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America Police Force

White Guy Drags Cop, Lives To Talk About It ........ A 61-year-old white guy from Hutchinson, Minnesota didn't like being told to wear a mask while he was in a home improvement/tools store…

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America. Police State, For Some

"It is very hard not to see some fundamental contradictions in how our country, the state, wields force against its citizens". Chris Hayes comparing police responses in Black Lives Matter protests and the Capitol…

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???

Reproductive Rights U.S.

Planned Parenthood

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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).

Kanien’kehá:ka News Here

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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.

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Simple Reminder

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Opportunity

U.S. Local News Reporting Grants
The Pulitzer Center grant initiative is open to freelance and staff journalists working with local U.S. news outlets to publish in-depth enterprise and investigative reporting projects. More info and Apply here:

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Poynter Free Two-Part Webinar:

Women and prisons: Covering the impact of incarceration
Live at noon EST Oct. 23 & 30
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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.

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