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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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Another weekend, another protest
Several hundred people showed up in Louisville this weekend for another protest against the Orange Menace’s ICE Gestapo in the wake of the murder of a Minneapolis woman whom every MAGA incel swears was a radical out to do harm, when, in fact, she was a mother trying to get away from masked hoodlums who…
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Louisvillians protest ICE murder in Minneapolis
About 1,000 Louisvillians got together last night to protest the murder in Minneapolis of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by the Orange Menace’s ICE stooges. In addition to shooting an innocent person in the face, the administration’s secret police have run rampant across the nation, breaking up families, terrorizing children and illegally shipping American citizens out…
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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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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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Local news bombards us with BS
Looking through various local news feeds this past weekend, we came across this steaming pile of BS from WDRB: Hundreds of Indiana National Guard members arrived in Washington, D.C. The planned deployment of 300 soldiers was part of President Trump’s Safe and Beautiful mission aimed at offering security to select cities. Hoosier Guardsmen will assist…
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The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 16
Our Thanksgiving holiday tempered by ICE appeasement (the reason we can’t trust our elected officials), political candidates don’t understand what offices they should seek, dealing with wealth and affordability, a pitch for college sports and how to show support for mutual aid. Information sources for this week’s podcast include: Paul Krugman explains the affordability crisis…
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JCPS closures harm Black kids the most (as always)
There’s a budgetary problem in Jefferson County Public Schools that, of course, has a negative impact on minority students. According to Louisville Public Media: At the end of the year, JCPS plans to close King [Elementary] and move its students to Maupin Elementary, three miles south in Parkland. It’s part of a proposal to close and…
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Bluegrass ballots: Who’s in?
An interesting development in today’s CJ: Former Kentucky State Representative and U.S. Senate candidate Charles Booker (pictured above) is considering another Senate run in 2026, according to a Nov. 26 social media post. In the Facebook post, Booker acknowledged calls for him to run for the Senate seat that U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, a Republican who was…
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Sundown, you better take care
I’m visiting part of the Acela corridor this Thanksgiving week, seeing relatives between the nation’s capital and the Big Apple. During one visit, a discussion on Sundown Towns was an eye opener. What’s a Sundown Town? The History and Social Justice website says: A sundown town is not just a place where something racist happened. It is…
