If you cheat at the polls, you’d better be white. If you’re black, you’d better not even try to vote. That’s the message Republicans are spreading across the land. Black people who inadvertently run afoul of incredibly complicated voting laws can’t expect to be treated [...]
Archive for February 4th, 2022
February 4th, 2022 - 10:03 pm § in Misc.
Don’t count dead chickens until they don’t hatch
Right up to the last moment, Fox News hosts were giddy about the impending Bureau of Labor Statistics’ January 2022 jobs report. Watch them gloat here (or the longer version below). When the report was released, they deflated faster than a balloon landing on a hot stove. Return to The-Ave.US H[...]
February 4th, 2022 - 9:28 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Banking while black
“Dr. Malika Mitchell-Stewart, who had just started working with the Valley Oaks Medical Group in Houston, said she tried depositing her first paycheck for $16,000 last December [but] was met with skepticism as employees questioned the validity of her check and her job,” a Daily Mail stor[...]
Biden’s flacks flub Press Relations 101
In this video, veteran reporter Matt Lee asks Ned Price (profile here), a retired CIA analyst who’s now the State Department’s spokesman, for “evidence” that Russia is making a propaganda film faking a Ukraine attack against Russia in order to create a pretext for a Russian i[...]
February 4th, 2022 - 7:49 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Extreme gerrymandering still being reined in by some state courts
After the Supreme Court barred federal courts from reviewing redistricting cases (details here), it was easy to assume there’s no longer any judicial check on gerrymandering, which just keeps getting worse as Republicans try to consolidate minority-party rule over broad swaths of the American [...]
Clean getaway
A parrot stole a GoPro camera and filmed its escape. Story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Pence vs. Trump
No, I’m not talking about a contest for the 2024 GOP nomination. In this posting, I’ll be talking about the conflict between Pence and Trump vis-a-vis overturning the 2020 election. Trump claims Pence could, and should, have done so; Pence says he couldn’t, and in any event, he did[...]
February 4th, 2022 - 12:34 pm § in Politics
The GOP’s true colors
The Republican National Committee convened 168 members on Friday, February 4, 2022, to tell the world where the GOP stands on certain issues. For example, they condemned the Chinese government (but House Republicans just voted against a China competition bill, see that story here). But the main busi[...]