
Former Army Lt. General, former National Security Advisor in Trump Administration, admitted criminal (guilty of twice lying to the FBI), fired by Trump, pardoned by Trump,…
Definitions As Reminder; Infinity
When Truth Jumps Up And Bites You On The Ass
Yes, It Could Happen Here
Political Leaders Need To Speak Out As Did Chairman Of Joint Chiefs of Staff And House Majority Whip. We are unique among militaries. We do…
Illumination
“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children” First Nations proverb.
Rotten behavior, like rot in an apple’s core, spreads outward, devouring every piece of innocence, positive creativity, and kindness in its path.From “Earth Medicine: Ancestors’ Ways Of Harmony For Many Moons”. Jamie Sams. Jamie is half American Indian, half French; with ancestors from the Southern Mohawk, & Seneca, Cherokee & Choctaw Nations.
Simple Reminder
Issues…
Constitutional America???
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Dead By Cop
1174 People Have Been Shot and Killed by Police In The Past Year.
Black Americans Are Killed At A Much Higher Rate Than White Americans. Data Here:
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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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Shrewd, SlipUp, Or Just Plain Stupid . . .
‘The problem with the American church today is no one wants to kill its pastors anymore. No one wants to arrest its pastors anymore. And there’s a lot of truth to that.’ Steve Deace, BlazeTV host. ‘nough said.
“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.
“[F]rankly I don’t think you have enough people involved in being tough. No one gets in a fight in school anymore. I think that’s a problem.” Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan in recent podcast interview. OK, Gym, we all know what you are – talk your shit.
‘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.
Max 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.
Saving Sanity
Going Back Home
Sherman Robertson From the 1998 Rockin’ Blues album (CD) Going Back Home
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Out Of The Rain
Etta James From her 1990 Soulful Blues album Stickin’ To My Guns
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Think About It
Otis Redding from his lovers album The Immortal Otis Redding.
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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.
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Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
Marvin Gaye Originally On His Landmark 1971 Album What’s Going On
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Amigo De Verdad
Gipsyland from their album Viva La Musica. Recorded in Cancoon Studio Paris and DreamHouse Studios London.
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