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…
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 – the Gannett Regional Union – representing more…
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…
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…
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…
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 the drug industry — and a loss 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 for the current state of America - leveled…
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. That's 45th out of 180. What an achievement!…
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 isolated news deserts. There are almost 200 of…
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 forget what came before. And then they pounced.…
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 public life has a logo attached to it,…
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 of a once in a lifetime heavyweight boxing…
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 but she’s made a determination that the Republican…
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 of press freedom in the U.S. 5 Takeaways:…
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 post is just one of many offering a…
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, emigrated to Boston as a young man where…
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”. Senator Joe Manchin in Washington Post op-ed offering…
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 Party, supporting Trump, undermining public confidence in the…
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 plus 3 spots from last year. Yay! The…
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 back in the sunshiny days of elementary school:…
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 the man of action who decides what is…
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 Rings True Posted 2020.09.04 As a veteran who…
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 Cops Launching Six-Week Training Camp Creating A U.S.…
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 felt it necessary to immediately issue a joint…
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, and, good buddy of Vladimir Putin, Michael Flynn,…
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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