“In 1962, a group of conservatives, intent on retaliating against desegregation efforts during the civil rights movement, funded one-way trips to the north for Black citizens, in what they called ‘Reverse Freedom Rides.’ Hundreds of Black Americans were transported to cities such [...]
Archive for September, 2022
September 18th, 2022 - 11:20 am § in Misc.
GOP violates human trafficking laws to score cheap political points
Lawyers for migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard demand criminal investigation of Florida governor Read story here — How evil was his scheme? Watch video below WHY GOV. DESANTIS MAY BE IN LEGAL HOT WATER Read story here — WHY IT MAY BACKFIRE POLITICALLY Read story here[...]
September 17th, 2022 - 2:54 am § in Politics
A brief essay on border walls
Republicans are milking the influx of migrants across America’s border with Mexico for political gain, but they don’t have a solution for it. Walls can’t keep people out, and never have. They simply go over, under, through, or around them. Let’s review some historic walls. T[...]
GOP Senate candidate wants to politicize the military
Few things in American democratic traditions are more sacrosanct than the idea that the military must be an apolitical institution. But Blake Masters, the boyish 36-year-old GOP nominee for the Arizona Senate seat once held by John McCain and currently held by Mark Kelly, a retired Navy officer and [...]
September 17th, 2022 - 1:24 am § in Law and Courts, Politics
California governor advertises abortions in red states
While the GOP governors of Florida and Texas are spending taxpayer money to dump migrants in blue states (and Florida’s governor, at least, may have stepped on a landmine in doing so, see story here), California Gov. Gavin Newsom has a political stunt of his own. He’s invading their turf[...]
The voting machine wars
Voting machines have been breached by Trump loyalists in at least three states. In all these cases, they gained physical access to the machines and/or obtained confidential software and data. The consequences: “Sensitive voting system passwords posted online. Copies of confidential voting soft[...]
Alabama GOP chair exempts himself from voter ID law
John Wahl, 36, the Alabama Republican Party chair, is the scion of a politically prominent northern Alabama family who claim they’re exempt from their state’s election law requiring photo ID to vote. A local news source says (here), “Under Alabama law, a person can vote without pho[...]
Would you fly on this airline?
Russian regional airlines were bleeding money, so they fired their mechanics. Now Russia’s Transport Ministry wants pilots to maintain their planes themselves (see story here). That could be tricky, as Western sanctions have cut them off from spare parts. But this doesn’t actually chang[...]
September 15th, 2022 - 7:10 pm § in Politics
Hey, we’re all Trumpers here
Most of the time, not much happens in Delmont (photo, left), a bucolic hamlet where a couple of important highways intersect in Western Pennsylvania Appalachian coal country. Until some guy a 911 caller reported for driving erratically pulls off the highway, gets out of his car wearing a safety vest[...]
September 15th, 2022 - 2:58 pm § in Environment, Politics
Why nobody respects Congress
To keep this post readably short, I won’t go over the long history of colorful and vile characters who’ve served in Congress at one time or another. I’ll just say voters can elect anybody they want to, and sometimes do, and let it go at that. And also that polls through the years h[...]