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ICE actions in Kentucky
The map and chart above says it all. The Orange Menace’s Gestapo has seized 2,000 people in Kentucky since his kakocratic and keptocratic administration gained power nine months ago. According to the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy, the atrocities of ICE extend across the United States. A year into the Trump presidency, the administration’s mass…
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The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 18
Thoughts for the New Year, what we did for the holidays, how to join the resistance in the Bluegrass and how war, abortion and healthcare affect Kentuckians. Our discussion included: This Kentucky General Assembly is going to be very different for the public Ky.’s draconian abortion law leads to murder charge Kentucky politicians discuss U.S. strike…
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Ky.’s draconian abortion law leads to murder charge
A woman ended her pregnancy in Kentucky. The aftermath was inevitable, because MAGAts say women have no rights (from the Guardian): A Kentucky woman is facing multiple criminal charges after she allegedly induced her own abortion using medication. Kentucky state police arrested the woman, Melinda S Spencer, 35, on charges of fetal homicide in the first degree,…
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An outsider has some choice words for Kentucky MAGAts
This brutal assessment of why our bourbon industry has been screwed by MAGA comes from William A. Finnegan at Substack: This states the obvious, but it’s stating the obvious to the oblivious. MAGAts will take gallons of gasoline and pour it through their homes, then ask if anyone has any matches because … FREEDOM!!!
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MAGA Republicans plan to steal votes. Here’s how
This is troubling news, from Kentucky Lantern: The U.S. Department of Justice has sent a confidential draft agreement to more than a dozen states that would require election officials to remove any alleged ineligible voters identified during a federal review of their voter rolls. The agreement — called a memorandum of understanding, or MOU —…
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No bourbon? Thanks, MAGAts
The photo at the top from the U.K.’s Independent says it all. What does another British publication say? The maker of Jim Beam bourbon whiskey will halt production at its main site in Kentucky for all of 2026. The company said in a statement it would close its distillery in Clermont until it took the “opportunity to…
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The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 17
A month-by-month look at the year in review (and it was a bad one for Kentucky). Among the topics discussed: WalletHub lists the best states for retirement. Kentucky is the worst. Looking back at the No Kings demonstrations across America. The Democrats who backed Republican shutdown deal – and why How the White House and…
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Ky. is No. 1 for retirees, in the worst way possible
Back in October, the New York Times ran a piece on the best states for retirement. Its report was based on a study by WalletHub and listed the top five state as Florida, Minnesota, Colorado, Wyoming and South Dakota. But we’re not retired in any of those states. Where is Kentucky on the list? Overall…
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Rand Paul on redistricting and the art of gerrymandering
This was an interesting take from Kentucky’s junior senator (soon to be senior senator) on state Republican musings on eradicating Democrats from the U.S. Congress: Contrary to what Rand Paul says, the issue isn’t “both sides,” which plays well in the corporate media. Republicans started this in Texas. The Orange Menace demanded it, and when…
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GOP health care bill is great for billionaires, bad for sick people
After the Republicans in the Senate blocked Democratic efforts to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits, ensuring an increase of thousands of dollars a year for all of those who rely on Obamacare to stay alive, House GOP members have decided to do the MAGAts in the upper chamber one better by introducing a bill…
