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This is your life (and the GOP is planning to take it away)
From ActionNetwork.org: All across Kentucky, families are doing what it takes to care for loved ones and keep food on the table. But even as our communities take on new challenges to keep up with the high cost of living, many lawmakers in Washington are pushing dangerous policies that take direct aim at our wallets.…
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History repeats itself. Rerun is worse than the original.
Years ago, in another life, I referred to the attached cartoon to make this point about the Republican Party: I once asked if the worst case scenario was “Will they charge ahead full speed and drive that bus off the cliff and into a river of hungry crocodiles.” Then I modified that to: “Will they…
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The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 6
Let’s talk about the importance of community, how Kentucky is affected by the bombing of Iran and finding solace in the arts.
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Will Foghorn Comer chicken out? Probably.
Republican congressmen are consistently avoiding town hall meetings because they’re afraid of their constituents. Or maybe, with the exception of Thomas Massie in the 4th congressional district, they’re too busy kissing the ass of the senile, incontinent orange TACO. Which is illustrated in the following story from the CJ: Tona Barkley and the group she…
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ICE stooges: They’re here in Kentucky
First of all, let’s get the proper definition for stooge. According to the Cambridge University Press: A stooge is a person who is forced or paid by someone in authority to do an unpleasant or secret job for them. It can also refer to a partner in a comedy team who feeds lines to the other…
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We said this would happen: MAGA cuts Ky. funding
If you heard our last podcast, you knew this was going to happen. From the CJ: The U.S. Department of Energy canceled tens of millions of dollars in funding for two Kentucky-based pilot projects intended to reduce carbon emissions, marking another wave of the Trump administration’s cuts to climate and decarbonization initiatives. One $72 million…
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The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 5
A wide-ranging discussion on the Big Beautiful Batch of Bulls— Bill, the billionaire catfight (i.e. Republicans in disarray), University of Louisville sports and Kentuckiana’s ties to the Underground Railroad (through song). Contains a few swear words, so hide the kiddies!
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This Ky. legislator decided to join the clown show!
Paraphrasing “The A-Team,” I love it when a plan falls apart. From CBS: The relationship between President Trump and Elon Musk broke down in dramatic and public fashion on Thursday, with the president threatening to cancel Musk’s lucrative government contracts and Musk claiming that Mr. Trump could not have won the presidency without him, fueling…
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Some things are better left forgotten
Why would the Herald Leader want to remind the senile flatulent Orange TACO of this? A concerned and inquisitive President Donald Trump made headlines in February when he said he’d inspect the United States’ gold supply, housed at the U.S. Bullion Depository at Fort Knox, about 90 miles west of Lexington. His concern: “Maybe somebody…
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Let them eat cake? Don’t let them eat at all!
The Herald Leader has a story with this headline: One in five Kentucky kids faces hunger. Congress should not make that worse. A complaint about the headline will follow soon, but the top of the opinion piece by Melissa McDonald, Executive Director of Feeding Kentucky, says: In Kentucky more than 753,000 residents, or one-in-six, face…
