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Who is digging up the deep dirt on Trump?
My experience with the news-driven media platform Bluesky (the blessed free refuge from TAFKAT*) has been revealing in a number of ways, the most significant of which is how much actual news I’ve been getting. Sure, there are plenty of … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Journalism, News media, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged Ars Technica, Associated Press, BlueSky, Daily News, Democracy Dockets, Financial Times, Mississippi Free Press, Mother Jones, New York Times, ProPublica, Raw Story, Reuters, Rolling Stone, TAFKAT, Tennessee Holler, the Guardian, The Independent, the Onion, Wired
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Reforming police departments
As I began this, I picked up an excellent Mother Jones article, “A Road Map for Getting Rid of Racist Cops,” about this deeply entrenched problem. It’s in the form of a Q&A — Q’s by Mother Jones journalist Samantha … Continue reading
Posted in police violence, Racism, The Facts of Life
Tagged Mark Fuhrman, Mother Jones, OJ Simpson, psychological testing, racism in police, Rorschach, Samantha Michaels, Vida Johnson
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We are still fighting the American Revolution
For quite a while now I’ve been feeling that we’ve moved into the next phase of the American Revolution. Among the previous phases were the original American Revolution, the Civil War, demand for suffrage, the New Deal and the battle … Continue reading
Posted in Koch Bros Final Solution to Democracy, political campaigns, Politics, Racism, The Facts of Life, The filthy rich, Trumpism, voting and voting rights
Tagged "libertarian" capitalism, Abraham Lincoln, American revolution, civil rights, Civil War, Crazy Horse, Declaration of Independence, Fourth of July, George Washington, Independence Day, Mother Jones, Neu Wannsee Conference, Preamble to the Constitution, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, Timothy Egan
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